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Annual Meeting Committees

Annual Meeting Program Committee

The Program Committee, consisting of a chair, vice chairs, and cochairs, is charged with planning and scheduling invited scientific sessions for the Annual Meeting. Additional subcommittee chairs and members are responsible for reviewing and scheduling all proffered abstracts submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting.

2022-2023
Chair
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, PhD

Vice Chairs
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD, FAACR
Carlos M. Caldas, MD
José R. Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD
Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD
Peter Kuhn, PhD
Shivaani Kummar, MD
Quynh-Thu Le, MD
Christine M. Lovly, MD, PhD
Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD
Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD
Seishi Ogawa, PhD
Anna Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD
Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD
Joachim Rudolph, PhD
John H. Stewart IV, MD, MBA
Josep Tabernero, MD
Sarah K. Tasian, MD
Judith A. Varner, PhD
Matthew G. Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD

Cochairs
Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Ido Amit, PhD
Andrew T. Chan, MD
Alan D. D’Andrea, MD, FAACR
Matthew J. Ellis, MD, PhD
Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD
Kevin L. Gardner, MD, PhD
Andrew K. Godwin, PhD
Jeremy Goecks, PhD
Romina Goldszmid, PhD
Carmen E. Guerra, MD
Dawn L. Hershman, MD
Trey Ideker, PhD
Jan Kitajewski, PhD
Harriett M. Kluger, MD
Mignon Lee-Cheun Loh, MD
Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, MD
Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD
Ruben A. Mesa, MD
Kathleen N. Moore, MD
Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Elizabeth A. Platz, ScD, MPH
Avery D. Posey, Jr., PhD
Gabriel A. Rabinovich, PhD
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Sheila A. Stewart, DPhil
Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
Mary Jo Turk, PhD
Cornelia M. Ulrich, MS, PhD
Colonel James E. Williams, Jr., MS
Bradly G. Wouters, PhD
Timothy A. Yap, MD, PhD
Clayton C. Yates, PhD
Jinghui Zhang, PhD

Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee

The Clinical Trials Committee serves to identify, assess, recruit, and schedule clinical trials for presentation during the AACR Annual Meeting.

2022-2023
Cochairs
Shivaani Kummar, MD
Timothy A. Yap, MD, PhD

Members
Paolo A. Ascierto, MD
Nita Ahuja, MD
Christian Blank, MD, PhD
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD
Margaret K. Callahan, MD, PhD
Benedito A. Carneiro, MD
Ezra E.W. Cohen, MD
William S. Dalton, MD, PhD
Ruggero De Maria, MD
Alexander E. Drilon, MD
Ecaterina Ileana Dumbrava, MD
Patrick M. Forde, MD
Marcus DaSilva Goncalves, MD, PhD
Susan Halabi, PhD
Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD
Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA
Virginia G. Kaklamani, MD
Mustafa Khasraw, MD
Steven K. Libutti, MD
Jason J. Luke, MD
Robert G. Maki, MD, PhD
Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD
Ruben A. Mesa, MD
Pamela N. Munster, MD
Natalie Ngoi, MBBS, MRCP, MMed
D. William Parsons, MD, PhD
Akash Patnaik, MD, PhD, MMSc
Stephen C. Rubin, MD
Howard I. Scher, MD
Padmanee Sharma, MD
Ryan J. Sullivan, MD
Weijing Sun, MD
Josep Tabernero, MD
Beverly A. Teicher, PhD
Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD
Zev A. Wainberg, MD
Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD

Annual Meeting Education Committee

The Annual Meeting Education Committee plans and organizes the comprehensive educational program that takes place at the Annual Meeting.

2022-2023
Chairs
Carlos M. Caldas, MD, PhD
Anna Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD

Cochairs
Elizabeth A. Platz, MPH, ScD
Sheila A. Stewart, PhD
Judy A. Varner, PhD

Members
Raza Ali, MD, PhD
Olga A. Anczuków-Camarda, PhD
Alberto Bardelli, PhD
Maria Casanova-Acebes, PhD
Roberta Faccio, PhD
Stacey D. Finley, PhD
Claudia Fischbach, PhD
H. Courtney Hodges, PhD
Lilian Kabeche, PhD
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
Leeat Keren, PhD
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
Amanda W. Lund, PhD
Sandra S. McAllister, PhD
Dominique S. Michaud, ScD
Muhammad Murtaza, MBBS, PhD
Erik Sahai, PhD
Maria S. Sosa, PhD
Eliezer M. Van Allen, PhD