Ralph W. Devere White MD

Dr. Ralph de Vere White is the Senior Advisor Emeritus, and Emeritus Distinguished professor of urology. Before retiring, he served as the associate dean for cancer programs at UC Davis School of Medicine, director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a distinguished professor of urology. He received his medical degree from Dublin University in Dublin, Ireland, and completed an internship and residencies in surgery and urology at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. 

Dr. de Vere White has served on the editorial boards of six international scientific journals. Post-retirement, his research efforts are now focused on the molecular events that govern the response of prostate and bladder cancer to targeted therapies, the biomolecular mechanisms that make some prostate cancers more virulent than others, and new methods of diagnosing and treating prostate cancer.