Meet Our Chairs
Sonali M. Smith, MD, FASCO
Elwood V. Jensen Professor of Medicine;
Chief, Section of Hematology/Oncology;
Director, Lymphoma Program,
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Andrew Evens, DO, MBA, MSc
Deputy Director for Clinical Services, Rutgers Cancer Institute
Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical Innovation & Data
Analytics, Rutgers Health
Oncology Lead for RWJBarnabas Health Medical
Group, and System Director of Medical Oncology,
RWJBarnabas Health
Professor of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Timothy Fenske, MD, MS
Medical Director of Immune Effector
Cell Therapy
Sarah Cannon Transplant &
Cellular Therapy
Program at Methodist Hospital
San Antonio, Texas
Neha Meta-Shah, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor
Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Presenting Faculty
Sairah Ahmed, MD
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Juan Pablo Alderuccio, MD
University of Miami – Sylvester Cancer Center Miami, Florida
Joshua Brody, MD
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Carla Casulo, MD
University of Rochester Rochester, Minnesota
Elijah Darnell, MD
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Matthew Davids, MD, MMSc
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Andrew Evens, DO, MBA, MSc
Rutgers Cancer Institute
New Brunswick,
New Jersey
Nilanjan Ghosh, MD, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
Leo Gordon, MD
Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Meghan Gutierrez
Lymphoma Research Foundation
New York, New York
Brian Hill, MD, PhD
Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Boyu Hu, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Supreet Kaur, MD
UT Health San Antonio
MD Anderson Cancer Center
San Antonio, Texas
Kaitlin Kelly, PharmD, BCOP
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Tara McCabe, APN-BC, AOCNP
Rutgers Cancer Institute
New Brunswick,
New Jersey
Reid Merryman, MD
Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Teresa Palomero, PhD
Columbia University
New York, New York
Allison Rosenthal, DO
Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, Arizona
David Russler-Germain, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Sarah Rutherford, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York
Mazyar Shadman, MD, MPH
Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Center
Seattle, Washington
Tanaya Shree, MD, PhD
Oregon Health & Sciences University
Portland, Oregon
Austin, Sim, MD
The Ohio State University Comprehensive
Cancer Center
Columbus, Ohio
Nina Wagner-Johnston, MD
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Michael Williams, MD, ScM, FACP
Keynote Speaker
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia
Joanna Yang, MD, MPH
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Advisory Committee
Ruemu Birhiray, MD
Hematology Oncology of Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Kirk Cahill, MD
Loyola Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Nicole Gazdzik, DNP
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Leo Gordon, MD
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, illinois
Yasmin Karimi, MD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Reem Karmali, MD, MS
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Kaitlin Kelly, PharmD, BCOP
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Vaishalee Kenkre, MD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Justin Kline, MD
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Tara McCabe, APN-BC, AOCNP
Rutgers Cancer Institute
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Peter Riedell, MD
The University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Nirav Shah, MD, MS
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
