Warren Mason

Dr. Mason, MD, FRCPC, FAAN is Professor in the Department of Medicine and a Staff Physician in the Divisions of Medical Oncology and Neurology at University Health Network. At Princess Margaret Cancer Centre he is the Medical Director of the Gerry and Nancy Pencer Brain Tumour Centre where he holds the Kirchmann Family Chair in Neuro-Oncology Research. Former Chair of the Brain Disease Site Group of the Canadian Trials Group, a national cooperative group that oversees academic clinical research in cancer. Dr. Mason graduated in Medicine from the University of Toronto and trained in Internal Medicine and Neurology at McGill University and the University of Toronto. He received Fellowship training in Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY. Dr. Mason's research focus is drug development for primary brain cancers. The drug development program for brain tumours at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is the largest of its kind in the country and work conducted at this facility has established new worldwide standards of care for gliomas.