Professional bios coming soon
Gregory A. Yanik, MD
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Medicine
• Pediatric hematology-oncology
• Founder, Executive Committee for the Children’s Hematology Alliance of Michigan (CHAMI)
• Member, Executive Committee at Make a Wish Foundation
Rajen Mody, MD, MS, MBBS
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Medicine
• Director, Pediatric hematology/oncology
• Director, Ruth Heyn Professor of Pediatrics Clinical and MPLAN Medical
• Principal Investigator, Pediatric Phase-I and experimental therapeutics program
Jeffrey W. Taub, MD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
• Professor, division of hematology oncology
• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
• Principal Investigator, multi-site study Children’s Oncology Group
Megan Caram, MD
Michigan Medicine Urology Oncology Clinic, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan
• Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine, Hematology
• Focus: advanced prostate cancer
David S. Kwon, MD
Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Henry Ford Health System
• Board-certified surgeon and fellowship-trained surgical oncologist
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Kenneth J. Levin, MD
Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Henry Ford Health System
• Specializes in breast cancer, gynecologic cancer and spine cancer
• Senior staff physician
• Medical Director, Department of Radiation Oncology
• President, Michigan Society of Therapeutic Radiologists and Oncologists
Rashmi Chugh, MD
Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
• Specializes in medical oncology and internal medicine
• Investigator, clinical trials and novel combinations in sarcoma patients
• Associate Professor, soft tissue and bone sarcomas
Monika J. Leja, MD
Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
• Specialist, cardio-oncology at University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center
• Founder, unique cardiac tumor program
Craig Stevens, MD, Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology, Beaumont Royal Oak
• Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Beaumont Health
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, Rabbi G
Kids Kicking Cancer
• Founder & National Director, Kids Kicking Cancer
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine
• First Degree Black Belt in Korean art of Choi Kwang Do
• Recipient, Robert Wood Johnson Community Health leader’s Award (2004)
• Recipient, McCarty Cancer Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year Award (2004)
Eric A. Brown, MD, FACS
Comprehensive Breast Care, Troy
• Board Certified, General Surgery and Breast Ultrasound
• Assistant Professor of surgery, William Beaumont Oakland University School of Medicine
• Co-Principle Investigator, Beaumont Cancer Institute NCORP
• Principle Investigator, Beaumont Hospital clinical trials
Michael S. Meininger, MD
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
• Board certified plastic surgeon, breast procedures
Andrew A. Muskovitz, MD
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
• Oncologist
• Geriatric medicine, hematology, internal medicine
Mark A. Rosenberg, MD
Advanced Medical Therapeutics, Boca Raton
• President and Medical Director, Advanced Medical Therapeutics and Integrative Cancer Therapeutics
• Program Director, Integrative Cancer Fellowship
• Chief Medical Officer, Laboratory for Advanced Medicine
• Co-founder, Channel Therapeutics, LLC
• Co-founder, HighPoint Therapeutics, LLC
Howard Terebelo, DO
Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield
• Specializes in Hematologic and Oncology
• ABIM Board of Internal Medicine
• Specializes in treatment of prostate cancer
Frank D. Vrionis, MD, MPH, PhD
Marcus Neuroscience Institute, Boca Raton
• Institute Director, Marcus Neuroscience Institute
• Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Reshma, Jagsi, MD, DPhil
Michigan Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor
• Deputy Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
• Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Services
• Residency Program Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Services
Steven M. Katzman, DO
Internal Medicine & Hospice Care, Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills
• In practice over 28 years
• Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians/Internal Medicine
Ming Xie, MD
Beaumont Hospital, Troy
• Board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology
• Board certified in Hematology
• Specializes in the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma
Tracie Baker, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Integrative Biosciences Center; Wayne State University, Detroit
• Assistant Professor; Wayne State University, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology
• Assistant Professor; Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy
• Assistant Professor; Health Sciences
• Substantial academic training and research in developmental biology, environmental toxicology, genetics and animal health
Ryan Thummel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit
• Anatomy and Cell Biology/Ophthalmology
• Focused research on retinal development and regeneration in zebrafish
Carl Koschman, MD
Michigan Medicine Pediatric Hematology Oncology, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor
• Assistant Professor
• Areas of specialty: care of children and young adults with brain tumors, specializes in research and treatment of high-risk brain tumors, including highgrade glioma and DIPG
Vernon Sondak, MD
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
• Chair, Department of Cutaneous Oncology
• Areas of specialty: cutaneous oncology, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, sarcoma, skin cancer (nonmelanoma)
Rebecca Katz, MS
Consultant | Speaker | Teacher | Author | Chef; San Francisco, California
• Masters of Science, Health & Nutrition Education
• Author, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Beyond
• Founder and Director, Healing Kitchens Institute
• Executive Chef Emeritus, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s renowned Food as Medicine professional training I medical nutrition therapy
Dana Zakalik, MD
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak & Troy, Michigan
• Specializes in cancer genetics/cancer risk assessment, breast cancer, and hematologic oncology
• Oversees cancer genetics program
Peyman Kabolizadeh, MD, PhD
Beaumont Hospital | Proton Therapy Center, Royal Oak, Michigan
• Director of the Beaumont Proton Therapy Center
Abhinav Deol, MD
Karmanos Cancer Institute
• Oncologist