POA Working Groups
The Precision Oncology Alliance™ Working Groups identify leadership opportunities, author publications, and develop protocols.
Working Groups
With support from our POA staff, members meet regularly and focus on research strategies, publication activities and develop protocols within the disease state of interest. These meetings give all members the opportunity to lead discussions and collaborate on best practices and guidelines for clinical trials as well as review the overall implications for patients. Currently, there are 18 disease groups within the POA and registration for all meetings can be found here.
POA Disease Group Leads
Breast
Stephanie Graff, MD, FACP
Director, Breast Oncology
Brown University
CHIP
David Swoboda, MD
Malignant Hematologist Tampa General Hospital
Malignant Hematologist Tampa General Hospital
Community
Ankur Parikh, DO
Associate Director, Precision Medicine
Jefferson Health
Community
Brad Somer, MD
President
West Cancer Center
Central Nervous System
Sonikpreet Aulakh, MBBS, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
West Virginia University
Cutaneous
Soo Park, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Gastrointestinal
Sanjay Goel, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Rutgers University
Global Oncology
Gilberto Lopes, MD
Associate Director, Global Oncology
University of Miami
Associate Director, Global Oncology
University of Miami
Genitourinary
Daniel Geynisman, MD
Associate Professor
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Gynecologic
Premal Thaker, MD, MS
Professor of OB-GYN
Washington University
Head and Neck
Jennifer Johnson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Jefferson Health
Leukemia
Jay Yang, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor, Clinical
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Lymphoma
Andrew Evens, DO, MSc
Director, Lymphoma Program
Rutgers Cancer Institute
Neuroendocrine
Heloisa Soares, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Pathogen
Emil Lou, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Pathology
David Braxton, MD
Chief of Molecular Pathology
Hoag
Pediatrics/AYA
Valerie Brown, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Penn State University
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Penn State University
Radiation Oncology
Salma Jabbour, MD
Professor
RWJUH/Rutgers Cancer Institute
Sarcoma
Gina D’Amato, MD
Associate Professor
University of Miami
Thoracic
Balazs Halmos, MD
Professor of Medicine
Montefiore
Translational
Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota
POA Pathology Group Leads
Chair
Sonika Dahiya, MD
Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University
Breast
Yihong Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Path. & Lab. Medicine
Brown University
Central Nervous System
Giselle Y. Lopez, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Duke University
Cutaneous
Thuy Phung, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology
University of South Alabama
Gastrointestinal
Evgeny Yakirevich, MD
Professor, Path. & Lab. Medicine
Brown University
Genitourinary
Sam Wei, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Gynecologic
Rouba Ali-Fehmi, MD
Professor
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Hematopathology
Olga Weinberg, MD
Associate Professor, Pathlogy
UT Southwestern
Head & Neck
Rebecca Chernock, MD
Associate Professor, Path & Immun.
Washington University
Neuroendocrine
Kajsa Affolter, MD
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Sarcoma
Andrew E. Rosenberg, MD
Professor, Vice Chair, Director, Pathology
University of Miami
Thoracic
Sanja Dacic, MD, Phd
Professor, Pathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Translational
David Braxton, MD
Molecular Genetic Pathologist
Hoag