Ray Page named distinguished alumnus
 Ray Page, DO, PhD, GSBS/TCOM 1991, was chosen as the 2004
Distinguished Alumnus by the Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences. He delivered a seminar, “The Nexus of Academic
and Community-Based Cancer Research: Doing the Tango,” May
25 to an audience of patients, physicians and researchers not
only from the health science center community, but from the
local community as well.
Dr. Page, an associate director in the Institute for Cancer
Research, grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, and received his
bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from Southwestern
University. He earned a master’s degree in physiology
at Baylor University Graduate School-Baylor College of Dentistry,
and in 1991 he received his doctorate degrees in pharmacology
and osteopathic medicine from the health science center.
Dr. Page performed his internal medicine residency at the
health science center and the Osteopathic Medical Center of
Texas, and completed a combined oncology/hematology fellowship
at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. While
at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, he was appointed junior faculty
associate and also served as chief fellow. He has published
many research papers in basic science, physiology and pharmacology,
in addition to publications and presentations in cancer-related
subjects. As health science center faculty, he actively participates
in teaching both the basic sciences and clinical medicine and
has received a number of academic honors and awards. Dr. Page
is the founding president of The Cancer Education and Research
Foundation of Texas.
“We are very proud of Ray and his accomplishments,” said
GSBS Dean Thomas Yorio, PhD, who was Dr. Page’s mentor
while he pursued his pharmacology doctorate. “Aside from
his busy practice, he has remained involved with UNT Health
Science Center by lecturing in the medical school curriculum
and providing mentorship to graduate students in our clinical
research management program who perform internship practica
with Texas Cancer Care under his guidance.”
Dr. Page and his wife, Sheila Page, DO, TCOM Class of 1992,
live in Aledo with their children.
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