Biography
Dr. Catherine Poh is an associate professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of British Columbia, a clinician-scientist in the British Columbia Oral Cancer Prevention Program at the BC Cancer Agency, and a researcher at VCHRI. She is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research clinician-scientist and a Michael Smith Health Research BC scholar. Dr. Poh is also one of two practicing oral maxillofacial pathologists in British Columbia, and an active staff member of the Oral Oncology Department of the BC Cancer Agency as well as the Oral Mucosal Disease Program at Vancouver General Hospital. Her primary research focus involves application of molecular and imaging tools for community screening, early detection and management of cancerous and precancerous oral lesions.