TOPS Mentors
TOPS Faculty Mentors are active members of the DF/HCC and have a strong records of successful mentorship, have active research programs in cancer-related population science, and have a track records of impactful T3 and/or T4 research related to cancer prevention, diagnosis or treatment, or palliative and survivorship care.
TOPS Fellows may select one mentor or may propose to work with any combination of mentors they wish. Co-mentoring relationships are strongly encouraged.
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To find out more about TOPS Mentors' research activities, funding, and publications, please click on a photo!
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2007
GREGORY A. ABEL
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Director, Older Adult Hematologic Malignancy Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
JUDY E. GARBER
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Director, Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
FRANCESCA DOMINICI
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Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
DANIEL GUNDERSEN
Senior Research Scientist and Senior Survey Methodologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
JENNIFER S. HAAS
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Peter Gross Chair in Primary Care at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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Director of Research and Research Education in Primary Care at MGH
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Professor of Medicine, HMS
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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SEBASTIEN HANEUSE
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
JOHN HSU
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Director, Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis, Mongan Institute for Health Policy
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
NANCY KEATING
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Co-Leader, DF/HCC Cancer Care Delivery Research Program
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Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
ISAAC S. KOHANE
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Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
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Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
BRUCE E. LANDON
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Professor, Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Professor, Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
JENNIFER A. LIGIBEL
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Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
JEFFREY MEYERHARDT
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Douglas Gray Woodruff Chair in Colorectal Cancer Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Clinical Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Deputy Clinical Research Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2004
PARI V. PANDHARIPANDE
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Director, MGH Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA), Massachusetts General Hospital
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Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
ELYSE R. PARK
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
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Senior Scientist in the Mongan Institute for Health Policy
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Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Survivorship Program
ANN H. PARTRIDGE
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Founder and Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Director, Adult Survivorship Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
SEBASTIAN SCHNEEWEISS
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Vice Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School
MARA A. SCHONBERG
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Director, Research in Shared Decision Making Program, General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Co-Director of the Advanced Aging Research Training Seminar Series at the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew Senior Life
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medial School
DEBORAH SCHRAG
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Chief, Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
GLORIAN SORENSEN
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Director, Center for Community-Based Research (CCBR), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SAPNA SYNGAL
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Director of Research, Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics and Prevention Clinics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
JENNIFER S. TEMEL
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Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Director, Cancer Outcomes Research Program
JAMES A. TULSKY
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Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hosptial
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
ELIEZER VAN ALLEN
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Director, Van Allen Clinical Computational Oncology Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
KASISOMAYAJULA VISH VISWANATH
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Director, Health Communication Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
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Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
JOANNE WOLFE
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Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute;
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Division Chief, Pediatric Palliative Care Service, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
ZARA COOPER
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Deputy Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Center for Surgery and Public Health
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Surgeon, Trauma, Burns and Critical Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital
AREEJ EL-JAWAHRI
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Associate Director, MGH Cancer Center Survivorship Program
RACHEL FREEDMAN
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
JOSEPH A. GREER
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
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Program Director, Center for Psychiatric Oncology & Behavioral Sciences
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Co-Director, Cancer Outcomes Research & Education Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2005
MICHAEL HASSETT
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Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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​Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
INGRID KATZ
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Secondary Appointment, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2005
AMY KNUDSEN
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Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
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Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
JEFFREY M. PEPPERCORN
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Director, Survivorship Program, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
ANDY TAN
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Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Health Communication Researcher, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
QUOC-DIEN TRINH
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Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Leads Cancer and Comparative Effectiveness Research, Center for Surgery and Public Health
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Urologic Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital
HAJIME UNO
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Biostatistician, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2008
ALEXI A. WRIGHT
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Staff Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Fellowship Alum
Class of 2004
JENNIFER M. YEH
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Associate Scientific Researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
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Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health