Name:
Dr Grainne O’Kane
Job Title:
GI Medical Oncologist
Organisation / Company:
St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin and University College Dublin
Biography:
Dr Grainne O’Kane is a GI medical oncologist and the newly appointed Pat Smullen Chair in Pancreatic Cancer at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin and University College Dublin. Dr O’Kane completed her medical and oncology training in Ireland prior to commencing a fellowship in GI/thoracic oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto in 2016. She joined faculty as a Clinician Investigator and Assistant Professor at The University of Toronto in 2019 specialising in pancreatic and liver cancers. Her primary research has been in integrative molecular profiling of tumours for biomarker development and she is PI of a number of investigator initiated studies. She has led molecular tumour boards in both pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma and has an interest in immune checkpoint inhibitor combinations prior to surgery and transplant for liver cancers. Dr O’Kane’s translational research in liver and pancreatic cancer has resulted in a number of awards from ASCO, ESMO and AACR and she has published over 130 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals