Pediatric Oncologist, Clinical Associate Professor
British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Canada
Rod Rassekh grew up in Vancouver, and then went east to McGill to study Microbiology & Immunology. He returned home for medical school and graduated from UBC in 2000. He completed his pediatric residency and continued on to complete his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship in 2007, both at BC Children’s Hospital. He also obtained a Masters of Health Science from UBC in 2007. Since completing his training he has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at BCCH, and a clinician-investigator in the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program at BCCH. His research interests are in bringing genomics into the oncology clinics, with a special focus on Pharmacogenetics of drug toxicity. He is also interested in tumor genomics and precision medicine, co-leading the pediatric arm of the Personalized OncoGenomics (POG) study in BC, as well as a leadership role in the new national Canadian pediatric and young adult precision medicine study (PROFYLE).
