Mark Basik, MD
Dr. Basik graduated in medicine from McGill University and completed a general surgery residency at the Université de Montréal, followed by a fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He practiced as a surgical oncologist at the University of Montreal and then was a visiting investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH for 2 years. He is now the Guerrera Family Cancer Scientist at the Segal Cancer Center in Montreal, QC, and an associate professor of oncology and surgery at McGill University. He heads the Cancer Genomics and Translational Research Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and practices breast surgery at the Jewish General Hospital, where he is the Medical Director of the interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Team. His research interests include the genomics of breast cancer, with a focus on drug resistance, as well as novel diagnostics in breast cancer.