Eleni Efstathiou is a Professor of Cancer Medicine GenitoUrinary Medical Oncology Section Chief at the Houston Methodist Cancer Center. She is internationally known scientist for her break through translational research in prostate cancer. Clinically, she is one of the few physicians with practices on both sides of the Atlantic and extensive experience across the spectrum of genitourinary (GU) medical oncology. 

Her goal is to combine the advantages of academic research  with those of precision care thus offering the best possible care and treatment planning to patients while promoting advances in therapeutics and clinical practice education.

Dr Efstathiou’s main research focus has been  targeted  novel therapeutics as tools to guide marker-driven treatment strategies in prostate cancer, and genomic and non-genomic pathways of resistance.