Cancer Center of Excellence Directory
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Alexander Adibekian, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Aadibeki@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2740 |
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Shailaja Allani, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University Skesaraj@fau.edu (561) 799‐8322 Areas of interest: Oxidative damage, cell death, mitochondrial metabolism, aging and cancer |
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Andres Alvarez, MD, Ph.D.
Memorial Healthcare System AndrAlvarez@mhs.net (954) 265‐1841 Areas of interest: Oncology clinical research, translaonal medicine, Neurooncology, and biobank |
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Marc Apple, MD
Cleveland Clinic MApple8551@aol.com (772) 563‐4673 Areas of interest: Radiation Oncology, Proton and Heavy Particle/Hadron Technologies and Innovation, and Targeted Radionuclide thera-pies and Stereotactic Ablation radio surgery with newer Immunotherapies |
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Waseem Asghar, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University wasghar@fau.edu (561) 297‐3728 Areas of interest: Disease diagnostics, microfluidics and bio sensing |
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Carmen Ballestas, MD
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital CBallestas@mhs.net (954) 265‐6547 Areas of interest: Histocytosis and pediatric leukemia |
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Mark Block, MD
Memorial Healthcare System MBlock@mhs.net (954) 265‐1125 Areas of interest: Lung and esophagealcancer |
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Erica Bloomquist, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute EBloomquist@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: De-escalation of axilla surgery in patients with breast cancer and de-escalation of breast surgery in women with low risk DCIS |
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Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University Abommareddy@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐3153 Areas of interest: Cellular signaling pathways, Cancer chemoprevention, in vitro and in vivo cancer models |
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Ignacio Castellon, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute igcastellon@mhs.net (954) 844‐9696 Areas of interest: Breast cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer |
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Aurelio Castrellon, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute ACastrellon@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer |
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Brian Cauff, MD
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital BCauff@mhs.net (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology |
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Lun‐Ching Chang, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University changl@fau.edu (561) 297‐3340 Areas of interest: Statistical genetics and bioinformatics |
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Branson Collins, MD
Florida Atlantic University BransonMD@hourglassmed.org (609) 920‐4222 Areas of interest: Integrative Health |
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Mare Cudic, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University mcudic@fau.edu (561) 297‐4645 Areas of interest: Carbohydrate recogni-tion systems in cancer, lectins, glycans, cancer vaccines |
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Yehuda Deutsch, MD
Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System YDeutsch@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes |
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Matt Disney, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Disney@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2203 Areas of interest: RNA Therapeutics |
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Sarah Du, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University edu@fau.edu (561) 297‐3441 Areas of interest: Cell biomechanics and biophysics, and microfluidic biosensor |
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Katerine Dumais, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System KDumais@mhs.net (954) 844‐6811 Areas of interest: Oncology pharmacy, public health and non-small cell lung cancer |
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Aaron Falchook, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute AFalchook@mhs.net (954) 265‐5777 Areas of interest: Radiation oncology |
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Hugo Fernandez, MD
Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System HuFernandez@mhs.net (954) 844‐9724 Areas of interest: Bone Marrow Trans- plant, CAR-T cellular therapy, AML/MDS, GVHD |
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Gregg Fields, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University fieldsg@fau.edu (561) 799‐8577 Areas of interest: Therapeutic and imaging agents in multiple myeloma, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer and extracellular matrix regulation |
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Kathy Freeman, DrPH
Florida Atlantic University kfreemancostin@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐4858 Areas of interest: Biostatistics |
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Christopher Gannon, MD
Memorial Healthcare System Cgannon@mhs.net (954) 265‐9520 Areas of interest: Hepatobiliary malignan-cies, pancreas malignancies and gastric adenocarcinoma |
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Frank Gentile, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System FGentile@mhs.net (954) 844‐7476 Areas of interest: Hematology, Bone mar-row transplant, cellular therapy, and ad-ministration |
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Patrick Grant, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University grantp@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐1053 Areas of interest: Epigenetic mechanisms in cancer |
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Patrick Griffin, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Pgriffin@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2200 Areas of interest: Activation of G‐protein coupled receptors and nuclear receptors |
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Delia (Connie) Guaqueta, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute DGuaqueta@mhs.net (954) 265‐6815 Areas of interest: Breast cancer, Onco-genetics, molecular profiling |
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Francesca Gullo, Ph.D.
Gift of Life Fgullo@giŌoflife.org (561) 982‐2909 Areas of interest: Hematopoietic stem cells and bio banking |
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Esther Guzman, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University eguzman9@fau.edu (772) 242‐2452 Areas of interest: Cancer cell biology, ma-rine natural products, therapeutics |
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Iftikhar Hanif, MD
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital ihanif@mhs.net (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology |
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Katherine Heinze, Ph.D., RN
Florida Atlantic University kheinze@fau.edu (561) 297‐2344 Areas of interest: Bioethics, treatment of pediatric cancer patients |
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Alan Herline, MD
Memorial Healthcare System Aherline@mhs.net (954) 844‐1617 Areas of interest: Colon and rectal cancer |
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Robert Hirsch, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Rhirsch@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: General medical oncology and benign hematology |
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Brian Hunis, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Bhunis@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Lung, Head and Neck Cancers |
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Atif Hussein, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Ahussein@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast and Ovarian Can-cers, Sarcomas |
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Vijaya Iragavarapu‐Charyulu, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University iragavar@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐3304 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer and inflammation |
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Mohammad Jahanzeb, MD
GenesisCare Network Moham‐ mad.jahanzeb@usa.genesiscare.com (954) 571‐0111 Areas of interest: Lung cancer |
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Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D. UF Scripps Biomedical Research Mjaniszewska@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2788 Areas of interest: Mapping tumor heter‐ogeneity, genetics, epigenetics |
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Tarsha Jones, Ph.D., RN
Florida Atlantic University jonest@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐4975 Areas of interest: Cancer prevention, Cancer genetics and health disparities |
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Kevin Kang, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University kangy@fau.edu (561) 297‐3943 Areas of interest: Esophageal cancer stents, bioengineering |
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Sidharth Kerkar, MD
Exuma Biotech Spkerkar1@gmail.com (248) 835‐5439 Areas of interest: Cancer immunothera‐py or immune‐oncology and CAR‐T ther‐apies |
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Andy V. Khamoui, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University akhamoui@fau.edu (561) 297‐4450 Areas of interest: Cancer cachexia |
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Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Kodadek@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2461 Areas of interest: DNA‐encoded libraries and high‐throughput screening, chemi‐cal biology and drug development |
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Victoria Lao, MD, Ph.D.
Memorial Healthcare System Vlao@mhs.net (954) 844‐1617 Areas of interest: Colon and Rectal Cancer, Cancer epigenetics, Molecular markers for cancer therapy |
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Bruce Lenes, MD
Gift of Life BlenesMD@gmail.com (954) 993‐9220 Areas of interest: Recruitment, collec-tion and processing of cells used for cellular therapy, apheresis center for collection of cellular therapy products and cellular therapy laboratory |
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Salvatore Lepore, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University slepore@fau.edu (561) 297‐0330 Areas of interest: Total synthesis of complex natural products, development of expedited synthesis techniques to facilitate small‐molecule library produc‐ tion |
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Theodora (Dora) Leventouri, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University leventou@fau.edu (561) 297‐2695 Areas of interest: Medical physics and radiation therapy |
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Zhongwei Li, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University zli@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐3178 Areas of interest: RNA metabolism, function of non‐coding RNA, RNA thera‐peutics, regulation of gene expression by natural products |
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Omar Llaguna, MD
Memorial Healthcare System OLlaguna@mhs.net (954) 844‐9520 Areas of interest: Hepatobiliary and colo-rectal cancer, gastric cancer, peritoneal malignancies and clinical outcomes re-search |
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Oge Marques, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University omarques@fau.edu (561) 866‐7144 Areas of interest: Artificial intelligence in medicine |
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Ashwin Mehta, MD
Memorial Healthcare System AsMehta@mhs.net (954) 844‐9080 Areas of interest: Integrative medicine, nutrition, acupuncture and mindfulness |
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Adriana Milillo‐Naraine, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute AMililloNaraine@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer |
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Courtney Miller, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research CMiller@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2958 Areas of interest: Neuroscience and glio‐blastoma |
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Wazir Muhammad, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University wmuhammad@fau.edu (561) 297‐3380 Areas of interest: Medical & Radiation Physics; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; Cancer Risk Estimation, Digital Oncology |
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Anatoly Nikolaev, MD
Cleveland Clinic Nikolaa@ccf.org (561) 302‐1095 Areas of interest: Cancer Biology, translation-al cancer drug discovery, head and neck can-cer, pediatric brain cancers |
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Foluso (Joy) Ogunsile, MD
Memorial Healthcare System FOgunsile@mhs.net (954) 265‐1400 Areas of interest: Sickle Cell |
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Joseph Ouslander, MD
Florida Atlantic University jousland@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐0975 Areas of interest: Clinical care of elderly patients |
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Donald Phinney, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Dphinney@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2214 Areas of interest: cellular therapeutics, drug discovery |
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Julie Pilitsis, MD
Florida Atlantic University jpilitsis@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐4341 Areas of interest: Brain tumors, neuro‐surgery, focused ultrasound |
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Kerice Pinkney, MD
Memorial Healthcare System Kpinkney@mhs.net (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Hematologic malig-nancies and sickle cell disease |
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Herman Powery II, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System Hpowery@mhs.net (954) 276‐1759 Areas of interest: ntegrative oncology/naturopathy, cancer metabolomics and cancer stem-cell research and therapeu-tics |
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Christoph Rader, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Crader@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2053 Areas of interest: CAR‐T Cell therapy, Cancer immunotherapy, kidney and ovarian cancer |
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Luis Raez, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute LRaez@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Lung Cancer |
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Patrick Reynolds, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Preynolds@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Cancer pain, palliative care and psycho-oncology |
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Aeisha Rivers, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute AeRivers@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer |
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Janet Robishaw, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University jrobishaw@health.fau.edu (561) 297‐4399 Areas of interest: Genomic analysis of disease |
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Jose Sandoval‐Sus, MD
Moffitt at Memorial Healthcare System Jsandovalsus@mhs.net (786) 333‐9982 Areas of interest: Lymphoma, Lympho-cytic Leukemia, CAR-T |
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Edgardo Santos, MD
GenesisCare Network Edgardo_ny@hotmail.com (561) 409‐1767 Areas of interest: Lung, head and neck cancers |
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Houssein Abdul Sater, MD
Cleveland Clinic Abdulsh@ccf.org (772) 287‐5200 |
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Anne Schaefer, MD
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Aschaefer@mhs.net (954) 265‐2234 Areas of interest: Pediatric hematology and oncology |
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Michael Schuster, MD
Gift of Life MSchuster@giftoflife.org (561) 982‐2914 Areas of interest: Hematologic malig-nancies |
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Ben Shen, Ph.D.
UF Scripps Biomedical Research Shenb@scripps.edu (561) 228‐2456 Areas of interest: Natural product bio‐synthesis, engineering and drug discov‐ery |
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Jonathan Silberstein, MD
Memorial Healthcare System Jsilberstein@mhs.net (305) 682‐2580 Areas of interest: Urologic malignancies, prostate, kidney and bladder tumor markers, 3‐D modeling of tumors, racial variation in screening, treatment, un‐derstanding and education of urologic malignancies (particularly prostate) |
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Ashley Siryk, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System Asiryk@mhs.net (954) 265‐6365 Areas of interest: Cancer research |
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Maciej Stawikowski, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University mstawikowski@fau.edu (561) 297‐4871 Areas of interest: Synthesis and charac-terization of novel fluorescent probes and substrates for bio imaging and ac-tivity assessment, peptide engineering, enzymology of serine proteases |
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Andrew Terentis, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University terentis@fau.edu (561) 297‐2406 Areas of interest: Raman spectroscopy, detection of skin cancer |
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Michel Vulfovich, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Mvulfovich@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Gastrointestinal can-cer and gynecological cancer |
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Dammal Walker, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System Damwalker@mhs.net (954) 265‐5513 Areas of interest: CLL, CML and multiple myeloma |
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Herbert Weissbach, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University hweissba@fau.edu (561) 799‐8345 Areas of interest: Oxidative stress of normal and cancer cells |
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Robert Wilkinson, PharmD
Memorial Healthcare System RWilkinson@mhs.net (954) 844‐7450 Areas of interest: Cancer research |
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Timothy Williams, MD
South Florida Proton Therapy Institute TWilliams@SFPTI.com (561) 323‐6498 Areas of interest: Immunotherapy, pro‐ton therapy and prostate cancer |
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Amy Wright, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University awrigh33@fau.edu (772) 242‐2459 Areas of interest: Drug development, marine natural products |
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Heather Wright, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Hewright@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Breast Cancer |
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Ilyas Yildirim, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University iyildirim@fau.edu (561) 799‐8325 Areas of interest: Theoretical and com-putational chemistry, in silico drug de-sign for RNA, RNA biology |
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Jennifer Zikria, MD
Memorial Cancer Institute Jezikria@mhs.net (954) 265‐4325 Areas of interest: Gastrointestinal medi-cal oncology |
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Michael Zourdos, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University mzourdos@fau.edu (561) 297‐1317 Areas of interest: Resistance training in cancer patients |
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Lloyd Zucker, MD
Brain and Spine Center of South Florida Lloyd.zucker@gmail.com (561) 501‐7445 Areas of interest: Complex spine, neuro‐oncology and movement disorders |