Elizabeth Travis, PhD, FASTRO

Elizabeth Travis PhD, FASTRO, is Associate Vice President for Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion and Mattie Allen Fair Professor in Cancer Research at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She is responsible for oversight and strategic planning for the recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty into senior ranks and leadership positions. Dr. Travis received her Ph.D. degree in Experimental Pathology from the University of South Carolina. A distinguished biomedical researcher in the area of radiation oncology, she has been on the faculty at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center since 1982 and was promoted to Professor in 1988. Dr Travis is a pioneer in the study of pulmonary complications of cancer therapy and is widely recognized as an expert in this field. She has written or contributed to chapters on lung complications for many textbooks and has authored or co-authored more than 125 original publications. She is past-president of the Radiation Research Society, and the first radiobiologist to be elected to the Board of Directors for the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. In recognition of her seminal contributions to our understanding of radiation complications in normal tissues, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Radiation Oncology (FASTRO) in 2007. In November 2007, Dr. Travis was appointed to serve as MD Anderson’s first associate vice president for women faculty programs, which became Women and Faculty Minority Inclusion in 2016. In 2009 she was awarded the Women in Medicine Leadership Development Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.