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Road and parking lot construction in Madison, Wis. may result in travel delays and route changes to UW Health clinic and hospital locations. Please plan accordingly.Read more
Dr. LoConte is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin. She completed medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, then did her internship in internal medicine at UW. Dr. LoConte completed her internal medicine residency at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She has also completed fellowship training in both medical oncology as well as geriatrics. She joined the faculty of the UW Carbone Cancer Center in the summer of 2006. She is the recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award for 2006, and has funding from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute. She has been a principal investigator on many clinical trials of new chemotherapies for gastrointestinal cancers, from Phase I through Phase III studies. Dr. LoConte is also the co-leader of the UW Carbone Cancer Center gastrointestinal disease oriented working group. Dr. LoConte's clinical interests are in gastrointestinal cancers, including liver and pancreas cancers, as well as cancer of any type in the older adult.
Dr. LoConte's research interests are in predictors of chemotherapy toxicity, as well as trials of chemotherapy in older adults and patients with gastrointestinal cancers.