Head and Neck Cancer Committee

Purpose

The Medical Oncology Committee supports systemic treatments used in NRG trials through its subsidiary subcommittees, Pharmacy and Immunotherapy, and education during the NRG Semiannual meeting that includes a focused topical presentation as well as disease-site updates of the current state of the research. The Pharmacy subcommittee supports the NRG disease sites and protocol development with pharmacy-specific input including drug information and toxicity management. The Immunotherapy subcommittee evaluates NRG concepts that utilize immunotherapy for feasibility, safety, and potential translational objectives. Furthermore, the Immunotherapy subcommittee in conjunction with disease sites may propose concepts involving immunotherapy.

The Medical Oncology Committee hosts a comprehensive educational session twice yearly in conjunction with the NRG Semiannual Meeting; its subcommittees meet quarterly.

Head and Neck Cancer Committee Leadership

Chair

Sue Yom, MD PhD

Vice Chair

Stuart Wong, MD

Vice Chair

Neil Hayes, MD

Vice Chair

Chris Holsinger, MD
Working Groups

Head and Neck Translational Working Group

Chair

Neil Hayes

Vice Chair

Sidharth Puram

H&N Surgery Working Group

Chair

Christopher Holsinger

H&N Skin Working Group

Chair

Shlomo Koyfman

Vice Chair

Christopher Barker

H&N Rare Tumor Working Group

Chair

Richard Bakst

Vice Chair

Stephen Lai

Previously Untreated Locally Advanced Working Group

Chair

Trisha Wise-Draper

Vice Chair

James Bates

H&N PRO-CE Working Group

Chair

Steven Chang

Vice Chair

Minh Tam Truong

H&N Recurrent-Metastatic Working Group

Chair

Dwight Heron

Vice Chair

Anna Spreafico

Core Committee Members

Core Committee

  • Musaddiq Awan
  • Julie Bauman
  • Dukagjin Blakaj
  • Jimmy Caudell
  • Steven Chang
  • Bhisham Chera
  • Steve Chinn
  • Jennifer H. Choe
  • Christine Chung
  • A. Dimitrios Colevas
  • John De Almeida
  • Neal Dunlap
  • Paul M. Harari
  • Neil Hayes
  • Christina Henson
  • Chris Holsinger
  • Jed Katzel
  • Shlomo Koyfman
  • Jamie Ku
  • Stephen Lai
  • Nancy Lee
  • Loren Mell
  • Sidharth V. Puram
  • Shyam S.D. Rao
  • James William Rocco
  • Cristina Rodriguez
  • Nabil Saba
  • Michael A. Samuels
  • Nicole C. Schmitt
  • David Schwartz
  • Jeffrey Shoop
  • Sharon Spencer
  • Erich Sturgis
  • Paul L. Swiecicki
  • Vinita Takiar
  • Horatio Thomas
  • Minh Tam Truong
  • John Waldron
  • Trisha Wise-Draper
  • Stu Wong
  • Sue Yom

General Committee Members

  • Nishant Agrawal
  • Carryn Anderson
  • Anthony J. Apicelli, III
  • Hani Ashamalla
  • Vilija Avizonis
  • Musaddiq Awan
  • Samar Azawi
  • Richard Bakst
  • Sujith Baliga
  • Brittany Barber
  • Christopher A. Barker
  • James E. Bates
  • Beth M. Beadle
  • Aashish Bhatt
  • Mihir K. Bhayani
  • Alec Block
  • Christopher L. Brett
  • David Brizel
  • Shauna Campbell
  • Daniel R. Carrizosa
  • Mark Chambers
  • Douglas  Chepeha
  • Jennifer H. Choe
  • Karen Y. Choi
  • Farshad N. Chowdhury
  • Francisco J. Civantos
  • David A. Clump
  • Kevin J. Contrera
  • Jennifer Cracchiolo
  • Roi Dagan
  • Rushil R. Dang
  • Jennifer F. De Los Santos
  • Virginia Diavolitsis
  • Jennifer A. Dorth
  • Umamaheswar Duvvuri
  • Heather A. Edwards
  • Kyle S. Ettinger
  • Daniel Faden
  • Carole Fakhry
  • Janice L. Farlow
  • Rocco M. Ferrandino
  • Robert L. Ferris
  • David W.A. Forner
  • Christopher Fundakowski
  • Gregory Gan
  • Ian Ganly
  • Madhur K. Garg
  • Jessica Geiger
  • Michael F. Gensheimer
  • Maged Ghaly
  • Laila A. Gharzai
  • Michael Gibson
  • Maura L. Gillison
  • Emile Gogineni
  • Evan M. Graboyes
  • Jennifer H. Gross
  • Neil Gross
  • Craig Eli Grossman
  • Alexander N. Hanania
  • Richard A. Harbison
  • Catherine T. Haring
  • Molly E. Heft- Neal
  • Dwight Heron
  • Colin Hill
  • Ryan T. Hughes
  • Katherine A. Hutcheson
  • Sachin R. Jhawar
  • Chris Jones
  • Richard Jordan
  • Nikhil Joshi
  • Aditya Juloori
  • Anne C. Kane
  • Hyunseok Kang
  • Jung Julie Kang
  • Sana Karam
  • Vidhya Karivedu
  • Saad Khan
  • Ana Kiess
  • Randall Kimple 
  • Kedar Shirish Kirtane
  • Julie Kish
  • Tim Kruser
  • Miriam N. Lango
  • Ryan M. Lanning
  • Anh H. Le
  • Steve  Lee
  • Anna Lee
  • David Y. Lee
  • Gary D. Lewis
  • Christopher Lominska
  • Bridgette Ma
  • Daniel Ma 
  • Sung Jun Ma
  • Sean S. Mahase
  • Rafael Manon
  • Emily J. Marchiano
  • Christopher McLaughlin
  • Michelle Mierzwa
  • Dominic Moon
  • Luc G.T. Morris
  • Wojciech K. Mydlarz
  • David Neskey
  • Phuc Felix Nguyen-Tan
  • Matthew Old
  • Aru Panwar
  • Henry S. Park
  • Krupal Patel
  • Mihir R. Patel
  • Rusha Patel
  • Cesar Perez
  • Minh Phan
  • Katharine Price
  • Sidharth V. Puram
  • Krishna Rao
  • Mohammad Razaq
  • Niema B. Razavian
  • Jeremy Richmon
  • Fahad Rind
  • Jared Robbins
  • Dylan F. Roden
  • David M Routman
  • Soumon Rudra
  • Zeyad Sako
  • Michael Samuels
  • Vlad C. Sandulache
  • Philip E. Schaner
  • Nicole C. Schmitt
  • Christopher Schultz
  • Geroge Shenouda
  • David J. Sher
  • Eric Sherman
  • Siddharth H. Sheth
  • Lauren C. Shih
  • Aditya Varnam Shreenivas
  • Monica E. Shukla
  • Kulbir Sidhu
  • Andrew Sikora
  • Anurag Singh
  • Guy Slonimsky
  • Matthew E. Spector
  • Anna Spreafico
  • William A. Stokes
  • Rathan M. Subramaniam
  • Baran D. Sumer
  • John  Sunwoo
  • Samantha Tam
  • Sewit Teckie
  • Theodoros N. Teknos
  • Carissa M. Thomas
  • Toms Vengaloor Thomas
  • Wade Thorstad
  • Michael C. Topf
  • Melanie E. Townsend
  • Jillian Tsai
  • Varun Vendra
  • Matthew C. Ward
  • Maurice Willis
  • Canhua Xiao
  • George Q. Yang
  • Min Yao
  • Sun K. Yi
  • Melissa R. Young
  • Mehran Yusuf
  • Mark E. Zafereo
  • Kaveh Zakeri
  • Dan Zandberg
  • Anthony Zeitouni
  • Joseph Zenga
  • Jose P. Zevallos
  • Simeng Zhu
  • Zachary S. Zumsteg

 

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