Jacek K. Pinski, MD

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Title:

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Co-director, Prostate Cancer Research Program

Areas of Treatment:

Specialties:

  • Oncology

Background:

After completing a fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center in Baltimore, Dr. Pinski came to the Keck School of Medicine at USC as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. A former Research Assistant Professor at the Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute at the Tulane University School of Medicine, Dr. Pinski is currently the Co-Director of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Prostate Cancer Research Center. Dr. Pinski is also a member of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Section for the United States Department of Veteran Affairs. He has received funding for seven research studies and in 2006 was invited to lecture in Austraila at the 3rd Annual Pacific Rim Breast and Prostate Cancer Meeting. Dr. Pinski has had over 60 peer reviewed articles published and has given presentations all across the globe.

Education:

  • J.W. Goethe University Business School, Frankfurt, Germany, 1981
  • J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Ph.D. (Eine Quantitative Morphologische Untersuchung Normaler und Hypertrophierter Menschlicher Herzen), 1988

Internships:

  • University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, March 1988 - November 1989
  • Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA, July 1996 - June 1997

Residencies:

  • Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA, July 1997 - June 1998

Fellowships:

  • Johns Hopkins Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, July 1998 - June 2001

Board Certification:

  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Oncology

Professional Society Memberships:

  • American Association for Cancer Research
  • American Medical Association
  • American Peptide Society
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • California Cancer Consortium
  • European Peptide Society
  • International Neuropeptide Society
  • Southwest Oncology Group

Awards:

  • Fellowship Award, GlaxoSmithKline, 2001
  • Fellowship Research Award, Johns Hopkins, 2001
  • Translational Research Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2001
  • Stop Cancer Award Special Seed Award, 2001
  • Wright Award, 2002
  • ACS/IRG Award, 2002
  • Whitney Award, 2002
  • Stop Cancer Research Career Development Award, 2002

Languages:

  • English
  • German
  • Polish