Wilson HY Roa

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About

As an academic oncologist, Roa contributes to research, teaching, administration and patient care.
 
Clinical Service
Despite the various involvements, the day-to-day care for cancer patients takes the lion’s share of Roa’s committed time as a physician. 

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Research

Dr. Roa is involved in the translational research of 1) nano-carrier platform for chemotherapeutics and radiation therapeutics; 2) image-guided adaptive radiotherapy with gated immobilization, functional targeting and/or intensity modulation; 3) early-phase clinical trial involving cytokines and miRNA targets.  These works are performed in collaboration with colleagues from departments of chemistry, engineering, medicine, pathology, pharmacy, physics, radiology, surgery and experimental oncology.  Over a dozen of peer-reviewed clinical trials in the fields of neuro-oncology and lung cancer are performed at any point in time at Cross Cancer Institute, ranging from in-house to international studies.  For example, a phase III international randomized radiotherapy study in older patients with a common high-grade glioma has been administered under the auspice of the institute department.  The study will further improve clinical practice.
 
Dr. Roa contributes to scientific steering committees of research groups and consortiums such as the Radiation Therapy and Oncology Group (RTOG), and to funding reviews as an invited panel member for cancer agencies such as the Ontario Cancer Research Network and the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology.  He participates also as an invited peer-reviewer for scientific journals such as the American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics, and Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs.

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Teaching

Roa plays the role of teacher, supervisor and/or mentor for post-doctoral fellows, residents, research trainees, graduate and medical students.  The education program at of Alberta has become a most sought after graduate program, and a residency training accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Wang M.H., Roa W., Wachowicz K., Yahya A., Murtha A., Amanie J., Chainey J., Quon H., Ghosh S., Patel S.

Anticancer Research. 2022 May; 42 (5):2665-2673 10.21873/anticanres.15744

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Song A.J., Ding K., Alnahhas I., Laperriere N.J., Perry J., Mason W.P., Winch C., O'callaghan C.J., Menten J.J., Brandes A.A., Phillips C., Fay M.F., Nishikawa R., Osoba D., Cairncross J.G., Roa W., Wick W., Shi W.

Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2022 January; 4 (1):vdac011 10.1093/noajnl/vdac011

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CARO (Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology). 2021 October;

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ASTRO (Annual Conference of American Society of Radiation Oncology). 2021 October;

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Song A.J., Ding K., Alnahhas I., Laperriere N.J., Perry J., Mason W.P., Winch C., O'callaghan C.J., Menten J.J., Brandes A.A., Phillips C., Fay M.F., Nishikawa R., Osoba D., Cairncross J.G., Roa W., Wick W., Shi W.

Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2021 October; 3 (1):vdab153 10.1093/noajnl/vdab153

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CARO (Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology). 2021 October;

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CARO (Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology). 2021 October;

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Menon A., Abraham A.G., Mahfouz M., Thachuthara J.J., Usmani N., Warkentin H., Ghosh S., Nijjar T., Severin D., Tankel K., Paulson K., Mulder K., Roa W., Joseph K.

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials. 2021 July; Online ahead of print 10.1097/COC.0000000000000850

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Tsakiridis T., Pond G.R., Wright J., Ellis P.M., Ahmed N., Abdulkarim B., Roa W., Robinson A., Swaminath A., Okawara G., Wierzbicki M., Valdes M., Levine M.

JAMA Oncology. 2021 July; Online ahead of print 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.2328

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Jamaluddin M.F., Abraham A.G., Menon G., Nakatsui T., Roa W.

Breast Journal. 2021 June; 27 (6):543-546 10.1111/tbj.14212

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Abraham A.G., Roa W.

Journal of Thoracic Disease. 2021 May; 13 (5):3235-3245 10.21037/jtd-2019-rbmlc-01

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Bedard E.L.R., Abraham A.G., Joy A.A., Ghosh S., Wang X., Lim A., Shao D., Loebenberg R., Roa W.H.

Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale. 2021 March; 44 (1):E15-E24 10.25011/cim.v44i1.36016

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Wu H.H., Wang B., Armstrong S.R., Abuetabh Y., Leng S., Roa W.H.Y., Atfi A., Marchese A., Wilson B., Sergi C., Flores E.R., Eisenstat D.D., Leng R.P.

Nucleic Acids Research. 2021 March; 49 (5):2740-2758 10.1093/nar/gkab081

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Neuro-Oncology. 2020 November;

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2020 ASTRO Annual Meeting. 2020 October;