SARA A. HURVITZ, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director Breast Oncology Program
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA); co-director of the Santa Monica-UCLA Outpatient Oncology Practice; Medical Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA; and Director of Breast Oncology. Dr. Hurvitz earned her MD from the University of Southern California. She served internship/residency at UCLA 1999-2002, was Chief Resident of internal medicine 2003-2004 and completed a hematology-oncology fellowship at UCLA in 2006. Dr. Hurvitz earned board-certification in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology.

In the 14 years since joining the faculty at UCLA, Dr. Hurvitz has gained international recognition as an academic expert in breast oncology. She not only has an active clinical practice, but also has extensive experience designing and leading first-in-human through phase III clinical trials. She has served as UCLA principle investigator on over 50 interventional clinical trials, has been chair of six international and four national studies, on the steering committee for 15 international trials and on the Data Safety Monitoring Board for four studies of novel therapeutics. She has personally designed, co-written, obtained funding and completed multiple phase II and III clinical trials of novel targeted therapies (including “TRIO B07,” “KRISTINE” and “neoMONARCH”). She serves on the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Programmatic Panel, is on the Scientific Committee for TRIO (Translational Research in Oncology, formerly “BCIRG,” an academic not-for-profit CRO), is on the editorial board for several peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Clinical Oncology, and serves as a reviewer for numerous high impact medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA-Oncology, and Clinical Cancer Research. In addition to her expertise in the clinical development of novel therapeutics, Dr. Hurvitz also has been extensively involved in laboratory-based research. She has been awarded and successfully led and completed several government-funded basic science projects. Additionally, she co-directs the preclinical evaluation of novel targeted therapeutics for breast cancer in the UCLA-JCCC/Translational Oncology Research Laboratory (TORL). Dr. Hurvitz is committed to the translation of basic laboratory science into innovative clinical testing and the movement of important clinical questions into the laboratory. Her understanding of both bench and bedside makes her uniquely positioned to lead the successful translation of new discoveries into the clinical realm.

JOYCE O’SHAUGHNESSY, MD
Celebrating Women Chair in Breast Cancer Research
Baylor University Medical Center
Director, Breast Cancer Research Program
Texas Oncology
US Oncology
Dallas, TX

Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, MD specializes in medical oncology with board certification in both internal medicine as well as medical oncology. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in medical oncology.

Dr. O’Shaughnessy focuses on her practice and clinical research on breast cancer treatment. She is Director of Breast Cancer Research and at Baylor-Sammons Cancer Center and chair of Breast Cancer Research for The US Oncology Network. Dr. O’Shaughnessy received her M.D. from Yale University Medical School. Her internship and residency in internal medicine were completed at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1985. She concluded a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute in 1987 and was a Senior Investigator there until 1995.

Dr. O’Shaughnessy is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American College of Physicians, and Women in Cancer Research. She is the Associate Editor of Clinical Breast Cancer Journal and founder of The School of Breast Oncology.

Her research interests include genotype-phenotype correlations for high risk breast cancers and immunotherapy for triple negative breast cancer.

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Faculty Disclosures
The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships that they or their spouse/partner have with commercial interests:

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD: Research: Ambrx, Amgen, Arvinas, Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, Dignitana, Genentech/Roche, GSK, Immunomedics, Lilly, Macrogenics, Novartis, OBI Pharma, Pfizer, Pieris, Puma Biotechnology, Radius, Sanofi, Seattle Genetics; Stock Ownership: NK Max

Joyce O’Shaughnessy, MD: Consultant/Advisory board: AbbVie Inc., Agendia, Amgen Biotechnology, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene Corporation, Eisai, Genentech, Genomic Health, GRAIL, Immunomedics, Heron Therapeautics, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Jounce Therapeutics, Lilly, Merck, Myriad, Novartis, Ondonate Therapeutics, Pfizer, Puma Biotechnology, Prime Oncology, Roche, Seattle Genetics, Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Takeda

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Chelsey Goins, PhD:Nothing to disclose

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