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DR. ALAN SPATZ

DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY – JGH, PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY – MCGILL UNIVERSITY, PROGRAM DIRECTOR – MCGILL INTEGRATED CANCER RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM

Dr. Alan Spatz is Director of the Pathology Department at the Jewish General Hospital, and Professor of Pathology and Oncology at McGill University and holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Pathology. Dr. Spatz presently directs the X chromosome and Cancer research lab at the Lady Davis Institute and leads an international research group on cutaneous melanoma. Dr. Spatz is also the Director of the McGill-JGH Dubrovsky Molecular Pathology Centre located at the Jewish General Hospital, which opened at the end of 2013. This cutting-edge facility is leading the way to personalized medicine by using molecular analysis to identify tumour biomarkers to advance the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Spatz’s research is focused on the X chromosome and its role in cancer.