Joseph M. Connors MD, FRCPC

Dr. Joseph M. Connors, MD is a clinical professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Centre for Lymphoid Cancer from 1989 to 2018. He obtained his medical degree at Yale University, trained in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and completed his medical oncology fellowship with Dr. Saul Rosenberg at the Stanford University Medical Center. He has focused his clinical activities and research efforts in the area of lymphoid cancers and, most recently, on the application of genomic analysis to understand and optimize treatment for these diseases.

Dr. Connors is best known for his clinical investigations into the biology and treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and multiple myeloma and has published over 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has been awarded the Terry Fox Cancer Research Award by the British Columbia Medical Association (twice, 1983 and 2018); the Bernard L. Schwartz Memorial Award from Scripps Health, San Diego; the Karl Muss Hoff lifetime achievement Award from the German Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group; the Maria Ricci Award for translational research from the NCIC Clinical Trials Group; the Hayne-Langley Award for translational research for hematologic diseases from Dalhousie University; the Dr. Don Rix Award for Lifetime Achievement from Life Sciences BC; and the John Ullmann Award at the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma.