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  • Current position(s)
  • Past positions
  • Education
  • Invited Talks

Current position(s)

Natera
VP, Bioinformatics

San Francisco, CA
01/2024 - Present

Lead bioinformatics research and development across all TAs

College of American Pathologists (CAP)
Member, Molecular Oncology Committee

New York, NY
01/2021 - Present

Design and grade in-silico proficiency tests for diagnostic laboratories performing NGS-based assays

Past positions

AstraZeneca
Executive Director, Precision Medicine Innovation

New York, NY
11/2021 - 01/2024

Lead strategic diagnostic portfolio development focusing on decentralized, and blood-based tests, both for therapy selection and minimal residual disease assessment across indications

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Attending, Department of Pathology

New York, NY
07/2021 - 11/2021

Director, Clinical Bioinformatics, Molecular Diagnostics Service

07/2015 - 11/2021

  • Manage a large team (+25) of computational biologists (PhD and master’s) and software engineers
  • Oversee pipeline/assay development and analysis of all next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays (MSK-IMPACT, MSK-ACCESS, AmpliSeq) for somatic and germline testing, performed in the molecular diagnostics service
  • Expertise in developing protocols for approvals from New York State Department of Health and Food and Drug Administration (class II/III)
  • Supervise review of NGS assay results from over 60,000 clinical tumor samples
  • Oversee development and implementation of software ecosystem (MPath) that seamlessly analyze, store, and share clinical data for the Pathology Department
  • Strong publication record in cancer genomics (over 150 peer reviewed papers) with an h-index of 60

Assistant Attending, Department of Pathology

11/2015 - 07/2021

Principle Computational Biologist

12/2014 - 07/2015

Computational Biologist

04/2013 - 12/2014

Post-doctoral researcher

10/2009 - 04/2013

Education

Tulane University
PhD Cell Biology

2004 - 2009

Middle East Technical University
B.Sc. Molecular Biology and Genetics

2000 - 2004

Invited Talks

DateConference | Talk titleLocation
9/12/22Brigham and Women's Hospital Pathology Grand Rounds
Enhancing the value of next-generation sequencing through novel algorithms and informatics solutions
"Boston, MA"
11/11/2215th Turkish Society of Medical Genetics Congress
Comprehensive molecuar profiling of cancer through next-generation sequencing based assays
Turkey
11/20/21AMP Annual Meeting
Next Generation Data: Integration and Dissemination of Molecular Pathology Data
Online
9/8/19World Conference on Lung Cancer
Diagnostic and clinical utility of common to rare fusions in lung cancer
"Barcelona, Spain"
8/1/19Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Establishment of bioinformatics pipeline of MSK-IMPACT and its clinical application
"Shanghai, China"
5/16/19AMP Global Meeting
Next-Generation Diagnostics for Cancer Care: Expanding the Value of NGS through Novel Algorithms and New Assays
Hong Kong
5/8/19AAADV Workshop
NGS - Clinical Utility and Regulatory Considerations
Washington DC
11/4/18AMP Annual Meeting
Hypermutation in Cancer: Burden and Signatures of Mutational Processes
"San Antonio, TX"
8/23/18"Next Generation Dx Summit, Clinical Applications of cfDNA"
Clonal Hematopoiesis Is Common in Cancer Patients and Can Con- found Clinical Genomic Profiling
Washington DC
7/4/18"ASCO Annual Meeting, Tumor Biology Section"
Confounding effects of clonal hematopoiesis in clinical genomic profiling of solid tumors
"Chicago, IL"
4/14/18"AACR Annual Meeting, Regulatory Science and Policy Session"
FDA authorization process for targeted panels : MSK-IMPACT Experience
"Chicago, IL"
2/27/18Miracum Symposium
Facilitating precision oncology through enterprise- level implementation of next generation sequencing tumor panels
"Munich, Germany"
11/15/17ARUP Laboratories
Facilitating Precision Oncology Through Enterprise-Level Implementation of Next Generation Sequencing Tumor Panels
"Salt Lake City, UT"
5/6/17International Society for Laboratory Hematology
The present and the future of Next-Generation Sequencing in the hematology laboratory
"Honolulu, HI"
4/17/16"AACR Annual Meeting, Methods Workshop: Bioinformatics in Personalized Cancer Genomics: From Sequencing Data to Clinical Actionability"
"Facilitating Precision Oncology Through Enterprise-Level Data Sharing in the Clinical Laboratory: Lessons from 10,000 samples"
"New Orleans, LA"
5/16/16Biomarkers and Diagnostics World Congress
Facilitating Precision Oncology through MSK-IMPACT and Enterprise- Level Data Sharing
"Philadelphia, PA"
7/5/16"ASCO Annual Meeting, Clinical Science Symposium: Expect the Unexpected: Challenges in the Interpretation of Multiplex Panels"
Prevalence of clonal hematopoiesis in patients with advanced cancer
"Chicago, IL"