GIST News A Wave of Information By the LIFE RAFT GROUP

Make a difference - Donate Today

  • Print
  • Email

Chris Corless, M.D.

LRG Research Team, Oregon Health & Science Univeristy

Corless

Dr. Christopher Corless

Oregon Health & Science University

After undergraduate studies at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, Dr. Corless received his MD and PhD degrees from Washington University, St. Louis. He did his residency training in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, where he also completed fellowship training in GI Pathology and GU Pathology. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Oregon Health & Science University, as an Assistant Professor. He has served as the residency program director in Pathology and is currently medical director of surgical pathology for OHSU Hospital. He is also director of the Cancer Pathology Shared Resource for the Oregon Cancer Institute. In addition to practicing surgical pathology, Dr. Corless has expertise in the application of molecular diagnostics to the classification and prognostication of solid tumors. An author on over 125 publications, he was promoted to Professor of Pathology in 2004. Dr. Corless is lending his expertise as leader of the Primary Resistance Project.