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
Jerome Maddox, JD, PhD
General Counsel
Bryan Robinson
Senior Vice President for External Relations, Temple Health
Shawn P. Kleitz
Chief Development Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR: Joseph W. Marshall III
VICE CHAIR: Christopher W. McNichol
William J. Federici
Edward A. Glickman
Amy J. Goldberg, MD
Lewis F. Gould Jr.
Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD
Thomas W. Hofmann
Solomon C. Luo, MD
David G. Marshall
Donald E. Morel Jr., PhD
Leon O. Moulder Jr.
Tina M. Pidgeon
Carl A. Sottosanti
Elaine Ward Sykes
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
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
CAROL & LOUIS DELLA PENNA CHAIR IN UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY
David Y.T. Chen, MD, FACS
Associate Director, Urologic Oncology Fellowship Program
CAROL & LOUIS DELLA PENNA CHAIR IN UROLOGIC CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
Jay Simhan, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Urology at Temple University Hospital and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine
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
Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
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
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
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
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
Sara Small, MD 2
Anthony Stack, DO 2
Michael Jay Styler, MD
Alexander Vartanov, MD 2
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, MD 4
Andrea Abbott, MD
Omar Agosto, MD 4
Temilola Akinola, MD 4
Syed Andrabi, MD 4
Dina Caroline, MD 4
Konstantin Chernukha, MD 4
Gary Cohen, MD
Jeffrey Cruz, MD 4
Emily Cuthbertson, MD 4
Shqiponja Hajdinaj, MD 4
Beverly Hershey, MD 4
Neelu Jain, MD 4
Padmaj Athota Jonnalagadda, MD 4
Bhishk H. Kamat, MD 4
Renee Kendzierski, DO 4
Mansoor Khan, MD 4
Robert Koenigsberg, MD 4
Derek Lee, MD 4
Shane Lee, MD 4
Ian Leopold, MD 4
Laura Levin, MD 4
Nicole Levy, MD 4
Weier Li, MD
Yi Li, MD, MSc
Aaron Losey, MD 4
Hillel S. Maresky, MD
Jared Meshekow, MD 4
Barton Milestone, MD
Gregory Mittl, MD 4
Dmitry Niman, MD 4
Joseph Panaro, MD 4
Scott Rotenberg, MD 4
Claire Streibert, MD
Jiaqiong Wang, MD 4
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
Nicholas Bodor, MD
Hossein Borghaei, DO
Christopher Cann, MD 2
Emily Castellanos, MD
Jonathan Cheng, MD
Crystal Denlinger, MD
Parth Desai, MD 2
Scot Ebbinghaus, MD
Zachary Frosch, MD
Daniel Geynisman, MD
Pooja Ghatalia, MD
Anshu Giri, MD, MS
Joyce Habib, MD
Jason Incorvati, MD
Dina Ioffe, MD 2
Angela Jain, MD
Julia Judd, DO
Teresa Lee, MD, PhD
Gregory Lubiniecki, MD
Melissa McShane, MD
Marcus Messmer, MD
Juhi Mittal, MD 4
Shazia Nakhoda, MD
Aruna Padmanabhan, MD 4
Alvaro Pereira-Rico, MD 4
Anthony J. Olszanski, MD
Elizabeth Plimack, MD
Emmanuel Quien, MD 4
Michael Scott, MD
Iberia Romina Sosa, MD, PhD
Lindsey Taylor, MD
Namrata Vijayvergia, MD
Jennifer Winn, MD
Vanessa Wookey, MD
Matthew Zibelman, MD
Supportive Oncology & Palliative Care
Marcin Chwistek, MD
Eric Goodlev, MD 2
Dylan Sherry, MD
Department of Medicine
Chair: David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc
Vice Chair: Rohit Kumar, MD
CARDIOLOGY
Anuj Basil, MD 4
Gaetano Capone, MD
Daniel Edmundowicz, MD, MS 4
Jeffrey Fierstein, MD
David Fiss, MD
Paul Forfia, MD
Cheathan Gangireddy, MD
Eman Hamad, MD
Joseph Hellman, MD
Aditi Kalla, MD
Vladimir Lakhter, MD
David Laslett, MD
David Lehmann, MD
Val Rakita, MD
Jeffrey Smietana, MD
Isaac Whitman, MD
George Yesenosky, MD
DERMATOLOGY
Abhishek Aphale, MD
Anthony Santoro, MD
Alina Shevchenko, MD
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Juanita Kcomt, MD 2
Maryam Khan, MD
Pankaj Sharda, MD
GASTROENTEROLOGY
David Loren, MD
Minhhuyen Nguyen, MD
Malorie Simons, MD
Joseph Triggs, MD, PhD
David Weinberg, MD
HOSPITALISTS
Robert Brenchak, MD
Chetan Dodhia, MD
Daniel Holleran, MD
Kristen Manley, MD
Nkemdilim Mgbojikwe, MD
Kenneth Patrick, MD
Michelle Pedersen, DO 2
Farsha Rizwan, MD 2
Rajkumar Sarkar, MD
PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
Gilbert Lafontant, MD
PSYCHIATRY
Emmie Chen, MD
Nithya Cherukuru, MD
Pamela Handelsman, PsyD
Lauren Rosenberg, PhD
PULMONARY MEDICINE
Danish Ahmad, MD
Alan Haber, MD
Christopher Manley, MD
Department of Pathology
Chair: Mariusz Wasik, MD
Donald Baldwin, PhD
Tahseen I. Al-Saleem, MD 5
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
Simon Sung, MD 2
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
Randi Cohen, MD, MS
Thomas J. Galloway, MD
Mark Hallman, MD, PhD
Shelly Hayes, MD
Sameera Kumar, MD
Joshua Meyer, MD
Curtis Miyamoto, MD 4
Jeremy Price, MD, PhD 4
Rebecca Shulman, 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
Dae Myoung Yang, PhD 2
Department of Surgery
Chair: Jeffrey M. Farma, MD
Allison Aggon, DO
Richard Bleicher, MD
Whitney Morgan Burrows, MD 4
Jason Castellanos, MD
Paul Curcillo, MD
David Ehrlich, MD
Joseph Friedberg, MD 4
Stephanie Greco, MD
Stephanie King, MD
Jeffrey Liu, MD
Gina Mantia-Smaldone, MD
Sameer Patel, MD
Theresa Pazionis, MD 4
Juan Lucas Poggio, MD 4
Andrea Porpiglia, MD
Mary Pronovost, MD 4
Sanjay Reddy, MD
Stephen Rubin, MD
Cecelia Schmalbach, MD, MSc 4
Elin Sigurdson, MD, PhD
Alycia So, MD 2
Ahmed Soliman, MD 4
Stacey Su, MD
Michael Tecce, DO 2
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, MD
Felipe Suero, MD
Flore Macenat Sulzynski, MD
Department of Urology
Chair: Alexander Kutikov, MD
Vice Chair: Jay Simhan, MD
David Chen, MD
Joshua Cohn, MD
Andres Correa, MD
Justin Friedlander, MD
Eric Ghiraldi, DO
Randall Lee, MD 2
Ryan Mark, MD 2
Marc Smaldone, MD
Steven Sterious, MD
Robert G. Uzzo, MD, MBA
Rosalia Viterbo, MD
RESEARCH FACULTY
Cancer Prevention & Control
PROGRAM LEADERS
Margie L. Clapper, PhD
Michael J. Hall, MD, MS 3
PRIMARY MEMBERS
Nezar Al-hebshi, PhD 4
Sanjeevani Arora, PhD
Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH 4
Jessica Bauman, MD 3
Nicholas Bodor, MD, PhD, MPH 3
Wen-Chi Chang, PhD
Bradley N. Collins, PhD 4
Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD 3
Cherie Erkmen, MD 4
Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD
Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH
Zachary A. Frosch, MD
Ana M. Gamero, PhD 4
Jayashri Ghosh, PhD 4
Resa Jones, MPH, PhD 4
Beata Kosmider, PhD 4
Stephen Lepore, PhD 4
Shannon Lynch, PhD, MPH
Grace X. Ma, PhD 4
Suzanne M. Miller, PhD
Khadijah Mitchell, PhD, MS
Shazia Nakhoda, MD
Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH
Jennifer Reese, PhD
Lillian Shin-Cho, PhD
Erin Tagai, PhD, MPH 3
Joseph Testa, PhD 3
David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc 3
Christopher Wheldon, PhD 4
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD
COLLABORATING MEMBERS
Marcin Chwistek, MD 3
Harry S. Cooper, MD 3
Kevin Henry, PhD 4
Enrique Hernandez, MD 4
Eric Ross, PhD, ScM
Marc C. Smaldone, MD 3
Robin Taylor Wilson, PhD 4
Yan Zhou, PhD
Cancer Signaling & Microenvironment
PROGRAM LEADERS
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Roland L. Dunbrack Jr., PhD
PRIMARY MEMBERS
Mark Andrake, PhD
Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD 3
Michael Autieri, PhD 4
Siddharth Balachandran, PhD
Hossein Borghaei, DO 3
Lucia Borriello, PhD 4
Qi Cai, MD, PhD
Kerry Campbell, PhD
Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD
Denise C. Connolly, PhD
James S. Duncan, PhD
Martin J. Edelman, MD 3
Brian Egleston, MPP, PhD
Mitchell Fane, PhD
Jeffrey Farma, MD 3
Joan Font-Burgada, PhD
Janusz Franco-Barraza, MD, PhD
Thomas Galloway, MD 3
Bojana Gligorijevic, PhD 4
Erica A. Golemis, PhD
Xavier Grana, PhD 4
Eric Horwitz, MD 3
Warren D. Kruger, PhD
Petr Makhov, PhD
Aitziber Buque Martinez, PhD 2
Joshua Meyer, MD 3
Alana O’Reilly, PhD
Anthony J. Olszanski, MD 3
Sukhmani Kaur Padda, MD 4
Jeffrey R. Peterson, PhD
Sanjay Reddy, MD 3
Lori Rink, PhD
Nathaniel Snyder, PhD 4
Pedro Torres-Ayuso, PhD 4
Çagla Tükel, PhD 4
Vincent A. Voelz, PhD 4
Margaret von Mehren, MD 3
Yue-Lynn Wang, MD
Ross Wang, PhD 4
Mariusz Wasik, MD 3
Kelly Whelan, PhD 4
Jinhua Wu, PhD
Yibin Yang, PhD
Raza M. Zaidi, PhD 4
COLLABORATING MEMBERS
Donald Baldwin, PhD
Richard Baxter, PhD 4
Richard Bleicher, MD 3
Jason Castellanos, MD, MS 3
Lili Chen, PhD
Margret Einarson, PhD
Henry Fung, MD 3
Mark Hallman, MD, PhD 3
Jill Hasler, PhD
Marc Ilies, PhD 4
Angela Jain, MD 3
Lisellotte Jensen, PhD 4
Julia Judd, DO
Peter I. Lelkes, PhD 4
Jeffrey Chang-Jen Liu, MD 3
Chang-Ming Charlie Ma, PhD
Christopher Manley, MD 3
Gina Mantia-Smaldone, MD 3
Marcus Messmer, MD 3
Curtis Miyamoto, MD 4
Emmanuelle Nicolas, PhD
Aruna Padmanabhan, MD 3
Glenn Rall, PhD
John Ridge, MD
Heinrich Order, PhD
Natalia Shalginskikh, PhD
Rebecca Shulman, MD
Elin Sigurdson, MD, PhD 3
Sara Snell, MD, PhD
Iberia Sosa, MD, PhD
Erkan Tüzel, PhD 4
Aldana Vistarop, PhD
Sara Jane Ward, PhD
Amy Whitaker, PhD
Zeng-Jie Yang, MD, PhD
Michael Yu, MD 3
Yan Zhou, PhD, MSE
Yunyun Zhou, PhD
Nuclear Dynamics & Cancer
PROGRAM LEADERS
Tomasz Skorski, MD, PhD, MSc 4
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, PhD 4
Daniel Geynisman, MD 3
Pooja Ghatalia, MD 3
Dietmar J. Kappes, PhD
Sergey Karakashev, PhD 4
Vladimir Kolenko, MD, PhD
Sudhir Kumar, PhD 4
Alexander Kutikov, MD 3
Hayan Lee, PhD
Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS 3
Tomasz Skorski, MD, PhD, DSc 4
Jonathan Soboloff, PhD 4
Vasily M. Studitsky, PhD
Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA 3
Namrata Vijayvergia, MD 3
Amy M. Whitaker, PhD
David L. Wiest, PhD
Zeng-jie Yang, MD, PhD
Matthew Zibelman, MD 3
COLLABORATING MEMBERS
David Chen, MD 3
Andres Correa, MD 3
Karthik Devarajan, PhD
Dan Liebermann, PhD 4, 5
Christoph Seeger, PhD
Hong Wang, MD, PhD 4
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