Speaker Profile
M.D., Professor, Harvard
Biography
GI oncologist but has a long standing background and interest in global health, having spent time in several African countries, Haiti and India. Most recently, at MGH, she co-founded and co-leads a program called POETIC ( Program for Enhanced Training in Cancer (POETIC)) This fellowship exchange program, conducted in collaboration with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cancer Center and Lowell Schnipper, MD, trains clinical oncology fellows from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Ocean Road Cancer Center in Tanzania.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Adrian Lee, University of Pittsburgh
PMWC Award Ceremony Honorees
• Dennis J. Slamon, UCLA
Neoadjuvant to Adjuvant MRD: How Early Is Early Enough?
• Chair: Angela DeMichele, UPenn
• Halla Nimeiri, Tempus
• Aparna Parikh, Harvard
• Minetta Liu, Natera
Serial ctDNA-Guided Therapy Switching (SERENA-6 & Beyond)
• Chair: Pedram Razavi, MSK
Multi-Omics Monitoring Beyond Variants: Methylation, Fragmentomics, EV/ctRNA
• David T. Miyamoto, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Maximilian Diehn, Stanford
From Validation to Payment: Coverage Pathways That Work
• Mark Stewart, Friends of Cancer Research
From Validation to Payment: Coverage Pathways That Work
• Mark Stewart, Friends of Cancer Research
• Hilary Gee Goeckner, American Cancer Society (ACS)
• Sally Werner, Cancer Support Community
• Gabriel A. Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA
