ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Conquer Cancer^®, the ASCO Foundation, is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2024 Quality Care Symposium Merit Awards.

These distinguished awards recognize first authors on top-ranking abstracts selected for presentation at the ASCO Quality Care Symposium on September 27–28, 2024, in San Francisco, CA.

These 29 oncology professionals are recognized for their respective field and research advancements within the cancer care community:

Shahzaib Ahmad, MBBS, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida

Ted Akhiwu, MBBS, MPH, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

Oluwatomiwa Awobayiku, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine-AR

Krista Chen, BS, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Nickolas Dreher, MD, Columbia University Medical Center

Subhash Edupuganti, MD, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Ifeanyi Ekpunobi, BS, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Charles Gaulin, MBBS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Matthew Hadfield, DO, Brown University

Franklin Iheanacho, BA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Margaret Katana Ogongo, PhD, MPH, MS, American Cancer Society

Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Wake Forest University

Youngmin Kwon, BA, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Anh Lam, DO, MBA, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Kaitlyn Lapen, MD, BS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Aaron Lee, DO, UC San Diego Health System

Shipra Maheshwari, MD, University of Virginia Health System

Alejandro Marrero Gonzalez, BS, Medical University of South Carolina

Alissa Michel, MD, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center

Joel Nortey, MD, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center

Emily Podany, MD, Washington University in St. Louis

Patricia Mae Santos, MD, MS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Kanan Shah, MD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Jonathan Shih, BS, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

Shakirah Ssebyala, BSc, Weill Cornell Medicine

Shannon Ugarte, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Emily Wood, BA, MPH, Stanford University School of Medicine

Margaux Wooster, MD, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center

Jingxuan Zhao, MPH, American Cancer Society

Supporters:

The 2024 Conquer Cancer® Merit Awards are generously supported by Terri Armstrong, Chris Armstrong, and Mark Gilbert; ASCO Employees; Association of Northern California Oncologists; AstraZeneca; BeiGene; Friends and Family of Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Beller; Dr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Blayney; Breast Cancer Research Foundation®; Bristol Myers Squibb; Stephen A. Cannistra, MD; Jonathan K. and Cora Y. Cho Charitable Fund; Friends, Family, and Colleagues of Dr. Cecil "Pete" Coggins; Michael Craig Cox, PharmD, MHS, BCOP; Trailblazing patient Mark A. Crafts and Generous Supporters of Team Crafty; Bill and Karen Dahut; Eisai Inc.; Estate of Darla C. Ellis; Epiphany Partners, Inc.; Flatiron Health, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline Oncology; Harborside; Friends, Colleagues, and Family of Joe Hogan; John Hohneker, MD and Donald Vincent; Melissa M. Hudson, MD, FASCO and Albert E. Weeks, MD; Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc; Kimberly Irvine; Family of Diane L. Keith; Nicole M. Kuderer, MD and Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH, FASCO; Natasha B. Leighl, MD, FASCO; William T. Leslie, MD; Lilly; Bora Lim, MD and Pavlos Msaouel, MD, PhD; Loxo Oncology Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company; Maryland/District of Columbia Society of Clinical Oncology; Friends and Colleagues of Theresa Mays; Melanoma Research Foundation; Therese Marie Mulvey, MD, FASCO; Friends and Family of Dr. James B. Nachman; New Rhein Healthcare, LLC; Friends and Colleagues of Dr. Larry Norton; Dr. Kathleen Pritchard Medicine Professional Corporation; The QuadW Foundation; Gabrielle Betty Rocque, MD, MSPH; Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Frances A. Shepherd, MD, FASCO; Stephen A. Sherwin, MD; Drs. Rachna and Puneet Shroff; ASCO’s State Affiliate Council; Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.; Supporters of Innovations and Research in Medical Education; Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Nizar M. Tannir, MD; Anthony and Marilyn Tolcher; Dr. Michael and Deborah Troner; and William S. Yaus, Jeffrey W. Yaus, and Kathleen Y. Wolin, ScD.
This listing is current as of September 13, 2024.