Executive Steering Committee

TONI CHOUEIRI, M.D.
Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology

HANS HAMMERS, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology

BRYAN LEWIS
President

SUSAN POTEAT
Medical Science Liaison

LAURENCE ALBIGES, M.D. Ph.D.
Urology Committee Chairman

ARI HAKIMI, M.D.
Assistant Attending, Department of Surgery

RANA McKAY, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of Medicine

PAVLOS MSAOUEL, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of GU Oncology

SUMANTA PAL, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

QING ZHANG, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

ERIC JONASCH, M.D.
Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology

KIMRYN RATHMELL, M.D. Ph.D.
Director, Division of Hematology & Oncology

NEERAJ AGARWAL, M.D.
Senior Director of Clinical Research Innovation

GIL MORGAN, M.D.
Medical Oncologist

FABIO SCHUTZ, M.D.
BP – A Beneficencia, Portuguesa de Sao Paulo
Oncologista Clinico

QING ZHANG, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

TIAN ZHANG, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

ADRIAN HAYES
KidneyCAN
Communications Consultant

OUR LIVES WITH IMMUNOLOGY
Our opening session featured Gordon Freeman and Arlene Sharpe discussing their groundbreaking work in the pathways that inhibit T cell activation. In addition to discussing their science and careers, we asked them about their commitment to mentorship and managing family life as researchers.

MICHAEL ATKINS, M.D.
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Deputy Director Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive

TONI CHOUEIRI, M.D.
Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology

ARI HAKIMI, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Assistant Attending, Department of Surgery

HANS HAMMERS, M.D., Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology

ERIC JONASCH, M.D.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology

RANA McKAY, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of Medicine

MOSHE ORNSTEIN, M.D., M.A.
Cleveland Clinic
Medical Oncologist

SUMANTA PAL, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

BRIAN RINI, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chief of Medical Trials

NIZAR TANNIR, M.D., FACP
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Dept. of Genitourinary Medical Oncology

SCOTT TYKODI, M.D., Ph.D.
UW Medicine
Associate Professor, Division of Medical Oncology

KIYOSHI ARIIZUMI, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Professor

ZIAD BAKOUNY, M.D., MSc.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Internal Medicine Resident

DAVID BRAUN, M.D. Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Fellow in Medical Oncology

LUCIA CARRIL-AJURIA, M.D.
University Hospital 12 de Octubre
Medical Oncology Department

ABHISHEK CHAKRABORTY, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Assistant Professor

ALEX CHEHRAZI-RAFFLE, M.D.
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research Fellow

TONI CHOUEIRI, M.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology

NAZLI DIZMAN, M.D.
Yale New Haven Hospital
Internal Medicine Resident

GORDON FREEMAN, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine

GIANNICOLA GENOVESE, M.D. PhD.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor

SCOTTE HAAKE, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Assistant Professor

ELIZABETH HENSKE, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor

MEI YEE KOH, Ph.D.
Kuda Therapeutics, Inc.
Founder and CEO

CHUNG-HAN LEE, M.D., Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Medical Oncologist

RICHARD LINK, M.D. Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Professor of Urology

OLIVIA LOMBARDI, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Post Doctoral Researcher

JASNOOR MALHOTRA
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Research Associate

ROBERT MOTZER, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jack and Dorothy Byrne Chair in Clinical Oncology

PAVLOS MSAOUEL, M.D. PhD.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of GU Oncology

JASON MUHITCH, Ph.D.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Assistant Professor

ELIZABETH PLIMACK, M.D.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Chief, Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology

TOM POWLES, MBBS, MRCP, M.D.
Barts Cancer Centre
Director, Barts Cancer Centre, Lead for Solid Tumour Research

LUCAS SALAS, M.D., M.PH, Ph.D.
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Assistant Professor

NICHOLAS SALGIA
University at Buffalo
M.D.-Ph.D. Student, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science

ROBERT SATCHER, M.D.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Associate Professor

NICOLAS SAYEGH, M.D.
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Research Fellow

AMISHI SHAH, M.D.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor

ARLENE SHARPE, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Chair of the Department of Immunology

M. CELESTE SIMON, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor

LAURA STRANSKY, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Research Fellow

JANIS TAUBE, M.D., MSc.
Johns Hopkins University
Professor

SRINIVAS VISWANATHAN, M.D. Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine

CATHERINE WU
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Chief, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies

LILY WU, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Professor

YOUSEF ZAKHARIA, M.D.
University of Iowa
Clinical Associate Professor

KEVIN ZARRABI, M.D.
Fox Chase Cancer Institute
Research Fellow

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