Overview
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Speakers Bureau offers a full range of oncology topics presented by various industry leading experts working in our Cancer Center. Educational sessions are available virtually to physicians, nurses, hospitals and health care professionals during Tumor Boards, Grand Rounds and other virtual meetings. Past topics have included: management of late effects of cancer treatment, circulating tumor cells and renal cells advancements.
To customize a virtual speaker’s program for your organization’s specific needs, or to learn more, email Elizabeth Lindecke at lindece@ccf.org.
Hematology & Medical Oncology
Jame Abraham, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer Treatment
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Anjali Advani, MD
Specialty Interests: Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mir Ali, MD
Specialty Interests: Esophagus Cancer; Lung Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Thrombocytopenia
Locations: Strongsville Family Health Center
Faiz Anwer, MD
Specialty Interests: Myeloma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
G Thomas Budd, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer; Sarcoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Hetty Carraway, MD
Specialty Interests: Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Aplastic Anemia, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), Myelodysplasia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Hamed Daw, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer; Lymphoma
Locations: Fairview Hospital
Robert Dean, MD
Specialty Interests: Hodgkin Lymphoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Bachar Dergham, MD
Specialty Interests: Colon Cancer; Lung Cancer
Locations: Independence Family Health Center
Donald Eicher, MD
Specialty Interests: Colon Cancer; Lung Cancer
Locations: Fairview Hospital
Bassam Estfan, MD
Specialty Interests: Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Pancreas Cancer, Anal Cancer, Biliary Tumors, Colon Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Aaron Gerds, MD
Specialty Interests: MDS/ Myeloproliferative Disorders
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Aric Greenfield, MD
Specialty Interests: Molecular diagnostics applications to solid tumor risk stratification
Locations: Willoughby Hills Family Health Center
Abdo Haddad, MD
Specialty Interests: Geriatric Oncology
Locations: Fairview Hospital
Betty Hamilton, MD
Specialty Interests: GVHD
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Brian Hill, MD
Specialty Interests: Lymphoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Deepa Jagadeesh, MD
Specialty Interests: T-cell Lymphoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Matt Kalaycio, MD
Specialty Interests: Chronic Leukemia
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Kevin Kerwin, MD
Specialty Interests: Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer
Locations: Fairview Hospital
Alok Khorana, MD
Specialty Interests: GI Cancers
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Omer Koc, MD
Specialty Interests: Lymphoma
Locations: Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center
Megan Kruse, MD
Specialty Interests: Lobular Breast Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mark Kyei, MD
Specialty Interests: Colon Cancer Screening and Surveillance
Locations: Independence Family Health Center
Vinit Makkar, MD
Specialty Interests: Head and Neck Cancer; Lung Cancer; Iron Deficiency Anemia; Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Locations: Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center
Paul Masci, DO
Specialty Interests: Prostate Cancer; Myeloma
Locations: Wooster Family Health & Surgery Center
Keith McCrae, MD
Specialty Interests: Thrombocytopenia, Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy, ITP, Bleeding Disorders
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Michael McNamara, MD
Specialty Interests: Esophageal Cancer; Gastric Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Seema Misbah, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer
Locations: Strongsville Family Health and Surgery Center
Halle Moore, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer Treatment, Survivorship, Late Effects of Therapy, Special Issues of Young Women with Breast Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Sudipto Mukerjee, MD
Specialty Interests: MDS
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Michael Nemunaitis, MD
Specialty Interests: GI Cancers; Cancer Screening
Locations: Hillcrest Hospital and Twinsburg Family Health and Surgery Center
Moshe Ornstein, MD, MA
Specialty Interests: Renal Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Nathan Pennell, MD, PhD
Specialty Interests: Lung Cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Brad Pohlman, MD
Specialty Interests: Follicular Lymphoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Christy Samaras, DO
Specialty Interests: General Hematology
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Yogen Saunthararajah, MD
Specialty Interests: MDS
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Dale Shepard, MD
Specialty Interests: Sarcoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Bernard Silver, MD
Specialty Interests: Coagulopathies
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Abhay Singh, MD, MPH
Specialty Interests: CHIP
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Ronald Sobecks, MD
Specialty Interests: BMT - Acute Leukemia
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
James Stevenson, MD
Specialty Interests: Mesothelioma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Jason Valent, MD
Specialty Interests: Amyloidosis
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Palliative Medicine
Katie Neuendorf, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Using Communication to Build Relationships, Discussing Prognosis, Code Status Discussions, How to make a smooth transition to Hospice care, Symptoms of the Actively Dying, Breaking Bad News, Treating Constipation, Care of the Dying Patient, How to effectively Utilize Palliative Medicine Consultations, Palliative Medicine in Chronic Heart Failure
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Laura Shoemaker, DO
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Hospice Transitions, Nausea and Vomiting, How to effectively Utilize Palliative Medicine Consultations, Symptom Assessment in Palliative Medicine
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Ruth Lagman, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Pain Management with Case Studies, Symptoms of the Actively Dying, Hospice Transitions, Cancer Related Fatigue, How to effectively Utilize Palliative Medicine Consultations
Location:Main Campus
Krista Dobbie, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Nausea and Vomiting, How to effectively Utilize Palliative Medicine Consultations, Palliative Medicine in Chronic Heart Failure, Ethics and End of Life Care
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Susan McInnes, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Discussing Prognosis, Treating Constipation, Nausea and Vomiting, Integration of Palliative Care into Oncology, How to effectively Utilize Palliative Medicine Consultations
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Renato Samala, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, How to make a smooth transition to Hospice care, Symptoms of the Actively Dying, Care of the Dying Patient, Nausea and Vomiting
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
David Harris, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Pain Management with Case Studies, Using Communication to Build Relationships, Discussing Prognosis, Code Status Discussions, Breaking Bad News, Treating Constipation, Care of the Dying Patient, Nausea and Vomiting, Cancer Related Fatigue, Integration of Palliative Care into Oncology, Ethics and End of Life Care, Pain Management in the Elderly, Palliative Care in Geriatrics
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Chirag Patel, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Medicine vs. Hospice, Cancer Pain Management, Symptoms of the Actively Dying, Nausea and Vomiting, Cancer Related Fatigue, Delirium in Palliative Medicine, Cancer Pain and the Opioid Epidemic, Symptom Assessment in Palliative Medicine, Palliative Medicine Approach to Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Radiation Oncology
John Suh, MD
Specialty Interests: Adult and Pediatric Brain Tumors, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy, Pediatric Radiotherapy, Radiation Sensitizers
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Sudha Amarnath, MD
Specialty Interests: GI Cancers, Rectal Cancer, GYN
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Eshan Balagamwala, MD
Specialty Interests: Gastrointestinal cancers, SBRT, CNS cancers, palliative care
Locations: Moll Cancer Center at Fairview Hospital
Henry Blair, MD
Specialty Interests: Palliative Care, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, Gyn Cancer, Brachytherapy, Head & Neck Cancer
Locations: Hillcrest Hospital
Joycelin Canavan, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Mansfield Cancer Center
Samuel Chao, MD
Specialty Interests: CNS tumors, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, Image-guided Radiation Therapy, Spine SRS/SBRT Radiosurgery, Brain metastases
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Sheen Cherian, MD
Specialty Interests: GYN, Lymphoma
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Jay Ciezki, MD
Specialty Interests: Brachytherapy, Prostate cancer
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Philip Engeler, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Cancer Center - Judith and Richard Kinzel Campus – Sandusky
John Greskovich, MD
Specialty Interests: Head and Neck, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, Image-guided Radiation Therapy, Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Florida - Weston
Susan Hong, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Akron General
Lanea Keller, MD
Specialty Interests: Prostate Cancer, Breast, Lung, Rectal, Side effects of Radiation Therapy, Patient Support Groups, Patient Survivorship
Locations: Independence Family Health Center
Shlomo Koyfman, MD
Specialty Interests: Head and Neck Cancers
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Daesung Lee, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast Cancer, Prostate cancer
Locations: Wooster Family Health and Surgery Center
Anthony Mastroianni, JD, MBA, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Moll Cancer Center at Fairview Hospital
Omar Mian, MD
Specialty Interests: Prostate, Bladder
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Erin Murphy, MD
Specialty Interests: Pediatric tumors, Pediatric CNS tumors
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Betty Obi, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast, Lung, GYN, Rectal, Anal , General radiation oncology, Patient survivorship, Patient support group, Community Outreach
Locations: Hillcrest Hospital
Ashok Ramalingam, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Akron General
Saju Rajan, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Cancer Center - Judith and Richard Kinzel Campus – Sandusky
Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil
Specialty Interests: Sarcoma, Lung SBRT, Body SBRT, Interstitial brachytherapy
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Chirag Shah, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast, sarcoma, heart-sparing RT, Malignant Lymphomas, PET-CT Guided Radiotherapy, partial breast irradiation, hyperthermia, intraoperative radiation
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Kevin Stephans, MD
Specialty Interests: Prostate cancer, Lung cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Liver malignancies, GU malignancies, Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy and Radio Protectors
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Rahul Tendulkar, MD
Specialty Interests: Breast cancer, Prostate cancer, Brachytherapy and Genitourinary cancers
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD
Specialty Interests: CNS malignancies, Brain metastases, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Hyperthermia for recurrent breast cancer and melanoma. Radiation therapy and cancer stem cells
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Andrew Vassil, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology, Breast, Lung and Prostate Cancer
Locations: Strongsville Family Health Center
Gregory Videtic, MD
Specialty Interests: Lung cancer, Esophageal cancer, Mesothelioma, Mediastinal tumors, Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mike Weller, MD
Specialty Interests: General Radiation Oncology
Locations: Hillcrest Hospital
Neil Woody, MD
Specialty Interests: Head and Neck, Hepatobiliary Malignancies, Pancreatic Cancers
Locations: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
