Pablo E. Serrano is an Associate Professor of Surgery at McMaster University. He joined the Department of Surgery in 2014 after finishing his fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncology at the University of Toronto. He completed his General Surgery Residency at the University of Toledo, Ohio where he also completed a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and a Master of Public Health. He is defending his PhD thesis with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University in August 2022 with the title: “Factors Affecting Recruitment to Surgical Oncology Clinical Trials and Opportunities to Improve Accrual”. He is an active researcher and scientist at the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute (ECRI) and has led several trials within the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG), an academic Clinical Trials Group based at McMaster University. He has been the recipient of several research grants and is currently the principal investigator of multi-institutional nation-wide multidisciplinary clinical trials. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research (CDCR) at McMaster University, a cancer research centre that develops programmatic collaboration and synergy between scientists and clinicians, focusing in comprehensive translational studies that inform the rational development of combinational therapies for cancer treatment.

Pablo E. Serrano MD MSc MPH
Department of Surgery, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG),
Escarpment Cancer Research Institute (ECRI),
Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research (CDCR),
McMaster University.
Associate Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Staff, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Juravinski Hospital, Hamilton, ON