Michael J. Demuere

Biography

Dr. Demeure is a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon who has been in academic surgical practice since 1991. He had maintained an active clinical and basic research program during this time focusing on the mechanisms of tumor metastases. Dr. Demeure went to medical school at Hahnemann University, and completed his surgical residency at the University of Arizona. His fellowship in endocrine surgery was in Perth, Australia and then at the University of California, San Francisco. Subsequently, Dr. Demeure took an academic appointment at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he practiced surgical oncology for 11 years before moving to the University of Arizona where he was a tenured professor of surgery and chief of general surgery. He then moved to the Phoenix area full time in 2008 in order to further the translational therapeutics program in ACC. He has published over 80 manuscripts and book chapters. Dr. Demeure served as the president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons from 2008 to 2009. He is also a member of many surgical societies including the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Demeure is the Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Biospecimens Repository for a recently awarded pancreatic cancer program project grant from the NIH. His role in this project is to enroll and manage multiple institutions whose investigators submit cancer and blood specimens for researches involved in the study of the molecular genetics of pancreatic cancer. This role is similar to a key function of this adrenocortical cancer project. Dr. Demeure started the ACC project at TGen which, along with Dr. Kim Bussey, he now directs. Dr. Demeure has been a Clinical Professor with TGen since 2005.

Research Interest

oncology, endocrinology,