{"id":34123,"date":"2025-10-09T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=34123"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:35:12","slug":"welcome-drs-dittus-and-samarasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/welcome-drs-dittus-and-samarasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Drs. Dittus and Samarasinghe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>People to know: <\/strong>Meet the newest UW Carbone members voted in at September\u2019s senior leadership meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicine.wisc.edu\/directory\/dittus_kim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Dittus<\/a>, MD, PhD &#8211; Cancer Prevention &amp; Control, Associate Member<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department: Medicine Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Palliative Care<\/p>\n<p>Title: Professor (CHS)<\/p>\n<p>Research Interest: Lifestyle interventions for individuals with cancer and integrative approaches to dealing with cancer and cancer treatment related side effects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34125 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dittus-Kim-MD-20250724-Med-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dittus-Kim-MD-20250724-Med-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dittus-Kim-MD-20250724-Med-333x400.jpg 333w, https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dittus-Kim-MD-20250724-Med.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicine.wisc.edu\/directory\/samarasinghe_amali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amali Samarasinghe<\/a>, MD, PhD &#8211; Tumor Microenvironment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department: Medicine Allergy and Immunology<\/p>\n<p>Title: Visiting Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>Research Interest: Pulmonology immunology as it pertains to asthma and respiratory infections. Investigating a significant correlation between the development between chronic inflammation and remodeling\/injury repair to subsequent lung cancer. Projects in her laboratory pertain to hematopoietic stem cells that may play a role in the transition from health to disease.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34124 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Amali-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Amali-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Amali-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Amali.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People to know: Meet the newest UW Carbone members voted in at September\u2019s senior leadership meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-checkpoint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34134,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions\/34134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}