OUR TEAM
Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH trained in Adam Cifu's lab as a student and resident, and in the laboratories of Tito Fojo and Barry Kramer at the NIH as a fellow. VK Prasad lab was founded at OHSU, but moved to UCSF in the summer of 2020. Since it's inception, Prasad lab has published 300+ papers with over 190 faculty members, residents, and students.
Alyson Haslam, PhD received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Georgia. She was an ORISE Fellow at the CDC prior to working with Dr. Prasad at OHSU.
Timothée Olivier, MD, is a private docent, medical oncologist, and attending physician in the Oncology Unit at Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland. He specializes in sarcoma and head and neck cancers. His scientific research has added value to understanding health policy issues and evidence-based medicine.
Quiana Harshman, BA, is the Administrative Assistant III in the VK Prasad Lab and the audio producer for both the Plenary Session and the audiobook for Dr. Prasad's book Malignant.
Mary Rozelle, MPH, is the Project Policy Analyst II who earned her MPH degree with a concentration in global health from the University of Southern California in 2023. She is interested in conducting policy-relevant research to understand how the legal landscape, policies, and media intersect with health locally and globally.
LAB MEMBERS
Abirramy Varatharajan is a radiation oncologist at the University of Bern
Christopher Rios is a medical student at UCSF
Emma Greenstreet is 2024 UCSF Medical Graduate, and an Internal Medicine Resident Physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
David J. Benjamin, MD is a hematologist/oncologist
Eva Buck is an undergraduate student at UT Austin
Kelley Krohnert is an independent COVID-19 analyst
Kerrington Logan Powell is a medical student at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. He is the creator of the Plenary Session podcast show notes
Miloš Miljković, MD, MSc is a hematologist/oncologist and Chief Medical Officer at Cartesian Therapeutics
Myung Kim, MD is a hematologist/oncologist
Sruthi Ranganathan is a medical student at the University of Cambridge, England
Collaborators
Aaron Goodman, MD is a hematologist/oncologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego
Ali Raza Khaki, MD is a hematologist/oncologist. He is also a clinical assistant professor of oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Manni Mohyuddin, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies
Alumni
Aaron Boothby, MD
Alexander Xu is a student in the 8-year BA/MD program at Thomas Jefferson University
Andrae L. Vandross, MD is an oncologist in Austin, Texas. He received his medical degree from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Andrew Oseran, MD, MBA is a clinical cardiology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital
Antonious Z. Hazim, MD is an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic
Ashray Maniar, MD is a Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellow at Columbia University Medical Center
Audrey E. Brown, MD is a General Surgery resident at UCSF
Audrey Tran is an internal medicine resident at UCSF
Austin J. Lammers, MD is a hematologist/oncologist in CO
Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist with work experience in various low and high income countries
Caitlin Toomey, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Upstate Medical University
Chetan P. Huded, MD is a Cardiology Specialist in Kansas City, MO
Chul Kim, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University focusing on thoracic oncology
Claire E. Smith, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center
David C. Straus, MD is a neurosurgeon in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his medical degree from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Daniel Kwon, MD is a Hematology/Oncology fellow at UCSF
Derrick Tao, MD is an internal medicine resident at Oregon Health & Science University, after which he plans to train in Hematology/Oncology
Edward Maldonado Jr, MD is a board certified internist in Portland, Oregon. He is an incoming hematology oncology fellow at UCSF
Emerson Y. Chen, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, at the OHSU School of Medicine
Emma P. DeLoughery is a medical student at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Farhad Fakhrejahani, MD is an oncologist in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Go Nishikawa, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, OHSU School of Medicine
Jason Rho, MD is a pulmonologist at Northwestern Medical Group
Jeffery A. Goldstein, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern
Jeffrey Bien, MD is a Hematology/Medical Oncology fellow at Stanford
Jenny Gill received an MS in Integrative Medical Research and works in health policy research with a focus on oncology
Jeremy Cetnar MD, MSHPR is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the OHSU School of Medicine
Joaquin Chapa, MD is a Internist in Portland, OR
Joel Jorgenson, MD is an internist in Westminster, Colorado. He received his medical degree from Northwestern
John Marquart, MD completed medical school at OHSU and is currently a general surgery resident at The Medical College of Wisconsin.
Jonathan B. Edmiston
Joseph Shatzel, MD is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at OHSU
Julia Ruby, MD is a resident physician in Portland, Oregon
Julie K. Kim, MD is an allergy and immunology specialist at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital
Kate Rosen is a medical student at OHSU
Kevin Knopf MD, MPH is Chief of Hematology/Oncology at Alameda Health Systems and Associate Professor of Pharmaco-economics at University of South Carolina School of Pharmacy
Kevin De Jesús, MD is a research fellow at UPR Ciencias Médicas
Lelia Maria de Almeida Carvalho, MD serves in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) at Clinicas Hospital of UFMG - Brazil
Madeline Cook, BA is a medical student at OHSU
Matthew Abola, MD is an orthopedic surgery resident at NYU
Mark P Lythgoe, MD is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Medical Oncology and Pharmacist at Imperial College London. After completion of junior doctor posts in west London, he is now undertaking specialist academic training in Medical Oncology
Michael Cheung, MD is a cardiologist at Lehigh Valley Health
Michael Hayes, MD is an internist at Kaiser Permanente
Nathanael Gay, MD is an oncologist in Hauser, Idaho
Neil Shea, MD
Patrick Demartino, MD is a Pediatrics Specialist in Portland, OR
Rahul Banerjee, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Washington
Rosa Ahn is a medical student at OHSU
Ruibin Wang
Ryan Fox-Lee, BS, JD is a medical student at OHSU
Ryan Waters, MD is an emergency medicine resident at the University of Arkansas
Sham Mailankody, MBBS is a Medical Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Sunil Joshi is an MD/PhD Candidate at OHSU
Talal Hilal, MD is a hematologist in Jackson, Mississippi and is affiliated with University of Mississippi Medical Center
Thomas Kartika, MD is an OHSU Internal Medicine resident
Tyler Crain is an Information Analyst II at Northwest Permanente
Usama Bilal, PhD, MPH, MD is currently an Assistant Professor in the Urban Health Collaborative and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health
Victor Gall, MD is a surgical oncologist at RWJBarnabas Health
Victoria Kaestner, MS graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2015 (B.A.), and from Georgetown University in June 2018 (M.S.).
Vikram Raghunathan, MD is an internal medicine resident at Brown
William Thistlethwaite, MD is an Internal Medicine physician