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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

FY23 Programmatic Panel

William Dahut, M.D. (Chair) 
American Cancer Society

Tarek Bismar, M.D. 
University of Calgary

Cmdr. Gregory Chesnut, M.D., F.A.C.P., U.S. Navy 
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Sean Collins, M.D., Ph.D. 
Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center

Lawrence Fong, M.D. 
University of California, San Francisco

David Houchens, Ph.D. 
Us TOO International

Timothy McDonnell, M.D., Ph.D. 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Robert (Bruce) Montgomery, M.D. 
VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Dwight Moore 
Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation

Lorelei Mucci, Sc.D., M.P.H. 
Harvard School of Public Health

Marja Nevalainen, M.D., Ph.D. 
Thomas Jefferson University

Joel Nowak, M.S.W., M.A.  
Cancer ABCs, Inc.

Kenneth Pienta, M.D. (Chair Emeritus) 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

David Quinn, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.A.C.P, F.A.C.P. 
AbbVie

David Schuster, M.D., F.A.C.P. 
Emory University Hospital

Virgil Simons, M.P.A. 
The Prostate Net

Howard Soule, Ph.D. 
Prostate Cancer Foundation

Ashutosh Tewari, M.D. 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ad Hoc Programmatic Reviewers

Last updated Friday, September 5, 2025