Narrow in with a Laser Focus with Dr. Andrew Hendifar
Wisdom in Oncology
Andrew Hendifar, MD, is currently the Medical Director of Pancreatic Cancer at Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Hendifar received his medical degree from Tulane University and he did his residency in Internal Medicine at Los Angeles County, the USC Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology from the University of Southern California. At Cedars Sinai he also leads the Gastrointestinal Disease Research Group and is the Program Director of the Hematology and Oncology...
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Be Humble and Achieve High Intelligence with Dr. Erminia Massarelli
Wisdom in Oncology
Dr. Erminia Massarelli, MD is currently an Associate Professor of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research; Section Chief of Thoracic Oncology, and Co-Director of Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program at City of Hope Medical Center. Dr. Massarelli received her medical degree and Ph.D in Molecular Oncology and Endocrinology from the University of Naples in Federico, Italy. She continued her postdoctoral training with dual Medical Oncology and Thoracic Head & Neck Medical Oncology fellowships at MD Anderson Cancer Center, a residency in Internal Medicine at the Methodist Hospital in...
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Be Willing to Do Extra for a Patient with Dr. Yuan Yuan
Wisdom in Oncology
Dr. Yuan Yuan, MD is an Associate Professor of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research at the City of Hope National Medical Center. Dr. Yuan completed her Masters in Oncology at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Riverside. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at New York University Downtown Hospital and her fellowship in Hematology/Oncology from New York University Medical Center under the direction of Dr. Franco Muggia, a giant in Medical Oncology. Dr. Yuan’s clinical and...
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Finding What You Love with Dr. James Allison
Wisdom in Oncology
Dr. James Allison, PhD is Regental Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology, the Olga Keith Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research, Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Research, and the Executive Director of the Immunotherapy Platform at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He has spent a distinguished career studying the regulation of T cell responses and developing strategies for cancer immunotherapy. He earned the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with Dr. Tasuku Honjo, “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative...
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Make Your Patient Win an Olympic Gold Medal with Dr. Swaminathan Iyer
Wisdom in Oncology
Swaminathan Iyer, MD, is currently the Professor of the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his medical school from Bangalore Medical College, India and residency in Internal Medicine from Wayne State University, Michigan. He pursued a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology from Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Florida. He is a nationally recognized leader in early drug development in hematologic malignancies. As the...
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Be Considerate, Empathetic, and Compassionate with Dr. Steven Rosen
Wisdom in Oncology
Steven Rosen, MD, is the Provost and Chief Scientific Officer for the City of Hope. He is also the Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Beckman Research Institute and holds the Irell & Manella Cancer Center Director's Distinguished Chair and the Morgan & Helen Chu Director’s Chair of the Beckman Research Institute. Following his graduation with distinction from Northwestern University’s Medical School’s six-year honors program in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Rosen completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern and his fellowship in Hematology and Medical...
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Dr. Rowan Chlebowski on Delivering Impactful Products
Wisdom in Oncology
Today’s guest is Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, one of the most influential breast cancer researchers in the world. Dr. Chlebowski is a clinical breast oncologist with a Ph.D. in reproductive biology, he has a credentialed clinical and research interest in breast cancer therapy and prevention, menopausal hormone therapy influences on cancer and chronic disease, and lifestyle influences on breast cancer incidence and outcome. He is best known for studying breast cancer issues in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). He has published widely and led reports in well-cited journals such...
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Patient-Centric Care, Self-Care, and Teamwork: Masterful Advice from Dr. Heather Wakelee
Wisdom in Oncology
The guest of this episode is Heather Wakelee, M.D., a leading specialist in the treatment of lung cancer, thymoma and mesothelioma. Dr. Wakelee has been in practice for nearly two decades at Stanford University, and is currently a fellow of ASCO. She is the physician lead for the thoracic malignancies clinical research group and has developed research programs related to lung cancer and thymoma across multiple areas including clinical trials, translational work, and population sciences. Dr. Wakelee is the Principal Investigator on numerous clinical trials, and is the faculty director of the...
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Learning Persistence with Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov
Wisdom in Oncology
Dr. Nekhlyudov is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Clinical Director of Internal Medicine at David B. Perini Jr. Quality of Life Clinic, and an Internist at Longwood, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Nekhlyudov is renowned for her extensive clinical and research expertise in cancer survivorship, and overall is a stalwart source of wisdom in medicine. We are grateful to have Dr. Nekhlyudov share her motivating messages on persistence, self-knowledge, and skillful discernment in receiving guidance from mentors and other colleagues. Though this segment is brief,...
info_outlineAndrew Hendifar, MD, is currently the Medical Director of Pancreatic Cancer at Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Hendifar received his medical degree from Tulane University and he did his residency in Internal Medicine at Los Angeles County, the USC Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology from the University of Southern California. At Cedars Sinai he also leads the Gastrointestinal Disease Research Group and is the Program Director of the Hematology and Oncology Fellowship Program. His research focuses on developing new therapies for pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. He is a member of the ASCO Society and North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society.
Pearls of Wisdom:
- Oncology is really where the humanistic values of medicine collide with the scientific values.
- It's important that you have more than one role model because there's never gonna be one person that kind of encapsulates all that you want to be or all that you wanna accomplish.
- Being successful in research does not necessarily mean having a eureka moment but actually doing the work that it takes to bring a project to completion.
- It's very important for cancer physicians to take care of themselves spiritually and physically.
- One day, people are going to say, "thank God I have pancreas cancer" instead of saying, "I can't believe I have pancreas cancer." That's my goal.