Alicia K. Morgans
United States
Alicia K. Morgans
United States
Expert bio
Alicia K. Morgans is an Associate Professor at the Division of Hematology and Oncology of the Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She was awarded her MD by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, in 2006, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the university-affiliated Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. She completed her fellowship in haematology/oncology at Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital programme in 2012. She was awarded her MPH by the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN, in 2015, and has been certified in Medical Oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 2012.
As a clinician, Dr Morgans specialises in the treatment of genitourinary and prostate cancers; in her role as a physician–investigator, her work has included he study of complications of systemic therapy in prostate cancer survivors,including skeletal, cardiovascular, diabetic, and cognitive complications of prostate cancer, and treatment decision-making in metastatic disease.
Dr Morgans serves as principal investigator for several prostate and bladder cancer-focused therapeutic clinical trials, has been awarded several Prostate Cancer Foundation grants to investigate the cognitive and quality-of-life effects of hormonal treatments in advanced prostate cancer, and is recognised as lead or co-author of more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in her chosen field.
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Date of preparation: September 2020