A National Cancer Institute Designated Cancer Center
Charles Staley, MD
Holland M. Ware Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Surgical
Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Associate Director of Clinical Affairs, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory
University
Chief of Ambulatory Care Surgery, The Emory Clinic
Charles Staley, MD, is Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Surgical
Oncology, Department of Surgery in the Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves
as Associate Director of Clinical Affairs for the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
and is Chief of Ambulatory Care Surgery at the Emory Clinic.
Known for conducting novel clinical trials in gastrointestinal cancers, Dr. Staley specializes in
treating cancers of the esophagus, pancreas, stomach, liver, small bowel and rectum. He has
investigated gene therapy for metastatic colon cancer and radiofrequency ablation with intraarterial chemotherapy for patients with colorectal liver metastases. Currently, he and his
colleagues are exploring methods of using nanotechnology to treat and diagnose pancreatic and
breast cancer. Dr. Staley is the institutional principal investigator for the Eastern Cooperative
Oncology Group, the major source for Winship Cancer Institute's clinical research program; was
an ad hoc member of Grant Review Subcommittee H of the National Cancer Institute in 2007;
and an associate examiner for the American Board of Surgery in 2007 and 2002.
Dr. Staley is Board Certified in both Surgery and in Surgical Oncology. He joined Emory
University School of Medicine faculty in 1995 after a surgical fellowship at MD Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston.
Dr. Staley earned his medical degree at Dartmouth University School of Medicine and conducted
his residency at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Health Center.
Dr. Staley is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, The Georgia
Surgical Society, and the Society of Surgical Oncology.
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