Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
I am a Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Faculty Development in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Rutgers Cancer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Rutgers University. I completed my undergraduate training at the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar and subsequently earned my medical degree at the University of Maryland, where I graduated in the top 20 students in the class. Following my internal medicine internship, I accomplished residency training in radiation oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where I served as Chief Resident in my final year. I currently treat patients with lung and gastrointestinal cancers, perform clinical research, and educate and mentor junior faculty, residents and students. I have considerable experience in clinical research involving radiotherapy, focused on phase I/II studies, and combining novel agents with radiation and the study of lung cancer and gastrointestinal cancers. I was one of the earliest investigators to conduct investigator-initiated trials evaluating PD-1 checkpoint inhibition with curative intent chemoradiation in the setting of Stage III non-small cell lung cancer. My career has focused on 1) evaluating new combinations of immunotherapy and novel radiosensitizers with radiotherapy and I have served as PI on several groundbreaking trials combining chemoradiation and immunotherapy; 2) improving outcomes of radiation therapy in combination with systemic therapy; 3) mitigating toxicity from radiotherapy; 4) novel agent development in combination with radiation therapy.
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Thursday, March 10, 2022
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM US EST
Saturday, March 12, 2022
9:10 AM – 10:10 AM US EST