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Annual Meeting Committees

Annual Meeting Program Committee

The Program Committee, consisting of 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.

2023-2024
Chairs
Keith T. Flaherty, MD, FAACR
Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc

Cochairs
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD
John M. Carethers, MD
June M. Chan, DSc
Bruce E. Clurman, MD, PhD
Frederic J. de Sauvage, PhD
James V. DeGregori, PhD
Olivier Delattre, MD, PhD
Susan M. Domchek, MD
Jane C. Figueiredo, PhD
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
Cyrus M. Ghajar, PhD
Irene M. Ghobrial, MD
Raphael Gottardo, PhD
Susan Halabi, PhD
James R. Heath, PhD, FAACR
F. Stephen Hodi, MD
David G. Huntsman, MD
Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH
David M. Hyman, MD
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
T. Peter Kingham, MD
Shivaani Kummar, MD
Tak W. Mak, PhD, FAACR
Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH
Daniel K. Nomura, PhD
Rushika M. Perera, PhD
David R. Piwnica-Worms, MD, PhD
Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD
Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH
John H. Stewart, IV., MD, MBA
Elizabeth M. Swisher, MD
Phuoc T. Tran, MD PhD
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Victor E. Velculescu, MD, PhD, FAACR
Paul Workman, 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.

2023-2024
Cochairs
Ryan B. Corcoran, MD, PhD
Shivaani Kummar, MD

Members
Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD
Nita Ahuja, MD
Paolo A. Ascierto, MD
Christian Blank, MD, PhD
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD
Margaret K. Callahan, MD, PhD
Benedito A. Carneiro, MD
Luis A. Diaz, MD, FAACR
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Alexander E. Drilon, MD
Ecaterina Ileana Dumbrava, MD
Marina Chiara Garassino, MD
Marcus DaSilva Goncalves, MD, PhD
Jennifer Rubin Grandis, MD, FAACR
James L. Gulley, MD, PhD
Susan Halabi, PhD
Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR
Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD
Komal Jhaveri, MD
Mustafa Khasraw, MBChB, MD
Steven K. Libutti, MD
Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR
Jason J. Luke, MD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Robert G. Maki, MD, PhD
Pamela N. Munster, PhD
Natalie Ngoi, MBBS, MRCP, Mmed
Donald William Parsons, MD, PhD
Evanthis T. Roussos Torres, MD, PhD
Stephen C. Rubin, MD
Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD
Hope S. Rugo, MD
Howard I. Scher, MD
John H. Stewart, IV., MD, MBA
Ryan J. Sullivan, MD
Josep Tabernero, MD
Beverly A. Teicher, PhD
Miguel A. Villalona Calero, MD
Everett E. Vokes, MD
Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD
Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD
Laurence Zitvogel, 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.

2023-2024
Chair
Victor E. Velculescu, MD, PhD, FAACR

Cochairs
John M. Carethers, MD
Irene M. Ghobrial, MD
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD

Members
Valsamo K. Anagnostou, MD, PhD
Katherine B. Chiappinelli, PhD
Francesca Demichelis, PhD
Eric S. Fischer, PhD
Scarlett L. Gomez, MPH, PhD
Benjamin Haibe-Kains, PhD
Thanos D. Halazonetis, DDS, PhD
Robert A. Holt, PhD
Suet Yi Leung, MD
Marcela V. Maus, MD, PhD
Gerrit A. Meijer, MD, PhD
Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD
Laszlo G. Radvanyi, PhD
Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD
Megan K. Ruhland, PhD
M. Celeste Simon, PhD
Ashok R. Venkitaraman, MBBS, PhD
Paul Workman, PhD
Elad Ziv, MD