Meet the John Quale Travel Fellows

2024 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Syed Alam, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Shilpi Chaudhary, Ph.D., Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Changchuan Jiang, M.D., M.P.H., the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Andre Kydd, M.D., Ph.D., National Cancer Institute
• Joshua Linscott, M.D., Ph.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.
• Kathryn Marchetti, M.D., University of Pittsburgh
• Eva Michaud, Ph.D., McGill University Health Centre
• Marie-Pier St-Laurent, M.D., University of British Columbia

2023 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Saad Atiq, M.D., Clinical Fellow in Medical Oncology at the National Institutes of Health
• Emanuele Crupi, M.D., Resident at the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and Scientific Institute
• Elizabeth Koehne, M.D., Fellow at the University of Washington
• Onika Noel, M.D., Ph.D., Urologic Oncology Fellow at UT Health San Antonio
• Rafee Talukder, M.D., Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Hong Troung, M.D., Urologic Oncologist at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
• Gillian Vandekerkhove, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia
• Evangelia Vlachou, M.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at John Hopkins University School of Medicine

2022 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Pauline Filippou, MD, University of Washington
• Kathryn Gessner, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Patrick Hensley, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Andrew Lenis, MD, MS, Columbia University Medical Center
• Morgan Roberts, PhD, University of British Columbia
• Sujata Jana, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Ruchika Talwar, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Wesley Yip, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2020 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Nathan Brooks, MD, University of Pittsburgh
• John Christin, MD, PhD,  CUNY-Hunter College
• Carissa Chu, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering
• Ali Khaki, MD, Stanford University
• Richard Matulewicz, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering
• Jeffrey Wong, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University

2019 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Lee Hugar, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Amy Lim, MD, PhD, Asante Urology
• Amy Luckenbaugh, MD, Vanderbilt University
• Swathi Ramakrishnan, MD, Roswell Park
• Samuel Washington, MD, UCSF
• Nathan Wong, MD, FRCSC, WMCHealth

2018 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Arpita Roy, PhD, FDA
• Nirmish Singla, MD, Johns Hopkins
• Shawn Dason, MD, Ohio State University
• Panagiotis Vlachostergios, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell

2017 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Neelam Mukherjee, PhD, UT San Antonio
• Brian Winters, MD, Kaiser Permanente
• Vadim Koshkin, MD, UCSF
• Janet Kukreja, MD, MPH, University of Colorado

2016 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Samuel Funt, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Matthew Mossansen, MD, Urologic Oncology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Tracy Rose, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Debasish Sundi, MD, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

2015 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Abdul R. Banday, Ph.D., M.S. Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Translational Genomics National Cancer Institute, NIH NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
• Max Kates, M.D. Resident, Department of Urology Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• Huyen T. Nguyen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Radiology The Ohio State University
• Randy Sweis, M.D. Fellow, Division of Hematology/Oncology The University of Chicago

2014 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Philip Ho, MD, Urologic Oncology Fellow, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Tim Lautenschlaeger, MD , Research Assistant Professor, Senior Radiation Oncology Resident, The Ohio State University
• Young Lee, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Urologic Oncology Branch
• Anirban Mitra, MD, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine / Center for Personalized Medicine, University of Southern California

2013 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Richard Bambury, MD, BCh, BAO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Sima Porten, MD, MPH, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Srinivas Vourganti, MD, National Cancer Institute
• Daniel Willis, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

2012 John Quale Travel Fellows

• Arjun Balar, MD, an assistant professor at the New York University Cancer Center presented on targeted therapies and markers to predict response and prognosis for bladder cancer.
• Jeffrey Bassett, MD, MPH, a fellow in urologic oncology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed introducing tobacco screening into urology clinics and using the visit as a teachable moment among bladder cancer survivors.
• Eugene Lee, MD, a urologic oncology fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, talked about driving laboratory science based on patient needs in bladder cancer – especially adjunct therapies to BCG and chemotherapy.
• Armine Smith, MD, a urologic oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute, presented on the need for combination targeted therapy in treating bladder cancer.