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Dr. Smylie has served as our medical advisor since March 2005. Dr. Smylie is a Medical Oncologist at the Cross Cancer Clinic in Edmonton, Alberta. He graduated from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom in 1987. He did his Internal Medicine training at the University of Saskatchewan with specialty training in Medical Oncology at the University of Ottawa. He has been at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta since 1994. He is currently chair of the Cross Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Committee, and a member of the Provincial Research Advisory Committee. He is also the Site Leader for the NCIC Melanoma Group, and represented the NCIC at the State of the Science Meeting in Melanoma in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also the Site Co-coordinator for NCIC at the Cross Cancer Institute.
He is very active in clinical trail research. He has been a principal investigator of multiple studies in metastatic melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. He is currently chairing a phase II study of an investigational taxane in lung cancer for the NCJ Canada. He was also one of the co-chairs and organizers of the first Canadian Melanoma Research Meeting held in Banff, Alberta in 2004. He is the Tumor Group Leader for the Alberta Cutaneous Provincial Group. He is a member of the Anti-Tumor Immuno-Gene Therapy Committee at the University of Alberta. | 