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Alina Gerrie

Assistant Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Hematologist
Research Focus
LeukemiaImmune System Rehabilitation InterventionOrgan Transplantation CancersChronic Lymphocytic LeukemiaLymphomaGenetics
Degrees / Designations

MD, MPH, FRCPC

Contact Info
agerrie@bccancer.bc.ca
604-877-6000

Biography

Dr. Alina Gerrie is a hematologist and assistant professor in the Divisions of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a member of the Lymphoma Tumour Group at BC Cancer and a clinician investigator with the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer at the BC Cancer Research Centre. Dr. Gerrie earned her medical degree and internal medicine specialization at the University of Toronto, followed by a hematology specialization at UBC. She completed a fellowship through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Clinical Investigator Program and earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. 

Dr. Gerrie is involved in translational, clinical trial and outcomes-based research related to leukemia and lymphoma. Other academic interests include the investigation of novel therapeutics and stem cell transplant for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and lymphoma and improving long-term outcomes for lymphoma and stem cell transplant survivors. Her research has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Health Professional-Investigator Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in 2020 and project funding through the Mitacs Accelerate program.

News and Awards

Medication combo improves mantle cell lymphoma remission rates

Apr 7, 2021

Investigator Awards 2017 Recipients

Mar 5, 2017

Team Grant Awards 2014 Recipients

Jun 13, 2014

Publications

  • Leukemia research -

    Impact of age and treatment institution type on outcomes of patients treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia in British Columbia, Canada.

    Huang SJ, Gerrie AS, Young S, Tucker T, Bruyère H, Hrynchak M, Galbraith P, Al Tourah AJ, Dueck G, Noble MC, Ramadan KM, Tsang P, Hardy E, Sehn LH, Toze CL
  • Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology -

    Burkitt Lymphoma International Prognostic Index.

    Olszewski AJ, Jakobsen LH, Collins GP, Cwynarski K, Bachanova V, Blum KA, Boughan KM, Bower M, Dalla Pria A, Danilov A, David KA, Diefenbach C, Ellin F, Epperla N, Farooq U, Feldman TA, Gerrie AS, Jagadeesh D, Kamdar M, Karmali R, Kassam S, Kenkre VP, Khan N, Kim SH, Klein AK, Lossos IS, Lunning MA, Martin P, Martinez-Calle N, Montoto S, Naik S, Palmisiano N, Peace D, Phillips EH, Phillips TJ, Portell CA, Reddy N, Santarsieri A, Sarraf Yazdy M, Smeland KB, Smith SE, Smith SD, Sundaram S, Zayac AS, Zhang XY, Zhu C, Cheah CY, El-Galaly TC, Evens AM
  • Blood -

    The impact of MYC and BCL2 structural variants in tumors of DLBCL morphology and mechanisms of false-negative MYC IHC.

    Collinge B, Ben-Neriah S, Chong L, Boyle M, Jiang A, Miyata-Takata T, Farinha P, Craig JW, Slack GW, Ennishi D, Mottok A, Meissner B, Chavez EA, Gerrie AS, Villa D, Freeman C, Savage KJ, Sehn LH, Morin RD, Mungall AJ, Gascoyne RD, Marra MA, Connors JM, Steidl C, Scott DW
  • Blood -

    Long-term results of PET-guided radiation in patients with advanced-stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with R-CHOP.

    Freeman CL, Savage KJ, Villa DR, Scott DW, Srour L, Gerrie AS, Brown MJ, Slack GW, Farinha P, Skinnider B, Morris J, Bénard F, Aquino-Parsons C, Lo A, Pickles T, Wilson DC, Tonseth P, Connors JM, Sehn LH
  • Blood advances -

    Bendamustine and rituximab as induction therapy in both transplant-eligible and -ineligible patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

    Villa D, Sehn LH, Savage KJ, Toze CL, Song K, den Brok WD, Freeman CL, Scott DW, Gerrie AS
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