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Liza C. Villaruz, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. She is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. Dr. Villaruz's clinical expertise and research focuses on the evaluation and management of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies. As an active member of the Lung and Thoracic Malignancies Program and the University of Pittsburgh’s Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in lung cancer, Dr. Villaruz actively accrues and is the principal investigator of several ongoing clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute evaluating novel therapeutic approaches to the treatment of lung cancer. Her research focuses on delineating the clinical behavior of novel molecular subtypes of lung cancer, and the study of novel targeted agents for the treatment of these lung cancer molecular subtypes. She has been awarded the Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Young Investigator Award for her work on the role of microRNAs as biomarkers of chemotherapy resistance in metastatic melanoma. Dr. Villaruz received an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, IN, and a medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore, MD. She completed her residency in internal medicine and her fellowship in hematology/oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Villaruz is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is an invited reviewer for medical journals such as Lung Cancer and Oncology Research.
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Division of Hematology/Oncology