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Graham Colditz
 Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center

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Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...

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Katherine Jahnige Mathews
 assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology

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An estimated 72 million Americans are either uninsured or underinsured, making their access to health care precarious. Additionally, wide disparities in heath care are pervasive. Mathews works on the frontlines to provide healthcare to uninsured and underinsured patients. She has developed community-based ...

Expertise: Health care disparities, access to health care

Direct contact: (314) 286-0109
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John DiPersio
 Chief of the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Stem Cell Biology

DiPersio helped pioneer stem cell transplants and now focuses his research efforts on improving the success of bone marrow and stem cell transplants for the treatment of cancer and disorders of the blood. He is investigating the use of gene therapy to control graft versus host disease that is a main ...

Expertise: bone marrow transplantation, leukemia/lymphoma, stem cell transplantation, graft vs. host disease

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Dione Farria
 Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of ...

Expertise: Breast imaging, breast cancer, doctor-patient communication

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Paul Goodfellow
 Professor of Surgery

The Goodfellow laboratory is investigating the genetic alterations that underlie development of uterine endometrial cancers. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Like many cancers, uterine endometrial cancers are hormonally- responsive tumors. The genetic ...

Expertise: Cancer genetics, cancer, DNA, genetics, gene expression

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Ramaswamy Govindan
 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology

Govindan is developing novel Phase II studies for patients with lung cancer and esophageal cancer. He is in the process of developing collaborative studies predicting chemoresponsiveness in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. In addition, he is working with physicians from the Departments of ...

Expertise: clinical trials for cancer, Lung cancer, medical oncology, esophageal cancer

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Perry Grigsby
 Professor of Radiation Oncology

Grigsby is an expert in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of gynecological and thyroid cancers.

Expertise: Radiation oncology, gynecologic oncology, cervical cancer, thyroid cancer, gynecologic brachytherapy

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David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D.
 Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology

Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...

Expertise: Brain tumors, cancer genetics, neurofibromatosis, molecular genetics, neurosciences, neurology

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Katherine Jahnige Mathews
 assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology

As co-director, with her colleague Dione Farria, M.D., of the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) at the Siteman Cancer Center, Mathews has coordinated efforts to promote breast health in the St. Louis area. Drawing together partners in Siteman and the local region, she helps ...

Expertise: cancer and minority communities, breast cancer, health care disparities

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Howard McLeod
 director of the pharmacology core at the Siteman Cancer Center

There is a high degree of variation in patient response to medicines. The McLeod laboratory uses genetic tools to perform in vitro, ex vivo, and clinical evaluations to discover, validate, and apply molecular predictors of therapeutic outcome. This includes candidate gene and genome-wide human association ...

Expertise: pharmacogenetics, pharmacology, translational research, tumor markers, chemotherapy

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Jeff Michalski
 Director, Siteman Cancer Center Clinical Trials Core

Michalski is an associate professor of radiation oncology and an oncologist specializing in genitourinary and pediatric oncologist. He conducts clinical research on the use of radiation therapy for treatment of prostate and other cancers.

Expertise: adult and pediatric oncology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, prostate conditions, prostate cancer, treatment planning, carcinoma of the prostate, …

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Jeffrey Moley
 Director, Translational and Clinical Investigation, Siteman Cancer Center

Moley is chief of endocrine and oncologic surgery at the School of Medicine and associate chief of surgery at the St. Louis Veteran's Administration Hospital. He is a world authority on endocrine surgery and endocrine cancers. Moley is especially known for his work on a hereditary cancer known as multiple ...

Expertise: Thyroid cancer, endocrine surgery, surgical oncology, musculoskeletal oncology, melanoma

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Janet Rader
 professor of obstetrics and gynecology

A gynecological surgeon and oncologist, Rader also conducts research on genetic and other factors that increase the risk of developing gynecological cancers. She also investigates therapies for treatment of gynecological cancer.

Expertise: gynecologic cancer, genetics, cervix, ovarian, biomarkers

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Joseph Roti Roti
 professor of radiation oncology

Roti Roti conducts research on the role of the cell nucleus in the tumor cell's response to ionizing radiation and heat, two therapeutic modalities used most often by radiation oncologists.

Expertise: radiotherapy, heat, ionizing radiation, radiosensitization

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Robert Schreiber
 Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology

Our research is aimed at elucidating the molecular cell biology of cytokine receptor signaling and in defining the effects of signaling dysfunction on tumor development. Towards these ends, we are studying the receptors for interferon-gamma (IFNg) and interleukin-10 (IL-10), two related yet distinct ...

Expertise: Tumor immunology; immune system/response

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Barry Siegel
 Professor of radiology

Siegel is a faculty member of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He is an expert in the use of metabolic tracers and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to detect and analyze tumors. The techniques he and others have developed help physicians distinguish ...

Expertise: Nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), cancer, oncology, breast cancer, carcinoma

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Frank Yin
 Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; The Stephen and Camilla Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...

Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6164
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yin@wustl.edu

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