James Foran, MD

• Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Dr. James Foran received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba Medical School. He continued post-graduate studies as an intern/resident at Beth Israel Hospital; chief medical resident at the Boston VA Medical Center; medical oncology fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; clinical research fellow at Imperial Cancer Research Fund; and bone marrow transplant fellow at the Royal London School of Medicine. Dr. Foran is currently an Associate Professor of Oncology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. In addition, he is a Consultant in both the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.

Dr. Foran is American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, with a certificate of completion of specialist training-UK in medical oncology and Royal College of Physicians of Canada FRCPC (Internal Medicine). He is a member of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In addition, Dr. Foran is on the editorial board at Clinical Lymphoma and Myeloma, and a reviewer with Annals of Oncology, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Blood, Cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Leukemia and Lymphoma, among others. His major focus is on early phase and investigator-initiated clinical trials in acute leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and malignant lymphoma, with collaboration with laboratory-based investigators.