MD FRCPC, MBBS, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
BC Cancer – Vancouver
Medical Oncologist, BC Cancer
Dr Yvette Drew is a Medical Oncologist and Associate Professor at BC Cancer Centre Vancouver and the University of British Columbia. She specialises in the care and management of patients with gynecological cancers and the development and delivery of early phase clinical trials. Dr Drew joined the team in Vancouver in 2021. Prior to this she worked as a Senior Lecturer/Medical Oncologist in the UK and was translational gyne cancer lead and deputy lead of the Experimental Medicines Centre in Newcastle. She undertook specialist medical oncology training at the Beatson West of Scotland cancer centre, Glasgow and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Newcastle. During this time, she was awarded a Cancer Research UK funded PhD fellowship investigating the role of PARP inhibitors in homologous recombination deficient ovarian cancer. During her PhD she won a merit award for her research from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and was awarded the Medical Sciences doctoral prize. Since coming to Vancouver, she has been awarded clinical trial research funding from Ovarian Cancer Canada and a 5-year Michael Smith Health Research BC Professional Investigator award. She is an active member of the GYN and phase 1 clinical trials groups within Vancouver and the Canadian Clinical Trials Group (CCTG). Dr Drew is the incoming chair of the CCTG IND committee. She has been principal investigator of multiple early phase to phase 3 studies. Research interests are the targeting of DNA repair pathways as treatment for cancer and novel therapies in gynaecological malignancies.