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William P. O’Meara, MD, MPH, is a faculty member at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he also serves as the Assistant Program Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Radiation Oncology Residency Program. Dr. O’Meara earned his medical and public health degrees in 1997 from Tulane University, New Orleans. After completing a medicine internship at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, he performed four years of active duty as a Navy general medical officer where he saw deployments to Guam, Spain and Kosovo. He went on to complete a Radiation Oncology residency and an Image-Guided Radiotherapy fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. After completing training in June 2007, Dr. O’Meara returned to the Navy to serve as an active duty Radiation Oncologist. Sunita A. Borkar, MD, is a resident in the department of Nuclear Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. As an undergraduate, she attended Bombay University in India. She received her medical degree (MBBS) and completed her internship at Pune University in India. Her residency in Nuclear Medicine was done in Mumbai, India, under the guidance of Dr. V. Lele, where she completed her thesis on the prognostic value of 99mTc-Sestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging. Before joining MSKCC, she was a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and then completed her internship at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Hilda E. Stambuk, MD is an Associate Attending Neuroradiologist in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency followed by a two year Neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Florida Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Florida. She lectures nationally and internationally and is also involved in print and web-based educational projects for radiologists. Her research interests include investigation of functional imaging (PET scans and Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI) for the diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance of neurologic and head and neck disease. Stella C. Lymberis, MD, served as an Assistant Attending in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, where she specialized in CNS maligCurr Probl Cancer, November/December 2007

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nancies. She has recently become an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at NYU Medical Center where she will pursue both basic science and clinical research. She earned her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed residency training at NYU Medical Center. Her research interests include CNS and breast malignancies.

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