Our Expert Team

Arie Belldegrun, MD, FACS
Dr. Belldegrun has a distinguished career as a visionary surgeon, scientist and life sciences entrepreneur. He is the Founding Director of the Institute of Urologic Oncology at UCLA, Professor of Urology, and holder of the Roy and Carol Doumani Chair in Urologic Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Belldegrun was at the National Cancer Institute/NIH as a research fellow in surgical oncology and immunology under Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg. He completed his M.D. at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, his post-graduate studies in Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and his residency in urologic surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has authored several books on oncology and more than 500 scientific and medical papers related to urological cancers, immunotherapy, gene therapy and cancer vaccines. Dr. Belldegrun is the Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of a life science venture group, and has founded or participated in the advancement of numerous biotechnology companies. To date 5 drugs have been approved by the FDA from these companies. He is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. More >

Stuart Holden, MD
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Urology and Co-Director, UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology. Dr. Holden is recognized as an expert in prostate cancer research throughout the medical community. His dedication to patient care led to him being named medical director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Prior to joining UCLA, Holden was the director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the first holder of the Warschaw, Robertson, Law Families Chair in Prostate Cancer. More >

Medical Oncology

Alexandra Drakaki, MD, PhD
Sandy T. Liu, MD
Matthew Rettig, MD
John Shen, MD
Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD

Nuclear Medicine

Martin Allen-Auerbach, MD
Shadfar Bahri, MD
Matthias Benz, MD
Jeremie Calais, MD, MSc
Johannes Czernin, MD
Pawan Gupta, MD
Katharina Leuckerath, MD, PhD
Christine Mona, MD, PhD
Andrew Quon, MD
H. David Ulmert, MD, PhD

Pathology

Sarah Dry, MD
Jian Yu Rao, MD
Nagesh P. Rao, PhD, FACMG
Jonathan Said, MD
Dipti Sajed, MD, PhD
Anthony E. Sisk, Jr., DO
Hui Hui Ye, MD, PhD
Jonathan Braun, MD (Emeritus)

Radiation Oncology

Albert Chang, MD, PhD
Amar U. Kishan, MD
Patrick Kupelian, MD
Alan Lee, MD
Steve P. Lee, MD, PhD
Nicholas G. Nickols, MD, PhD
Michael Steinberg, MD, FASTRO, FACR, FACRO
Michael H. Xiang, MD, PhD
Jeffrey D. Demanes, MD (Emeritus)

Radiological Sciences

Corey Arnold, PhD
Dieter Enzmann, MD
Ely R. Felker, MD
William Hsu, PhD
Neema Jamshidi, MD. PhD
Steven Raman, MD

Research

Arie Belldegrun, MD, FACS 
Paul C. Boutros, PhD, MBA
Isla Garraway, MD
Andrew Goldstein, PhD
Michael A. Teitell, MD, PhD
Owen Witte, PhD
Lily Wu, MD, PhD
Gang Zeng, PhD 
Nazy Zomorodian, RNC, MSN, CUNP, CCRC

Urologic Oncology

Karim Chamie, MD, MSHS
Arnold I. Chin, MD, PhD
Nicholas Donin, MD
Stuart Holden, MD
Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH
Leonard S. Marks, MD
Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS
Aydin Pooli, MD
Robert Reiter, MD, MBA
Christopher Saigal, MD, MPH
Joseph Shirk, MD
Brian Shuch, MD
Jean B. DeKernion, MD (Emeritus)