Professor Dr. Alexander Paterson

Biography

Professor Paterson trained at Edinburgh Medical School and London (St Bartholomew's Hospital and Royal Marsden). He has served on the Board of Directors NSA BP and was the Chair of the NSABP 834 protocol and the co-chair of the SWOG/NSABP intergroup bone metastasis prevention trial. He chaired the Alberta Breast Cancer Programme from 2002 to 2010 and is currently the Chair of Health Canada Oncology Therapies Scientific Advisory Committee and the Breast Cancer Society Canada Advisory Committee (Alberta). Dr. Paterson is a clinical oncologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre at the University of Calgary, where he has a full-time practice primarily focused on breast cancer patients. He teaches the Physical Examination Course to medical students and writes a column for Alberta Doctors Digest on general topics. His clinical research includes palliative care medicine and clinical trials in breast cancer prevention and treatment with a focus on bone metastases and malignant hypercalcemia.

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