Pamela Munster, MD is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is leader of the Experimental Therapeutics Program, Director of Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for BRCA Research.
Dr. Munster serves on multiple local, national and international committees
focused on developing new treatments for cancer, has published over two hundred articles,
authored textbooks and is a frequent lecturer. A native of Switzerland, she leads breast cancer
awareness campaigns in the United States, United Arab Emirates, and India.
Dr. Munster was diagnosed with a BRCA2 mutation in 2012. There was not an easy place to
coordinate her care, and so she set out to create the UCSF Center for BRCA Research in
partnership with Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS. By transcending the doctor-patient perspective, Dr.
Munster gives a framework for successful treatment – epitomizing the personal, patient
centered care that is a hallmark of the UCSF medical center. Dr. Munster recently authored
Twisting Fate, about her experience as an oncologist and a cancer patient.