Colorectal Cancer

Our Experts

Doctors

• Dr. Nathan M. Bass, medical director, Liver Transplant Service for adults

• Dr. Emily Bergsland, gastrointestinal cancer specialist

• Dr. J. Michael Berry, cancer specialist

• Dr. Fergus V Coakley, radiologist

• Dr. Julio E. Garcia-Aguilar, colon and rectal surgeon

• Dr. Andrew H. Ko, gastrointestinal cancer specialist

• Dr. Richard M. Krieg, radiation cancer specialist

• Dr. Joel Palefsky, infectious disease specialist

• Dr. Margaret A. Tempero, deputy director of the UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

• Dr. Madhulika G Varma, colon and rectal surgeon

• Dr. Alan Venook, gastrointestinal cancer specialist

• Dr. Robert S. Warren, cancer surgeon

Nurses

Naomi Jay is a nurse practitioner at the UCSF Dysplasia Clinic. She specializes in the detection and diagnosis of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the anal canal and also helped pioneer the use of the diagnostic tool, colposcope, for HPV-related diseases. Jay is also actively involved in HPV-related research trials, including the natural history of HPV-related anal disease in men and women, treatment studies using vaccines, infrared coagulation, DFMO, and traditional Chinese medicine. She has also been involved with cervical HPV clinical studies of adolescents and young women.

Jay completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Subsequently, she earned her graduate degree in nursing, specializing in womens health, at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professionals.