Dr Olivier Caron, Md, Msc

Biography

After his MD, Dr O. Caron occupied a position as a Hospital Practitioner at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France. He shared his time between the genetic lab, where he was in charge of the analysis of cancer predisposition genes and quality manager, and the oncogenetics consultation in the Department of medical Oncology. In 2008, he moved to Gustave Roussy University Hospital, Villejuif, France. He has run since then the genetic clinics in the Department of Clinical Oncology. He has been the head of the Gustave Roussy Genetics board since 2009. His activity is now focused on consultations (more than 2000/ year). He teaches at Gustave Roussy School of Oncology (Paris-Sud University). He is involved in around 10 major national and international studies in the field of breast/ovarian predisposition, Lynch syndrome and other digestive cancer predispositions, Li Fraumeni syndrome and melanoma predisposition. He has more than 60 publications on these various topics.

Research Interest

Oncogenetics