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Our Team

“We are clinicians, researchers, advocates, and community leaders united by a shared purpose: to stop stomach cancer where it hits hardest.

Our team brings together medical expertise, public health leadership, and lived community experience.”

Leadership Team

President

Chul S. Hyun, MD, PhD, MPH

Vice President

Joe McMenamin, MD, JD

Advisory Board

Chair

Chul S. Hyun, MD, PhD, MPH 

Division of Digestive Disease, 

Yale School of Medicine 

New Haven, CT

Vice Chair

Joe McMenamin, MD, JD, FCLM 

Legal Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University 

 Richmond, VA

Yoon-Kyo An, MD, PhD 

Division of Gastroenterology

University of Queensland School of Medicine 

Brisbane, Australia

Sam Bae, MD

Division of Gastroenterology 

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine    

New York, NY

Steven Brower, MD 

Professor of Surgery,

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai 

New York, NY

Miguel Burch, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology 

Cedar Sinai Medical Center 

Los Angeles, CA

Hearn J. Cho, MD, PhD

Division of Hematology and Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai  

New York, NY

Soo-Jeong Cho, MD, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine

Seoul National University Hospital

Seoul, Korea

Marcia Cruz-Correa, MD, PhD

Division of Gastroenterology  

University of Puerto Rico 

Manami Inoue, MD, PhD, MPH

National Cancer Center

Tokyo, Japan.

 

Eugene Han, MD, MPH   

Division of Gastroenterology 

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

New York, NY 

 

Sung-Hwi Hong, MD, MPH

Yonsei Medical College

Seoul, Korea

 

Won-Jae Huh, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

 

Takuji Gotoda, MD, PhD

Cancer Institute Hospital

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Tokyo, Japan

 

Alex Kim, MD 

Department of Surgery
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine 

New York, NY

 

Hyoung Il Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery

Yonsei Medical College

Seoul, Korea

 

Hyung-Kwon Kim, MD 

Department of Surgery,
Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Hospital   

Sao Paulo, Brazil 

 

Pamela Kunz, MD

Division of Oncology 

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Loren Laine, MD

Division of Digestive Disease, 

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Hye Seung Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology

Seoul National University Hospital

Seoul, Korea

 

Hyuk-Joon Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery and Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine;

Gastric Cancer Center, Seoul National University Cancer Hospital,

Seoul, Korea

 

Chen Liu, MD, PhD 

Department of Pathology, 

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

 

Xavier Llor, MD

Division of Digestive Diseases,  

Yale School of Medicine 

New Haven, CT

 

Xiaomei Ma, PhD

Epidemiology

Yale School of Public Health

New Haven, CT

 

John Marshall, MD 

Division of Oncology
Georgetown University Medical Center 

Washington, DC 

 

Reef Mukherji, MD

Division of Oncology
Georgetown University Medical Center  

Washington, DC 

 

Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD

Division of Digestive Diseases

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

 

Shilpa Murthy, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology

Yale School of Medicine 

New Haven, CT

Jaeil Shin, MD, PhD

Yonsei Medical College

Seoul, Korea

 

Mitch Spinnell, MD 

Division of Gastroenterology  

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine 

New York, NY 

 

Raghav Sundar, MD, PhD

Division of Oncology 

Yale School of Medicine 

New Haven, CT

 

Tamar Taddei, MD 

Div of Digestive Diseases 

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

 

Rong Wang, PhD

Epidemiology

Yale School of Public Health

New Haven, CT

 

F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE

Department of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT 

 

Han-Kwang Yang, MD, PhD

Division of Surgical Oncology

Seoul National University 

Seoul, Korea

 

Xuchen Zhang, MD, PhD

Dept of Pathology, 

Yale School of Medicine 

New Haven, CT

Partners and Collaborators

LOCATION

2460 Lemoine Avenue, #400P,

Fort Lee, NJ 07024

The Stomach Cancer Task Force (SCTF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

We are dedicated to eliminating disparities in stomach cancer through community-based screening, education, research, and advocacy—with a focus on high-risk immigrant populations.

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