Research Team
Leadership
Stephen Freedland, MD
Director
Arash Asher, MD
Interim Associate Director, Clinical Trials
Jane Figueiredo, PhD
Associate Director, Epidemiology
Michael Freeman, PhD
Interim Associate Director, Translational Science
Staff
Ilona Csizmadi, PhD
Project Scientist
Aubrey Jarman, RD
Registered Dietitian and Exercise Physiologist
Dana Levin, MPH
Clinical Research Specialist
Laura Lockshon
Clinical Research Coordinator
Alexandra Mack, MPH, MPL
Program Development Administrator
CIRCL Members
Clinical
- Farin Amersi, MD
Director, Surgical Residency Program
Co-Director, Surgical Fellowship Program - Arash Asher, MD
Director, Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship - Reva Basho, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Odelia B. Cooper, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine - Timothy J. Daskivich MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery - Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Surgery - Joel Epstein, DMD
Medical Director, Cancer Dentistry Program - Andrew E. Hendifar, MD
Medical Director, Pancreatic Cancer
Assistant Professor, Medicine - Jethro L. Hu, MD
Staff Physician, Division of Neurosurgery - Scott Irwin, MD, PHD
Director, Supportive Care Services - Hyung Kim, MD
Homer and Gloria Harvey Family Chair in Urologic Oncology in honor of Stuart Friedman, MD
Director, Academic Urology Program
Co-Medical Director, Urologic Oncology Center
Associate Director, Surgical Research
Associate Director, Urology Residency Training Program
Professor of Surgery - Shelly Lu, MD
Director, Division of Gastroenterology - Monica M. Mita, MD
Co-Director, Experimental Therapeutics
Associate Professor of Medicine - Stephen J. Pandol, MD
Director, Basic and Translational Pancreas Research - Edwin Posadas, MD
Medical Director, Urologic Oncology Program
Co-Director, Translational Oncology Program
Associate Professor of Medicine - Bobbie J. Rimel, MD
Associate Director of Clinical Trials for Gynecologic Oncology
Associate Residency Program Director OB/GYN
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research
- Neil Bhowmick, PhD
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Program
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - Leland Chung, PhD
Board of Governors Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Uro-Oncology Research Program
Professor of Medicine - Xiaojiang Cui, PhD
Associate Professor, Surgery
Research Scientist, Women’s Cancer Program - Jane Figueiredo, PhD
Director, Community and Population Health Research
Associate Director, CIRCL - Michael Freeman, PhD
Vice Chair, Research Department of Surgery
Director, Division of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Research in the Department of Biomedical Sciences
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Program
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Surgery - Marc Goodman, PhD
Director, Cancer Prevention and Control
Director, Community and Population Health Research Center in the Department of Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Medicine - Roberta Gottlieb, MD
Director, Molecular Cardiobiology
Professor of Medicine
Dorothy and E. Phillip Lyon Chair in Molecular Cardiology in honor of Clarence M. Agress, MD - Gillian Gresham, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow - Robert Haile, PhD
Associate Director for Population Sciences
Director, Research Center for Health Equity
Endowed Chair in Population Health Sciences
Acting Professor of Medicine - Shehnaz Hussain, PhD, ScM
Associate Professor of Medicine - Christie Jeon, ScD
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Jayoung Kim, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Sciences - Simon Knott, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences - Dechen Lin, PhD
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine
- V. Krishnan Ramanujan, PhD
Director, Two-Photon Imaging Core Facility
Associate Professor of Surgery - Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, PhD
Acting Associate Professor of Medicine - Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine - Celina Shirazipour, PhD
Research Scientist, Research Center for Health Equity - Hisashi Tanaka, MD, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Surgery - Adriana Vidal, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery - Richard Waldron, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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