Derek Michael Isrow, MD, PhD

Dr Takita is a Professor and Vice Chair of Education of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Sylvester C Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She obtained her medical degree at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Radiation Oncology Residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. She joined University of Miami/Sylvester C Cancer Center in 1999. Her clinical and research interests are in the management of breast cancer. Dr Takita is the Co-Leader of the Breast Site Disease Group and the Leader of the Breast Proton Therapy Group at Sylvester C Cancer Center.

Dr Abramowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He obtained a BA in biochemistry from Colgate University in 1998 where he was also a member of the men's rowing team and spent 6 months at NIH researching 3D protein structures using NMR (MRI). He worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine in the Department of molecular Genetics and Microbiology while serving as the novice rowing coach for College of the Holy. He graduated with honors (AOA) from Temple University School in2003.