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Professor Mary Gospodarowicz is the Medical Director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre at the University Health Network, the Regional Vice President of Cancer Care Ontario, and past Chair of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, where she is a University Professor. She is the Associate Editor of Cancer Biology & Medicine and the Journal of Global Oncology.

Professor Gospodarowicz is a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, and an honorary member of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO), the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO), and the Scientific Association of Swiss Radiation Oncology (SASRO). She was the President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) from 2012 to 2014, and chairs the TNM Prognostic Factors Project at UICC. She has received the ASTRO Gold Medal, the American Radium Society Janeway Medal, the O. Harold Warwick Prize from the Canadian Cancer Society, and the Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015.