Alan P. Venook MD

Alan P. Venook, MD, is the Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research and serves as Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Clinical Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Venook also is the Shorenstein Associate Director of Program Development at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Venook received his medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine. Following his internship, he spent two years in the Public Health Service and completed an internal medicine fellowship at UC Davis and a hematology/oncology fellowship at UCSF.

A nationally recognized expert in colorectal and liver cancers, Dr. Venook has written extensively on gastrointestinal malignancies. His work has been widely published in scholarly articles, chapters, and textbooks. He served as an associate editor for Journal of Clinical Oncology from 2010-2015.

Dr. Venook is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He served as Chair of the ASCO 2015 Scientific Program and is a member of the ASCO Government Relations Committee. He formerly chaired the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Hepatobiliary Task Force and the Gastrointestinal Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. Dr. Venook is a member of the Colon and Hepatobiliary Cancer Task Forces

Dr. Venook serves on the NCCN Board of Directors, the NCCN Hepatobiliary Cancers Panel, and the NCCN Colon/Rectal/Anal Cancers Panel. He also is a member of several committees affiliated with the NCCN Oncology Research Program.