Melanie Thomas, M.D. Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Kathmandu, Bagmati, NP

Excited to share that I will be spending 5 months at the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan, Nepal, helping colleagues there develop a fellowship raining program in medical oncology. Currently there are only 5 fellowship-trained medical oncologists to care for the cancer patients in this country of nearly 30 million people. This project.

Durham, NC, US

Medical Oncologist with the Duke Cancer Network, Duke Health, bringing Duke cancer care and clinical trials to underserved sites in NC.

CanLiv is a not for profit medical education foundation that is committed to advancing knowledge, education, research and treatment of cancers of the bile ducts, gallbladder and liver.

Gibbs Cancer Center & Research Institute is a nationally recognized cancer treatment program that provides patient-centric multidisciplinary, comprehensive cancer care to the region. Gibbs CC has been a leader in the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program for 3 decades, and is a part of the Southeast Cancer Consortium-Upstate NCORP. Gibbs is a longstanding.

Liver cancer is a very challenging tumor in which to develop new, novel therapeutic agents that are both effective and safe for patients. As the third most common cancer worldwide, hepatocellular carcinoma remains a significant unmet medical need. The early safety and efficacy data for GenSpera's novel drug mipsagargin are impressive, and I am excited to.

Washington, D.C., US

I have served as a volunteer with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO,www.hvousa.org) oncology program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras since 2010. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) International Cancer Corp (ICC) has partnered with HVO since 2009 to build oncology capacity in medically underserved regions of the world..

Washington, D.C., US

I served as a volunteer medical oncologist in Thimphu, Bhutan in July-August 2014, helping to build the skills, knowledge and oncology care capacity of the medical and nursing staff at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Referral Hospital, in Thimphu, Bhutan. See my blog http://drmelaniesc.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-day-at-bhutan-national-referral.html

• As the Associate Director of Clinical Investigations, I had primary responsibility for revamping the entire clinical research enterprise Hollings Cancer Center, including the Protocol Review Committee (PRC), the Data.
• Reorganized the HCC Protocol Review and Monitoring System (PRMS), enabling it to receive full NCI approval in 2010 (provisionally approved at the time of NCI Designation in March 2009).
• Achieved a 146% growth in accrual to pilot, Phase I and Phase II trials.
• Achieved an increase in total clinical trial enrollment from 8% in 2008 to 14% 2012, and minority subjects from 18% in 2008 to 26% in 2012. (National metric is 3-4% of adults enroll in cancer trials, 10% of these are.
• Attained a 23% increase in the total number of therapeutic clinical trials during 2008-2012 (91 to 112) and doubled the number of Phase I trials (12 to 26).
• Created a Phase I Trials Working Group in 2011, which activated 3 investigator-initiated Pilot/Phase I immunotherapy trials utilizing the MUSC clean cell facility.

Charleston, SC, US

My clinical practice and research interests focus on GI malignancies, principally cancers of the pancreas, stomach, liver, biliary tree and colon. I have presented and published extensively on GI cancers, and served on NCI, SWOG and ASCO GI cancer committees. One publication (Melanie B. Thomas, Jeffrey S. Morris, Romil Chadha, Michiko Iwasaki, Harmeet.

Charleston, SC, US

Practicing medical oncologist providing oncology care and clinical trials for patients with GI malignancies.

Houston, TX, US

Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology Department

Oncology

Internal medicine

Doctor Of Medicine (M.D.)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology