Ashiq Masood, MD, to join the Cancer Center at WMMC

Ashiq Masood, MD, will join the Cancer Center at WMMC beginning July 17

Warrensburg, MO (July 05, 2017)—Western Missouri Medical Center (WMMC) is pleased to welcome Ashiq Masood, MD, to the Cancer Center at WMMC team beginning July 17.

Dr. Masood comes to the Cancer Center at WMMC through WMMC’s clinical affiliation with Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (subspeciality in Oncology) and has a special interest in solid tumors, genitourinary oncology, gastrointestinal cancers, thoracic oncology, cancer genomics and immunotherapy.

Dr. Masood has served as Assistant Professor of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, specializing in gastrointestinal cancers. He received his medical degree from Sher-I-Kashir Institute of Medical Sciences in Kashmir, India, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine/Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his clinical fellowship in Oncology/Hematology at the Institute for Genomic Sciences at the University of Maryland, where he was involved in research that led to the discovery of “jumping genes” (called transposons) that can initiate colon cancer.