Dr. Pouliot completed a doctoral degree at the University of Montreal in Human Physiology, followed by a fellowship at McGill University on multidrug resistance in cancer. With broad experience in clinical development, he worked on numerous phase I – III programs leading to innovative drug approvals, including Imatinib in chronic myelogenous leukemia, Temozolomide in brain tumors, and Pembrolizumab in melanoma and lung cancer. Hover the years, fostered numerous academia-industry collaborations and investigator-driven initiatives across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. At Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, he leads the global medical affairs team in lung cancer and other solid tumors.

Danielle Hicks is Chief Patient Officer at GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer and has been working in lung cancer non-profit for the past 13 years. She is responsible for all aspects of patient programming, services, engagement and empowerment along with strategic insight and planning around lung cancer awareness and education. Through personal history with lung cancer, Bonnie Addario is her mother, she has had hands on experience as a caregiver as it relates to lung cancer the disease, treatments, the emotional and physical experience along with experience through survivorship. She has developed multiple patient education programs and educational publications that have reach in 143 countries around the world. In her role she directly touches patients, caregivers, physicians, nurses and industry professionals. She attends scientific meetings specific to lung cancer, has sat on multiple advisory boards, and has experience with speaking engagements across the lung cancer community.

Lesli Kiedrowski is the Director of Medical Affairs in Oncology at Guardant Health. She and her team collaborate with clinician and biopharma partners to advance the fields of liquid biopsy and precision oncology through research projects ranging from clinical utility and implementation of genomic profiling to exploratory biomarker assessment. Prior to joining the team at Guardant Health six years ago, Lesli worked in clinical care as a genetic counselor, primarily seeing patients for hereditary cancer risk assessment and management.

Hillary Stires serves as a Science Policy Analyst at Friends of Cancer Research (Friends). Friends is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that drives collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy, and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients. For more than two decades, Friends has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of policies ensuring patients receive the best treatments in the fastest and safest way possible. At Friends, Hillary supports the development and implementation of the organization’s research and policy agenda. She uses her scientific and advocacy background to develop evidence based policies. Hillary collaborates with diverse teams to identify challenges in cancer research and create solutions that improve and accelerate cancer care for patients. She runs Friends’ ctDNA for Monitoring Treatment Response (ctMoniTR) Project, a first of its kind partnership working to answer the important question: Do changes in ctDNA reflect response to treatment? Hillary received her PhD in endocrinology and animal biosciences from Rutgers University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in tumor biology at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focused on tumor development and drug resistance in hormone dependent breast cancer.