he oversees the clinical, research, and teaching missions of the cancer institute and its component organizations that include satellite clinical and clinical research locations that are dispersed throughout West Virginia.

Considered an international leader in gastrointestinal cancer treatment and research as well as in leadership of cancer programs in academic medicine He has published more than 320 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His clinical interests are in management of patients with malignancies originating in the gastrointestinal tract, particularly colorectal and neuroendocrine cancers. His research focuses on defining new treatments, elucidating inherited cancer susceptibility, and identification of predictive and prognostic factors in GI cancers. He helps to lead the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology as the Associate Group Chair of this NCI funded organization that is a member of the National Clinical Trials Network. The Alliance conducts clinical trials and does translational research across the US and Canada.

He is a sought after lecturer at academic centers and scientific conferences across the nation and the world. He has mentored many MD, MD/PhD, and PhD doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty over his 33 years as a medical oncologist in academic settings.