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SENIOR ADMINISTRATORS

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

President and CEO of the Hospital at Fox Chase Cancer Center

 

Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD

Cancer Center Director at Fox Chase Cancer Center

 

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, FASCO

Deputy Director

 

David Wiest, PhD

Scientific Director, Research Institute

 

Glenn F. Rall, PhD

Chief Academic Officer

 

Joel Helmke, MSHP, FACHE

Chief Operating Officer

 

Jarred C. Matchett

Chief Financial Officer

 

James L. Helstrom, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer

 

Anna Liza Rodriguez, MSN, MHA, RN, OCN, NEA-BC

Chief Nursing Officer

Vice President, Nursing and Patient Services

 

Shawn P. Kleitz

Chief Development Officer

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIR: Lewis F. Gould Jr.

VICE CHAIR: Christopher W. McNichol

William J. Federici

Edward A. Glickman

Amy J. Goldberg, MD

Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD

Thomas W. Hofmann

Solomon C. Luo, MD

David G. Marshall

John W. Marshall III

Donald E. Morel Jr., PhD

Leon O. Moulder Jr.

Tina M. Pidgeon

Carl A. Sottosanti

Michael A. Young

 

FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIR: Donald E. Morel Jr., PhD

VICE CHAIR: Louis E. Della Penna Sr.

Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD

Elaine Daniels

William J. Federici

Edward A. Glickman

Lewis F. Gould Jr.

Thomas W. Hofmann

Barbara Ilsen

Margot Wallace Keith

Peter Kreindler

Philip E. Lippincott

Solomon C. Luo, MD

David G. Marshall

Barbara O’Donnell

Anna Marie Ahn Petersen

Tina Pidgeon

Kenneth Shropshire

Michael Smolenski

Thomas R. Tritton, PhD

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA

 

FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER ENDOWED CHAIRS

LOUIS DELLA PENNA FAMILY CHAIR IN HEAD & NECK ONCOLOGY

John A. “Drew” Ridge, MD, PhD, FACS

Professor Emeritus

 

CAROL & LOUIS DELLA PENNA CHAIR IN UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY

 

G. MORRIS DORRANCE JR. CHAIR IN MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Martin J. Edelman, MD

Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology

 

PAUL F. ENGSTROM PROFESSORSHIP IN ONCOLOGY

Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD

Co-Director, The Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute

 

THE GLORIA & EDMUND M. DUNN CHAIR IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY

Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS

Chief, Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology

 

MARVIN S. GREENBERG, MD, CHAIR IN PANCREATIC CANCER SURGERY

Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS

Co-Director, The Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute

 

MARVIN & CONCETTA GREENBERG CHAIR IN PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH

Edna “Eti” Cukierman, PhD

Co-Director, The Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute

 

PAUL GROTZINGER & WILBUR RAAB CHAIR IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Stephen C. Rubin, MD

Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology

 

SAMUEL M.V. HAMILTON CHAIR IN CANCER PREVENTION

Margie L. Clapper, PhD

Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program

 

GERALD E. HANKS CHAIR IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Eric M. Horwitz, MD, FABS, FASTRO

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

 

THE BEATRICE “BEA” MINTZ CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

 

THE DONALD E. & SHIRLEY C. MOREL, STANLEY & STELLA BAYSTER CHAIR IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

Mariusz A. Wasik, MD

Chair, Department of Pathology

 

G. WILLING “WING” PEPPER CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

STANLEY P. REIMANN CHAIR IN ONCOLOGY RESEARCH

Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD

Cancer Center Director

 

AUDREY WEG SCHAUS & GEOFFREY ALAN WEG CHAIR IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc

Chair, Department of Medicine

 

ROBERTA R. SCHELLER CHAIR IN UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY

Alexander Kutikov, MD, FACS

Chair, Department of Urology

 

JACK SCHULTZ CHAIR IN BASIC SCIENCE

Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD

Director, Cancer Epigenetics Institute

 

WILLIAM WIKOFF SMITH CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

Erica Golemis, PhD

Associate Director, System Integration

 

TIMOTHY R. TALBOT JR. CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP

Professor Emerita

 

CAROL & KENNETH WEG CHAIR IN HUMAN GENETICS

Joseph R. Testa, PhD, FACMG

Chief, Genomic Medicine

 

H.O. WEST & J.R. WIKE CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

J. Robert Beck, MD

Professor Emeritus

 

ROBERT C. YOUNG, MD, CHAIR IN CANCER RESEARCH

 

CLINICAL FACULTY

Department of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapies

Chair: Henry Fung, MD

Peter Abdelmessieh, DO, MSc

Rashmi Khanal, MD

Michael Jay Styler, MD

Asya Varshavsky-Yanovsky, MD, PhD

 

Department of Clinical Genetics

Chair: Michael J. Hall, MD, MS

Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD

 

Department of Diagnostic Imaging

Chair: Gary Cohen, MD4

Andrea Abbott, MD

Sarah Abdulla, MD4

Omar Agosto, MD4

Saira Ahmad, MD4

Syed Andrabi, MD4

Marion Brody, MD2

Dina Caroline, MD4

Thomas Chayapruks, MD4

Konstantin Chernukha, MD4

Jeffrey Cruz, MD4

Emily Cuthbertson, MD4

Shqiponja Hajdinaj, MD2,4

Beverly Hershey, MD4

Neelu Jain, MD4

Padmaj Athota Jonnalagadda, MD4

Bhishk H. Kamat, MD4

Renee Kendzierski, DO4

Mansoor Khan, MD4

Robert Koenigsberg, MD4

Derek Lee, MD4

Shane Lee, MD4

Laura Levin, MD4

Nicole Levy, MD4

Weier Li, MD

Yi Li, MD, MSc

Aaron Losey, MD4

Hillel S. Maresky, MD

Jared Meshekow, MD4

Barton Milestone, MD

Dmitry Niman, MD4

Joseph Panaro, MD4

Pratik Patel, DO4

Varun Sethi, MD4

Claire Streibert, MD2

Jiaqiong Wang, MD2,4

Mindy Yang, MD4

Jian Qin Yu, MD

 

Department of Hematology/Oncology

Chair: Martin Edelman, MD

Vice Chair: Margaret von Mehren, MD

Fern Anari, MD

Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD

Jessica Bauman, MD

J. Nicholas Bodor, MD

Hossein Borghaei, DO

Emily Castellanos, MD

Jonathan Cheng, MD

Crystal Denlinger, MD

Efrat Dotan, MD

Scot Ebbinghaus, MD

Zachary Frosch, MD

Daniel Geynisman, MD

Pooja Ghatalia, MD

Anshu Giri, MD, MS

Jason Incorvati, MD

Angela Jain, MD

Julia Judd, DO

Teresa Lee, MD, PhD

Gregory Lubiniecki, MD

Melissa McShane, MD

Marcus Messmer, MD

Benjamin Miron, MD2

Juhi Mittal, MD4

Shazia Nakhoda, MD

Aruna Padmanabhan, MD4

Alvaro Pereira-Rico, MD4

Anthony J. Olszanski, MD

Elizabeth Plimack, MD

Emmanuel Quien, MD4

Iberia Romina Sosa, MD, PhD

Lindsey Taylor, MD

Joseph Treat, MD

Namrata Vijayvergia, MD

Jennifer Winn, MD

Vanessa Wookey, MD

Matthew Zibelman, MD

 

Supportive Oncology & Palliative Care

Marcin Chwistek, MD

Michael Scott, MD

Dylan Sherry, MD

 

Department of Medicine

Chair: David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc

Vice Chair: Rohit Kumar, MD

Matthew Zibelman, MD

CARDIOLOGY

Anuj Basil, MD4

David Chinn, MD

Thomas Diaz, MD

Daniel Edmundowicz, MD, MS4

David Fiss, MD

Ahmed Foda, MD

Natasha Fonseka, MD

Aditi Kalla, MD

Karan Kapoor, MD4

Vladimir Lakhter, MD

David Laslett, MD

Jeffrey Smietana, MD

DERMATOLOGY

Abhishek Aphale, MD

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Maryam Khan, MD2

Pankaj Sharda, MD

GASTROENTEROLOGY

David Loren, MD 2

Minhhuyen Nguyen, MD

Malorie Simons, MD

Joseph Triggs, MD, PhD

HOSPITALISTS

Adam Adika, MD2

Elizabeth A. Bourne, MD

Robert Brenchak, MD

Khadija Cheema, MD

Chetan Dodhia, MD

Daniel Holleran, MD

Kristen Manley, MD

Nkemdilim Mgbojikwe, MD2

Kenneth Patrick, MD

Rajkumar Sarkar, MD

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Gilbert Lafontant, MD

PSYCHIATRY

Emmie Chen, MD

Nithya Cherukuru, MD

Pamela Handelsman, PsyD

PULMONARY MEDICINE

Danish Ahmad, MD

Sheela Ahmed, MD

Alan Haber, MD

Christopher Manley, MD

 

Department of Pathology

Chair: Mariusz Wasik, MD

Donald Baldwin, PhD

Tahseen I. Al-Saleem, MD5

Harry S. Cooper, MD

Hormoz Ehya, MD

Douglas Flieder, MD

Yulan Gong, MD

Min Huang, MD

Nicholas Mackrides, MD

Peter McCue, MD

Rajeswari Nagarathinam, MD

Reza Nejati, MD

Arthur S. Patchefsky, MD

Jianming Pei, MD

Y. Lynn Wang, MD, PhD

Shuanzeng Wei, MD, PhD

Hong Wu, MD, PhD

 

Department of Radiation Oncology

RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS

Chair: Eric M. Horwitz, MD

Penny R. Anderson, MD

Abigail T. Berman, MD

Nina Burbure, MD, PhD

Jo Ann Chalal, MD

Randi Cohen, MD, MS

Thomas J. Galloway, MD

Mark Hallman, MD, PhD

Shelly Hayes, MD

Krisha Howell, MD

Sameera Kumar, MD

Douglas Lee, DO

Joshua Meyer, MD

Curtis Miyamoto, MD4

Jeremy Price, MD, PhD4

Rebecca Shulman, MD

Mark Sobczak, MD

Sangeeta Tyerech, MD

Stephanie Weiss, MD

Jessica Karen Wong, MD

RADIATION PHYSICISTS

Director: Chang-Ming “Charlie” Ma, PhD

Chief Clinical Physicist: Robert A. Price, PhD

Lili Chen, PhD

Xiaoming “Shawn” Chen, PhD

Ahmed Eldib, PhD

Tawfik Giaddiu, PhD

Shidong Li, PhD

Teh Lin, PhD

Joseph Panetta, PhD

Iavor Veltchev, PhD

Bin Wang, PhD

Lu Wang, PhD

 

Department of Surgical Oncology

Interim Chair: Jeffrey M. Farma, MD

Allison Aggon, DO

Richard Bleicher, MD

Whitney Morgan Burrows, MD2,4

Jason Castellanos, MD

Paul Curcillo, MD

David Ehrlich, MD

Joseph Friedberg, MD4

Stephanie Greco, MD

Stephanie King, MD

Kelvin Lau, MD4

Jeffrey Liu, MD

Gina Mantia-Smaldone, MD

Sameer Patel, MD

Theresa Pazionis, MD4

Juan Lucas Poggio, MD4

Andrea Porpiglia, MD

Mary Pronovost, MD4

Sanjay Reddy, MD

Stephen Rubin, MD

Cecelia Schmalbach, MD, MSc4

Elin Sigurdson, MD, PhD

Ahmed Soliman, MD4

Stacey Su, MD

Anthony Villano, MD

Adam Walchak, MD

Austin Williams, MD

ANESTHESIOLOGY

Eric Deveaux, MD

Amanda Hargrove, MD

James L. Helstrom, MD

Kristin K.G. Krauss, MD

Michelle McMaster, MD

Maria Munoz-Allen, MD

David Paul, MD2

F. Felipe Suero, MD

Flore Macenat Sulzynski, MD

 

Department of Urology

Chair: Alexander Kutikov, MD

Vice Chair: Jay Simhan, MD2

David Chen, MD

Joshua Cohn, MD2

Andres Correa, MD

Justin Friedlander, MD2

Eric Ghiraldi, DO2

Marc Smaldone, MD1

Steven Sterious, MD2

Robert G. Uzzo, MD, MBA

Rosalia Viterbo, MD

 

RESEARCH FACULTY

Cancer Prevention & Control

PROGRAM LEADERS

Margie L. Clapper, PhD

Michael J. Hall, MD, MS3

PRIMARY MEMBERS

Nezar Al-hebshi, PhD4

Sanjeevani Arora, PhD

Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH4

Jessica Bauman, MD3

J. Nicholas Bodor, MD, PhD, MPH3

Bradley N. Collins, PhD4

Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD3

Efrat Dotan, MD3

Cherie Erkmen, MD4

Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD

Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH

Zachary A. Frosch, MD

Ana M. Gamero, PhD4

Jayashri Ghosh, PhD4

Resa Jones, MPH, PhD4

Beata Kosmider, PhD4

Stephen Lepore, PhD4

Shannon Lynch, PhD, MPH

Grace X. Ma, PhD4

Suzanne M. Miller, PhD

Khadijah Mitchell, PhD, MS2

Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH

Jennifer Reese, PhD

Erin Tagai, PhD, MPH3

Joseph Testa, PhD3

David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc3

Christopher Wheldon, PhD4

Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD

COLLABORATING MEMBERS

Marcin Chwistek, MD3

Harry S. Cooper, MD3

Kevin Henry, PhD4

Enrique Hernandez, MD4

Eric Ross, PhD, ScM

Laura Siminoff, PhD4

Marc C. Smaldone, MD3

Robin Taylor Wilson, PhD4

Yan Zhou, PhD

 

Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment

PROGRAM LEADERS

Edna Cukierman, PhD

John Karanicolas, PhD

PRIMARY MEMBERS

Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD3

Michael Autieri, PhD4

Siddharth Balachandran, PhD

Hossein Borghaei, DO3

Lucia Borriello, PhD 4

Kerry Campbell, PhD

Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD

Denise C. Connolly, PhD

Roland L. Dunbrack Jr., PhD

James S. Duncan, PhD

Martin J. Edelman, MD3

Brian Egleston, MPP, PhD

Mitchell Fane, PhD2

Jeffrey Farma, MD3

Joan Font-Burgada, PhD

Thomas Galloway, MD3

Bojana Gligorijevic, PhD4

Erica A. Golemis, PhD

Xavier Grana, PhD4

Eric Horwitz, MD3

Warren D. Kruger, PhD

Petr Makhov, PhD

Joshua Meyer, MD3

Alana O’Reilly, PhD

Anthony J. Olszanski, MD3

Swayam Prabha, PhD4

Jeffrey R. Peterson, PhD

Swayam Prabha, MBA, PhD4

Sanjay Reddy, MD3

Lori Rink, PhD

Nathaniel Snyder, PhD4

Pedro Torres-Ayuso, PhD4

Joseph Treat, MD3

Cagla Tukel, PhD4

Vincent A. Voelz, PhD4

Margaret von Mehren, MD3

Yue-Lynn Wang, MD

Ross Wang, PhD4

Mariusz Wasik, MD3

Kelly Whelan, PhD4

Jinhua Wu, PhD

Yibin Yang, PhD

Raza M. Zaidi, PhD4

COLLABORATING MEMBERS

Donald Baldwin, PhD

Richard Baxter, PhD4

Richard Bleicher, MD3

Jason Castellanos, MD, MS3

Lili Chen, PhD

Margret Einarson, PhD

Henry Fung, MD3

Mark Hallman, MD, PhD3

Jill Hasler, PhD

Marc Ilies, PhD4

Angela Jain, MD3

Lisellotte Jensen, PhD4

Julia Judd, DO

Peter I. Lelkes, PhD4

Jeffrey Chang-Jen Liu, MD3

Chang-Ming Charlie Ma, PhD

Christopher Manley, MD3

Gina Mantia-Smaldone, MD3

Marcus Messmer, MD3

Curtis Miyamoto, MD4

Emannuelle Nicolas, PhD

Aruna Padmanabhan, MD3

Glenn Rall, PhD

Elin Sigurdson, MD, PhD3

Erkan Tuzel, PhD4

Michael Yu, MD3

Yan Zhou, PhD, MSE

 

Nuclear Dynamics & Cancer

PROGRAM LEADERS

Tomasz Skorski, PhD4

Johnathan Whetstine, PhD

PRIMARY MEMBERS

Philip Abbosh, MD, PhD

Alfonso Bellacosa, MD, PhD

Israel Canadas, PhD

Lu Chen, PhD

Cihangir Duy, PhD, MS

Conchi Estaras, PhD4

Daniel Geynisman, MD3

Pooja Ghatalia, MD3

Dietmar J. Kappes, PhD

Sergey Karakashev, PhD4

Vladimir Kolenko, MD, PhD

Sudhir Kumar, PhD4

Alexander Kutikov, MD3

Hayan Lee, PhD

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS3

Tomasz Skorski, MD, PhD, DSc4

Jonathan Soboloff, PhD4

Vasily M. Studitsky, PhD

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA3

Namrata Vijayvergia, MD3

Amy M. Whitaker, PhD

David L. Wiest, PhD

Zeng-jie Yang, MD, PhD

Matthew Zibelman, MD3

COLLABORATING MEMBERS

David Chen, MD3

Andres Correa, MD3

Karthik Devarajan, PhD

Dan Liebermann, PhD4

Christoph Seeger, PhD

Hong Wang, MD, PhD4

 

1 Newly promoted faculty at Fox Chase Cancer Center
2 Newly recruited faculty at Fox Chase Cancer Center
3 Member of the Fox Chase Cancer Center clinical faculty
4 Faculty based at Temple University
5 Emeritus

 

STAFF

Jeremy Moore

Associate Vice President, Communications

Patrick McGee

Publications Manager

Sarah Hughes

Editorial Coordinator

Marian Auriemma

Staff Writer

 

Writers & Contributors

Jill Horne

Marian Auriemma

Sarah Hughes

 

Design

B&G Design Studios

 

Photography

Colin Lenton

Nina Hein

 

Photo Illustration

Ann Cutting

 

Animations

Mary Brandt