MD FRCPC
Professor of Medicine
BC Cancer – Vancouver
Medical Oncologist, Vancouver Cancer Centre and Vancouver Prostate Centre
Chief Medical Officer, BC Cancer
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Shrum Chair in Prostate Cancer Research
Dr. Chi is a medical oncologist and the Chief Medical Officer of BC Cancer, which provides a comprehensive cancer control program for the people of British Columbia (BC), in Canada. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, and the Shrum Chair in Prostate Cancer Research at BC Cancer.
Dr. Chi’s research in the field of genitourinary cancers focuses on prostate cancer and investigational new drugs, where he has contributed to changing international standards of care practice for patients with advanced prostate cancer. He also has been investigating circulating tumour DNA as a source of prognostic and predictive biomarkers for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Dr. Chi is the past-Chair of the Genitourinary Disease and Investigational New Drugs Site Committees with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, and has held peer-reviewed grant funding from the Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)/Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), the US Department of Defence, Movember, Prostate Cancer Foundation (USA), and Prostate Cancer Canada.
Dr. Chi is an author on over 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Cancer Discovery, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine.