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Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD, FACR, is the Executive Director of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in the state of Georgia. He also serves as the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chairman in Emory’s Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Curran has been a principal investigator on many National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants and is considered an international expert in the management of patients with locally advanced lung cancer and malignant brain tumors. He currently serves as a group chairman and a principal investigator of NRG Oncology, the largest of the five National Cancer Institute-funded clinical trials network group. Dr. Curran is the first radiation oncologist to serve as Director of a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. He is the only individual currently serving as director of an NCI-designated cancer center and as group chairman of an NCI-supported cancer cooperative group. Dr. Curran is a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He was also named a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Chair in Cancer Research in 2013. Dr. Curran is a Fellow and Gold Medal Recipient (2016) in the American College of Radiology. He serves as a board member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and as a standing member of NCI’s Clinical Trials Advisory Committee. He serves as a member of the external scientific advisory committees of two NCI designated comprehensive cancer centers (Simmons CC at UT Southwestern and Siteman CC at Washington University) and two developing cancer centers (University of Florida and Stevenson CC at University of Oklahoma). He was ranked among the top 10 principal investigators in terms of overall NCI funding in 2013 and among the leading twenty investigators in terms of overall NIH funding as principal investigator in 2013. Before joining Emory, Dr. Curran was Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Clinical Director of Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center. Education Dr. Curran graduated with honors from Dartmouth College, received his MD degree from the Medical College of Georgia, and is a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist. Curran completed his residency in the Department of Radiation Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and his internship in internal medicine at Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. Research Dr. Curran has led several landmark clinical and translational trials in the areas of lung cancer and malignant brain tumors, and is responsible for defining a universally adopted staging system for patients with malignant glioma. He has authored or co-authored more than seven hundred abstracts and scholarly papers, as well as numerous presentations, reviews and book chapters. He has been chairman or co-chairman of more than 40 clinical trials and a reviewer for twelve national/international journals. He also serves as the founding secretary/treasurer of the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups and a board member of the Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE). |
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