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Office
80 Fisher Drive
Avon, CT 06001Phone+1 860-674-0088Fax+1 860-677-7863- Is this information wrong?
Education & Training
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Fellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1984 - 1986
- University of ConnecticutResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1984
- Boston University School of MedicineClass of 1980
Certifications & Licensure
- CT State Medical License 1982 - 2024
- MN State Medical License 1984 - 1990
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2012
Clinical Trials
- Radiation Therapy With or Without Trastuzumab in Treating Women With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Who Have Undergone Lumpectomy Start of enrollment: 2008 Nov 10
- Chemotherapy With or Without Trastuzumab After Surgery in Treating Women With Invasive Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 06
- Docetaxel, Carboplatin, Trastuzumab, and Pertuzumab With or Without Estrogen Deprivation in Treating Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, HER2-Positive Operable or Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2014 Jan 15
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 7 citationsAdjuvant enzalutamide for the treatment of early-stage androgen-receptor positive, triple-negative breast cancer: a feasibility study.Elaine M Walsh, Ayca Gucalp, Sujata Patil, Marcia Edelweiss, Dara S Ross, Pedram Razavi, Shanu Modi, Neil M Iyengar, Rachel Sanford, Tiffany Troso-Sandoval, Mila Gorsk...> ;Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2022 Oct 1
- 8 citationsCardiac outcomes of subjects on adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine vs paclitaxel in combination with trastuzumab for stage I HER2-positive breast cancer (ATEMPT) study (TB...Romualdo Barroso-Sousa, Paolo Tarantino, Nabihah Tayob, Chau Dang, Denise A Yardley, Steven J Isakoff, Vicente Valero, Meredith Faggen, Therese Mulvey, Ron Bose, Jiani...> ;NPJ Breast Cancer. 2022 Feb 16
- 13 citationsChemotherapy-related amenorrhea (CRA) after adjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) compared to paclitaxel in combination with trastuzumab (TH) (TBCRC033: ATEMPT Tr...Kathryn J. Ruddy, Yue Zheng, Nabihah Tayob, Jiani Hu, Chau T. Dang, Denise A. Yardley, Steven J. Isakoff, Vicente Valero, Meredith Faggen, Therese M. Mulvey, Ron Bose,...> ;Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2021 Jun 12
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Press Mentions
- Anna-Bill74'S StorySeptember 9th, 2019
Hospital Affiliations
- Hartford HospitalHartford, Connecticut
- Windham HospitalWillimantic, Connecticut
- The Hospital of Central ConnecticutNew Britain, Connecticut
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