Prof. Go is a famous specialist
on Pancreatic disease and nutrition. He was
invited to visit our hospital on 27th Oct,
2005. High-tech modalities for cancer ware
attracting Porf. Go’s eye. He was very interested
in the therapeutic results of a patient with
pancreatic cancer and a patient with liver
cancer and liver cirrhosis. |
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Prof. Go(Middle) and
Dr. Niu(Left) are disccusing case |
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Biosketch of Prof. Vay Liang W. Go, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA; Associate Director, UCLA-NIH
Clinical Nutrition Research Unit; Editor-in-Chief,
Pancreas
Dr. Go's research interests, over the last 3 decades,
have focused on neuro-hormonal control of gastrointestinal
and pancreatic function and metabolism; nutrition
and cancer; and cancer prevention. He began his
academic career investigating the regulation of
human pancreatic exocrine and endocrine secretions
and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and
subsequently expanded his research work to brain-gut
interaction, and nutrition and cancer. From 1975-1985,
he co-established and directed the National Cancer
Institute Serum Immunodiagnostic Bank Program
at the Mayo Clinic. This is the world's largest
serum bank used by NCI in evaluating various tumor
markers in diagnosing, prognosing and monitoring
values in treating the various cancers evaluated
by both NIH extramural and intramural programs.
During 1985-1988, Dr. Go served simultaneously
in three related capacities at the National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, MD: 1) Director, Division
of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases, 2) Chairman of the Nutrition Coordinating
Committee at the Office of the Director of the
National Institutes of Health (HIH). In 1988,
he joined UCLA Department of Medicine as the Executive
Chairman. Since 1996, Dr. GO has focused his creative
energies in co-founding the UCLA Center for Human
Nutrition with the mission of facilitating interdisciplinary
research in nutrition and cancer prevention. Dr.
Go has authored and co-authored more than 320
peer-reviewed articles and over 100 editorials,
book chapters and review articles, and has co-edited
6 books and trained over 60 fellows and junior
faculty, some of whom now provide national and
international leadership in gastroenterology and
pancreatology..
Selected References
1. Go VLW, Wong DA, Butrum R. Diet, nutrition,
and cancer prevention: Where are we going from
here? J Nutr 2001;131:3121S-3126S.
2. Boros LG, Lee W-NP, Go VLW. A metabolic hypothesis
of cell growth & death in pancreatic cancer.
Pancreas 2002;24:26-33.
3. Go VLW and Tache Y. Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
and Anorexia: Role of Brain-Gut Axis in: The Control
of Food and Fluid Intake in Health and Disease,
edited by Michael J. G. Farthing and Dilip Mahalanabis.
Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Pediatric Program.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia.
51: 31-44, 2003.
4. Go VLW, Butrum R, Wong DA. Diet, nutrition,
and cancer prevention: The postgenomic era. J.
Nutr 2003; 133(11). (In press)
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