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Interview: Learning from lymphocytes: a career studying lymphoid cancer


Joseph M Connors speaks to Adam Born, Assistant Commissioning Editor: Joseph M Connors, MD is a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, at the University of British Columbia (BC, Canada) and the Clinical Director of the British Columbia Cancer Agency Centre for Lymphoid Cancer (BC, Canada). Dr Connors obtained his medical degree at Yale University (CT, USA), trained in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (NC, USA), and completed his medical oncology fellowship with Dr Saul Rosenberg at the Stanford University Medical Center (CA, USA) between 1979 and 1981. He then joined the staff and faculty at the BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia and has focused his clinical activities and research efforts in the area of understanding lymphoid cancers. Dr Connors is best known for his research into the biology and treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemias and multiple myeloma. He serves as a member of the executive committee of the Hematology Site Group for the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group, as a Councilor for the American Society of Hematology and on the scientific advisory board of the Lymphoma Foundation Canada. Dr Connors has published over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles addressing various aspects of research into lymphoid cancers. He has been awarded the Terry Fox Cancer Research Award by the British Columbia Medical Association, the Bernard L Schwartz Memorial Award by the Scripps health system in San Diego, California, the Canadian Cancer Society John W Whittick Memorial Award by the Saskatchewan Medical Association, the Karl Musshoff Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group, the 2013 Dr Don Rix Award for Lifetime Achievement by Life Sciences BC and a Lifetime Achievement Award and Honorary Membership by the Canadian Medical Association in 2013.

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