Alda Tam is a tenured Professor in the Department of Interventional Radiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She received a BSc with Honors from Brown University and her MD from the University of British Columbia. She completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Southern California, MBA at the University of California Irvine, and a fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.  She is an active interventional oncologist with involvement in both translational research and clinical trials.  Her clinical interests include the treatment of bone and lung metastases, minimally invasive palliative therapies, and optimizing biopsy yield for clinical trials. Her translational research interests include exploring novel ablative technologies in combination with nanotechnology for the treatment of bone metastases and studying the synergies of using interventional radiology techniques in conjunction with immunotherapy.  She serves as the Executive Director of Diagnostic Imaging for the MDA Anderson Cancer Network.  Dr. Tam is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and a past President of SIR.