Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of California San Francisco
Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Oncology
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Andrew Ko did his undergraduate studies at Brown University, graduating with honors in Applied Mathematics and Biology, and then received his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He went on to complete residency training in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, followed by a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ko’s primary clinical and research interests center on gastrointestinal malignancies, with a particular emphasis on pancreatic and gastroesophageal cancers, areas in which he has developed and led a number of clinical trials as Principal Investigator. He is currently chair of the NCI’s Pancreatic Cancer Task Force and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Additionally, he has served on the scientific program committee, grants committee, and specialty editorial board for the American Society of Clinical oncology; plays an active leadership role in the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology national cooperative group; and sits on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Pancreatic Cancer guidelines committee. Andrew has been married for 19 years to his wife, Christine, a civil engineer. They have two children, Naomi (16) and Elliott (12). Outside of work, he enjoys playing the piano, running, hiking, playing and watching sports, whitewater rafting, reading, cooking, and musical theater.
