Expert Team

Leadership

Steven Piantadosi MD, PhD Phase One Foundation Chair and Director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute

Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Members

Serhan Alkan MD Professor of Pathology Director, Academic Clinical Pathology Director, Hematopathology Director, Hematopathology Fellowship Director, Personalized Medicine Diagnostics	Farin Amersi MD Surgical Oncologist
Arash Asher MD Director, Cancer Survivorship and Rehabilitation	M. William Audeh MD, MS Medical Oncology Medical Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program
Serguei Bannykh MD, PhD Director, Neuropathology	Denise Barbuto MD, PhD Director, Gynecologic Pathology
Kenneth Bernstein MD Professor of Pathology Director, Experimental Pathology	Keith L. Black MD Chairman and Professor, Department of Neurosurgery Director, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute Ruth and Lawrence Harvey Chair in Neuroscience
Neil Bhowmick PhD Associate Professor	Glenn D. Braunstein MD Vice President, Clinical Innovation Director, Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center Past Chair, Department of Medicine James R. Klinenberg, MD Chair in Medicine
Earl Warren Brien MD Director, Musculoskeletal Tumor Service	C. Michele Burnison MD Associate Director, Radiation Oncology, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center
Ilana Cass MD Vice-Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology	George E. Chaux MD Medical Director, Lung Transplant Center
Alice Chung MD Surgical Oncology	Leland W. K. Chung PhD Director, Uro-Oncology Research Program Professor of Medicine
Jason S. Cohen MD, FACS Surgical Oncology General and Laparoscopic Surgery	Steven D. Colquhoun MD FACS Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation
Catherine M. Dang MD Associate Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program  Surgeon, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild	Moise Danielpour MD Director, Pediatric Program
Robert Figlin MD, FACP Professor, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology Deputy Director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute	Charles Forscher MD Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Sarcoma Program
Benedick Fraass PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO, FACR Vice Chair, Research, Director, Medical Physics	Armando E. Giuliano MD, FACS, FRCSEd Executive Vice Chair of Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery Associate Director, Surgical Oncology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Helen Goodridge PhD Research Scientist, Gastroenterology	Ora Karp Gordon MD, MS Director, GenRISK Adult Genetics Program Genetics Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program
Richard E. Gould MD Hematology/Oncology	Behrooz Hakimian MD Co-Director, Gamma Knife Center Radiation Oncology Member, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Andrew Hendifar MD, MPH Gastrointestinal Oncology	Wen-Chin Huang PhD Assistant Professor
Carole Hurvitz MD Physician Consultant, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology	Beth Y. Karlan MD Director, Women's Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jonathan Kaye PhD Vice Chair, Biomedical Sciences Director, Immunology Research Scientific Director, Research Core Facilities, Biomedical Sciences	Hyung Lae Kim MD Associate Director, Surgical Research, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Director, Academic Programs, Urology Co-Medical Director, Urologic Oncology Program
Andrew S. Klein MD, FACS, MBA Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine	Beatrice Knudsen MD, PhD Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Advanced Biobank Director, Translational Pathology
Ronald S. Leuchter MD Gynecologic Oncology	Andrew J. Li MD Co-Director, Women's Reproductive Cancers
Michael Lill MD Medical Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program	Stephen W. Lim MD Medical Oncologist Associate Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Julia Y. Ljubimova MD, PhD Director, Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine	Fataneh (Fae) Majlessipour MD Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Adam N. Mamelak MD, FACS, FAANS Co-Director, Pituitary Center Director, Functional Neurosurgery Neurosurgery	Shlomo Melmed MB, ChB, MACP, FRCP Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai Pituitary Center Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs Dean of the Medical Faculty Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Chair in Investigative Medicine
Steven A. Miles MD Medical Oncology	Amin J. Mirhadi MD Radiation Oncology
Ronald B. Natale MD Medical Director, Clinical Lung Cancer Program	Nicholas Nissen MD Surgeon, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Sandra Orsulic PhD Director, Women's Cancer Biology	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
Surasak Phuphanich MD FAAN Director, Neuro-Oncology Program	Edwin M. Posadas MD FACP Medical Director, Urologic Oncology Program Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Barry D. Pressman MD Professor and Chair, Department of Imaging, S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center	Richard V. Riggs MD Medical Director, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
BJ Rimel MD Gynecologic Oncology	Howard M. Sandler MD, MS, FASTRO Chair, Radiation Oncology Ronald H. Bloom Family Chair in Cancer Therapeutics
Gregory Sarna MD, FACP Medical Oncologist	Bahman Shamloo MD Attending Physician
Stephen Shiao MD, PhD Radiation Oncology	Allan W. Silberman MD, PhD, FACS Clinical Chief, Surgical Oncology Robert J. and Suzanne Gottlieb Chair in Surgical Oncology
Charles F. Simmons Jr. MD Chairman, Department of Pediatrics  Director, Division of Neonatology Ruth and Harry Roman Chair in Neonatology in Honor of Larry Baum	Paul Song MD Radiation Oncology
Harmik J. Soukiasian MD Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery Associate Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Program	Jerrold Steiner MD FACS Co-Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center
Leo Treyzon MD MS Gastroenterology	Richard Tuli MD, PhD Radiation Oncology
Michael B. Van Scoy-Mosher MD Oncology	Marina Vaysburd MD Hematology/Oncology
Christine Walsh MD, MS	Ann Walts MD Research Pathologist
Alan Waxman MD Director, Nuclear Medicine	Edward M. Wolin MD Co-Director, Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program
Run Yu MD, PhD Internal Medicine Endocrinologist Co-Director, Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program

• Daniel C. Allison MD, FACS, MBA
  Orthopedics
  
• Maria L. Delioukina MD
  Hematology/Oncology
  
• Marc Troup Goodman PhD, MPH
  Director, Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
  Director, Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences
  
• H. Phillip Koeffler MD
  Mark Goodson Chair in Oncology Research
  
• Lawrence Menendez MD
  Orthopedics
  
• Monica Mita MD
  Co-Director, Experimental Therapeutics Program
  
• Wendy Sacks MD
  Internal Medicine
  Endocrinologist
  
• Mourad Tighiouart PhD
  Associate Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Center
  

Other Participating Team Members:

• Sant Chawla, MD
• Hui Ding
• Julie Dunhill
• Joshua Ellenhorn, MD
• Michael Freeman
• Mark Greene, MD, PhD, FRCP
• Solomon Hamburg, MD
• David Hoffman, MD
• Eggehard Holler
• Jayoung Kim
• Yohel Kirino
• Philomena McAndrew, MD
• Lali Medina-Kauwe, PhD
• Alain Mita, MD
• Ramachandran Murali, PhD
• Dorothy Park, MD
• Rameshwar Patil
• Andre Rogatko, PhD
• Barry Rosenbloom, MD
• Fred Rosenfelt, MD
• Masahide Tone
• Yukiko Tone
• Michael Van Scoy-Mosher, MD
• Shawn Wagner, PhD
• Haibin Wang, PhD
• Qiang Wang, PhD
• Rouxiang Wang
• Wolf R. Wiedemeyer, PhD
• Deane Wolcott, MD