Monica Bertagnolli assisted Stephanie Goff in a surgery as part of a clinical trial at NIH Clinical Center

Monica M. Bertagnolli shared on X/Twitter:

“I recently assisted Dr. Stephanie Goff with a surgery as part of a clinical trial at NIH Clinical Center. The operation was a tumor resection, which is part of the protocol to test the effect of using combo immunotherapy drugs in a patient with metastatic melanoma.

Dr. Goff and I worked together when I was a surgeon and she was a fellow in surgical oncology at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It’s a full-circle moment for me to get to now assist her, especially at NIH!”

Source: Monica M. Bertagnolli/X

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA. She previously served as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the field of surgical oncology at Harvard Medical School, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a member of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment and Sarcoma Centers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Bertagnolli is the Founding Chair of the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) executive committee and has held multiple positions nationally, including being Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum.