Dr Ahmed Kaseb

Dr Ahmed Kaseb

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Dr. Ahmed Omar Kaseb is a tenured and endowed professor of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas. He is the John E. and Dorothy J. Harris Professor in Gastrointestinal Cancer Research and is a member of the National Hepatobiliary Task Force, NCI, USA. He serves as the overall clinical Principal Investigator and Director of The University of Texas MD Anderson Hepatocellular Carcinoma major NCI grant; specialized program of research excellence (SPORE). He is the Program Director of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), at the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

Dr. Kaseb received his medical degree from Cairo University in 1996, and worked as a research fellow at University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and completed Internal Medicine Residency at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan and Medical oncology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Kaseb joined the department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2007 to lead the HCC program.

Dr. Kaseb is heavily focused on HCC clinical and translational research where he has served as key principal investigator on several clinical trials over the past 16 years, including pivotal trials that led to FDA-approval of new drugs in HCC. Dr. Kaseb’s principal research interests include HCC systemic and multi-disciplinary therapies, in addition to molecular staging studies that led to major publications of several new HCC staging and stratification systems. Dr. Kaseb’s work has contributed greatly to the understanding of HCC interdisciplinary therapies and molecular staging, and has received governmental/federal, foundation and pharmaceutical funding for several projects and clinical trials.

Dr. Kaseb has extensively authored and co-authored over 150 papers and book chapters. Dr. Kaseb serves as an Editor and Scientific Reviewer for several international medical journals, and has received several national and international awards throughout his career, including awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American College of Physicians (ACP). He is an active member of several international societies and has served on several committees and advisory boards at the national and international levels, including United States NCI and department of defense study sections, and has participated in several international expert consensus conferences, and major societies guidelines committees in the area of HCC.

Updated 19 September 2023