Leadership

BOARD OF DIRECTORS


Binay Shah, MD


Binaytara Foundation – President


David Aboulafia, MD


Virginia Mason Medical Center

 

Aparna Parikh, MD

 

Massachusetts General Hospital

 

 

 

Tara Shah, RN

 

Binaytara Foundation – Executive Director


Shaji Kumar, MD


Mayo Clinic


Timothy Erickson, MD


Brigham and Women’s Hospital


Siddhartha Yadav, MD


Mayo Clinic

 

Technology Lead

Bipul Luitel, PhD

Growthzilla, Inc.

 

 

 

 

Hematology and Oncology Conference Faculties

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2020 Faculties

Ghassan Albou-Alfa, MD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 David Aboulafia, MD
Virginia Mason Health System
William Bensinger, MD
Swedish Cancer Institute


Chadi Nabhan, MD, FACP
Aptitude Health, Inc.

Shailender Bhatia, MD
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Joseph Chao, MD
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center


V.K. Gadi, MD, PhD
University of Illinois Chicago

Kathryn Gold, MD
University of California San Diego
Petros Grivas, MD, PhD
University of Washington & Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Anna B. Halpern, MD Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Bruce Lin, MD Virginia Mason Medical Center
Vivian G. Oehler, MD Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Mark Pegram, MD – Stanford Women’s Cancer Center
Cristina P. Rodriguez, MD – University of Washington
Rafael Santana-Davila, MD – Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Mazyar Shadman, MD, MPH – Fred Hutch
Parmeswaran Venugopal, MD – Rush University Medical Center

Roland Walter, MD, PhD, MS – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Jack West, MD – City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Parmeswaran Venugopal, MD – Rush University Medical Center

Roland Walter, MD, PhD, MS – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Siddhartha Yadav, MD – Mayo Clinic
Bhawna Sirohi, MD – Max Cancer Institute

Fengting Yan, MD – Swedish Cancer Insitute

Paul Hampel, MD – Mayo Clinic
Chadi Nabhan, MD – Caris Life Sciences

Arvind Chaudhry, MD – Summit Cancer Centers

Hagen Kennecke, MD – Virginia Mason
Rona Yaeger, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering

Shona Nag, MD – Sahyadri Group

Charles Drescher, MD – Fred Hutch

2019 Faculties

Gary Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, FACPE
Virginia Mason Health System
 David Aboulafia, MD
Virginia Mason Health System
Shaji Kumar, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine


Chadi Nabhan, MD, FACP
Aptitude Health, Inc.

Gary Lyman, MD, MPH
Fred Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Research

Clifford Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO
American Society of Clinical Oncology


Aju-Mathew, MD, MPhil, FACP
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center

Jeffery C. Ward, MD
Swedish Cancer Institute
 Patricia L. Dawson, MD, PhD, FACS
University of Washington


Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, MD
WHO-IARC

John Pagel, MD
Swedish Cancer Institute

Kenneth Anderson, MD
Harvard Medical School


Bishal Gyawali, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Bridgette Hempstead
Cierra Sisters, Inc.

Carla Tardif
CEO, Family Reach


Mark A. Lewis, MD
Intermountain Healthcare

Saroj Niraula, MD
University of Manitoba

Elaine Schattner, MD
Weill Medical College

Jose Jeronimo, MD
Global Coalition against Cervical Cancer
John R. Scheel, MD, PhD, MPH
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Renato Martins, MD, MPH
University of Washington

 Prabhat Jha, OC, MD. DPhil, FCAHS
Centre for Global Health Research
Robert Winn, MD
University of Illinois
Damiano Rondelli, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago

 Saurabh Jha, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Axel Grothey, MD
West Cancer Center
Benjamin Anderson, MD, FACS
The Breast Health Global Initiative

Edith Mitchell, MD
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Otis Brawley, MD
John’s Hopkins University
Bruce Lin, MD
Virginia Mason Hospital

Roland Walter, MD, PhD, MS
University of Washington
Assuntina Sacco, MD
University of California, San Diego
 Shailender Bhatia, MD
University of Washington

 Evan Yu, MD
University of Washington
Ranjana Advani, MD
Stanford School of Medicine
Mark Pegram, MD
Stanford Cancer Institute

Wilson Gonsalves, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Kathryn Gold, MD
University of California, San Diego
Tom Beer, MD
Oregon Health & Science University

Glynn Gilcrease, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine
Wallace Akerley, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Hoifung Poon, PhD
Microsoft Research


AliRaza-Khaki, MD
University of Washington
Kathryn Pennington, MD
University of Washington
Anna Halpern, MD
University of Washington

Parmeswaran Venugopal, MD
Rush University Medical Center
V.K. Gadi, MD, PhD
University of Washington
Kelly Shanahan, MD
Metastatic Breast Cancer Advocate

Kevin Knopf,MD
Highland Hospital
Andrew Cowan, MD
University of Washington

Binaytara Foundation