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Biography: Dr. Noah Cohen, MD is an Oncology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 42 years old and has been practicing for 15 years. Dr. Noah Cohen, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens.

Biography: Dr. Sofya Pintova, MD is a Hematology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 43 years old and has been practicing for 17 years. Dr. Sofya Pintova, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai Brooklyn and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Care Philosophy: My main goal as an oncologist is to improve the quality and the duration of life of my patients and, all through their treatment, to develop an environment of compassion and mutual trust. Research in oncology is crucial for improving the prognosis of cancer patients and I have a strong passion for clinical and translational research. Each person is different and I am constantly striving to provide my patients the best personalized oncology care currently available for his or her specific condition. Additionally, I am committed to integrating innovative and more performant diagnostic and treatment methods within my practice.

Biography: Dr. Khalid Dar, MD is an Oncology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 75 years old and has been practicing for 51 years. Dr. Khalid Dar, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside.

Biography: Dr. Ingham is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at New York University Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident. He then completed fellowship training in Hematology and Medical Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center where he served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Ingham specializes in the care of patients with sarcoma and gastrointestinal cancers and is also an active member of the experimental therapeutics unit. His research focuses on the development and clinical evaluation of new treatments for patients with sarcoma. He leads a National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored clinical trial evaluating a new treatment approach for uterine leiomyosarcoma based on research conducted at Columbia University. He also leads several other investigator-initiated clinical trials evaluating new targeted and immunotherapy based treatment approaches for leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma and other types of sarcoma. He is the author of two recent authoritative reviews on the treatment of sarcoma published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. He is the recipient of the 2019 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Career Development Award from the Sarcoma Foundation of America in recognition of his research and was also named a 2019 NextGen Innovator by HemOnc Today, among other awards and honors. His overall goal is to provide patients with compassionate oncologic care and access to the most promising treatment approaches.

Biography: Dr. Fojo received his MD and PhD from the University of Miami and completed internal medicine training at Washington University School of Medicine / Barnes Hospital. He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1982 as a Clinical Associate in the Medicine Branch and after training with Drs. Ira Pastan and Michael Gottesman, became a Principal Investigator in the Medicine Branch of the National Cancer Institute. As a Principal Investigator he went on to establish a highly successful translational clinical program that began by exploring agents to reverse drug resistance, continued with work on the optimal use of Taxol®, and the development of novel microtubule-targeting agents and has focused on the development of therapies for endocrine and neuroendocrine cancers. Dr. Fojo has expertise in the management of patients with adrenocortical cancer, malignant pheochromocytoma and other neuroendocrine malignancies, and thyroid cancer. These cancers also comprise areas of very active basic science interest given their unique properties and the possibilities to target such cancers more precisely. The ultimate goal is to develop novel therapies for these often very refractory cancers so that there will be additional options available for treatment for patients with these cancers. Ongoing laboratory efforts are focused on developing such novel therapies to treat patients with adrenal cancer, pheochromocytoma and a spectrum of neuroendocrine tumors. In the laboratory Dr. Fojo has also worked to understand the molecular basis of drug resistance, and was involved in the original work relating to several ABC transporters. Additionally, his laboratory originally identified rearrangements involving the MDR-1 gene as a novel mechanism of drug resistance in several cancers, a molecular event recently demonstrated as very important in ovarian cancer. He has also been very involved in research on microtubule-targeting agents, helping to establish as a novel paradigm the interference with microtubule trafficking, rather than mitosis, for the mechanism of action for these important drugs. In addition to his clinical expertise Dr. Fojo has been very interested in the design, conduct and interpretation of oncology clinical trials and in collaboration with Wilfred Stein, PhD and Susan Bates, MD has helped to pioneer a novel method of analysis that dissects rates of tumor growth and regression as concurrent events. Related to this he has also written extensively about the cost of cancer therapeutics, the magnitude of the problem and how this might be addressed. Dr. Fojo served as Program Director for the Medical Oncology Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute, the largest fellowship program in the NIH and one of the largest medical oncology programs in the United States. Over the years Dr. Fojo has helped to train more than 350 medical oncologists.