Dr. Tom Nevill, MD, FRCPC
President, Leukemia/BMT Program of BC
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, BC

Dr. Nevill was born in London, Ontario and received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1983. He did his Internal Medicine and Hematology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia before completing a Leukemia/BMT Fellowship in Vancouver.

He became the Director of the first BMT Program in Atlantic Canada in 1991 before returning to the University of British Columbia in 1996, where he is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Hematology.

He is on Active Staff at both the Vancouver General Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency and in 2006 assumed the role of Clinical Director of the Leukemia/BMT Program of British Columbia. He maintains a research interest in myelodysplastic syndrome, Hodgkin's lymphoma and post-transplantation complications, including graft-versus-host disease.

He is the Vice President of the Canadian Hematology Society, is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Blood Services and has done Grant reviews for the NCIC, CIHR and the MRC (UK).