Medical Director, Health Services Research, Cancer Control Alberta
Winson Y. Cheung, MD, MPH, FRCPC is a GI medical oncologist, a clinician-scientist, and a cancer health services researcher. From 2010 to 2016, he was a clinician-investigator at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Oncology at the University of Calgary where he is also the Chair and Provincial Director of the Health Services Research and Real-World Evidence Program at Cancer Control Alberta. He conducts comparative effectiveness and population based outcomes studies across all tumour groups. In addition, he is currently the Co-Lead of the Health Systems, Services, and Policy research program at the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control and the Chair of the International Cancer Health Outcomes Research Database Consortium. Previously, he served as Leader for the Health Services Research Track at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. Recently, he founded the Alberta Cancer Outcomes Research Network. To date, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts plus he has secured over 5 million dollars in competitive grant funding to support his research.