The Medicine Mentors Podcast

Melissa Accordino, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director of the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at Columbia University's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Through leading clinical research trials in cancer she has been bestowed grants from high profile foundations like The American Society of Clinical Oncology, The Hope Foundation, and The American Cancer...

Pamela Munster, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and a breast cancer specialist. She is the Director of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, Co-leader of the Center for BRCA Research, and Co-leader of the Molecular Oncology Program at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also the founder of Alessa Therapeutics. She has authored the book Twisting Fate, in which she describes...

Robert Soiffer, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Worthington and Margaret Collette Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A renowned malignant hematology researcher, Dr. Soiffer has served as President of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and is the immediate past chair of the board of the National...

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, J. Terrence Lanni Chair in Cancer Research, Section Head of GI Oncology and Co-Director of the Colorectal Center at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Deputy Director for Research at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Lenz is a physician-scientist known for his work on the pharmacogen...

Grace Makari-Judson, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UMass Chan Medical School, Baystate. She is also the Co-Director of The Rays of Hope Center for Breast Cancer Research, and Chair of the Baystate Health Breast Network and Baystate Regional Cancer Program. She is known as an educator, speaking at forums for both medical and lay audiences and als...

George Weiner, MD, is a Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Iowa. Dr. Weiner has also served as the Director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center for over two decades. He is also the CE Block Chair of Cancer Research at the University of Iowa Health Care and provides all oversight to cancer research at the cancer center. Dr. Weiner runs a research lab focusing on...

Karen Ballen, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. She serves as the Chief of Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Ballen is an international expert in stem cell transplants, particularly for patients who have a difficult time finding a donor. She started one of the first umbilical cord blood banks in the United States with the American Red Cross. Her research focuses on access to tra...

Renuka Iyer, MD, is a Professor of Oncology, Section Chief for Gastrointestinal Oncology and Co-Leader of Liver and Pancreas Tumor program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University at Buffalo. She is also the Vice Chair of Faculty Recruitment and Retention in the Department of Medicine. She is a world renowned authority on Neuroendocrine Tumors. She was recently awarded the Mar...

Sam Lubner, MD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he directs the Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship program. He specializes in gastrointestinal malignancies and is the leader of the Gastrointestinal Disease-Oriented Team at the Carbone Cancer Center. He also serves on the Education Council for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has received numerous...

Laurel Lyckholm, MD, is a Professor of Hematology/Oncology at the West Virginia University Cancer Institute. She also serves as the Interim Chief of the Department of Hematology/Oncology. She is actively involved with the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Lyckholm is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Leonard Tow Gold Humanism in Medicine Award and several others for excep...

Linda Vahdat, MD, MBA, is a breast cancer medical oncologist. She serves as the Deputy Cancer Center Director, Section Chief of Medical Oncology, and Interim Chief of Hematology at Dartmouth Cancer Center. She is a leading breast cancer researcher with special interests in drug development. She has led three separate drug-development efforts that led to FDA approval of three drugs active in metast...

Martina Murphy, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida. She also directs the Hematology and Oncology Fellowship Program. Dr. Murphy specializes in caring for patients with gynecologic malignancies. She is a prolific researcher with a focus on equitable and accurate healthcare communication across the oncology spectrum. Dr. Murphy is passionate about medical educatio...

VK Gadi, MD, PhD, is the Professor and Director of Medical Oncology at the University of Illinois Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Director of Translational Oncology there. Dr. Gadi has more than 30 years of experience in clinical oncology, cancer research, and translational breast cancer research. In his clinical practice, he is focused on providing expert care to eliminate breast cancer w...

Anil Rustgi, MD, is the Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Irving Professor of Medicine, and Chief of Cancer Services at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus. Dr. Rustgi is a world-renowned physician, scientist, and leader in the field of gastrointestinal cancers, spanning from molecular pathogenesis to pre-clinical models to clinical studies. He has been...

Dr. Luis Diaz-Sr., MD, is the C.E. Wheeler Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of North Carolina. He is a nationally renowned academician, running a robust NIH-funded lab that has been groundbreaking in discovering the immunopathology of pemphigus and pemphigoid. In his career spanning over 40 years, he has chaired departments of dermatology at the Medica...

Toni Choueiri, M.D., is the Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary (GU) Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is the Co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program and the Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Chair and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has received the George Canellos Award for Excellence in Clinical Investigation and Patient Care, the Eugene Schonfeld Award fr...

Darryl Elmouchi, MD, MBA, is the President of Corewell Health West, where he leads 11 hospitals and a medical group of over 2000 providers. Corewell Health was formerly Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health. A cardiac electrophysiologist by training, he has served in a number of roles within Spectrum Health, including the Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, and currently serves as a...

Ann LaCasce, MD, is the Director of the Dana-Farber/Mass General Brigham Fellowship in Hematology/Oncology and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. LaCasce completed her medical school from Tufts University and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she later served as Chief Medical Resident, followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology...

Nancy Davidson, M.D., serves as the Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Senior Vice President and Professor of the Clinical Research Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at the University of Washington, where she heads the Division of Medical Oncology. She is the past President of both the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association for Cancer R...

Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, is the Director of Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN) Program and an Associate Professor of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as the Executive Director of Cancer Medicine for the MDACC Cancer Network. He is a principal investigator for several national clinical trials in MPNs, AML, and BPDCN, and he has helped develop novel targete...

Roy Ziegelstein, M.D., is the Vice Dean for Education at Johns Hopkins University and the Vice Chair of Humanism in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is the Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Professor of Medicine, and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is an internationally-recognized expert in the relat...

Kenneth Anderson, M.D., holds the Kraft Family Professor of Medicine and is the Director of Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has conducted research on multiple myeloma for over four decades and his work has led to clinical trials that culminated in new FDA-approved targeted therapies. He is the past President of...

David Hellmann, MD, holds the Aliki Perroti Professorship in medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, and he is the Co-founder and Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine. He served as the Chairman of Medicine and Vice Dean at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center until 2020. He is a nationally recognized rheumatologist and educator and is a recipient of many awards includ...

Luis Diaz, MD, is the Head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology and holds the Grayer Family Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Diaz is an internationally recognized physician-scientist, accomplished physician, researcher, and leader in the field of clinical oncology. He has pioneered several diagnostic and therapeutic genomic approaches to cancer and has developed the basis fo...

Talmadge E. King Jr., MD, is the Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. King is also a Master of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. He holds the UCSF Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine, and is a recipient of the 2007 Trudeau Med...