After finishing fellowship training in 2004 at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. Currently, I am a UF Assistant Professor of Surgical Oncology and Chief of the Breast, Melanoma, and Sarcoma Service, caring for patients at Shands Hospital at the University of…

Since completing my surgical oncology fellowship at MSKCC in 2003, I have been a member of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Currently, I spend about half my time in clinical practice caring for sarcoma and gastric cancer patients and the other half of time running a translational research lab and…

Larissa Temple accepted a position on the Colorectal Service at MSKCC in 2002. Since then, she has received an additional fellowship in colorectal surgery. Although her practice involves surgical treatment of tumors of the colon, rectum and anus, her main research focus continues to be on patient-centered outcomes and quality of care. The MSKCC Bowel…

After leaving MSKCC, I took a position at the University of Colorado Cancer Center with the University of Colorado Denver. Since then, I have been promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery and have witnessed the tremendous growth of the cancer center with the transition of the entire medical center to a new bioscience community at…

Following his KAC Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Martin Weiser gained additional training in minimally invasive colorectal surgery before joining the staff at MSKCC in 2001. His practice involves surgical treatment of primary, metastatic, and recurrent cancers of the colon, rectum, anus, and appendix, with a focus on preservation of sphincter function and maintenance of bladder and…

Dr. David C. Linehan is the Seymour Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Oncology and Department of Surgery Chair at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). He holds an additional appointment as the Associate Director of Clinical Research at Wilmot Cancer Institute. As the Founder and Director of the Center for Tumor Immunology Research,…

Following the completion of my fellowship in 1998 I moved to Seattle, Washington, where I joined the faculty at the University of Washington. My practice was as the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center. During this time I focused my practice on gastrointestinal surgical oncology and sarcoma. I developed a regional multidisciplinary cancer program for the…

Lawrence E. Harrison is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology. He earned a B.A. degree in Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College and his M.D. degree at Temple University Medical School. He completed his general surgical training at University of Massachusetts Medical Center.…

I left MSKCC in 1996 and moved with my family to Alabama to work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Surgical Oncology. The KACF fellowship helped me become a local expert in the management of soft tissue tumors of all sites. Our group at UAB has published articles on the role of preoperative…

I am currently the CEO of ZIOPHARM Oncology, a cancer drug development biotech company based out of New York and Boston. One of the lead drugs we are developing (Zymafos / Palifosfamide) is being developed in soft tissue sarcoma. This is a small molecule that works in a similar way to ifosfamide, with hopefully better…