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Amar Kishan, MD

UCLA Radiation Oncology
Culver City, California, United States

Dr. Amar U. Kishan, Associate Professor, is the Vice-Chair of Clinical and Translational Research and Chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service for the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Kishan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Molecular and Cell Biology and Public Health. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he graduated magna cum laude from the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. During medical school, he was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship to study tumor metabolism in the laboratory. He subsequently completed his internship training at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was recognized as the H.H. Jones Intern of the Year. He then completed his residency training in radiation oncology at UCLA.


Dr. Kishan specializes in the utilization of radiation to treat genitourinary malignancies. He has an extensive research background and has published over 195 manuscripts, with lead authorship publications in JAMA, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, European Urology, Cancer Cell, and the IJROBP. He has received extensive grant support, including funding from the Department of Defense, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the American Society of Radiation Oncology, the Radiological Society of North America, the Radiation Oncology Institute, and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer. He runs an active clinical and translational research program and has spearheaded multiple innovative clinical trials in radiation oncology.

Disclosures:

  • Employment: UCLA:Associate Professor:Employee
  • Compensation: Boston Scientific, Inc.: Advisory Board, Advisory Board Type, Advisory Board Proprietary, Honoraria-End Date: present ;Janssen, Inc.: Advisory Board, Advisory Board Type, Advisory Board Proprietary, Research Grants, Research Funding, Research Salary Support,Grant Research Funding-End Date: present ;Varian Medical Systems, Inc.: Consultant, Honoraria-End Date: present ;ViewRay, Inc.: Consultant, Research Grants, Research Funding, Research Salary Support,Grant Research Funding, Honoraria-End Date: Present ;Department of Defense: Research Grants, Research Funding, Research Salary Support, Grant Research Funding-End Date: Present ;Point Biopharma: Research Grants, Research Funding, Research Salary Support, Research Role Description-End Date: present
  • Ownership: none
  • Leadership: none

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