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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

FY24 Programmatic Panel

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

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

Sean Collins, M.D., Ph.D. 
University of South Florida

John Cutter
Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition

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

Lt. Col. William (Bill) Mahr, M.S., U.S. Army Retired
ZERO Prostate Cancer

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

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

Lt. Col. Eric Morrow, M.S., M.B.A., U.S. Air Force Retired
ZERO Prostate Cancer

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, University of Southern California

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

Howard Soule, Ph.D.
Prostate Cancer Foundation

Adam Sowalsky, Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

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

Ad Hoc Programmatic Reviewers

Last updated Wednesday, September 17, 2025