Elisabeth I. Heath serves as associate center director of Translational Sciences and leads the Genitourinary Oncology Multidisciplinary Team at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. She is the medical director of the Infusion Center and director of prostate cancer research. She has been an active clinical and scientific member of Karmanos and is a professor of Oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, completed her internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., and completed her medical oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has a distinguished career as a prostate cancer researcher, serving as the Patricia C. and E. Jan Hartmann Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research. She is also involved in prostate cancer committees of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is the principal investigator for a Department of Defense grant in the nationally recognized Prostate Clinical Trials Cancer Consortium. She is a member of the Journal of Oncology Editorial Board, the Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Awards Review Committees, and the Department of Defense prostate and bladder cancer study section.
