Disease-Oriented Teams (DOTs)

The standard of care for cancer patients at the UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) optimally involves a multidisciplinary team approach. The translation of laboratory discovery to clinical application is facilitated by multidisciplinary Disease Oriented Teams (DOTs).

DOTs are embedded in specific UWCCC Scientific Programs and provide a multidisciplinary translational infrastructure which fosters inter- and intra-programmatic interactions that address programmatic goals and also disease specific interests. Each DOT has a designated leader and participants include UWCCC Scientific Program members, research staff and other UW faculty.

DOTs meet regularly and interested laboratory research faculty are encouraged to actively participate. In this manner, the multidisciplinary patient care activities and their associated clinical trials research are integrated into the Scientific Programs in several meaningful and functional ways through UWCCC faculty participation and UWCCC administrative support.

DOTs review and prioritize their respective clinical research activity and provide ongoing planning for new investigator-initiated studies. Proposed studies must have the support of the DOT prior to submission to the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC).

Contact the DOT leader or program manager for more information, or view the DOT standing meeting schedule (NetID login required, link opens in new tab).

Disease Oriented Team	Leadership	Program Manager
1 S. Park	Saurabh Rajguru, MD	Lyndsey Deverman
Biospecimen	David Kosoff, MD	Kim Mast Laura Ruelle
Brain and CNS	Ankush Bhatia MD, PhD Steve Howard MD, PhD	Renae Quale Ashley Parr
Breast	Kari Wisinski, MD Lee G. Wilke, MD	Claire Kostechka
Chemoprevention	Howard Bailey, MD Lisa Barroilhet, MD	Kimberly Mast
Early Phase Oncology Therapeutics	Nataliya Uboha, MD, PHD	Lyndsey Deverman Jen Heideman Darcy Stagman
Gastrointestinal	Kaitlyn Kelly, MD Sam Lubner, MD	Renae Quale Megan Braden
Genitourinary	E. Jason Abel, MD, FACS Glenn Liu, MD	Jamie Gartzke Jane Straus
Gynecologic	Janelle Sobecki, MD	Claire Kostechka Nichole Blazel
Head & Neck	Justine Yang Bruce, MD Adam Burr, MD	Diana Trask
Leukemia	Aric Hall, MD	Mitch Howard Carina Knoespel
Lymphoma	Vaishalee Kenkre, MD	Mitch Howard Mariah Endres
Melanoma	Mark Albertini, MD	Renae Quale Ashley Parr
Myeloma	Natalie Callander, MD	Mitch Howard Mariah Endres
Palliative & Supportive Oncology	Kris Kwekkeboom, RN, PhD	Kimberly Mast
Pediatric Oncology	Kenneth DeSantes, MD	Jenny Weiland
Precision Medicine Research Team (PMRT)	Mark Burkard, MD, PhD Dustin Deming, MD	Kimberly Mast Laura Ruelle
Radiotherapy	Andrew Baschnagel, MD	Diana Trask
Skin Non-Melanoma	Nihal Ahmad, MD	Christina Sheehan
Theranostics	Steve Cho, MD	Megan Donar
Thoracic	Andrea Axtell, MD Andrew Baschnagel, MD	Jamie Gartzke Kristen Schumacher
VA	Justine Yang Bruce, MD Christopher Fletcher, MD	Lyndsey Deverman

Other Research Groups

Investigators and staff that are not part of an established UWCCC Research Group are known as “Other Research Groups” (ORGs). ORG data is managed by the CT Reporting Coordinator, who works with the research group to submit records to the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC) for review.

Contact the CT Reporting Coordinator: ctreporting@uwcarbone.wisc.edu

Disease-Oriented Teams (DOTs)

Other Research Groups

Resources

Program Areas

Clinical Research Central Office