Vivek K. Arora, MD, PhD

Biosketch

Education

• 2004: PhD, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
• 2004: MD, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
• 1996: BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Post-Graduate Training

• 2014-2008: Research Fellow (Charles Sawyers Lab), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• 2011-2007: Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• 2006-2005: Medicine Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• 2005-2004: Medicine Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Academic Appointments

• present-2014: Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
• 2014-2011: Instructor, GU Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Board Certification

• 2010: Medical Oncology
• 2007: Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

• 2018: ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
• 2015: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Clinical Investigator
• 2014: Lasker Clinical Research Scholar (declined)
• 2014: UT Southwestern Disease-Oriented Clinical Scholars (declined)
• 2013: Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator

National Scientific Panels

• 2020: (invited) Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Annual Meeting Session Chair, “Bladder cancer microenvironment”
• 2019: Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Annual Meeting Session Chair, “Bladder cancer microenvironment”
• 2019-2016: Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Conference (Prostate planning committee)
• 2019-2014: Prostate Cancer Foundation Basic Science Grant Reviewer
• 2016: Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Quinquennial Review (QQR) Panel
• 2015: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Cancer Research Program Reviewer

Professional Societies & Organizations

• Member, American Association of Cancer Research