Chandler Park is an American physician,medical journalist,and clinical researcher. In June 2021,his cancer research was published in prominent medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of Clinical Oncology. Park also contributes regularly as an expert physician for popular newspapers and magazines such as Newsweek,Reader's Digest,U.S. News &World Report,The Exponent-Telegram,College of St. Scholastica,and Medscape and writes medical news for Doximity.
Harry F. Bisel,M.D. (1918–1994) was an American oncologist. With Fred Ansfield,Herman Freckman,Arnoldus Goudsmit,Robert Talley,William Wilson,and Jane Wright,was one of the founding members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). This group of pioneering doctors,through the formation of ASCO,is largely credited with the development of modern American clinical oncology. In 1964,Bisel was elected the first president of ASCO. He was active in the American Cancer Society and was a consultant to the National Cancer Institute. Bisel was a founding member of the American Society of Preventive Oncology as well as the American Association for Cancer Education.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a professional organization representing physicians of all oncology sub-specialties who care for people with cancer. Founded in 1964 by Fred Ansfield,Harry Bisel,Herman Freckman,Arnoldus Goudsmit,Robert Talley,William Wilson,and Jane C. Wright,it has nearly 45,000 members worldwide.
Geriatric oncology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the elderly,usually defined as aged 65 and older. This fairly young but increasingly important subspecialty incorporates the special needs of the elderly into the treatment of cancer.
Edith A. Pérez is a Puerto Rican hematologist-oncologist. She is the Serene M. and Frances C. Durling Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Walter "Wally" J. Curran,Jr. is an American radiation oncologist specializing in the treatment of malignant brain tumors and locally advanced lung cancer.
Jimmie Coker Holland was a founder of the field of psycho-oncology. In 1977,she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The program was one of the first of its kind in cancer treatment,and trained its psychologists to specialize in issues specific to people with cancer.
Sandra M. Swain is an American oncologist,breast cancer specialist and clinical translational researcher. She is currently a professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Research Development at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Health as well as an adjunct professor of Medicine at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. She is also a past President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO),serving from 2012 through 2013.
Sonja Eva Singletary was an American surgeon who specialized in the care of breast cancer. She was a faculty member at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and a past president of the Society of Surgical Oncology.
Padmanee Sharma is an immunologist and oncologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,Texas. She holds the position of professor of genitourinary medical oncology and immunology in the Division of Cancer Medicine where she specializes in renal,prostate,and bladder cancers.
Susan M. Domchek is an oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania,Executive Director of the Basser Center for BRCA,the Basser Professor in Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine,and Director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Program at Penn Medicine. She has authored more than 250 articles in scholarly journals and serves on a number of editorial review boards. In 2018,Domchek was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Pamela Lyn Kunz is an American oncologist. She is the leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital and director of GI Medical Oncology within the Section of Medical Oncology. She was formerly the director of the Stanford Neuroendocrine Tumor Program before leaving,in part due to harassment. Kunz was also recognized as one of the 100 Influential Women in Oncology by OncoDaily.
Ann Hart Partridge is an American medical oncologist. She is the founder and director of the Young and Strong Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.
Everett E. Vokes is an American oncologist. He is the John E. Ultmann Professor,chair of the Department of Medicine,and physician-in-chief at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In this role,he pioneered the combination radiation and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for head and neck cancer.
Lori Jo Pierce is an American radiation oncologist and 57th President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is a Full Professor and Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multi-modality treatment of breast cancer,with emphasis on intensity modulated radiotherapy in node positive breast cancer,the use of radiosensitizing agents,and the outcomes of women treated with radiation for breast cancer who are carriers of a BRCA1/2 breast cancer susceptibility gene.
Stephanie Lynn Schutt Graff is an American breast medical oncologist. She is the Director of Breast Oncology at the Lifespan Cancer Institute and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Alpert Medical School. Previously she was the Director of both the Breast Program and Clinical Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute at HCA Midwest Health at Sarah Cannon Research Institute and Associate Director of the Breast Cancer Research Program at Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Beth Young Karlan is an American gynecologic oncologist. In 2008,she was named editor-in-chief of the medical journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports. In 2012,Karlan was appointed by the White House to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board,and in 2015,she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Monica Bertagnolli is an American surgical oncologist and the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health. She previously served as the 16th director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Prior to her governmental positions,she worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and was the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Elizabeth R. Plimack is an American medical oncologist. She is a professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology and Chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. In these roles,she researches the treatment of genitourinary malignancies with a focus on bladder and kidney cancers.
Tara Olive Henderson is an American pediatric oncologist. As the Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor in the Department of Pediatrics,she is also the Director of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Center,Director of Survivorship at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center,and chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University of Chicago.
