MARY GOSPODAROWICZ is Medical Director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, the top cancer center in Canada, where she served for a decade as Chief of the Radiation Medicine Program. She is also the Regional Vice President of Cancer Care Ontario for Toronto South. She is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto and past Chair of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto.
She holds specialty certifications in internal medicine, radiation oncology, and medical oncology and her clinical practice involves lymphomas and genitourinary cancers. Her research focused on clinical trials evaluating radiation therapy, image-guided precision radiotherapy, and cancer survivorship. Her current interests include global cancer control, global access to radiotherapy, and quality cancer care.
In addition to being the Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Oncology, she has authored over 250 peer-reviewed peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and letters and has played a global leadership role in both staging and radiation medicine.
She recently ended her term as President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), an international organization dedicated to the global control of cancer. She proudly participates in the work of the Global Task Force on Cancer Care and Control of Harvard Global Equity Initiative, the UICC’s Global Task Force on Radiotherapy for Cancer Control, and the HGEI-Lancet Commission on Global Access to Pain Control & Palliative Care.