Dr Max J Coppes is the Director of the Pennington Cancer Institute (PCI) at Renown Health and a Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at UNR Med. He went to Medical School at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, served in the Dutch Air Force, completed his Pediatric Residency at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht in the Netherlands, and trained in pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif in France and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business in Calgary. Prior to relocating to Reno, he served as the Director of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, the Senior Vice President of the Center for Cancer and Blood disorders at Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, and the President of the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada. In Reno he served as the Chief Medical & Academic Officer of Renown Health and the Nell J Redfield Chair of Pediatrics at UNR Med & Physician-in-Chief of Renown Children’s Hospital, before becoming the Director of the PCI.
His clinical area of expertise is childhood cancer and he has served in multiple national and international leadership positions. He has been actively involved in laboratory, translational, clinical, and epidemiologic research and has published over 150 manuscripts Currently, Dr. Coppes is interested in helping to elucidate what can be learned from patterns derived from ‘big data’, including health record data, environmental data, genetic background, and socioeconomic factors. He is also actively involved with UNR’s School of Public Health in determining the effects of healthcare related media messages on different audiences.