Scientific Advisory Committee

The Scientific Advisory Committee is comprised of multidisciplinary experts in basic and translational research, dermatology, epidemiology, genomics, pathology, surgery and medical oncology and includes representatives from the private and public sector.

Co-Chairs:

David E. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Melanoma Program and Chief, Department of Dermatology
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts  

Lynn Schuchter, M.D.

Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Professor of Medicine
Leader: Melanoma Program
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Members:

Boris C. Bastian, M.D.

Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguised Professor of Cancer Biology
University of California, San Francisco 
San Francisco, California

Marianne Berwick, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology
Head, Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paul B. Chapman, M.D.

Attending Physician, Melanoma/Sarcoma Service
Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical School
New York, New York

Alistair J. Cochran, M.D.

Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Keith T. Flaherty, M.D.

Director, Developmental Therapeutics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Elizabeth A. Grimm, Ph.D.

Frances King Black Memorial Professor of Cancer Research
Department of Experimental Therapeutics and Melanoma Medical Oncology
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Ruth Halaban, Ph.D. 

Senior Research Scientist
Yale University School of Medicine
Department of Dermatology
New Haven, Connecticut

Allan Halpern, M.D.

Chief, Dermatology Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D.

President and Scientific Director
Medical Research Institute Council Professor
Children’s Memorial Research Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M., D.Sc.

Professor and Program Leader, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Patrick Hwu, M.D.

Professor and Chair
Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Howard L. Kaufman, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Director, Rush Cancer Center Program
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois

John Kirkwood, M.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Leader, Melanoma Program
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Randy Lomax, M.A., M.F.T.

Chair, Melanoma Research Foundation
San Francisco, California

Alison Martin, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer
MRF Breakthrough Consortium

Glenn Merlino, Ph.D.

Head, Cancer Modeling Section
Chief, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Daniel Pinkel, Ph.D. (Grant SRO)

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Signal Transduction Program
Associate Director, NCI Cancer Center
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Vernon K. Sondak, M.D.

Department Chair, Cutaneous Oncology
Director of Surgical Education
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, Florida

Nancy E. Thomas, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Jeffrey Weber, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Donald A. Adam Comprehensive Melanoma Research Center
Senior Member, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, Florida