Chair of Editorial Board

Matti Aapro, MD 

Dr. Aapro is the Past-President of the European Cancer Organisation (ECO), and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Genolier Cancer Center in Switzerland and earned his medical degree from the University of Geneva.

As a dedicated leader in oncology education and advocacy, Dr. Aapro holds an Executive Board position at the European School of Oncology (ESO) and leads the Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) association. He has held prominent roles with the International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) and the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). Additionally, he serves as Honorary Editor of Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology and is the founding editor of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology. His numerous accolades include Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Tampere, the 2012 ASCO B.J. Kennedy Prize, and the MASCC Distinguished Services Award.

Editor-in-Chief

Shushan Hovsepyan, MD

Dr. Shushan Hovsepyan is a pediatric oncologist and adjunct assistant professor at Yerevan State Medical University. She earned her medical degree (M.D.) and completed a fellowship in pediatric oncology and hematology at Yerevan State Medical University. Her training continued at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan, Italy, and St. Anna Children’s Research Hospital in Austria. Dr. Hovsepyan is also an alumna of the Postgraduate Program at Harvard Medical School. She was a co-chair of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) Global Health Network Education and Training Working Group. Currently, she is the co-chair of the SIOP GHN Research and Innovation Working Group. She is the Innovation and Development Director at the Immune Oncology Research Institute.

Editorial Board

Gevorg Tamamyan, MD, MSc, DSc (Armenia)

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Yerevan State Medical University

CEO of the Immune Oncology Research Institute

President-Elect of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Asia Continental Branch (SIOP Asia)

President-Elect of the Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group

Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO (USA)

Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University School of Medicine

Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program, Faculty Co-Director for Clinical Research and Clinical Trials, Office of Cancer Health Equity, Stanford Cancer Institute

Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology

Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD (Italy)

Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milano

Chief of the Clinical Division of Early Drug Development at European Institute of Oncology

Chair of the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee

Member of the Italian Higher Health Council

Guillermo L Chantada, MD, PhD (Spain)

President of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Head Outreach Program, Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona-PCCB, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD (USA)

Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Gregory Kalemkerian, MD, FASCO (USA)

Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Associate Division Chief for Faculty Development 

Education and Associate Director of the Hem/Onc Fellowship Program, Medical School

Chair of the NCCN Small Cell Lung Cancer Guideline Panel

Her Excellency Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, MD (Nigeria)

Consultant Pediatrician

Founder/CEO, Medicaid Cancer Foundation (MCF) and Medicaid Radio-diagnostics & Clinics (MRD)

Chairperson, First Ladies Against Cancer (FLAC)

Member, Board of Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and WHO’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative (IWG)

Global Ambassador, World Ovarian Cancer Coalition

Allison O’Neill, MD (USA)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Clinical Director of the Solid Tumor Center

Director of Medical Therapies of Liver Tumor Center, Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Chair of COG Liver Tumor Committee

Andre Ilbawi, MD (Switzerland)

Technical lead, Cancer Control Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, Rehabilitation and Disability (NCD) World Health Organization

Aparna Parikh, MD, MS (USA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director of the Global Cancer Care Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Tezer Kutluk, MD, PhD, FAAP (Turkey)

Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and Cancer Institute

Past-President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Past-President of the European Cancer Leagues (ECL)

Justin Stebbing, MD, PhD (UK)

Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene

Visiting Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology, Imperial College of London

Professor of Biomedical Sciences, ARU, Cambridge

Dickran Kazandjian, MD (USA)

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Myeloma, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Miller School of Medicine

Associate Director for Clinical Trials Research, Sylvester Myeloma Institute, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Miller School of Medicine

Claudio Cerchione, MD, PhD (Italy)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna

Chandler Park (USA)

President of the Kentucky Society of Clinical Oncology

Advisory Dean and Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine

Treasurer of the American College of Physicians

Rana McKay, MD (USA)

Associate Professor of Medicine and Urology, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Co-Lead, Genitourinary Oncology Program, UC San Diego Health

Associate Director, Translational Sciences

Enrique Soto Perez de Celis, MD (Mexico)

Head of the Cancer Care in the Elderly Clinic, National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition

Board Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Editor-in-chief of the Mexican Journal of Oncology

Manette Le Grange, PhD (France)

Corporate Social Responsibility Project Lead – ICONIC, Servier

Piotr J. Wysocki, MD (Poland)

Professor and the Head of the Clinical Oncology Department at Jagiellonian University-Medical College

Past-President of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology

Chair of the ASCO European Regional Council

Editors

Airazat Kazaryan, MD, PhD, (Norway)

Surgical Oncologist at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Østfold Hospital Trust

Honorary Researcher at the Intervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital

isiting Professor of Surgery, Yerevan State Medical University

Alexandra Müller, MD (Germany)

Medical Director SAFER Ukraine – St. Jude Global

Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology,University Hospital Freiburg

Alique Topalian, PhD, MPH (USA)

Research Scientist, Survivorship and Supportive Services, University of Cincinnati Cancer Center

Patient Advocate and Cancer Thriver

Anna Avagyan, MD (Armenia)

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Armenia

Amina Suleymanova, MD (Russia)

Pediatric Oncologist of the Department of Chemotherapy N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Annelies Mavinkurve-Groothuis, MD, PhD (The Netherands)

Pediatric Oncologist at Princes Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Bahar Laderian, MD (USA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncologist, Cleveland Clinic

Ben Garmezy, MD (USA)

Co-Chair, GU Executive Committee, SCRI Network

Associate Director of Genitourinary Research Program, Sarah Cannon Research Institute

Biljana Jovanova, MD, PhD (Macedonia)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist at Clinical Hospital Acibadem Sistina

Cansu Cimen Bozkus, PhD (USA)

Associate Director, Vaccine and Cell Therapy Laboratory, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc (Rwanda)

Executive Director of African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL)

Faculty member of the Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education

Dario Trapani, MD (Italy)

Medical Oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology

Dilyara Kaydarova, MD, PhD, DSc (Kazakhstan)

Professor and Active member of The National Academy of Sciences of The Republic of Kazakhstan

Chairman of the Board, The Kazakh Institute of Oncology and Radiology (KazIOR)

President, Kazakhstan Cancer Society (KazCS)

Dinesh Pendharkar, MD, PhD, FASCO (India)

Director of Oncology, Sarvodaya Hospital Faridabad

Chairman of the National Cancer Society

Past-President of the Indian Society of Oncology

Past-President of the Indian Society of Medical & Paediatric Oncology (ISMPO)

Dragana Stanic, MD (Serbia)

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical and Radiation Oncology, Medical School of the University of Belgrade

Radiation Oncologist, Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia

Elie G. Dib, MD, MS, FACP (USA)

Adjunct Faculty Lecturer-Johns Hopkins University

Associate-Director, Hematology Oncology Training Program, Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, Trinity Health IHA Medical Group

Fedja Djordjevic, MD (Serbia)

Medical Oncologist, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia

Gabriele Todisco, MD (Italy)

Assistant Professor Hematology, Humanitas University

Gaurav Narula, MD (India)

Professor Pediatric Oncology and Health Sciences, Tata Memorial Center, HBNI, Mumbai

Gita Naidu, MD, PhD (Republic of South Africa)

Head of Paediatric Oncology Department, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital

Academic Head of Paediatric Oncology, University of the Witwatersrand

Co-Chair of SIOP Supportive Care Network Steering Group

Garik Sagoyan, MD (Russia)

Pediatric Oncologist and Senior Scientist, Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology

General Secretary, Russian Society of Pediatric Oncologists and Hematologists

Hunan Julhakyan, MD, PhD (Russia)

Head of the Department at the National Research Center for Hematology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Ilya Tsimafeyeu, MD (Russia)

Director, Bureau for Cancer Research

ASCO Central and Eastern Europe Regional Council Member

Iyad Sultan, MD (Jordan)

Chairman and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, King Hussein Cancer Center

Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group

Jasmine Kamboj, MD (USA)

Community Oncologist and Hematologist, Mayo Clinic

Board Member, Minnesota Society of Clinical Oncology

Co-lead CoP Policy, ASCO

Jemma Arakelyan, MD (Hong Kong, China)

CEO of the Institute of Cancer and Crisis

PhDc at the Drug Discovery Lab, Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong

Adviser and Medical Oncologist, Immune Oncology Research Institute

Joyce Kambugu, MD (Uganda)

President of SIOP Africa

Director of the Pediatric Oncology Service, Uganda Cancer Institute

Board Member of the Uganda Cancer Society

Julieta Hoveyan, MD (Armenia)

Pediatric Oncologist at the Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Armenia

Clinical Researcher at Immune Oncology Research Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

Justin N. Baker, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM (USA)

Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care

Stanford Medicine, Stanford University

Karima Oualla, MD, MSc (Morocco)

Professor of Medical Oncology, Hassan II University Hospital

Luiz Henrique de Lima Araujo, MD (Brazil)

Regional Director at DASA Oncologia

Head of Oncology at DASA Genomica

Researcher at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute

Maite Gorostegui Obanos, MD (Spain)

Pediatric Oncologist, Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona, Hospital San Joan de Déu

Chair of the SIOP Global Mapping Program

Mahmoud Hammad, MD, MSc (Egypt)

Professor Pediatric Oncology and Stem cell transplant National Cancer Institute; Cairo University

Director Nasser Institute Oncology and Nuclear Center

Mane Gizhlaryan, MD (Armenia)

Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist and HSCT Specialist, Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center, Yerevan, Armenia

Maria T Bourlon, MD, MSc (Mexico)

Associate Professor and Head of the Urologic Oncology Clinic at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

Director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Chair-Elect of the ASCO IDEA Steering Group

Mark Grigoryan, MD (Armenia)

Resident, General Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Maya Prasad, MD (India)

Division of Pediatric Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre

Miloš Grujić, MD (Serbia)

Department Lead of Subspecialty Cabinets, Center for Radiation Oncology, University Clinical Center Kragujevac

Co-Chair of Career Development Working Group at European School of Oncology

Melvin L.K. Chua, MD, MBBS, PhD (Singapore)

Head of the Department for Head and Neck and Thoracic Cancers, Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore

Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Visiting Professor, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, China

Chair of the ASCO Asia Pacific Regional Council

Mohamed Emam Sobeih, MD (Egypt)

Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute of Egypt

Muhammad Saghir Khan, MD (Pakistan)

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Physician, Department of Paediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Al Madinah Al Munawarah, Saudi Arabia

Co-Chair of SIOP Global Health Network

Mushegh Sahakyan, MD, PhD (Norway)

Surgical Oncologist at Oslo University Hospital

Nagashree Seetharamu, MD, MBBS (USA)

Professor at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Director of Thoracic and Head/Neck Malignancies at Northwell Health

Natalia Baran, MD, MSc, PhD (USA)

Assistant Professor, Department of Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Navneet Singh, MD, DM, FRCP, FASCO (India)

Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)

Chair, ASCO Treatment of Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Living Guideline Panel

Nazia Mushtaq, MD (Pakistan)

Associate Professor at Islamabad Medical Complex, Pakistan

Nelson Dusetti, PhD (France)

Director of the Translational Research and Innovative Therapies Department, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille

Co-founder and CSO, Predicting Med

Ninad Katdare, MBBS, MS, DNB (India)

Senior Consultant Surgical Oncologist, HCG Cancer Centre, Mumbai

Consultant Surgical Oncologist, GI, Gyn and Peritoneal Oncology, Laparoscopic and Robotic Oncology, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai

Nita Radhakrishnan, MD (India)

Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Post Graduate Institute of Child Health, Noida

Hon Secretary, Pediatric Hematology Oncology Chapter, India

Chair, Childhood Cancer Program Area Working Group, International Pediatric Association

Pia Delano, MPH, PhDc (Spain)

Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Center for Biomedical Research Network (CIBER) of Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain

Saima Alvi, MD (Canada)

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Jim Pattison Children's Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada

Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Rachel Riechelmann, MD, PhD (Brazil)

Director of the Clinical Oncology Department at the AC Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil

Rahat Ul Ain, MD (Pakistan)

Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at The Children’s Hospital Lahore

Ravi Karra, MD, MBA (Germany)

Vice President of Oncology at Advanced Clinical

Rawad Rihani, MD, MS (Jordan)

Chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics at the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) in Amman, Jordan

Shweta Bansal, MD (India)

Head of Department and Senior Consultant at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital

Roupen Odabashian, MD (USA)

Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Karmanos Cancer Institute

Advisor, Spiraldot Health and Mesh AI

Ruzanna Papyan, MD (Armenia)

Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology, Yerevan State Medical University

Pediatric Oncologist and Head of the Musculoskeletal Tumors Working Group, Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Armenia

Clinical Research Physician, Immune Oncology Research Institute

Samvel Bardakhchyan, MD, PhD (Armenia)

Scientific Director, Immune Oncology Research Institute

Adjunct Associate Professor, Yerevan State Medical University

Medical Oncologist, Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center

Sana Al Sukhun, MD, MSc (Jordan)

Director, Al Hyatt Oncology Practice

Chair of the MBC RSG Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology

Past Chair of the International Affairs Committee, ASCO

Past President, Jordanian Oncology Society

Adjunct Professor of Medical Oncology

Sarkis Meterissian, MD, M.Sc., FRCS, FACS (Canada)

Professor of Surgery and Oncology, McGill University

Past-President of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology

Past-President of the Breast Surgery International

Scott Howard, MD (USA)

Chief Development Officer, San Joan de Deu Hospital Barcelona

Deputy Director, Yeolyan Hematology/Oncology Hospital, Armenia

CEO of Resonance

Sophia Delicou, MD (Greece)

Head of Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease Unit Hippocratio General Hospital, Athens

Chair of Red Cell and Hemoglobinopathies Committee, Hellenic Society of Hematology

Tsetsegsaikhan Batmunkh, MD (Mongolia)

CEO, National Cancer Council of Mongolia

Trijn Israelis, MD, PhD (The Netherlands)

Project Leader of 'Zero Abandonment from Start to Finish' at CANCaRe Africa

Uta Schmidt-Strassburger, PhD (Germany)

Scientific Director of the Master Online Study Program "Advanced Oncology", Ulm University Medical Faculty

Xishan Wang, MD (China)

President at the Shanxi Hospital of the Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Director of the Colorectal Surgery Department, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical College

The Chairman of Colorectal Cancer Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association

The Chairman of Colorectal Cancer Committee of Chinese Anti-Cancer Association

Yizhou Zhang, MD, PhD(China)

Director of Pediatric Oncology at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China