Contributors

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Dr. Pedro Barata

Dr Pedro Barata is associate professor at Tulane Medical School and is a genitourinary medical oncologist at Tulane Comprehensive Cancer Center. His areas of specialty include prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers. Dr Barata has authored and coauthored scores of research publications and textbook chapters and is a reviewer and editor for several peer-reviewed oncology publications, including The Oncologist, Clinical Genitourinary Cancer journal, and Translational Oncology journal. He has presented at numerous national and international meetings.  

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Dr. Rana McKay

Dr Rana McKay is associate professor at UC San Diego, Health School of Medicine and is a board-certified medical oncologist. She specializes in treating urogenital cancers and leads a multidisciplinary prostate cancer clinic for men who have aggressive prostate cancer. She has been a principal investigator for several clinical trials and has published numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and others. Her research focus includes novel biomarkers and therapeutic outcomes for patients who have genitourinary cancer. 

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Dr. Vivek Narayan

Dr Vivek Narayan is assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a medical oncologist at Penn Genitourinary and Urologic Cancer Program and the Penn Neuroendocrine Tumor Program. Dr Narayan sees patients across the prostate cancer disease spectrum and he participates in clinical trials with novel therapies to treat the disease. His research and extensive publications focus on prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, kidney cancer, and bladder cancer.