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Dr. Rakovitch is a radiation oncologist with an active clinical practice and research program solely focused on breast cancer. She attended medical school and completed her residency training in Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. She completed a two year research fellowship at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University in New York City and then returned to Toronto to join the staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where she remains until today.
She is a Professor and Scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. She is the Director of Research for the Cancer Program at Odette Cancer Centre (OCC), Sunnybrook Research Institute and the Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs for the University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology. At the national level, she serves co-chair of the Canadian Clinical Trials Group Breast Cancer Executive, oversees Canadian clinical trials in breast cancer, and internationally where she is a member of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Breast Cancer Steering and BOLD (local therapy) steering committees, key decision-making bodies which evaluate and determine NIH-based funding for therapeutic breast cancer clinical trials in the United States and Canada. She is dedicated to teaching students, residents and fellows across the educational spectrum.
The primary goal of her research program is to improve the care and outcomes of women with breast cancer.
