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.

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 and now at UCSF

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 and now at UCSF

Quiana Klossner, BA is the audio producer for Plenary Session and the audiobook for Dr. Prasad's book Malignant. She works as Dr. Prasad's assistant.

Quiana Harshman, BA is the audio producer for Plenary Session and the audiobook for Dr. Prasad's book Malignant. She works as Dr. Prasad's assistant.

Delphinia Li, BA is a graduate from UC Berkeley, class of 2023, where she majored in Integrative Biology. She is now a Research Data Analyst in the VK Prasad Lab at UCSF.

LAB MEMBERS

Timothée Olivier, MD is a medical oncologist at Geneva University Hospital

Abirramy Varatharajan is a radiation oncologists at the University of Bern

Anushka Walia is a medical student at UCSF

David J. Benjamin, MD is a hematologist/oncologist

Eva Buck is an undergraduate student at UT Austin

Emma Greenstreet is a medical student at UCSF

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

Sarah Miller, MAS is a scientist and teaching assistant with UCSF

Sruthi Ranganathan is a medical student at the University of Cambridge, England

Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD is a physician scientist who received her PhD in Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. She is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark and practices physical medicine & rehabilitation with Northern California Orthopedic Associates.

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