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Alan P. Venook, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director of the Clinical Research Office in the UCSF Cancer Center and the Clinical Leader of the Gastrointestinal Oncology program at UCSF. His academic focus and clinical interests are in the treatment of GI malignancies and liver tumors, and in the application of new biologic agents. He has conducted clinical trials to evaluate the activity of various chemical compounds in treating cancers of the liver, colon, and kidney. Dr. Venook graduated from Rutgers College in 1976 and from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 1976. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at UCSF, and served in the National Health Service Corps at an Urban Indian clinic in Sacramento. He completed an Internal Residency at UC Davis in 1985, then moved to UC San Francisco to serve a Fellowship in Hematology / Oncology, and has served on the faculty at UC San Francisco since 1987. | 