Laura Q.M. Chow, M.D., FRCPC

Laura Q.M. Chow, M.D., FRCPC, is board certified in medical oncology. Dr. Chow is a medical oncology physician and professor who has achieved international recognition for her expertise in defining and setting the standard of clinical care, research, and education of head and neck (including salivary gland cancers), thyroid, squamous cell, and thoracic cancers (non-small cell and small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma, thymic cancers) over the past 20 years.

She is a current affiliate faculty member and previously held key leadership positions at The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School. She is a former adjunct professor and clinical medical oncology faculty member in the Department of Thoracic, Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson.

She has practiced medical oncology in the clinic seeing patients, training medical students, residents, and oncology fellows, and has led phase I clinical trials research programs to develop multiple novel targeted and immunotherapy treatments for head and neck, gastroesophageal, thyroid, and lung cancers in the United States and Canada while serving on international and national clinical care guideline and research committees. She has been published in more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine.