Dr. Daniel Heng is a Staff Medical Oncologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, Alberta and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He received his MD from the University of Calgary and completed his internal medicine and medical oncology residencies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He was trained at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada and then completed an Experimental Therapeutics fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He received a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University. He is the Chair of the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC) which has created and validated the IMDC criteria (a.k.a. Heng Criteria) for prognostication in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients. He is also the Chair of the Genitourinary Tumor Group in Calgary and the head of Medical Oncology at TBCC. He has a keen interest in outcomes, prognostic factors and clinical trials research in metastatic renal cell carcinoma and other genitourinary malignancies.