Dr. Daniel Rayson, MD, FRCP(C)
Medical Oncologist
QEII Cancer Care Program
Professor of Medicine
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
Dr. Daniel Rayson is a Medical Oncologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, as well as Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Dalhousie University. He completed his medical training at Dalhousie University and went on to specialize in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Medical Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His main areas of clinical care and research are in breast and gastrointestinal neuroendocrine oncology, with major areas of interest in cancer genetics, clinical trial development, as well as health services and translational research. He is past Chair of the Nova Scotia Provincial Breast Cancer Site Team (2000-2009) and the Clinical Trial Grant Panel Review Committee of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (2006-2009). In February 2008, he was appointed as Director of the Atlantic Clinical Cancer Research Unit (ACCRU) at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and is a founding board member of the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI).