May Lynn Quan
Positions
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | General Surgery
Member
Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
B.Sc Hons Kinesiology (Co-op), University of Waterloo, 1995
Doctor of Medicine Medicine, McMaster University, 1997
M.Sc Epidemiology, University of Calgary, 2005
Biography
Dr. May Lynn Quan is a General Surgeon at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Her clinical specialization is breast surgery. She completed her MD at McMaster University, undertook her general surgery residency at the University of Calgary followed by a Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York. Folllowing five years as a surgeon investigator at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Dr Quan returned to Calgary as a General Surgeon in 2009. She is also active in research, having undertaken a MSc in Epidemiology at the University of Calgary in 2005 and is now an Professor in the Departments of Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
Projects
Dr. Quan highly values collaborative research. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator on RUBY, a pan-Canadian collaborative project to create a prospective cohort of women 40 years of age and under newly diagnosed with breast cancer in order to help better understand the support needs of these women, along with improving treatment and outcomes. The cohort has collected blood, tissue and patient reported outcomes from diagnosis to 5 years from over 1500 women from 32 sites across Canada. The study is co-funded by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-ICR) and has lead to additional grants supporting the unmet needs of this population through the co-development of SAPPHIRE, an App created with patients to accompany them through their cancer journey funded by a grant from the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society.
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