Bassel F. El-rayes MD

Dr. Bassel El-Rayes received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB). He subsequently joined the internal medicine residency program at Wayne State University. After completion of the residency, he joined the hematology-oncology fellowship program at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University. He then joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the area of GI oncology. During this time, he was involved in translational research focused on pancreatic cancer. Dr. El-Rayes joined Emory University on September 2009 as the director of the GI Oncology program.

Dr. El-Rayes is designated as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar by the Georgia Cancer Coalition. In 2016, he was selected to hold the John Kauffman Family Professorship for Pancreatic Cancer Research which supports an outstanding leader in the field of pancreatic cancer research and assists with the further development of Winship's gastrointestinal (GI) cancer efforts. He is also member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.