Tara E. Seery is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating cancers of the pancreas, esophagus, colon, rectum, anus, and liver. She has extensive experience in pancreatic cancer, including multiple publications, and is one of the highest enrollers in an early phase pancreatic cancer trial.

Dr. Seery received her M.D. from University College Dublin School of Medicine after receiving her B.S. from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Seery did her residency and fellowship training in hematology/oncology at Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston and completed her fellowship training at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Seery also served as Associate Professor at UC Irvine in the Division of Hematology Oncology where she received the prestigious C. Ronal Koons, M.D. Humanitarian Award for service and compassion to patients.

Compassion and hope have driven Dr. Seery toward specializing in gastro-intestinal cancers. Although no one in her family is in medicine, she has been passionate about becoming a physician since she was five years old. Dr. Seery states that “joining CSSIFM is exciting because we are offering patients more hope, a better quality of life, and our future is to cure cancer.” Her plan is to help lead the pancreatic cancer studies for CSSIFM.

She enjoys teaching and was recently featured at the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Annual Lecture Series. Her research experience includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy and intraoperative chemotherapy for resectable pancreatic cancer and Corydalis Yanhusuo for prevention of chemotherapy induced neuropathy. She has been the primary investigator for 20 oncology trials. Dr. Seery has been published numerous times, has many abstracts, and is an invited speaker around the world.

Dr. Seery has lived in Southern California since 2010, enjoys running and spending time with her husband and young daughter.

Chaitali Nangia is a nationally renowned medical oncologist who provides leadership and active involvement in clinical trials focusing on immune oncology, precision care, biologics, targeted drugs and hormonal agents. With her expertise in the breast, head, and neck cancers she treats, she focuses on survivorship, quality of life, patient reported outcome and symptom management. Her goal is for each patient to have a high quality of life during and after treatment.

Dr. Nangia is published in many areas, including head and neck cancers, breast cancers, thyroid cancers, salivary gland tumors, rare tumors and skin cancers. Most recently, she practiced at UC Irvine where she was the HS Associate Clinical professor in the Division of Hematology Oncology and the Associate Program Director for the hematology oncology fellowship program. Dr. Nangia has received many awards, including Teacher of the Year for UC Irvine’s Hematology Oncology Division for an impressive three times in a row, NCI Clinician Award and Orange County Medical Association Physician of Excellence award.

Karen has been a registered nurse for over 14 years. She earned her ADN at Los Angeles Harbor College. After graduating, she began her career at a local hospital on a Medical-Surgical Oncology unit. During her years of floor nursing, she was known for making sure her patients received the highest level of care. She received a Daisy award for providing compassionate and quality care to her patients. While working in her local hospital she explored other opportunities and trained to be a Wound Ostomy and Continence nurse. She also worked in an Ambulatory Infusion center and continued to care for Oncology patients. Her interest in nursing did not stop there. She went on to work as an ER nurse. At that time she pursued her Bachelor’s degree at University of Phoenix and obtained a BSN. After years of the ER she decided to come back to Oncology and care for patients in the clinical research setting. While at CSSIFM she has expanded her knowledge and is part of the Apheresis team. She enjoys spending time with friends and her 3 boys.

Sharon received her undergraduate degree from University of California, San Diego, and her Pharm.D. degree from University of California, San Francisco.
She is responsible for providing oversight of the pharmacy and investigational drugs. Sharon brings more than 25 years of experience as an investigational drug pharmacist to the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Medicine. Prior to joining CSSIFM in 2017, Sharon was an investigational drug pharmacist at the City of Hope. When not at work, Sharon is an active volunteer with the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue. She also visits at assisted living facilities with her two certified therapy dogs. She enjoys paper crafting and teaching classes at an assisted living facility.

Jeanne received her PharmD degree from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her undergraduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Business Administration at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

She is responsible for oversight of the pharmacy and investigational drugs. In her free time, she loves to hike, cook and bake, try new restaurants, and drink matcha.

Wendy received her MPH from the University of Southern California. She has 5 years of experience in this field and is responsible for managing the clinical data of ongoing trials and ensuring the quality of the data.

Mini’s passion in research started during her undergraduate years at UCLA. She then went onto graduate school and has been in clinical oncology research for over 10 years with a focus on brain tumors, solid tumors, and advanced malignancies. Helping to provide therapies to advance discoveries in research has been her goal. During her time away from work, she enjoys walking, relaxing with some nice music.