Christopher Tan, MD

Dr. Angelo De Marzo is a professor of pathology, oncology and urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pathology and prostate cancer. Dr. De Marzo serves as the Deputy Director for Anatomic Pathology in the Department of Pathology, and Co-Director of the Immunohistochemistry Clinical Lab in Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also serves as the Associate Director of Cancer Research Pathology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. De Marzo founded the Tissue Microarray Core at Johns Hopkins, now known as the Oncology Tissue Services. He led it for a decade and now serves as an advisor to the core. Dr. De Marzo's research interests include the molecular pathobiology of prostate cancer, biospecimen banking, and biomarker development, especially using immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization and multiplex IHC and image analysis. Dr. De Marzo received his B.A. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in experimental pathology from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He completed his residency in pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and performed a fellowship at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Dr. De Marzo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1998. Dr. De Marzo served as Chief Medical Officer at Predictive Biosciences Inc. from 2011-2013. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation from 2017-2022. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals, The Prostate and Cancer Prevention Research. He is the recipient of the 2004 Donald S. Coffey Prostate Cancer Foundation Physician/Scientist Award and The Professors Award for Teaching Excellence at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2022). He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians (2018) and is a member of various professional organizations, including the American Urological Association and the American Association for Cancer Research.

Dr. James Eshleman is a professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of its Kimmel Cancer Center. His areas of clinical expertise includes molecular diagnosis. Dr. Eshleman serves as the associate director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Eshleman earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a residency in clinical pathology and a fellowship in blood banking and transfusion medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is genetically killing pancreatic cancer using CRISPR-Cas9 by targeting somatic mutations, and developing new molecular pathology tools.

Dr. Laura Elizabeth Wong Chin is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also serves as assistant director for the Ambulatory Regional Anesthesia division. Her areas of clinical expertise include regional anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, and public health. Dr. Chin completed her undergraduate studies as a double major in biology and music at the University of Southern California. She subsequently interned as a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health followed by completing a Masters in Public Health at the University of Hong Kong supported by the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship program. She earned her M.D. from Northwestern University followed by a residency in anesthesiology at Yale University. She completed fellowship training in pediatric anesthesiology at the Children’s National Medical Center and fellowship training in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Chin is an attending physician in the Division of Ambulatory Anesthesia and Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She currently divides her time between clinical work, teaching residents and fellows at the bedside, education through workshops and simulation, and coordinating regional anesthesia services at the Hopkins ambulatory surgical centers.