Ticiana Leal, MD, has moved to Emory University School of Medicine as associate professor and director of the Thoracic Medical Oncology Program in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.
Dr. Leal’s clinical research focuses on clinical trials of chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy agents to treat cancers of the lung.
Dr. Leal has authored or coauthored numerous peer-reviewed original research articles, book chapters and posters. She serves as associate editor and as a member of the executive editorial board of The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. She also serves as Lung Cancer Section Editor of Current Treatment Options in Oncology and on the editorial advisory boards of Cancer and The Brazilian Journal of Oncology. She is the NCI LUNG-MAP Chair, ECOG-ACRIN representative.
Before joining Emory, Dr. Leal was a member of the faculty at UW Carbone Cancer Center in Madison, Wisconsin, where she served as team leader of the Thoracic Malignancies Disease Oriented Team.
