Roswell Park Cancer Institute recently recruited the following 22 faculty members and promoted 19 faculty members into senior leadership positions.
Recruits
Ajlan Atasoy - Assistant Professor, Medicine, GI Division — from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels, Belgium (starts Aug. 1)
Joseph Barbi - Assistant Professor, Immunology — from postdoctoral fellowship at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Michael Bax - Mohs Surgeon and Assistant Professor, Dermatology — from a fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (starts July 18)
Robert Bies - Director and Professor, Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics — from Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Matthew Buas - Assistant Professor, Cancer Prevention & Control — from a fellowship at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Amy Allen Case - Chief and Associate Professor, Supportive & Palliative Care — from the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Gurkamal Chatta - Chief, Genitourinary Medicine; Professor, Medicine — from Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Stephen Edge - Vice President, Healthcare Outcomes and Policy; Professor, Surgical Oncology — from Baptist Cancer Center, Memphis, TN
Marc Ernstoff - Senior Vice President, Clinical Investigation; The Katherine Anne Gioia Chair of Medicine; Professor, Medicine — from The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Anthony Fernando - Executive Director, Pharmacy Services — from Rochester Regional Health System, Rochester, NY
Gregory Hare - Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine
Fumito Ito - Assistant Professor, Surgical Oncology, Center for Immunotherapy — from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Kara Kelly - Waldemar J. Kaminski Endowed Chair of Pediatrics; Professor, Pediatric Oncology (joint program with Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and University at Buffalo) — from Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Martin Morgan - Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Director, R/Bioconductor Project — from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Jan Nowak - Chief and Professor, Molecular Pathology; Chief Medical Officer, OmniSeq LLC — from North Shore University Health System, Evanston, IL
Joyce Ohm - Associate Professor, Cancer Genetics — from University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND (starts June 1, 2016)
Igor Puzanov - Director, Early Phase Clinical Trials and Developmental Therapeutics; Professor, Medicine — from Vanderbilt University
Srinevas Reddy - Co-Director, Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center; Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology — from Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Kazuaki Takabe - Chief, Breast Surgery; Professor, Surgical Oncology — from Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Dean Tang - Chair and Professor, Pharmacology & Therapeutics — from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Clare Twist - Director, Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics; Professor, Pediatric Oncology — from Stanford University, Stanford, CA - - Michelle Walter - Assistant Professor, Supportive & Palliative Care — from the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Promotions
Christine Ambrosone - Senior Vice President, Population Sciences; Chair and Professor, Cancer Prevention & Control
Sebastiano Battaglia - Assistant Professor, Center for Immunotherapy and Cancer Genetics
Ermelinda Bonaccio - Chief, Breast Imaging; Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology; Director, Mammography Center
Margarita Coyne - Interim Chief Nursing Officer; Director, Patient Care Services
Grace Dy - Chief, Thoracic Oncology; Associate Professor, Medicine
Victor Filadora - Chief, Clinical Services, Perioperative Medicine; Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine; Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education
Khurshid Guru - Vice Chair and Professor, Urology; Director, Robotic Surgery
Francisco Hernandez-Ilizaliturri - Chief, Lymphoma & Myeloma; Professor, Medicine, Immunology
John M. Kane III - Chief, Melanoma/Sarcoma; Chair and Professor, Surgical Oncology; Director, Surgical Oncology Fellowship
Boris Kuvshinoff II - Chief Medical Officer; Professor, Surgical Oncology
Charles LeVea - Vice Chair and Professor, Pathology; Fellowship Director, Oncologic Surgical Pathology
Kunle Odunsi - Deputy Director; Chair and Professor, Gynecologic Oncology; Executive Director, Center for Immunotherapy
Mary Reid - Director, Cancer Screening and Survivorship; Professor, Medicine; Director, Collaborative Research; Associate Dean, Graduate Curriculum
Thomas Schwaab - Chief, Strategy, Business Development & Outreach; Professor, Urology, Immunology
Brahm Segal - Director, Faculty Development; Chief, Infectious Diseases; Professor, Medicine
Edward Spangenthal - Chief, Cardiology; Assistant Professor, Medicine
Pallawi Torka - Assistant Professor, Medicine, Lymphoma Division (starts July 1)
Eunice Wang - Chief, Leukemia; Professor, Medicine; Associate Director, Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program
Sai Yendamuri - Chair and Professor, Thoracic Surgery; Director, Thoracic Surgery Laboratory