The ASCO Annual Meeting highlights the latest research and treatment advances in oncology, with more than 28,000 oncology professionals attending each year. ASCO wishes to acknowledge the volunteers on this year’s Cancer Education and Scientific Program Committees, and thank them for their time and expertise in developing the Annual Meeting educational and scientific programs.
Cancer Education Committee
The Cancer Education Committee, comprising 24 tracks, assesses the need for, plans, develops, and initiates the education programs of the Society, with special emphasis on the Annual Meeting.
John V. Cox, DO, MBA, FASCO, Chair
Apar Kishor Ganti, MD, MBBS, Chair-Elect
Gini F. Fleming, MD, Immediate Past Chair
Lillian L. Siu, MD, Board Liaison
Breast Cancer
Maxine S. Jochelson, MD, Track Leader
Jennifer A. Brown, MD
Angela DeMichele, MD
Charles E. Geyer Jr, MD, FACP
Raquel Nunes, MD
Debra A. Patt, MD, MPH, MBA
Hope S. Rugo, MD
Julia R. White, MD
Cancer Prevention, Genetics, and Epidemiology
Joshua David Schiffman, MD, Track Leader
Monique A. De Bruin, MD
Jeri Kim, MD
P. Kelly Marcom, MD
Howard L. McLeod, PharmD
Electra D. Paskett, PhD
Ming Tai-Seale, PhD
Donald Lawrence Wickerham, MD
Care Delivery and Practice Management
David G. Pfister, MD, Track Leader
Aditya Bardia, MBBS, MPH
Kelly Bugos, RN
John Emmett Hennessy, MBA, CMPE
Thomas H. Openshaw, MD
Jeffery C. Ward, MD
Central Nervous System Tumors
Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, MD, Track Leader
Jaishri O’Neill Blakeley, MD
Roger Stupp, MD
Clinical Trials
Janet Dancey, MD
Sumithra J. Mandrekar, PhD
Bhupinder Singh Mann, MBBS
Apostolia Maria Tsimberidou, MD, PhD
Developmental Therapeutics and Translational Research
Roisin M. Connolly, MBBS, Track Leader
Howard A. Burris, MD
Francisco J. Esteva, MD, PhD
John Charles Morris, MD
Ethics
Jon C. Tilburt, MD
Beverly Moy, MD
Gastrointestinal (Colorectal) Cancer
Martin R.Weiser, MD, Track Leader
Chris R. Garrett, MD
Donald A. Richards, MD, PhD
Henry Q. Xiong, MD
Gastrointestinal (Noncolorectal) Cancer
Matthew H. G. Katz, MD, FACS, Track Leader
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD
Jimmy J. Hwang, MD
Se Hoon Park, MD
Vincent J. Picozzi, MD
Manish A. Shah, MD
Genitourinary Cancer
Andrea Borghese Apolo, MD, Track Leader
Thomas E. Hutson, DO, PharmD, FACP
Jose A. Karam, MD
John Ward McClean, MD
Stephen Boyd Riggs, MD
Nicholas J. Vogelzang, MD, FASCO
Geriatric Oncology
Andrew S. Artz, MD, MS
William P. Tew, MD
William W. Tse, MD
Gynecologic Cancer
Linda R. Duska, MD, Track Leader
Helen Mackay, MD
Matthew A. Powell, MD
Head and Neck Cancer
Anthony Cmelak, MD, Track Leader
Matthew G. Fury, MD
Apar Kishor Ganti, MD, MBBS
John Truelson, MD
Health Services Research and Quality of Care
Jennifer W. Mack, MD, Track Leader
Daniel J. Becker, MD
Nina A. Bickell, MD, MPH
Dawn L. Hershman, MD
Bruce Lee Jacobs, MD
Nicole Kuderer, MD
Leukemia, Myelodysplasia, and Transplantation
David Leibowitz, MD, Track Leader
Jonathan Michael Gerber, MD
Jeffrey E. Lancet, MD
Lung Cancer
Laura Quan Man Chow, MD, Track Leader
Martin J. Edelman, MD
Craig H. Reynolds, MD
David R. Spigel, MD
Glen J. Weiss, MD
Mauro Zukin, MD
Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders
Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, MD, Track Leader
Jeffrey Matous, MD
John M. Pagel, MD, PhD
Donna Ellen Reece, MD
Michael A. Thompson, MD, PhD
Melanoma/Skin Cancers
Suraj S. Venna, MD, Track Leader
Sanjiv S. Agarwala, MD
Jason John Luke, MD, FACP
Janice M. Mehnert, MD
Ahmad A. Tarhini, MD, PhD
Patient and Survivor Care
Karen L. Smith, MD, Track Leader
Deborah Mayer, PhD, AOCN, ANP-BC
Barbara J. Miller, MS, PA-C
Maria Alma Rodriguez, MD
Nagendra Tirumali, MD
Pediatric Oncology
Gregory T. Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Track Leader
Najat C. Daw, MD
Stewart Goldman, MD
Joel A. Weinthal, MD
Professional Development
Anne S. Tsao, MD, Track Leader
Kristin Anderson, MD, MPH
Kelly J. Cooke, DO
Laura Williams Goff, MD
Lee M. Krug, MD
Jason Michael Samuelian, MD
Sarcoma
Gary K. Schwartz, MD, Track Leader
L. Johnetta Blakely, MD
Robert Mikael Henshaw, MD
Min S. Park, MD, MS
Tumor Biology
Elizabeth A. Maher, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Elise C. Kohn, MD
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD
Eliezer Mendel Van Allen, MD
Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Program Committee, made up of 22 tracks and a biostatistical core, reviews and selects abstracts for presentation at the Annual Meeting and publication in the Programs/Proceedings. Members serve a 3-year term on the committee to plan, develop, and initiate the scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting.
Alan P. Venook, MD, Chair
Lynn Mara Schuchter, Chair-Elect
Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, Immediate Past Chair
Biostatistics
Katherine Panageas, PhD, Track Leader
Urania Dafni, ScD
Susan G. Hilsenbeck, PhD
Wendy B. London, PhD
Ying Lu, PhD
Sumithra J. Mandrekar, PhD
Donna Niedzwiecki, PhD
Breast Cancer—HER2/ER
Priya Rastogi, MD, Track Leader
Carey K. Anders, MD
Tufia C. Haddad, MD
Cornelia Liedtke, MD
Shanu Modi, MD
Patrick Glyn Morris, MD
Alexandra Thomas, MD
Breast Cancer—Triple-Negative/Cytotoxics/Local Therapy
Steven J. Isakoff, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Eleanor Elizabeth Harris, MD
Tari A. King, MD
Pamela N. Munster, MD
Deborah Toppmeyer, MD
Tiffany A. Traina, MD
Janice Maria Walshe, MD
Cancer Prevention, Genetics, and Epidemiology
James M. Foran MD, FRCPC, Track Leader
Habibul Ahsan, MBBS, MSc
Eric Andrew Collisson, MD
Adam J. Olszewski, MD
Brian M. Wolpin, MD
Central Nervous System Tumors
Andrew B. Lassman, MD, Track Leader
Eric L. Chang, MD
Howard Alan Fine, MD
Daphne A. Haas-Kogan, MD
Developmental Therapeutics—Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Miguel Angel Villalona-Calero, MD, Track Leader
Emiliano Calvo, MD, PhD
Ryan Bruce Corcoran, MD, PhD
Gerald Steven Falchook, MD
Herbert Hurwitz, MD
Robin Kate Kelley, MD
Scott Kopetz, MD
Timothy Anthony Yap, PhD, MBBS, BSc, MRCP
Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy
Neil Howard Segal, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Charlotte Eielson Ariyan, MD, PhD
Gregory Lawrence Beatty, MD, PhD
Jonathan S. Cebon, MD, PhD
Lawrence Fong, MD
Zihai Li, MD, PhD
Andrew Parsa, MD, PhD
Gastrointestinal (Colorectal) Cancer
Edward Chu, MD, Track Leader
Chloe Evelyn Atreya, MD, PhD
Nancy N. Baxter, MD
Gong Chen, MD, PhD
Steven J. Cohen, MD
Gunnar Folprecht, MD
Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH
Bert H. O’Neil, MD
Thomas John Semrad, MD, FACP
Richard H. Wilson, MD
Zhen Zhang, MD, PhD
Gastrointestinal (Noncolorectal) Cancer
Andrew H. Ko, MD, Track Leader
Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD
Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD
Karyn A. Goodman, MD
Syma Iqbal, MD
Milind M. Javle, MD
Lisa A. Kachnic, MD
Geoffrey Yuyat Ku, MD, MBA
Emil Lou, MD, PhD
Nipun B. Merchant, MD
James Posey, MD
Genitourinary Cancer
Michael J. Morris, MD, Track Leader
Peter Albers, MD
Kathleen A. Cooney, MD
Robert Dreicer, MD
Terence W. Friedlander, MD
Noah M. Hahn, MD
Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD
Mark N. Stein, MD
Cora N. Sternberg, MD
Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS
Neha Vapiwala, MD
Gynecologic Cancer
David R. Spriggs, MD, Track Leader
John K. Chan, MD
Levi S. Downs Jr., MD
Paul Haluska, MD, PhD
Rebecca Sophie Kristeleit, MD, PhD
Kunle Odunsi, MD
Head and Neck Cancer
Quynh-Thu Le, MD, Track Leader
John F. Deeken, MD
Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, FACS
Robert I. Haddad, MD
Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou, MD
Health Services Research and Quality of Care
Helen M. Parsons, PhD, Track Leader
George J. Chang, MD, MS
Shawn Dana Glisson, MD, FACP
Monika K. Krzyzanowska, MD, MPH
Rebecca A. Miksad, MD
Arden M. Morris, MD
Craig Evan Pollack, MD
Leukemia, Myelodysplasia, and Transplantation
Michael Russell Bishop MD, FACP, Track Leader
Charalambos Andreadis, MD, MSCE
Ravi Bhatia, MD
Joseph G. Jurcic, MD
Celalettin Ustun, MD
Lung Cancer—Non–Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers
Gregory J. Riely, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Edward B. Garon, MD
Scott N. Gettinger, MD
Thomas A. Hensing, MD
Chuong D. Hoang, MD
Tom John, PhD, FRACP, MBBS
Feng Ming Kong, MD
Lung Cancer—Non–Small Cell Metastatic
Grace K. Dy, MD, Track Leader
Matthew A. Gubens, MD
Mark G. Kris, MD
Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD
Luis Paz-Ares MD, PhD
Nathan A. Pennell, MD, PhD
Jonathan Riess, MD
Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH
Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders
Saad Zafar Usmani, MD, FACP, Track Leader
Ranjana H. Advani, MD
Alexander M. Lesokhin, MD
Sagar Lonial, MD
Thomas G. Martin III, MD
Owen A. O’Connor, MD, PhD
Melanoma/Skin Cancers
Svetomir Markovic, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Paul B. Chapman, MD
Adil Daud, MD
Georgina V. Long, PhD, BSc, FRACP, MBBS
Patient and Survivor Care
Shari Beth Goldfarb, MD, Track Leader
Tessa Cigler, MD, MPH
Tara O. Henderson, MD, MPH
Monica Alexandra Iriso, MD
Arif Kamal, MD
Kavitha Ramchandran, MD
Charles L. Shapiro, MD
Katherine Van Loon, MD, MPH
Pediatric Oncology
Lisa Diller, MD, Track Leader
Steven G. DuBois, MD
Jeffrey Toretsky, MD
Sarcoma
Jonathan C. Trent II, MD, PhD, Track Leader
Venkata Ramesh Bulusu, MD, FRCR
Eric K. Nakakura, MD, PhD
Dennis A. Priebat, MD
Tumor Biology
Victoria Louise Seewaldt, MD, Track Leader
Michael J. Birrer, MD, PhD
Wolfgang Michael Korn, MD
Mark M. Moasser, MD
Andrew B. Nixon, PhD
David Potter, MD, PhD
Lawrence H. Schwartz, MD
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