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Care Philosophy: Dr Ankita Patel is anAssistant Member with Moffitt Medical Group in the Satellite and Community Oncology Department practicing at Tampa General Hospital and Moffitt international Plaza.Dr Patel received her MBBS degree from Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College in Ahmedabad, India. She completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. After completing her residency, she was employed at Hospital Physician Services of Central Alabama as a Hospitalist. Dr Patel most recently completed a Hematology-Oncology Fellowship at the University of New Mexico.

Care Philosophy: Dr Sharjeel Hooda is a Clinical Instructor-Member in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Satellite and Community Oncology. Dr Hooda is based at Moffitt International Plaza (MIP). Dr Hooda earned his MD and MS in Clinical Research at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio where he also served as Chief Resident in Quality and Patient Safety. Dr Hooda completed a Hematology and Oncology Fellowship at the University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center he also served as Chief Quality Fellow in Medicine.

Care Philosophy: Dr Costa is a Medical Oncologist at the Department of Breast Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in the Clinical Investigator Track since 2017. In 2011, Dr Costa completed a Master Degree in Clinical Research at University of Pittsburgh and Clinical Fellowship Training at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr Costa was an Instructor at the Developmental Therapeutics Program at Northwestern University, Chicago, where he developed early phase clinical trials for the treatment of breast cancer. He has already authored and co-authored over 40 scientific manuscripts.

Care Philosophy: Dr Binitie earned his MD degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He completed an Orthopedic Surgery Residency at the University of South Florida. In 2012, he completed a Pediatric Orthopedic Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and then a Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship at the University of South Florida at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Binitie's clinical interests include bone and soft tissue sarcomas, limb preserving surgeries and sarcomas in all patients, with a focus in pediatric and young adults. His research interests include limb preservation after oncologic resection, expandable pediatric limb reconstruction, and adolescent and young adult sarcomas.

Care Philosophy: Dr Andreas Saltos is a Medical Oncologist and the Clinical Research Medical Director in the Department of Thoracic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Saltos earned his MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore before moving to Tampa, where he completed a Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Saltos specializes in the treatment of thoracic malignancies, including all forms and stages of lung cancer.

Care Philosophy: Dr Sepideh Mokhtari is an Assistant Member in the Department of Neuro-Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Mokhtari received her medical degree from Texas A&M College of Medicine in Temple, TX. She completed a Neurology Residency at Houston Methodist Hospital, where she also served as Chief Resident. She most recently completed a Neuro-Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr Mokhtari's clinical interests are primarily in brain tumors and neurologic complications of cancer. Her research focus is neurologic complications of immunotherapy and paraneoplastic syndromes.

Care Philosophy: Dr Arnold Etame is a Neurological Surgeon and Scientist specializing in Neuro-Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, and Associate Professor of Oncology at the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine. Dr Etame has extensive expertise in the treatment of malignant gliomas notably glioblastoma (GBM) and he is part of a very small group of neurosurgeons with National Institute of Health (NIH) funding to develop impactful therapies for glioblastoma. He performs a substantial number of surgeries in eloquent and non-eloquent regions of the brain with image-guided stereotactic techniques entailing functional MRI and DTI tractography neuro-navigation.

Care Philosophy: Dr Nam Tran is a neuro-oncology surgeon at Moffitt Cancer Center and assistant professor of oncology and neurosurgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr Tran completed his fellowship training at Moffitt, following a residency in neurosurgery at Medical College of Virginia. He was chief resident his final year. Prior to that, he was affiliated for several years with the University of California-Irvine, where he received a Ph.D. in neuroscience and served as an assistant project scientist. Dr Tran's research interests include regulation of the blood brain barrier, tumor and trauma-associated cerebral edema, central nervous system malignancies and spine biomechanics.

Care Philosophy: Dr Chavez is an Associate Member in the Lymphoma Section of the Department of Malignant Hematology at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Chavez earned his MD from the Medical School at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed his residency in Hematology at Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins/Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He did his Internal Medicine training at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York and completed his Medical Oncology training at the University of South Florida/Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Chavez is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.

Care Philosophy: Dr Kenneth Shain is an associate member in the Malignant Hematology program in the Department of Malignant Hematology, Tumor Biology, and the Chemical Biology and Molecular Medicine Program. Dr Shain has also been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in the Department of Oncologic Sciences.Dr Shain is also a Director of the Myeloma Research Center.Dr Shain is a clinician scientist with time divided by clinic, clinic trials and translational research with a primary focus in multiple myeloma and other plasma cell relation disorders (including Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia and Primary Amyloidosis).

Care Philosophy: Jhanelle E Gray, MD is the Department Chair, Program Leader and a Senior Member for Thoracic Oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center (MCC), co-Leader of the Cancer Center Support Grant Molecular Medicine Program and Professor in the Department of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. A renowned Thoracic medical oncologist and clinical scientist, Dr Gray is actively involved and leads numerous clinical research trials that investigate novel immunotherapeutic and targeted therapy drug combinations for lung cancer which have greatly influenced standard of care treatment. Her research has generated over 80 publications in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, including original manuscripts and reviews.

Care Philosophy: Dr Chatwal earned her MD at Florida State University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University School of Medicine, followed by a Hematology Oncology Fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Dr Chatwal's clinical focus is the medical oncology management of patients with genitourinary malignancies, particularly prostate cancer. Her research focus is on prostate cancer clinical trials and outcomes. Dr Chatwal also has a practical and research interest in the important issue of provider burnout.

Care Philosophy: Dr Extermann is Program Leader in the Senior Adult Oncology Program at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr Martine Extermann is also a Professor of Oncology and Medicine at the University of South Florida. She earned her medical degree and a PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She has a Swiss Board Certification in Internal Medicine, specializing in Hematology-Oncology. She also holds ABIM certifications in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. She has worked at Moffitt since 1994 and has been a faculty member since 1997. Her clinical activity and research focus on cancer in older patients.

Care Philosophy: Dr Eroglu is a medical oncologist in the Department of Cutaneous Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Her clinical focus is on treating patients with advanced melanoma and other skin cancers, including basal cell carcinoma and Merkel cell carcinoma, and participating in clinical trials.Dr Eroglu's research interests are translational and clinical research in targeted therapies and combination immunotherapeutics for melanoma and other skin cancers, along with development of personalized treatment strategies and biomarkers for patients with melanoma.

Care Philosophy: Dr Markowitz is interested in cutaneous oncology and melanoma in particular. He will engage in clinical translational research efforts in tumor immunology and immunotherapy.

Care Philosophy: Dr Vogelbaum is an internationally known leader in neurosurgical oncology and a distinguished investigator in laboratory research, translational and clinical trials in gliomas. Dr Vogelbaum is currently Chief of Neurosurgery and Program Leader of the Department of Neuro-Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. He has served on or led numerous scientific committees and holds an array of honors and awards, as well as leadership positions at the regional, national, and international levels. He is the principal investigator and co-investigator of a broad range of early-phase investigator-initiated therapeutic trials, both national and international multisite collaborative studies. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed and invited articles.