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PRACTICE UPDATE ONCOLOGY BOARD
PracticeUpdate is guided by a world-renowned Editorial and Advisory Board that represents
community practitioners and academic specialists with cross-disciplinary expertise.
Editor-in-Chief
Lee Schwartzberg MD, FACP
Executive Director of the West Cancer Center, a multispecialty oncology practice affiliated with the
University of Tennessee; Professor of Medicine and Division Chief of Hematology/Oncology at The
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Associate Editors
Isabel CunninghamMD
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist,
Division of Hematology Oncology,
Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons
Axel Grothey MD
Consultant, Division of Medical Oncology,
Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic;
Professor of Oncology, Clinical and
Translational Science, Mayo Graduate
School, Rochester, Minnesota
Advisory Board
Benjamin Anderson MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Global
Health-Medicine, University of
Washington; Director, Breast Health Clinic,
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle,
Washington
Kimberly BlackwellMD
Professor of Medicine and Assistant
Professor in Radiation Oncology, Duke
Department of Medicine, Durham, North
Carolina
Roxana Dronca MD
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Mayo
Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester,
Minnesota
Wilfried Eberhardt MD
Associate Director, Regional Outreach
West German Cancer Centre
University Hospital of University of
Duisburg-Essen
Rafael Fonseca MD
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine;
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona;
Getz Family Professor of Cancer, Mayo
Clinic School of Medicine, Phoenix/
Scottsdale, Arizona
Andre Goy MD
Chairman and Director, John Theurer
Cancer Center, Chief of Lymphoma, John
Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack
University Medical Center
Annette Hasenburg Prof. Dr. med
Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mainz University Medical Center, Mainz,
Germany
David Henry MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Pennsylvania Hospital
Eric Jonasch MD
Professor, Department of Genitourinary
Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer
Medicine; Director, VHL Clinical Center,
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Jeffrey Kirshner MD, FACP
Partner of Hematology Oncology Assoc of
Central New York, East Syracuse; Director
of Research, HOACNY Community Clinical
Oncology Program
Howard Scher MD
Chief, Genitourinary Oncology Service,
Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and
Urologic Cancers, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center
David Straus MD
Attending Physician, Lymphoma Service,
Department of Medicine, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York,
New York
Roger Stupp MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Neurology, and Oncology, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine;
Co-Director, Northwestern Brain Tumor
Institute; Associate Director for Strategic
Initiatives, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
of Northwestern University, Chicago Illinois
Editorial Contributors
Brandt Esplin MD, PhD
Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Mayo
Clinic Graduate School of Medical
Education, Rochester, Minnesota
Jeremy JonesMD
Fellow, Hematology and Medical
Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota
Neil MajithiaMD
Fellow in Hematology/Oncology, Mayo
Clinic School of Graduate Medical
Education, Rochester, Minnesota
Jarushka Naidoo MD
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Sidney
Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, Maryland
Moshe Ornstein MD
Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Cleveland
Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland,
Ohio
Erin Schenk MD, PhD
Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Clinician-
Investigator Training Program, Mayo
School of Graduate Education
Jeffrey Wiisanen MD
Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellow,
Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical
Education, Rochester, Minnesota