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Care Philosophy: Dr Komrokji is the Vice chair of the Malignant Hematology Department and the head of the Leukemia and MDS Section at Moffitt Cancer Center. He is a senior Member of the Malignant Hematology and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the center, and a Professor in Medicine & Oncologic Sciences at the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida. After earning a medical degree in 1996 from the Jordan University School of Medicine, Dr Komrokji completed an internship and residency at Case Western University, St. Vincent Program. He then completed a fellowship at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, in Hematology/Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Care Philosophy: Dr. Fletcheris an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Hematology and Oncology. He is a Veterans Administration Advanced Career Development Awardee, American Heart Association Career Development Awardee and Florida Biomedical Research Program NIR Awardee.

Biography: Dr. Carolina Martinez, MD is a Complex General Surgical Oncology Specialist who practices in Tampa, FL. She is 38 years old. Dr. Carolina Martinez, MD is affiliated with Tampa General Hospital and Tampa General Hospital.

Biography: Brian Collins, MD, is the Clinical Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Collins joined the staff in 2001 after completing his residency at MedStar Georgetown. Previously, he received his medical degree from SUNY-Stony Brook, and fulfilled his internship at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. Board certified in radiation oncology, Dr. Collins has a particular interest in treating central nervous system cancers, lung cancers and breast cancers. He is a recognized specialist in CyberKnife radiotherapy technology. A frequent contributor to scientific journals, books and publications, he also sits on several editorial review boards. Dr. Collins is a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and a member of numerous related organizations. Professional Memerships American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), Fellow Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Publications Lischalk JW, Woo SM, Kataria S, Aghdam N, Paydar I, Repka MC, Anderson ED, Collins BT.Long-term outcomes of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) with fiducial tracking for inoperable stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). J Radiat Oncol. 2016;5(4):379-387. doi: 10.1007/s13566-016-0273-4.PMID:28018523 Obayomi-Davies O, Kole TP, Oppong B, Rudra S, Makariou EV, Campbell LD, Anjum HM, Collins SP, Unger K, Willey S, Tousimis E, Collins BT. Stereotactic Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Rationale, Feasibility, and Early Experience Using the CyberKnife Radiosurgery Delivery Platform. Front Oncol. 2016 May 23;6:129. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2016.00129.PMID:27242967 Kress MA, Oermann E, Ewend MG, Hoffman RB, Chaudhry H, Collins B. Stereotactic radiosurgery for single brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer: progression of extracranial disease correlates with distant intracranial failure. Radiat Oncol. 2013 Mar 19;8:64. doi: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-64.PMID:23510318 Gill B, Oermann E, Ju A, Suy S, Yu X, Rabin J, Kalhorn C, Nair MN, Voyadzis JM, Unger K, Collins SP, Harter KW, Collins BT. Fiducial-free CyberKnife stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for single vertebral body metastases: acceptable local control and normal tissue tolerance with 5 fraction approach. Front Oncol. 2012 Apr 26;2:39. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00039. PMID:22645718 Oermann E, Collins BT, Erickson KT, Yu X, Lei S, Suy S, Hanscom HN, Kim J, Park HU, Eldabh A, Kalhorn C, McGrail K, Subramaniam D, Jean WC, Collins SP. CyberKnife enhanced conventionally fractionated chemoradiation for high grade glioma in close proximity to critical structures. J Hematol Oncol. 2010 Jun 9;3:22. doi: 10.1186/1756-8722-3-22.PMID:20534128

Biography: Dr. Huang is a fellowship-trained abdominal organ transplant surgeon. and is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He earned his medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis, MO and completed his residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Huang then went on to complete a fellowship with the LifeLink Transplant Institute in Tampa. He currently serves as the surgical director of renal transplantation for Tampa General Medical Group and is the vice chief of general surgery at Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Huang also holds an affiliate assistant professor appointment from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, department of surgery. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis, basketball, violin and photography. Dr. Huang is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Spanish and French.

Biography: Marian Porubsky, M.D., is a board-certified general surgeon and transplant surgeon. He is fully-trained in all aspects of abdominal transplant surgery including liver, kidney and pancreas transplants as well as laparoscopic donor nephrectomies. He also specializes in the surgical treatment of diseases of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas. A native of Slovakia, Dr. Porubsky completed his medical training at Komensky University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has worked at a number of universities and hospitals around the world including surgery departments in Slovakia, Germany, Illinois, Indiana and Arizona. He is a member of The United Network for Organ Sharing, The American Society for Transplant Surgeons, The American College of Surgeons and The American Medical Association.

Care Philosophy: Dr Stephen Rosenberg is an Assistant Member in the Section of Thoracic Oncology of the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology. He grew up in Medford, New Jersey and graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He earned a Master's of Science in Clinical and Translational Research at Rutgers University in combination with his Medical Degree. During medical school, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow. He went on to complete his medical internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he was named the Suzanne Munson Intern of the Year. He completed his residency in radiation oncology at the University of Wisconsin where he also served as Chief Resident.

Care Philosophy: Dr Christine Laronga is a surgical oncologist specializing in breast cancer in the Comprehensive Breast Program at the Center for Women's Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Dr Laronga enjoys making a difference in women's lives through her clinical practice and research. She treats women with all levels of breast disease, from benign cysts to metastatic breast cancer. Dr Laronga is a principal investigator for several ground-breaking procedures, including nipple and areola skin-sparing efforts after mastectomy and liposuction for arm lymphedema resulting from breast cancer treatment. She also conducts basic research in proteomics, the study of protein markers in tissue and blood.

Care Philosophy: Dr Johnstone received his MD degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. He completed a Transitional Internship at National Naval Medical Center and a Radiation Oncology Residency at the National Cancer Institute. Dr Johnstone served in the United States Navy, retiring in 2003. He then served as Professor of Radiation Oncology and Hematology/Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine from 2003-2007. He was Director of the Survivorship Program at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute during this period. Dr Johnstone was appointed as Chair and William A Mitchell Professor of Radiation Oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2007.

Biography: Dr. Agrawal is a board-certified gastroenterology physician. He received his medical degree from the Federal University of Paraiba School of Medicine in Campina Grande, Brazil and an internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Agrawal completed a gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN and transplant hepatology fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Agrawal is a member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American Society of Transplantation, the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Agrawal is currently an affiliate assistant professor for the department of internal medicine at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Agrawal speaks English, Portuguese, Hindi and medical Spanish. In his spare time he enjoys soccer and studying foreign languages.

Care Philosophy: Dr Hoffman is a gynecologic oncologist and Vice Chair for the Gynecologic Oncology Program at Moffitt Cancer Center. He is a world-renowned expert in the surgical management of gynecologic cancers and other complex gynecologic disorders. He has over 30 years of surgical experience, has published extensively on all aspects of female cancer surgery, and has lectured around the world on these subjects. Dr Hoffman's expertise includes laparoscopic, robotic, open (traditional), and vaginal surgery. After completing his gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of South Florida, Dr Hoffman stayed as a full-time faculty member until October 2015.

Care Philosophy: Dr Sameh Gaballa is an AssociateMember in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Malignant Hematology. Dr Gaballa earned his MD from Aims Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency and a Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then completed a Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr Gaballa previously practiced in the Thomas Jefferson University, Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Care Philosophy: Dr Walker received her MD from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She completed an Internal Medicine Residency and a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the University of Rochester, New York. She joins us from The Ohio State University, where she served as a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology. Dr Walker's clinical interests are in the care of patients with myeloid malignancies, specifically acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. She is particularly interested in identifying ways to deliver care that maximizes resource utilization and achieves superior patient satisfaction.

Care Philosophy: Dr Javier F Torres-Roca is a Senior Member in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. He also serves as Professor of Oncologic Sciences in the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, he completed research fellowships in immunology and genetics at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and Stanford University in California. He subsequently trained in radiation oncology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr Torres-Roca's research interests include the development of genomic strategies to personalize radiation therapy for individual patients. His clinical interest is in genitourinary malignancies.

Care Philosophy: Dr Rachid Baz is a board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist who came to Moffitt in 2008 from Cleveland Clinic. Currently, Dr Baz is the Myeloma Section Head in the Department of Malignant Hematology at Moffitt Cancer Center and co-Director of the Pentecost Family Myeloma Research Center. He has developed a special expertise in managing patients with plasma cell disorders such as multiple myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), plasmacytoma, primary systematic amyloidosis, and Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM). Among other awards, he was the recipient of the Junior Clinical Science Award at Moffitt, and the University of South Florida Outstanding Resident Teaching Award.

Care Philosophy: Dr Andre Beer Furlan is a skull base and endovascular neurosurgeon at Moffitt Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida. Dr Beer Furlan earned his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Svo Paulo (FMUSP), a top ranked university in Latin America. He completed the neurosurgery residency at the same institution and practiced as a neurosurgeon and skull base surgeon in Sao Paulo, Brazil before moving to the United States.

Care Philosophy: Dr David Joyce is an Assistant Member in the Sarcoma Department. Dr Joyce earned his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University, Case School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed an Orthopaedic Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio and an Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He most recently completed a Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center.

Care Philosophy: Dr Sophie Dessureault is a surgical oncologist in the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. She is a professor of oncology and surgery at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Dr Dessureault graduated with distinction from Dalhousie University School of Medicine in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After medical school, she pursued additional training at the University of Toronto where she completed both a surgical residency and a PhD in the Surgical Scientist Program. Dr Dessureault came to Moffitt Cancer Center in 1999 for a fellowship in Surgical Oncology.

Care Philosophy: Dr Robinson, a native of Kansas, received his undergraduate B.A. degree in anthropology at the University of Kansas and his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the Duke University Medical Center. Additionally, he completed a fellowship in cardiac research and clinical cardiac surgery at the St. Thomas' Hospital in London. He also served as a Flight Surgeon at the rank of Major, USAF in Thailand during the Vietnam War.