Elisabeth Heath M.D.

Elisabeth Heath, M.D., F.A.C.P., serves as associate center Director of Translational Sciences and leads the Genitourinary Oncology Multidisciplinary Team at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. She is the medical director of the Infusion Center and director of prostate cancer research. She has been an active clinical and scientific member of Karmanos and is professor of Oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Dr. Heath has a distinguished career as a prostate cancer researcher, serving as the Patricia C. and E. Jan Hartmann Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research. Her focus is in conducting clinical and translational research trials in genitourinary oncology with critical attention to the area of health disparity, particularly with regard to the poor accrual of minority patients to prostate cancer clinical trials. She is also involved in prostate cancer committees of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is the principal investigator for a Department of Defense grant in the nationally-recognized Prostate Clinical Trials Cancer Consortium.

A member of the Journal of Oncology Editorial Board, the Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Awards Review Committees and the Department of Defense prostate and bladder cancer study section, she has served as president for the KCI Medical Executive Committee, has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate at Wayne State University School of Medicine and is on the board of directors of the state-sponsored Michigan Cancer Consortium.

Dr. Heath was honored with the inaugural Michigan Cancer Consortium Champion Award in 2016. In addition, she received the National Cancer Institute Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award in 2010. She received the Wayne State University School of Medicine College Teaching Award in 2007, 2011 and 2015, and holds Hour Magazine's Top Doc designation from 2010 to 2018. She was featured in the May/June 2015 Top Docs edition of Ambassador Magazine. Dr. Heath serves as the faculty advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the 2009 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. She was the recipient of the Wayne State University School of Medicine Physicians Golden Heart Award in 2011. Dr. Heath is a dedicated clinician-scientist, researcher, and teacher at Wayne State University School of Medicine.

She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, completed her internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., and completed her medical oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.