Margaret A. Tempero, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Deputy Director
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco CA
Margaret A. Tempero, M.D., is a medical oncologist widely respected for her work in gastrointestinal cancers.
Dr. Tempero is the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she also serves as Director of Clinical Sciences. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2000 as a Professor of Medicine and was immediately appointed to the Doris and Donald Fisher Distinguished Professorship.
Before joining UCSF, she was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) for 17 years, where she achieved the rank of full professor in 1994. Dr. Tempero served as an administrator for the Chief of Oncology and Hematology at the Omaha Veterans Administration Medical Center, and became Deputy Director of the Eppley Cancer Center at the University in 1995 and then interim Director until her departure.
Dr. Tempero’s research interests involve gastrointestinal cancers, especially pancreatic cancer, and novel targeting therapies, such as radioimmunoconjugates. She and her colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center had a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in pancreatic cancer from the NCI. She continues to conduct clinical and translational research projects at UCSF and is the Principal Investigator for an NCI-funded Interdisciplinary Molecular Target Assessment Team.
Dr. Tempero has published numerous papers, editorials and book chapters. She is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research as well as many other publications. She has served as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Vice Chair of the Board for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and is a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors. She was the first Chair of a Special Research Panel at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for review of patient-oriented research grants. She has co-directed the annual “Methods in Clinical Cancer Research” course jointly sponsored by ASCO and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
Dr. Tempero is Board Certified in Medical Oncology and Hematology. She completed her medical and clinical training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and held a brief research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Tempero earned her bachelor’s degree from Creighton University.
