Ross A. Frommer, JD, is vice president for government and community affairs and associate dean at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He represents the center on legislative and executive branch matters at the federal, state, and local levels, and assists with the development and implementation of programs in the surrounding communities. He is also a lecturer at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Ross has extensive experience working for a variety of congressional offices including as state director for the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). Ross graduated from Tufts University and has a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG, is deputy director, chair of the department of gynecologic oncology, executive director of the Center for Immunotherapy, and co-leader of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Research Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he monitors all research-related initiatives, steering the development of programs and policies designed to transfer scientific discoveries to clinical settings. Dr. Odunsi has a medical degree from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, received postgraduate training at the University of Cambridge, and earned his PhD at the University of Oxford, UK.

S. Elizabeth "Sam" Sharf, RN, BSN, NE-BC, CHTC, is the clinical director of the Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sam oversees administration of the program which offers adult and pediatric stem cell transplants. Additionally, she oversees the largest academic adoptive cellular therapy program in the Southeast, which provides both commercial CAR T and novel Phase I/II clinical trials through UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.