Matthew Cheung

Dr. Cheung obtained his medical degree in 1999 at the University of Toronto. He completed residency programs in internal medicine and hematology from 1999-2004 at the University of Toronto.  Thereafter, he completed a clinical and research fellowship in lymphoma and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) HIV/AIDS post-doctoral research fellowship. In 2006, he obtained a Masters degree in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He currently holds peer-reviewed grant support from CIHR, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR).

Dr. Cheung joined the medical staff at the Odette Cancer Centre/Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as a clinician-investigator and clinical hematologist in 2007. He is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He serves on the Hematology Disease Site Executive Committee for the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group and is the co-chair of the Hematology Cancer Disease Site Group of the Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-Based Care. His research interests include AIDS-related malignancies, clinical trial development in lymphoma, and pharmacoeconomic evaluation in the hematologic malignancies.