Raising the Bar for Patient Outcomes With Immunotherapy in Early-Stage Resectable NSCLC

Faculty
Heather Wakelee, MD, FASCO (Chair)
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Oncology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Interim Medical Director, Stanford Cancer Center
Deputy Director, Stanford Cancer Institute
President, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
Stanford, CA

Heather Wakelee, MD, FASCO, is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University, Deputy Director of the Stanford Cancer Institute, and Interim Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center. Dr Wakelee serves as the President of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). She is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO). Dr Wakelee is a graduate of Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her postgraduate training at Stanford University.

As an experienced lung cancer investigator, Dr Wakelee has authored or co-authored over 200 medical articles on lung cancer and thymic malignancies. She is involved in dozens of clinical trials involving adjuvant therapy, immunotherapy, and anti-angiogenesis agents. Her research focuses on many specific lung cancer subtypes defined by specific mutations in EGFR, ALK, ROS1, RET, BRAF, and others. Her translational efforts have involved collaborations with colleagues in medical oncology, thoracic radiation oncology, thoracic surgery, radiology, pulmonary medicine, and population sciences

Meghan Ramsey, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Director
Stanford University School of Medicine
Interim ICU Medical Director
Stanford Health Care ValleyCare
Stanford, CA

Meghan Ramsey, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. She received her undergraduate degree from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, with a major in Neuroscience. Dr Ramsey received her medical degree from Stanford University, where she stayed to complete her internal medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship.

Dr Ramsey’s clinical time is split between the inpatient setting in the medical ICU and the ambulatory setting in Interventional Pulmonology with a focus on thoracic malignancies. Outside of her clinical time she has a dedicated commitment to teaching, serving as a mentor for residents and fellows, as well as leading as a co-director the pulmonary physiology course for medical students.