Dr. Grainne O’Kane is a GI medical oncologist and the newly appointed Pat Smullen Chair in Pancreatic Cancer at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin and University College Dublin. Dr. O’Kane completed her medical and oncology training in Ireland prior to commencing a fellowship in GI/thoracic oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto in 2016. She joined faculty as a Clinician Investigator and Assistant Professor at The University of Toronto in 2019 specialising in liver and pancreatic cancers. Her primary research has been in integrative molecular profiling of tumours for biomarker development and she is PI of a number of investigator initiated studies in HPB malignancies. In particular she has been translational lead on the COMPASS and PASS-01 trials in pancreatic cancer. Dr O’Kane’s translational research in liver and pancreatic cancer has resulted in a number of awards from ASCO, ESMO and AACR and she has published over 100 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.