EQUAL Team

Narjust Florez, MD
EQUAL Study Principal investigator, DFCI
Thoracic Medical Oncologist, DFCI
Associate Director, Cancer Care Equity Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

David Barbie, MD
Co-investigator, DFCI
Thoracic medical oncologist, DFCI
Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology
Associate Director, Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Research
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Cloud Paweletz, PhD
Co-investigator, DFCI
Head of Research, DFCI Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Research

Lilin Tong, BS
Medical Student, BUSM

Lauren Kiel, BS
Research Assistant, DFCI

Rebekah Kaufman, MS
Research Assistant, DFCI

Courtney Mantz, BS
Project Manager

Angela Morabito, BS
Research Asssistant, DFCI
Collaborators

Lecia Sequist, MD, MPH
Co-investigator, MGH
Hematologist/ Thoracic medical oncologist, MGH Program
Director, Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic
Landry Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Daniel Costa, MD, PhD
Co-investigator, BIDMC
Medical oncologist, BIDMC
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Shail Maingi, MD
Co-investigator, DFCI South Shore
Medical oncologist, DFCI South Shore

Alys Malcolm, MD
Co-investigator, DFCI St. Elizabeth's
Medical oncologist, Medical Director, DFCI St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

Pedro Sanz, MD, PhD
Co-investigator, DFCI Merrimack Valley
Medical oncologist, DFCI Merrimack Valley

Taylor Ortiz, MD
Co-investigator, DFCI Merrimack Valley
Medical oncologist, Medical Director, DFCI Merrimack Valley
Community Partners
This study prioritizes the development of lasting relationships with East Asian and Latinx populations through community partnership and integration of the direct patient voice to not only enhance recruitment efforts of this study and its future iterations, but also to foster trust and increase willingness to participate in future cancer research and interventions.
