| Jaffer A. Ajani, MD - CSC Medical Advisory Board Chairperson Professor of Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Dr. Ajani is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He received his doctor of medicine from Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. He is interested in upper gastrointestinal cancer research and focuses on combined modality trials for gastric and esophageal cancers. Dr. Ajani has led numerous phase II and III randomized trials and has ...
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| Adam Bass, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Division of Cellular and Molecular Oncology
Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Adam Bass is an assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and also is an associate member of the Broad Institute. He completed clinical training in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and medical oncology training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He subsequently pursued research training in cancer genomics and cancer biology ...
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| Jordan D. Berlin, MD Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Dr. Berlin is a medical oncologist who specializes in gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies and new drug development. As Clinical Director of the GI Oncology program at VICC, he directs the development and conduct of clinical trials for GI cancers at Vanderbilt. In this role as well as his role as co-Principal Investigator of the VICC GI SPORE (Specialized Project of Research Excellence) Grant, he helps to ...
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| Arthur W. Blackstock, Jr, M.D. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A. William Blackstock, MD, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Wake Forest University (WFU) School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He is a national and international expert in the radiotherapeutic management of gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Blackstock received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in 1985, his MD from East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine ...
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| Michael A. Choti, MD, MBA Professor of Surgery
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Choti is The Jacob C. Handelsman professor of surgery and chief of the Handelsman Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He received his doctor of medicine from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. His research interests include tumor immunology and experimental therapeutics of hepatic malignancies. ...
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| David K. Dennis, MD Medical Oncologist
Plantation, Florida
Dr. Dennis is in private practice in oncology and hematology in Plantation, Florida. He received his B.S. Summa Cum Laude from the University of Miami in Florida and his Doctor of Medicine from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at New York University Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Dennis completed a fellowship ...
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| Charles S. Fuchs, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Fuchs is Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also leads the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Malignancies Program and the DF/HCC SPORE Grant in Gastrointestinal Cancers. Dr. Fuchs splits his time between laboratory-based research, clinical research, and clinical care. ...
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| Steven Hahn, MD Gastroenterologist
Plantation, Florida
Dr. Hahn is in private practice in internal medicine and gastroenterology in Plantation, Florida. He received his B.S Magna Cum Laude from Hofstra University in New York and his M.D. from University of Miami School of Medicine. After serving his internal medicine internship and residency at Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory ...
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| Daniel G. Haller, MD Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Haller is a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. He received his doctor of medicine from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and completed his fellowship in medical oncology at the Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC. His research interests include both pancreatic and gastrointestinal oncology. Dr. Haller has written several articles ...
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| Elizabeth B. Harvey, PhD, MPH CEO, International Consulting Oncology, LLC
Interventionalist, MSKCC, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Private psychotherapy practice for cancer patients and their families
New York City
Dr. Harvey's career spans over 40 years of experience in the academic, government and industry cancer arenas. She held academic positions in radiopharmaceutical development at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. After earning a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, she joined ...
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| David H. Ilson, MD, PhD Medical Oncologist and Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Dr. Ilson completed undergraduate training at the University of Connecticut. He entered an M.D., Ph.D. combined degree program at New York University and received a Masters and Ph.D. degree in Basic Science and M.D. Degree from NYU. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital at NYU in New York. He then moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and completed a ...
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| George P. Kim, MD Assistant Professor of Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida
Dr. Kim is assistant professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and director of the gastrointestinal cancer group at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. He received his doctor of medicine from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine in Burlington, followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous awards for ...
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| Robert Martin II, MD, FACS, PhD Assistant Professor of Oncology
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Dr. Martin is associate professor of surgery and director of the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He obtained his doctor of medicine from the University of Louisville, where he is now a doctoral candidate, and completed a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. His clinical interests focus on the multiple disciplinary care and surgical management of ...
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| Edith Mitchell, MD, FACP Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology and Program Leader in Gastrointestinal Oncology
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology and Program Leader in Gastrointestinal Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. In addition, she holds the positions of Associate Director of Diversity Programs for the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities. Dr. Mitchell received a B.S. in biochemistry "with distinction" ...
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| Mary F. Mulcahy, MD Associate Professor in Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, Radiology and Surgery-Vascular
Northwestern Feinberg Medical School
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Mulcahy is an associate professor of hematology/oncology at Northwestern University and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chicago IL. She received her medical degree from the University of California in San Diego and completed her residency in general internal medicine at Boston University. She then moved to Chicago to pursue her fellowship training in hematology/oncology at Northwestern University. ...
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| Alexander A. Parikh, MD, FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Dr. Parikh is assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and clinical director of the Jim Ayers Institute for Precancer Detection and Diagnosis at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his doctor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania ...
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| Richard D. Schulick, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Schulick is an associate professor of surgery and oncology at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, and an attending surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He obtained his doctor of medicine from The Johns Hopkins University and has completed fellowships in clinical pharmacology, gastrointestinal ...
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| Joel E. Tepper, MD Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research,
Department of Radiation Oncology
UNC/Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dr. Joel Tepper is the Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and his MD degree from Washington University, St. Louis. He was an intern at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago followed by a residency in radiation oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute and an attending physician at MGH and Harvard Medical School....
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| Kathleen Mary Wesa, MD Assistant Attending Physician Integrative Medicine Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Kathleen Wesa, MD, is a physician-scientist in the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, followed by an Internal Medicine Residency and Rheumatology Fellowship. In addition she received a Bush Medical Fellowship and a National Institute of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ...
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| Donald Zelman, MD Surgeon
Plantation, Florida
Dr. Zelman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York. He served his surgical internship and his general and plastic surgery residency at Kings County Hospital in New York. He then served as a plastic surgeon in the United States Navy. Dr. Zelman was board certified by the American Society of ...
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