AMAR KISHAN
ONCOLOGY
Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Research; Chief, Genitourinary Oncology Service in Radiation Oncology, UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCLA Health
Amar U. Kishan, MD earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he graduated magna cum laude from the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. During medical school, he was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship to study tumor metabolism in the laboratory. He subsequently completed his internship training at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was recognized as the H.H. Jones Intern of the Year. He completed his residency training in radiation oncology at UCLA. Dr. Kishan specializes in the utilization of radiation to treat genitourinary malignancies (particularly cancers of the prostate and bladder). He has published over 200 manuscripts.
