Pablo Serrano Aybar
Associate Professor, Surgery

Pablo E. Serrano is an Associate Professor of Surgery at McMaster University. He joined the Department of Surgery in 2014 after finishing his fellowship in Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncology and Multi-organ Transplant at the University of Toronto. He completed his General Surgery Residency at the University of Toledo, Ohio where he also completed a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and a Master of Public Health. He completed his PhD in Health Research Methods at McMaster University in 2022. He recently joined the Department of Health Research Methods Evidence and Impact as an Associate Member, allowing him to supervise graduate students at the Masters and PhD level. He is an active researcher and scientist at the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute (ECRI) and has led several trials within the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG), He is the Local Principal Investigator of several CCTG Trials, including the PAC-3 and the PAC-4 Clinical Trial and is currently the highest recruiter in Canada for both trials. He has been the recipient of several research grants and is currently the principal investigator of multi-institutional multidisciplinary clinical trials in HCC funded by OICR, HAHSO, MSA and JHCCF. He is also an Associate Member of the Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research (CDCR) at McMaster University, a cancer research centre that develops collaboration and synergy between scientists and clinicians, focusing on comprehensive translational studies that inform the rational development of combinational therapies for cancer treatment