The ASCO Nominating Committee has selected 13 distinguished members as candidates for open leadership positions within the Society.
President-Elect: Deb Schrag, MD, MPH, FASCO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Schrag is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist who currently serves as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering and as Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She is a population scientist and health services researcher who has worked to improve the
Deb Schrag, MD, MPH, FASCO
quality, effectiveness and experience of cancer care. Dr. Schrag attended Medical School at Columbia Presbyterian, trained in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and completed her fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to MSK, she served as Chief of the Division of Population Sciences at Dana Farber and as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schrag has served ASCO in a variety of roles including chair for the Health Services Committee and as a member of the Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee, Quality and Practice Guidelines Committee, the Joint Special Awards Selection Committee, and as mentor for the Leadership Develop Program and member of the ASCO Board of Directors.
Open Positions and Candidates
Members will also be voting for the following positions:
Board of Directors: Designated Community Oncologist
- Piyush Srivastava, MD, FASCO, Kaiser Permanente
- Dan Zuckerman, MD, FASCO, St. Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Board of Directors: Designated International Oncologist
- Herbert Ho-fung Loong, MBBS, FRCP, FASCO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- C.S. Pramesh, MBBS, MS, FRCS, Tata Memorial Center, India
Board of Directors: Designated Radiation Oncologist
- Melvin L.K. Chua, PhD, MBBS, FRCR, FASCO, National Cancer Centre Singapore
- Karyn A. Goodman, MD, MS, FASTRO, FACR, FASCO, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Board of Directors: Undesignated Member
- Dawn L. Hershman, MD, MS, FASCO, Columbia University
- W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, FASCO, Arthur James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University
Nominating Committee: Undesignated Member
- Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
- Wells A. Messersmith, MD, FACP, FASCO, University of Colorado
- Mina S. Sedrak, MD, MS, FASCO, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Ana I. Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSc, FASCO, University of California, San Francisco
The voting period closes on Monday December 8, 2025, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, USA. All ballots (online or paper) must be received by this time.
Election results will be announced mid-December 2025 and newly elected leaders will begin their terms in office in June 2026. Please contact ASCOElection@ASCO.org with any questions.
