Medical Advisory Panel

 

The Medical Advisory Panel advises the MRA leadership team on medical matters and policies including medical consultations, clinical research needs and opportunities, clinical regulatory and policy initiatives, and public education about melanoma.

Membership 2011-2014

Dermatology

 

David Fisher, M.D., Ph.D

Chief, Department of Dermatology
Director, Melanoma Program, MGH Cancer Center
Director, Cutaneous Biology Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology
Harvard Medical School
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Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Melanoma and Cutaneous Oncology Program, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Utah

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Roger Lo, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Melanoma Clinic in Dermatology
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dermatology
University of California, Los Angeles 
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David Polsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Director, Pigmented Lesion Section 
NYU Langone Medical Center
Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center

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Susan M. Swetter, M.D.

Professor of Dermatology
Director, Pigmented Lesion & Melanoma Program
Stanford University Medical Center and Cancer Institute

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Medical Oncology

 

Paul Chapman, M.D. - Chair

Attending Physician, Melanoma / Sarcoma service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Pathology and Medicine
University of Chicago 
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F. Stephen Hodi, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 
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Patricia LoRusso, D.O.

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
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Kim Margolin, M.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Washington / Seattle Cancer Center 
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Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles 
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Lynn Schuchter, M.D.

C. Willard Robinson Professor of Hematology-Oncology
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Program Leader: Melanoma Program,
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Division Chief, Hematology-Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
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Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D

Associate Professor
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Surgical Oncology

 

Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D.

Professor, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Suzanne Topalian, M.D.

MRA Chief Science Officer
Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Director, Melanoma Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
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