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 Coming Soon
Advisory Committee
Ruemu Birhiray, MD
Hematology Oncology of Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Kirk Cahill, MD
Northwestern 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
