Professor of Surgery,Chief of Surgical Oncology,Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, United States
Dr. Ajay V. Maker is the Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery, and chief of surgical oncology for the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He’s an expert at treating complex hepato-pancreatico-biliary malignancies and gastrointestinal tumors.
Maker's research aims to improve early detection of pancreas cancer, specifically developing biosignatures for IPMN, and to develop novel immune therapies for treating colorectal liver metastases under grants awarded by the Department of Defense and the prestigious R37 MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NCI).
Maker earned his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School. He completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at the NIH and completed postdoctoral studies in tumor immunology at the National Cancer Institute under Dr. Steven Rosenberg; this research included trials that led to approval by the Food and Drug Administration of ipilimumab as a new treatment for metastatic cancer. He later completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and then gained experience in minimally invasive surgical techniques at the University of Paris.
In 2015, Maker was the European Society of Surgical Oncology's international traveling fellow and was later honored with the Society of Surgical Oncology's Clinical Investigator Award. He has published more than 170 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters, and he lectures nationally and internationally. He serves on the editorial boards of many surgical and scientific journals; serves on NIH study sections, and has held leadership positions in numerous academic and scientific societies, including program chair of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association and chair of the Society of Surgical Oncology's gastrointestinal working group. He has been named numerous times to Castle Connolly's Top Doctors and Top Doctors for Cancer lists.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
1:01 PM – 1:08 PM CST
Friday, March 11, 2022
7:00 AM – 7:30 AM CST
Friday, March 11, 2022
10:19 AM – 10:29 AM CST