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Cancer Center of Excellence Directory

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	Alexander Adibekian, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Aadibeki@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2740
	Shailaja Allani, Ph.D. ����ý Skesaraj@fau.edu | (561) 799‐8322 Areas of interest: Oxidative damage, cell death, mitochondrial metabolism, aging and cancer
	Andres Alvarez, MD, Ph.D. Memorial Healthcare System AndrAlvarez@mhs.net | (954) 265‐1841 Areas of interest: Oncology clinical research, transla􀆟onal medicine, Neurooncology, and biobank
	Marc Apple, MD Cleveland Clinic MApple8551@aol.com | (772) 563‐4673 Areas of interest: Radiation Oncology, Proton and Heavy Particle/Hadron Technologies and Innovation, and Targeted Radionuclide thera-pies and Stereotactic Ablation radio surgery with newer Immunotherapies
	Waseem Asghar, Ph.D. ����ý wasghar@fau.edu | (561) 297‐3728 Areas of interest: Disease diagnostics, microfluidics and bio sensing
	Carmen Ballestas, MD Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital CBallestas@mhs.net | (954) 265‐6547 Areas of interest: Histocytosis and pediatric leukemia
	Mark Block, MD Memorial Healthcare System MBlock@mhs.net | (954) 265‐1125 Areas of interest: Lung and esophagealcancer
	Erica Bloomquist, MD Memorial Cancer Institute EBloomquist@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: De-escalation of axilla surgery in patients with breast cancer and de-escalation of breast surgery in women with low risk DCIS
	Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D. ����ý Abommareddy@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐3153 Areas of interest: Cellular signaling pathways, Cancer chemoprevention, in vitro and in vivo cancer models
	Ignacio Castellon, MD Memorial Cancer Institute igcastellon@mhs.net | (954) 844‐9696 Areas of interest: Breast cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer
	Aurelio Castrellon, MD Memorial Cancer Institute ACastrellon@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer
	Brian Cauff, MD Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital ���䲹��זּİ������.�Ա�� | (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
	Lun‐Ching Chang, Ph.D. ����ý changl@fau.edu | (561) 297‐3340 Areas of interest: Statistical genetics and bioinformatics
	Branson Collins, MD ����ý BransonMD@hourglassmed.org | (609) 920‐4222 Areas of interest: Integrative Health
	Mare Cudic, Ph.D. ����ý mcudic@fau.edu | (561) 297‐4645 Areas of interest: Carbohydrate recogni-tion systems in cancer, lectins, glycans, cancer vaccines
	Yehuda Deutsch, MD Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System YDeutsch@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes
	Matt Disney, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Disney@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2203 Areas of interest: RNA Therapeutics
	Sarah Du, Ph.D. ����ý edu@fau.edu | (561) 297‐3441 Areas of interest: Cell biomechanics and biophysics, and microfluidic biosensor
	Katerine Dumais, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System KDumais@mhs.net | (954) 844‐6811 Areas of interest: Oncology pharmacy, public health and non-small cell lung cancer
	Aaron Falchook, MD Memorial Cancer Institute AFalchook@mhs.net | (954) 265‐5777 Areas of interest: Radiation oncology
	Hugo Fernandez, MD Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System HuFernandez@mhs.net | (954) 844‐9724 Areas of interest: Bone Marrow Trans- plant, CAR-T cellular therapy, AML/MDS, GVHD
	Gregg Fields, Ph.D. ����ý fieldsg@fau.edu | (561) 799‐8577 Areas of interest: Therapeutic and imaging agents in multiple myeloma, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer and extracellular matrix regulation
	Kathy Freeman, DrPH ����ý kfreemancostin@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐4858 Areas of interest: Biostatistics
	Christopher Gannon, MD Memorial Healthcare System Cgannon@mhs.net | (954) 265‐9520 Areas of interest: Hepatobiliary malignan-cies, pancreas malignancies and gastric adenocarcinoma
	Frank Gentile, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System FGentile@mhs.net | (954) 844‐7476 Areas of interest: Hematology, Bone mar-row transplant, cellular therapy, and ad-ministration
	Patrick Grant, Ph.D. ����ý grantp@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐1053 Areas of interest: Epigenetic mechanisms in cancer
	Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research �ʲ�����ffin��������������.���� | (561) 228‐2200 Areas of interest: Activation of G‐protein coupled receptors and nuclear receptors
	Delia (Connie) Guaqueta, MD Memorial Cancer Institute DGuaqueta@mhs.net | (954) 265‐6815 Areas of interest: Breast cancer, Onco-genetics, molecular profiling
	Francesca Gullo, Ph.D. Gift of Life �󲵳ܱ����ǰ�����Ō�Ǵڱ����ڱ�.�ǰ��� | (561) 982‐2909 Areas of interest: Hematopoietic stem cells and bio banking
	Esther Guzman, Ph.D. ����ý eguzman9@fau.edu | (772) 242‐2452 Areas of interest: Cancer cell biology, ma-rine natural products, therapeutics
	Iftikhar Hanif, MD Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital ihanif@mhs.net | (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
	Katherine Heinze, Ph.D., RN ����ý kheinze@fau.edu | (561) 297‐2344 Areas of interest: Bioethics, treatment of pediatric cancer patients
	Alan Herline, MD Memorial Healthcare System Aherline@mhs.net | (954) 844‐1617 Areas of interest: Colon and rectal cancer
	Robert Hirsch, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Rhirsch@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: General medical oncology and benign hematology
	Brian Hunis, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Bhunis@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Lung, Head and Neck Cancers
	Atif Hussein, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Ahussein@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast and Ovarian Can-cers, Sarcomas
	Vijaya Iragavarapu‐Charyulu, Ph.D. ����ý iragavar@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐3304 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer and inflammation
	Mohammad Jahanzeb, MD GenesisCare Network Moham‐ mad.jahanzeb@usa.genesiscare.com | (954) 571‐0111 Areas of interest: Lung cancer
	Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Mjaniszewska@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2788 Areas of interest: Mapping tumor heter‐ogeneity, genetics, epigenetics
	Tarsha Jones, Ph.D., RN ����ý jonest@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐4975 Areas of interest: Cancer prevention, Cancer genetics and health disparities
	Kevin Kang, Ph.D. ����ý kangy@fau.edu | (561) 297‐3943 Areas of interest: Esophageal cancer stents, bioengineering
	Sidharth Kerkar, MD Exuma Biotech Spkerkar1@gmail.com | (248) 835‐5439 Areas of interest: Cancer immunothera‐py or immune‐oncology and CAR‐T ther‐apies
	Andy V. Khamoui, Ph.D. ����ý akhamoui@fau.edu | (561) 297‐4450 Areas of interest: Cancer cachexia
	Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Kodadek@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2461 Areas of interest: DNA‐encoded libraries and high‐throughput screening, chemi‐cal biology and drug development
	Victoria Lao, MD, Ph.D. Memorial Healthcare System Vlao@mhs.net | (954) 844‐1617 Areas of interest: Colon and Rectal Cancer, Cancer epigenetics, Molecular markers for cancer therapy
	Bruce Lenes, MD Gift of Life BlenesMD@gmail.com | (954) 993‐9220 Areas of interest: Recruitment, collec-tion and processing of cells used for cellular therapy, apheresis center for collection of cellular therapy products and cellular therapy laboratory
	Salvatore Lepore, Ph.D. ����ý slepore@fau.edu | (561) 297‐0330 Areas of interest: Total synthesis of complex natural products, development of expedited synthesis techniques to facilitate small‐molecule library produc‐ tion
	Theodora (Dora) Leventouri, Ph.D. ����ý leventou@fau.edu | (561) 297‐2695 Areas of interest: Medical physics and radiation therapy
	Zhongwei Li, Ph.D. ����ý zli@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐3178 Areas of interest: RNA metabolism, function of non‐coding RNA, RNA thera‐peutics, regulation of gene expression by natural products
	Omar Llaguna, MD Memorial Healthcare System OLlaguna@mhs.net | (954) 844‐9520 Areas of interest: Hepatobiliary and colo-rectal cancer, gastric cancer, peritoneal malignancies and clinical outcomes re-search
	Oge Marques, Ph.D. ����ý omarques@fau.edu | (561) 866‐7144 Areas of interest: Artificial intelligence in medicine
	Ashwin Mehta, MD Memorial Healthcare System AsMehta@mhs.net | (954) 844‐9080 Areas of interest: Integrative medicine, nutrition, acupuncture and mindfulness
	Adriana Milillo‐Naraine, MD Memorial Cancer Institute AMililloNaraine@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer
	Courtney Miller, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research CMiller@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2958 Areas of interest: Neuroscience and glio‐blastoma
	Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D. ����ý wmuhammad@fau.edu | (561) 297‐3380 Areas of interest: Medical & Radiation Physics; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; Cancer Risk Estimation, Digital Oncology
	Anatoly Nikolaev, MD Cleveland Clinic Nikolaa@ccf.org | (561) 302‐1095 Areas of interest: Cancer Biology, translation-al cancer drug discovery, head and neck can-cer, pediatric brain cancers
	Foluso (Joy) Ogunsile, MD Memorial Healthcare System FOgunsile@mhs.net | (954) 265‐1400 Areas of interest: Sickle Cell
	Joseph Ouslander, MD ����ý jousland@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐0975 Areas of interest: Clinical care of elderly patients
	Donald Phinney, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Dphinney@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2214 Areas of interest: cellular therapeutics, drug discovery
	Julie Pilitsis, MD ����ý jpilitsis@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐4341 Areas of interest: Brain tumors, neuro‐surgery, focused ultrasound
	Kerice Pinkney, MD Memorial Healthcare System Kpinkney@mhs.net | (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Hematologic malig-nancies and sickle cell disease
	Herman Powery II, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System Hpowery@mhs.net | (954) 276‐1759 Areas of interest: ntegrative oncology/naturopathy, cancer metabolomics and cancer stem-cell research and therapeu-tics
	Christoph Rader, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Crader@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2053 Areas of interest: CAR‐T Cell therapy, Cancer immunotherapy, kidney and ovarian cancer
	Luis Raez, MD Memorial Cancer Institute LRaez@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Lung Cancer
	Patrick Reynolds, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Preynolds@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Cancer pain, palliative care and psycho-oncology
	Aeisha Rivers, MD Memorial Cancer Institute AeRivers@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer
	Janet Robishaw, Ph.D. ����ý jrobishaw@health.fau.edu | (561) 297‐4399 Areas of interest: Genomic analysis of disease
	Jose Sandoval‐Sus, MD Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System Jsandovalsus@mhs.net | (786) 333‐9982 Areas of interest: Lymphoma, Lympho-cytic Leukemia, CAR-T
	Edgardo Santos, MD GenesisCare Network Edgardo_ny@hotmail.com | (561) 409‐1767 Areas of interest: Lung, head and neck cancers
	Houssein Abdul Sater, MD Cleveland Clinic Abdulsh@ccf.org | (772) 287‐5200
	Anne Schaefer, MD Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Aschaefer@mhs.net | (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric hematology and oncology
	Michael Schuster, MD Gift of Life MSchuster@giftoflife.org | (561) 982‐2914 Areas of interest: Hematologic malig-nancies
	Ben Shen, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Shenb@scripps.edu | (561) 228‐2456 Areas of interest: Natural product bio‐synthesis, engineering and drug discov‐ery
	Jonathan Silberstein, MD Memorial Healthcare System Jsilberstein@mhs.net | (305) 682‐2580 Areas of interest: Urologic malignancies, prostate, kidney and bladder tumor markers, 3‐D modeling of tumors, racial variation in screening, treatment, un‐derstanding and education of urologic malignancies (particularly prostate)
	Ashley Siryk, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System Asiryk@mhs.net | (954) 265‐6365 Areas of interest: Cancer research
	Maciej Stawikowski, Ph.D. ����ý mstawikowski@fau.edu | (561) 297‐4871 Areas of interest: Synthesis and charac-terization of novel fluorescent probes and substrates for bio imaging and ac-tivity assessment, peptide engineering, enzymology of serine proteases
	Andrew Terentis, Ph.D. ����ý terentis@fau.edu | (561) 297‐2406 Areas of interest: Raman spectroscopy, detection of skin cancer
	Michel Vulfovich, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Mvulfovich@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Gastrointestinal can-cer and gynecological cancer
	Dammal Walker, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System Damwalker@mhs.net | (954) 265‐5513 Areas of interest: CLL, CML and multiple myeloma
	Herbert Weissbach, Ph.D. ����ý hweissba@fau.edu | (561) 799‐8345 Areas of interest: Oxidative stress of normal and cancer cells
	Robert Wilkinson, PharmD Memorial Healthcare System RWilkinson@mhs.net | (954) 844‐7450 Areas of interest: Cancer research
	Timothy Williams, MD South Florida Proton Therapy Institute TWilliams@SFPTI.com | (561) 323‐6498 Areas of interest: Immunotherapy, pro‐ton therapy and prostate cancer
	Amy Wright, Ph.D. ����ý awrigh33@fau.edu | (772) 242‐2459 Areas of interest: Drug development, marine natural products
	Heather Wright, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Hewright@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer
	Ilyas Yildirim, Ph.D. ����ý iyildirim@fau.edu | (561) 799‐8325 Areas of interest: Theoretical and com-putational chemistry, in silico drug de-sign for RNA, RNA biology
	Jennifer Zikria, MD Memorial Cancer Institute Jezikria@mhs.net | (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Gastrointestinal medi-cal oncology
	Michael Zourdos, Ph.D. ����ý mzourdos@fau.edu | (561) 297‐1317 Areas of interest: Resistance training in cancer patients
	Lloyd Zucker, MD Brain and Spine Center of South Florida Lloyd.zucker@gmail.com | (561) 501‐7445 Areas of interest: Complex spine, neuro‐oncology and movement disorders