Biography:

Dr. Mark Carey joined the department in 2010 as a Clinical Professor in the Division of Gynaecologic Oncology. He completed his medical degree and Obstetrics & Gynaecology residency at the University of Western Ontario, a fellowship in Gynaecologic Oncology at the University of Toronto and McMaster University, and a research fellowship in the Department of Systems Biology at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Centre.  He runs his research program through OvCaRe and has funding through private donations and his medical corporation to support his laboratory staff.  He is Co-Investigator on a recent grant award from the Cancer Research Society with Dr. Cheng-Han Lee, and has done contract research for investigational drug testing.  His laboratory has been supported as well by research funds from Dr. Dianne Miller and the Division of Gyn Oncology, the BC Cancer Agency, the Carraresi Foundation OvCaRe Research Grant, and VGH and UBC Hospital Foundations. Mark regularly supervises PhD and MSc candidates and is a member of the department’s Research Advisory Committee.

Research focus: We are concentrating our efforts in the laboratory on low-grade serous cancers.