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Marijo Bilusic, M.D., Ph.D.

Marijo Bilusic, M.D., Ph.D.

Genitourinary Site Disease Group Lead
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Biography: Dr. Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, is a board-certified medical oncologist who treats genitourinary tumors (adrenal, kidney, prostate, bladder, and testis). His current research interests focus on tumor immunology and the development of novel immunotherapy approaches for prostate cancer and other genitourinary tumors using therapeutic cancer vaccines, antibodies,...
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Carmen Calfa, M.D.

Carmen Calfa, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: I am a breast medical oncologist and serve as the Medical Co-Director for Cancer Survivorship and Translational Behavioral Science Program at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. I am also the Associate Director of Community Outreach of the Breast Cancer Program at Sylvester-Plantation. Since graduating from a Hematology Oncology Fellowship in 2008, I dedicated...
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Tracy Crane, Ph.D.

Tracy Crane, Ph.D., R.D.N.

Associate Professor
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Biography: Dr. Crane is a distinguished leader in cancer control and is passionate about her commitment to the science of better outcomes for patients and community. Her work sits at the intersection of lifestyle medicine and digital health with a goal of developing targeted interventions, utilizing digital biomarkers to deliver the right intervention, at the right time to the right...
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Gina D'Amato

Gina Z D'Amato, M.D.

Associate Professor
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Biography: Dr. D’Amato is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, where she serves as a Sarcoma Medical Oncologist, Assistant Director of Clinical Research, Medical Director of Nurse Practitioner Oncology Fellowship Program and Medical Director of Patient Education. She also serves as the Co-Director of Oncology...
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Peter Hosein, M.D.

Peter Hosein, M.D.

Assoc. Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: I am a board-certified medical oncologist with a primary clinical and research focus in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers with 13 years of post-fellowship academic experience in this area. At the University of Miami's NCI-designated Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the co-director of the GI cancer site...
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Erin Kobetz, Ph.D.

Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Medicine, Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Marine Biology and Ecology
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Biography: Dr. Erin Kobetz is Vice Provost for Research and Tenured Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. Additionally, she is Associate Director of Population Science and Cancer Disparities at UM’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC), as well as, the Chief of...
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Jaime Rafael Merchan, M.D.

Jaime Rafael Merchan, M.D.

Professor
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Biography: Dr. Merchan is a tenured Professor of Medicine in the division of Medical Oncology. He is the Co-leader of the Translational and Clinical Oncology Research Program, the Director of the Phase 1 Clinical Trials Program, and the Associate Director of the NIH funded Calabresi Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Award. As a physician scientist, his contributions...
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Coral Olazagasti, M.D.

Asst. Professor of Clinical Medical Oncology
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Biography: Coral Olazagasti, MD is an assistant professor at the Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami at Miami, Florida. Dr. Olazagasti developed an interest in lung cancer screening while witnessing that the majority of new referrals during an outpatient oncology elective presented with advanced stages of lung cancer. Being a Latina physician, she is personally invested...
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Gretel Terrero

Gretel Terrero, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Biography: Dr. Terrero is a graduate of the hematology/oncology fellowship program at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL. She graduated from medical school at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and from the internal medicine residency program at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Jonathan C Trent, M.D., Ph.D.

Jonathan C Trent, M.D., Ph.D.,

Professor
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Biography: Jonathan C. Trent, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine, associate director for clinical research, and director of the Bone and Soft-tissue Sarcoma Group at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and his MD and PhD in cancer biology from...
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Dionysios C. Watson, M.D., Ph.D.

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Biography: Dr. Watson is a physician-scientist dedicated to developing new ways of treating solid tumors. After completing medical school in Greece, he went on to complete PhD training in immunotherapy development at the National Cancer Institute. His work there spanned the translational spectrum, and included developing exosomes for cytokine delivery, conducting translational studies...
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