Petr Kavan
Associate Professor
Department of Oncology
Jewish General Hospital
Canada
Biography
Dr. Kavan is currently a medical oncologist practicing at the Jewish General Hospital and McGill University Health Center and has been since 2000. He completed his medical school training at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and completed his internship/residency in Pediatrics and Medicine at Charles University Medical School. After that he completed his fellowship in Oncology at the same university in Prague. He was later a visiting fellow and scientist at the Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, USA and a visiting scientist for a short time in: Memphis, USA; Hannover, Germany; Leeds, UK; Paris, France; and Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed his PhD in Oncology Bone Marrow Transplants in 2001.
Research Interest
His current clinical specialties are Gastrointestinal Oncology with neuroendocrine tumors and GIST included as well as Neurooncology. He has research interests such as phase one, two, three, and four clinical studies and new drug development; therefore Dr. Kavan is a CCTG NCIC representative helping to conduct clinical trials at McGill University, within Quebec, and the rest of Canada.
