W.H.O. Collaborating Centre for Cancer Control

189 Carey Drive, Canmore, Alberta, Canada T1W 2R7

Tel: (403) 678-2082; Fax: (403) 678-9750; e-mail: jerryma@telusplanet.net

The Director, Dr. Martin Jerry MD PhD FRCP(C) FACP, received his medical and specialty training in internal medicine at the Universities of Toronto and McGill, and his research training in immunology at the Rockefeller University in new York. In 1971 he joined McGill University as a research Scholar of the Medical Research Council of Canada in the field of immunology. In addition to a laboratory research program in cancer immunology, during 1977 - 1992 he led the development of Southern Alberta’s current comprehensive cancer program, serving as its Director and as Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the affiliated University of Calgary where he was also involved in primary health care development in the Himalayas in India. His research interests have focused on both cancer control, and on the biology of host resistance in cancer, including the role of behaviour as a biologic response modifier as well as biologic therapies for cancer. He has published extensively and lectured internationally, serving on professional and granting bodies, including the Board of the National Cancer Institute of Canada and as President of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation.

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