Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, Genevieve Teuton Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Deputy Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University.
Dr. Hussain received her medical degree from Baghdad University College of Medicine and completed her residency and Hem-Onc fellowship at Wayne State University, Michigan.
She is a practicing oncologist, internationally renowned expert and clinical researcher in genitourinary oncology particularly prostate and bladder cancer. Her research, funded by federal grants and contracts, is focused on the development of novel therapeutics integrating scientific advances into clinical trials and has contributed to significantly impacting the standards of care for patients with metastatic hormone sensitive and castration resistant prostate cancer. She is also an educator and mentor and have guided the career development of many fellows and young faculty at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University several of whom have chosen an academic career in GU Oncology.
Nationally she has served in a variety of scientific leadership roles including the Chair of the SWOG Advanced Prostate Cancer Subcommittee (1994-2012), member (2009-2014) and Chair (2013-2014) of the Integration Panel of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Prostate Cancer Research Program, and a member (2004-2008) and Chair (2007- 2008) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oncology Drug Advisory Committee. She has served as a member of the NCI-Cancer Biomarker Study Section and the NCI’s Prostate cancer task force.
She currently serves as an EAB member for six NCI-designated cancer centers and the UCLA Prostate Cancer SPORE.
Dr. Hussain authored/coauthored more than 275 scholarly articles and book chapters. She serves/has served on the editorial boards for several national and international specialty publications. She has been invited to give hundreds of lectures on her work in the United States and many countries around the world.
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