Professor and Head, Medical Oncology
Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
Tom Baker Cancer Center
Daniel Heng MD MPH FRCPC
Biography
Dr. Heng is a Staff Medical Oncologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, Alberta and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He received his MD from the University of Calgary and completed his internal medicine and medical oncology residencies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He was trained at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada and then completed an Experimental Therapeutics fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He received a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University. He is the Division Head of Medical Oncology at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and University of Calgary and Chair of the International mRCC Consortium Database (www.IMDConline.com) which is the largest database of patients with metastatic kidney cancer treated with contemporary therapies in the world. He has a keen interest in outcomes, prognostic factors and clinical trials research in metastatic renal cell carcinoma and other genitourinary malignancies. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada for his work in Kidney Cancer.