Kathy S. Albain, MD, SWOG Vice Chair for Clinical Trials Partnerships, leads the CTP team. She works closely with CTP’s Executive Committee and with the guidance of CTP’s Scientific Advisory Board.
The CTP Leadership & Staff Team Includes
Kathy S. Albain, MD, FACP, FASCO
CTP Chief Scientific Officer
Casey Dawson
Director of Administration for SWOG Clinical Trials Partnerships
Nathan Eriksen
SWOG Chief of Administration
Crystal Miwa
Protocol Department Manager
Sharon Palmer
Clinical Trials Program Manager
Chris Kippola
Senior Protocol Project Manager
Brendon Decker
Protocol Project Manager
Robin Kamucheka
Protocol Project Manager
Karley Misek
Protocol Coordinator
Chris Gilbert
Senior Clinical Trial Budget Analyst
Anna Hogan
Clinical Trial Budget Analyst
Danielle Poliski
Research Site Coordination Manager
Merrill Hodnefield, JD
Lead Contract Attorney
Shane Barnes, JD, LLM, MBA
Contract Attorney
Erika Holmes, JD
Paralegal
The CTP Executive Committee Includes
Charles D. Blanke, MD
SWOG Chief Medical Officer
Casey Dawson
Director of Administration for SWOG Clinical Trials Partnerships
Nathan Eriksen
SWOG Chief of Administration
Dawn Hershman, MD, MS
SWOG Group Chair
Johanna Horn
Hope Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer
Primo Nery Lara, Jr., MD
SWOG Group Chair
Michael LeBlanc, PhD
SWOG Group Statistician
James M. Rae, PhD
SWOG Executive Officer for Translational Medicine
Dana B. Sparks, MAT
SWOG Director of Operations and Protocols
The CTP Scientific Advisory Board includes
Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute
Kathy Albain, MD, Loyola University Medical Center
Gabriela Chiorean, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Don Dizon, MD, Tufts Medicine
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke Cancer Institute
David Gandara, MD, UC Davis Cancer Center
Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, Yale Cancer Center
Siwen Hu-Lieskovan, MD, PhD, Huntsman Cancer Inst/Univ of Utah
Judy Johnson, MBA, St. Louis, MO
Kevin Kalinsky, MD, Emory University Cancer Center
Razelle Kurzrock, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Sapna Patel, MD, University of Colorado-Anschutz
Lajos Pusztai, MD, PhD, Yale University Cancer Center
Bob Orlowski, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sumanta (Monty) Pal, MD, City of Hope Medical Center
Dan Petrylak, MD, Yale University Cancer Center
Philip Philip, MD, PhD, Henry Ford Cancer Institute
Patrick Stiff, MD, Loyola University Medical Center