Dr. Ronald Burkes

Dr. Ron Burkes is professor of medicine at The University of Toronto and staff medical oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PMCC)/University Health Network in Toronto. He was on the medical oncology training committee for the University of Toronto for 23 years and the program director for its medical oncology training program from 1996 to 2005. During his tenor, he introduced the academic half day, the longitudinal clinic experience, the annual medical oncology research day and the staff medical oncology outstanding teaching awards. He was also the director of the Clinical Teaching Unit at the PMCC from 1999 to 2005 and established the teaching curriculum for internal medicine residents rotating through the PMCC. He is now the medical oncology mentorship facilitator for the Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Burkes has won departmental and university-wide teaching awards on 18 occasions, including the Anderson Award in Program Development and the Hasselback Teaching Award at PMCC. He has presented at many local, provincial, national and international meetings.

His research interests include lung and gastrointestinal malignancies with a primary interest in lung, colorectal and gastric cancers. He has written numerous publications including 122 peer-reviewed, 157 non-peer reviewed and two book chapters.