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.
OncoDaily Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
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
Editorial Board
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
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
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
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)
Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD (USA)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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
Dickran Kazandjian, MD (USA)
Professor of Medicine, Division of Myeloma, Department of Medicine, Associate Director, Clinical Trials Research, Sylvester Myeloma Institute, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System
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
Aparna Parikh, MD, MS (USA)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Global Cancer Care Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
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
Bahar Laderian, MD (USA)
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncologist, Cleveland Clinic
Justin N. Baker, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM (USA)
Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care
Stanford Medicine, Stanford University
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)
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
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
Alique Topalian, PhD, MPH (USA)
Research Scientist, Survivorship and Supportive Services, University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
Patient Advocate and Cancer Thriver
Natalia Baran, MD, MSc, PhD (USA)
Assistant Professor, Department of Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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
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
Navneet Singh, MD, DM, FRCP, FASCO (India)
Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER),
Chair, ASCO Treatment of Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Living Guideline Panel
Mohamed Emam Sobeih, MD (Egypt)
Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute of Egypt
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
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
Rahat Ul Ain, MD (Pakistan)
Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at The Children’s Hospital Lahore
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
Mahmoud Hammad, MD, MSc (Egypt)
Professor Pediatric Oncology & Stem cell transplant National Cancer Institute; Cairo University
Director Nasser Institute Oncology & Nuclear Center
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
Karima Oualla, MD, MSc (Morocco)
Professor of Medical Oncology, Hassan II University Hospital
Maite Gorostegui Obanos, MD (Spain)
Pediatric Oncologist, Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona, Hospital San Joan de Déu
Chair of the SIOP Global Mapping Program
Tsetsegsaikhan Batmunkh, MD (Mongolia)
CEO, National Cancer Council of Mongolia
Melvin L.K. Chua (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
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
Roupen Odabashian, MD (USA)
Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Karmanos Cancer Institute
Advisor, Spiraldot Health and Mesh AI
Hayk Grigoryan, MD (Armenia)
Deputy Director, Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center
Co-chair of the Leukemia Working Group, Immune Oncology Research Institute
Nagashree Seetharamu, MD, MBBS (USA)
Professor at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Director of Thoracic & Head/Neck Malignancies at Northwell Health
Uta Schmidt-Strassburger, PhD (Germany)
Scientific Director of the Master Online Study Program Advanced Oncology
Ulm University Medical Faculty
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
Shushan Hovsepyan, MD (Armenia)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology at Yerevan State Medical University
Clinical Research Coordinator, Yeolyan Hematology and Oncology Center
Research Fellow, Immune Oncology Research Institute
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
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
Alexandra Müller, MD (Germany)
Medical Director SAFER Ukraine – St. Jude Global
Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
University Hospital Freiburg
Ilya Tsimafeyeu, MD (Russia)
Director, Bureau for Cancer Research
ASCO Central and Eastern Europe Regional Council Member
Ravi Karra, MD, MBA (Germany)
Vice President Oncology, Advanced Clinical