Oncology

Dr. Tracilyn Hall is an Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine who works to ameliorate health care disparities for cancer patients in low resource settings. She is passionate about ensuring patients from all backgrounds have the access and support they need to navigate complex health systems in order to receive their cancer care. Dr. Hall is board certified in gynecologic oncology as well as obstetrics and gynecology. She completed medical school...

Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun is a quadruple board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician with expertise in respiratory and exercise physiology, cardiopulmonary interactions, and the management of life-threatening multiorgan failure in critical illness. His clinical work focuses on severe lung disease and acute decompensation, including COPD and emphysema, asthma, lung cancer, bacterial and viral pneumonias, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, chronic cough, and acute respiratory failure requiring life support. He also specializes in end-of-life decision-making in the ICU....

Dr. Thomas A. Nelson is a neuro-oncologist who cares for patients with tumors of the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). He has a particular focus on primary brain tumors (cancer that starts in the brain rather than spreading there from elsewhere in the body). His priority is to help his patients feel and function better. In his research, Nelson focuses on using technology, including artificial intelligence, to diagnose and treat brain tumors...

Dr. Kendall Carpenter, MD, MPH is a pediatric chief resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Her work focuses broadly on medical education, implementation science, and global pediatric oncology, with an emphasis on improving training environments and advancing equitable care delivery for children with cancer worldwide. This summer she will start her fellowship training in pediatric hematology-oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.

Dr. Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd, FASCO is an Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology and Chief of UCSF’s Inpatient Oncology Consult Service. He completed medical school, internal medicine residency, chief residency, and oncology fellowship at UCSF. He works as a hospital-based oncologist and clinician educator, attending on the solid tumor consult service as well as the hospital medicine teaching service. He obtained a Master of Arts in Education degree from UC Berkeley and is a current PhD...

Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a co-leader of the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Cancer Cell Biology Program and SPORE in Breast Cancer. Dr. Polyak is an internationally recognized leader of breast cancer research. Her laboratory is dedicated to the study of human breast cancer with the goal of dissecting tumor evolution and use this information to improve the clinical management of breast cancer patients....

Dr. Donald I. Abrams, MD, is Chief of the Hematology‑Oncology Division at San Francisco General Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also practices Integrative Oncology at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. He earned his AB in Molecular Biology from Brown University and his MD from Stanford, followed by an Internal Medicine residency at Kaiser San Francisco and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at UCSF’s Cancer Research...

Dr. Arvind Kamthan has practiced as a board certified Medical Oncologist since 1993. He graduated from S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur in India. Dr. Kamthan completed his residency in General Internal Medicine at the hospitals in United Kingdom followed by a fellowship in Medical Oncology and Hematology Malignancies at Christie Hospital, University of Manchester. He then pursued a second fellowship in Neoplastic Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Kamthan specializes in...

Ezra Cohen, MD, is a medical oncologist and an internationally recognized cancer researcher. He cares for patients with all types of head and neck cancers, including esophageal, thyroid and salivary gland cancers. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Cohen also leads a laboratory that studies novel cancer treatments, including immunotherapy, and has made major contributions in understanding how targeted cancer therapies work. Much of his work has focused on squamous cell carcinomas and cancers of the thyroid,...

Dr. Donald I. Abrams, MD, is Chief of the Hematology‑Oncology Division at San Francisco General Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also practices Integrative Oncology at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. He earned his AB in Molecular Biology from Brown University and his MD from Stanford, followed by an Internal Medicine residency at Kaiser San Francisco and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at UCSF’s Cancer Research...