Faculty

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MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Matthew Katz

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Dr. Matthew HG Katz is currently a Professor and Chair of the department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He has extensive experience in the design and conduct of clinical trials and has led two national cooperative group studies of the effects of preoperative therapy on patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. He has published over 250 original articles that have described novelmulti-modality treatment approaches for patients with this disease. He is past Chair of the ACS-Cancer Research Program Cancer Care Standards Development Program and the current chair of the ACS-Cancer Surgery Standards Program.