Experience

• 35 years of experience as a hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal cancer surgical oncologist

• 25 years on the faculty at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Full Professor for 15 years

• Leader of the Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at M.D. Anderson

• Surgical Oncology Fellowship Director for 19 years at M.D. Anderson

• Maintained peer-funded translational basic science laboratory for 30 years, focused on development, testing, and clinical trial design and completion for novel cancer treatment devices and drugs, achieving successful FDA approval of novel cancer treatment devices

• 35 years of experience working with established pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic imaging, genetic testing, and start up companies to design and complete bench, preclinical testing, clinical trials, and post-market data acquisition and analysis for new cancer diagnostic and treatment approaches

• Numerous awards for high quality patient care, compassion, and education

• 5 years as Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Director for Clinical Affairs at the Dan L Duncan NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center

• 12 years Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Nanoengineering at Rice University, Houston, Texas

• 12 years Adjunct Professor of Nanobiomedicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas

• 5 years as Medical Director of the Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute in Tyler, Texas, a new multidisciplinary cancer center developed and implemented by Dr. Curley