Piotr Czaykowski, BSc MD MSc FRCPC

Cross-appointments

  • Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine 

Accepting graduate students

  • Masters – No 
  • PhD – No 

Research interests 

  • Genitourinary oncology
  • Cancer outcomes
  • Cancer in the elderly
  • Cancer systems/provision of care
  • Cancer drug approval

Research groups

  • Canadian Cancer Trials Group
  • Canadian Urologic Oncology Group

Research summary

Dr. Piotr Czaykowski is actively involved as a local investigator in Genitourinary Medical Oncology clinical trials. He is part of a collaborative group investigating the use of anticancer drug treatments in elderly cancer patients. He is also part of a team looking at system improvement, e.g. the use of navigators in the cancer system, and the benefits and costs of a dedicated urgent cancer care clinic. 
 

Biography

Dr. Czaykowski completed medical school at the University of British Columbia, an internal medicine residency in Calgary and medical oncology residency and fellowship in Toronto. He then returned to British Columbia for five years as a medical oncologist with the British Columbia Cancer Agency – Fraser Valley Centre.

In 2002, he joined the CancerCare Manitoba team as a medical oncologist, where he has held a number of leadership roles including chair of the genitourinary disease site group, director of the University of Manitoba medical oncology training program, chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Medical Oncology Exam Board and interim head of the medical oncology and hematology department at CancerCare Manitoba, and section of hematology/oncology at UM.

In 2015 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer. Currently he is also the provincial specialty lead for oncology.

He maintains a busy clinical practice in genitourinary oncology while carrying out his administrative responsibilities. In his academic career, he is associate professor with the departments of internal medicine (section of hematology/oncology) and community health sciences at the Max Rady College of Medicine.

Education

  • Masters of Science, clinical epidemiology, University of Toronto (2000)
  • Medical oncology fellowship, Princess Margaret Hospital (1997)
  • Medical oncology residency, University of Toronto (1996)
  • Internal medicine residency, University of Calgary (1994)
  • Rotating internship, St. Paul’s Hospital (1989)
  • Medical Doctorate, medicine, University of British Columbia (1988)
  • Bachelor of Science, biochemistry, University of British Columbia (1984)

Awards

  • Morley Lertzman Award, department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba (2009)
  • Mentor of the Year, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2006)
  • Finalist, Educator of the Year, Professional Association of Interns and Residents of Manitoba (2006)
  • Lyonel G. Israels Award, Best Research Proposal, CancerCare Manitoba Foundation (2004)
  • Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (1997)
  • Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation Fellowship in Oncology (1996-1997)

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Internal Medicine
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820 Sherbrook Street
University of Manitoba
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