Matthew J. Ellis MB, BChir, BSc, PhD, FRCP

Dr. Matthew James Ellis is a native of the United Kingdom. He completed his medical degree at Queens’ College and School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge in England, postgraduate clinical training at the Royal College of Physicians in London and gained a Ph.D. at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Imperial Cancer Research Fund at the University of London.

After a medical oncology fellowship at the Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC, he was an Assistant Professor there until moving to Duke University in 2000 and subsequently to Washington University in St Louis where he served as professor of medicine and section head of breast oncology until 2014. Ellis was recently recruited to Baylor College of Medicine to serve as the Director of the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and to hold the C. Kent Osborne Chair of Breast Oncology. Both the McNair Foundation and the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas recently awarded him scholarships.