Shiro Urayama

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Associate Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of California, Davis

EDUCATION & MEDICAL TRAINING:
• BS w/ Honors Mathematics (1988): University of Washington
• MD Medicine (1992): Medical College of Wisconsin
• Gastroenterology fellowship (1999): University of Chicago
• Advanced endoscopy training (1999): Columbia University

MEMBERSHIPS:
• American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
• American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• American Pancreatic Association
• International Society of Stem Cell Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Current research focuses on translational endoscopic applications in gastrointestinal oncology – specifically pancreatic and esophageal cancer – for development of early detection and therapeutics schemes; translational application of molecular/cellular biological and optical technologies for cancer elucidation.

HOME PAGE
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/internalmedicine/gastro/urayama.html