Paula Aguilera, RN

Oncology Nurse Navigator
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Molly Bacon, PharmD

Palliative Care Clinical Pharmacist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Marie Anne Christine Buteau, MD

Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center

Anne Christine Buteau is a senior Hematology and Oncology Fellow at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is pursuing a Master of Public Health through the Leadership Preventive Medicine residency at the Dartmouth Institute. Her interests include breast cancer, cancer health disparities, global oncology and facilitating access to clinical trials. Her goal is to become an accomplished oncologist capable of caring for patients from all walks of life.

Teresa Fitzpatrick, PT, MBA

Senior ReVital Program Director
ReVital Cancer Rehabilitation

Teresa Fitzpatrick serves as senior program director for ReVital Cancer Rehabilitation, Select Medical’s emerging cancer rehabilitation program. She provides mentorship to regional program directors throughout the country. Teresa focuses on program and staff development because she believes highly skilled and knowledgeable therapists are the key to success and longevity.

Teresa has experience in many treatment settings, but most of her professional career was at Memorial Sloan Kettering, as the Director of Rehabilitation Services. Under her direction, MSKCC rehabilitation grew from a small acute care service focused on cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and bedside therapy to a comprehensive rehabilitation service that added value across the continuum of care for many people with cancer. During her tenure, the MSKCC rehabilitation service collaborated on several performance improvement initiatives that demonstrated early and targeted PT interventions decreased ICU usage and overall length of stay for thoracic surgery patients. While demonstrating the value of rehabilitation services bedside, Teresa secured grant funding to help support expansion into outpatient rehabilitation services. She developed an on-site, outpatient pediatric gym to facilitate services for children attending the outpatient day hospital. She also collaborated with hospital leadership to open a large off-site outpatient rehabilitation program that housed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation services. Under her direction, MSKCC Rehabilitation Services began to share their knowledge and experience at many national conferences, including APTA’s CSM, ASCO, and the APMR annual conference.

Before physical therapy, Teresa held a bachelor’s in physical education from Jacksonville University, which allowed her to teach middle school for a few years before returning to school to pursue a degree in physical therapy. In 1994, she graduated from the University of North Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy. Since 1998, Teresa’s passion has been cancer rehabilitation. In 2004, she completed her MBA from Iona College, which taught her to create financially viable and clinically excellent programs that focus on helping people fighting cancer and cancer survivors embrace life.

Margaret Gray, MD

University of Vermont Medical Center

Jon Jehle, NP, ACHPN  

Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jonathan Jehle is an Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioner at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Saint Anselm College, in Manchester NH, followed by his Masters of Science in Nursing at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He currently works as a Nurse Practitioner in Adult Palliative Care, on the inpatient consult service, primarily working with non-oncology patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to his career in Adult Palliative Care, he worked as one of the Nurses in Charge in the Neuroscience ICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for 18 years.

Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN

Professor of Gerontological Nursing and Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of Pennsylvania

Sarah H. Kagan is the Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at Penn and Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Joan Karnell Supportive Care Program for the Abramson Cancer Center at the Pennsylvania Hospital. She holds honorary international appointments in Nursing and in Public Health in Armenia, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. These appointments, like her primary appointments at the University of Pennsylvania entail analysis and synthesis of considerations for aged populations, health, and well-being in later life, and improving clinical practice in health and social care to the benefit of older people and their families.

Professor Kagan is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Older People Nursing http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1748-3743. She serves on the Editorial Boards of four other journals – Cancer Nursing, Cancer Care Research Online, Geriatric Nursing, and Research in Gerontological Nursing.

Professor Kagan’s education and training includes a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science from the University of Chicago; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rush University in Chicago; and a Master of Science in Nursing degree with a specialty as a Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist and PhD from the University of California San Francisco.

Since arriving at the University of Pennsylvania three decades ago, Professor Kagan has focused her scholarship on undergraduate nursing education, care of older people, and qualitative research. She currently directs the University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Scholars in Nursing Program, a clinically based undergraduate international exchange programs in nursing in Australia and is the senior host for a virtual multinational exchange in nursing and midwifery response to the planetary crisis. In addition, Professor Kagan teaches virtual course in systems of care for older people for the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Kagan maintains an active program of clinical scholarship and practice in Gero-oncology nursing - a term she introduced into the literature in 2004. Her practice serves as a wellspring for her clinical scholarship and pedagogy and anchors her understanding of the clinician-patient relationship and provision person-and-family centered nursing care.

Commentators acknowledge Professor Kagan’s nationally and internationally as innovative, sophisticated, and clinically relevant. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Nursing. Among the awards she has received for her practice, research, and teaching are the Sigma Theta Tau International Founders Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice. Professor Kagan was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 and received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Oxford Brookes University in June 2013. You can learn more about Professor Kagan here: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/details/profiles.php?id=32

Jennifer J. Kelly, DO

Director, Metabolic Bone Program. Division Chief, Endocrinology and Diabetes
University of Vermont Medical Center

Dr. Jennifer Kelly is an endocrinologist and director of the Metabolic Bone Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She is also an associate professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM in Burlington, VT.

Dr. Kelly specializes in diabetes, osteoporosis and general endocrinology. Her research interests include diabetes and osteoporosis.

She is a a member of the Ambassadors Leadership Council for the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

Dr. Kelly grew up wanting to become a physician. She has always been drawn to science and helping people. Her role as an endocrinologist and also as a metabolic bone specialist, gives her the opportunity to coach people dealing with what can seem to be daunting disorders. She finds academic medicine to be rewarding and enjoys training future generations with the most current medical literature and research. Her training as a doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) has formed her practice offering a holistic approach. She enjoys working closely with patients in a partnership to help provide the best care plan tailored to their needs.

Sally Kraft, MD

Vice President, Population Health, Dartmouth Health

Sally Kraft is Vice President of Population Health at Dartmouth Health, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to improving the health of populations and communities across the region served by Dartmouth Health faculty and affiliates. Dr. Kraft served as the Medical Director of Quality, Safety and Innovation at the University of Wisconsin Health system from 2007-2014, where she led system-wide initiatives to redesign ambulatory care. She received her MD and MPH degrees from the University of Michigan, completed a residency in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at Stanford University. She has practiced pulmonary and critical care medicine in Stanford, California, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Andrew P. Loehrer, MD, MPH  

Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Dr. Andrew Loehrer is a surgical oncologist and health policy researcher at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, The Dartmouth Institute, and the Dartmouth Cancer Center. His clinical practice includes care for patients with cancers of the skin, soft tissue, and gastrointestinal tract. Loehrer’s academic work focuses on the political determinants of health, including his ongoing K08 career development award evaluating the geospatial heterogeneity of health policy effects on the equity of cancer care delivery in the United States. Loehrer currently serves as the Cancer Liaison Physician for the Dartmouth Cancer Center and as an academic mentor to trainees across Dartmouth. Dr. Loehrer received his M.D. from Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine before completing a residency in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in health policy.

 Kidest Mequanent, MHA

Network Manager, Cell Therapies External Affairs Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 Jens Rueter, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director
The Jackson Laboratory

Dr. Rueter is the Chief Medical Officer at The Jackson Laboratory and the Medical Director for the MCGI and the Associate Director for Translational Education at the JAX Cancer Center. As a member of the JAX senior management team, he works with several JAX clinical genomics and education experts as well as several national leaders on advancing the field of Precision Medicine to individualize cancer treatments for individual patients and improve their outcomes.

Previously, Dr. Rueter was a hematologist/oncologist at EMMC Cancer Care and the medical director for EMMC Biobank and translational research in Brewer, Maine. After graduating from medical school in Berlin, Germany, Rueter completed his residency in internal medicine at Tulane University and fellowship training in hematology/oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Germine Soliman, MD

Dr. Soliman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, the Director of Outpatient Palliative Care, and the Director of Geriatric Oncology Co-Management Program at UConn Health. Additionally, she is a Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine Fellow at Yale New Haven Health.

Ludmila Svoboda, RN, BSN, MA, MSN, OCN

Nurse Director, Cancer Care Equity Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Ludmila Svoboda has many years of experience in the field of oncology nursing. She is passionate about bringing access to oncology care to historically underserved communities, and has been working with the Cancer Care Equity program since its inception. Ludmila educates patients and helps them navigate the complex health care system.

Ryan Thomas, MD

University of Vermont Medical Center

Ryan Thomas is a third year fellow from the university of Vermont medical center. He will be staying on as faculty at UVM with a focus in malignant hematology.

Julio A. Toro, RN

Nurse Navigator for Community Outreach CHIP Clinic
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Julio A. Toro, RN has been an Oncology and BMT Nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute for over 20 years. He received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2021.

Previously, Toro was an Oncology and BMT Nurse and Psychiatric Nurse at New England Medical Center.

Christine Walko, PharmD

Senior Member, Department of Pathology,
Precision Medicine Team Lead
Moffitt Cancer Center

Christine M. Walko graduated with her Pharm.D. degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Medical College of Virginia/VCU in Richmond, Virginia, and a hematology/oncology specialty residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC). She stayed at UNC to complete a 2-year academic oncology fellowship focused on drug metabolism and translational research before taking an Assistant Professor position at UNC in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics until being recruited to Moffitt Cancer Center in January 2014 to assist with starting the institution’s first Precision Medicine Program. Dr. Walko is now a Senior Member in the Department of Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center, Program Leader for Precision Medicine and an Attending on the Precision Medicine Clinical Service. She is also a Co-Chair for the ASCO TAPUR trial Molecular Tumor Board (MTB) and variant expert for the nationwide SWOG Precision Medicine trial focused on the clinical utility of Molecular Tumor Boards in Community Oncology Practices. Her research focus is on optimizing drug therapy using pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics to personalize intravenous and oral anticancer therapy for patients with cancer.

Lachelle Weeks, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute