Gordon Grado MD

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Biography

Dr. Gordon Grado serves as President of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee & Member of the Finance/Audit & Real Estate, Investment, Scholarships, Grants & Awards Committee at Eastern Illinois University Foundation. Dr. Grado served as Board Member at Compact Particle Acceleration. He is the founder and Medical Director of Southwest Oncology Centers based in Scottsdale, with four other oncology centers throughout Arizona and two affiliated centers each in Mexico and Latin America. Before his private practice, he established and chaired the radiation therapy program at Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, and was the Wurtele Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology at the University of Minnesota, where he developed the prostate brachytherapy program. Gordon also served on the board of Adelante Healthcare, which began as a program to provide healthcare to farmworkers and now offers affordable healthcare throughout Maricopa County. He continues to provide support to St. Vincent DePaul and its clinics in Arizona. In June 2000, Arizona's Governor named him as a member of the Arizona Prostate Cancer Task Force. He has worked at EIU, lecturing health science students and developing a mentoring program for pre-medical students interested in studying at his Arizona Southwest Oncology Centers, where they work as interns and on research projects. Gordon graduated from EIU in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology. In 2006, he was named the Distinguished Alumnus by the EIU Alumni Association, and in 2013 he also was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from Eastern Illinois University.