Clinical & Translational Investigators in Skin Cancer

Ongoing Projects, Research and Efforts

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All MCC Registry Clinical Trials Data Science Biomarkers Clinical Educator Real World Data Regulatory Medicine

Clinical Educator

Participating in the education of tomorrow’s clinicians

Real World Data Analysis

Optimizing Real World Data Collection

Clinical Trials for Skin Cancer

Investigating novel therapies for patients with advanced skin cancer

Biomarkers of Response and Resistance to Cancer Therapy

Investigating why patients do or do not respond to cancer therapies

Data Science Tool Development

Developing Data Science tools to facilitate clinical and translational research

Evolving Landscape of Regulatory Medicine

Evaluating the evolving landscape of regulatory medicine in Cutaneous Oncology and Dermatology

Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patient Registry

Developing a multi-institutional Patient Registry.

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

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David Michael Miller

Medical Oncologist and Dermatologist

Clinical And Translational Research, Advanced Skin Cancer, Data Science, R

Fellows

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Sophia Shalhout

Cutaneous Oncology Research Fellow

Clinical and Biomedical Informatics, Immuno-oncology/Cutaneous Oncology, R/Data Science

Students

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Farees Saqlain

Medical Student

Clinical And Translational Research, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Researchers

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Dayo Akinyemi

Data Manager

Clinical And Translational Research, Public Health, Travel, Sports, Food

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Kayla Wright

Clerical Data Abstractor

Biomedical Research, Photography

Recent & Upcoming Talks

MCC Patient Registry - Lessons Learned on Data Capture

Feb 26, 2021 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
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Work Up and Management of Cutaneous Melanoma

Pearls for the work up and management of cutaneous melanoma
Feb 25, 2021 8:00 AM — 10:00 AM Online
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Project Data Sphere & MCC patient Registry- From Promise to Prototype to Patient

We provide updates and future directions of the PDS-GOBDA MCC Registry
Feb 23, 2021 7:00 AM — 8:00 AM Virtual Meeting
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Developing Immunotherapy for Advanced Disease - Leveraging the Tumorigenesis of Basal Cell Skin Cancer – A Whiteboard View

Pearls for the Management of Advanced BCC
Jan 27, 2021 6:00 AM — 7:15 AM Maui Derm
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Project Data Sphere & MCC patient Registry- From Promise to Prototype to Patient

We provide updates and future directions of the PDS-GOBDA MCC Registry
Jan 22, 2021 10:00 AM — Jan 29, 2021 11:10 AM Virtual Meeting
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Work Up and Management

Pearls for the Work Up & Management of CSCC
Sep 9, 2020 9:00 PM — 10:00 PM UMass Memorial Dermatology
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The Evolving Landscape of Regulatory Medicine in Cutaneous Oncology

Analysis of the changing regulatory environment in skin cancer
Sep 9, 2020 6:30 PM — 7:30 PM UMass Memorial Department of Dermatology
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Management of Cutaneous Melanoma

Pearls for the management of cutaneous melanoma
Aug 21, 2020 7:45 AM — 8:45 AM Massachusetts General Hospital
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The MCC Patient Registry - Updates and Future Directions

Aug 7, 2020 1:30 PM — 3:00 PM
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Salt, Water, Urine, EAV

Practical pearls to help evaluate hyponatremia
May 24, 2020 10:45 AM Massachusetts General Hospital
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Recent Posts

FlexDashboards for Clinical and Translational Research

A monograph on how to create Dashboards using R via a package called flexdashboard
Jan 5, 2021 24 min read

A REDCap-to-R Pipeline for Interactive Body Map Visualizations in Cutaneous Oncology

A data science tool for interactive visualizations of skin cancer lesions
Last updated on Dec 13, 2020 1 min read

Communicating CT Research via Website Development with R

This working document is a rough user guide on how to create a website using R via a package called blogdown
Dec 14, 2020 11 min read

Optimizing Real-World Data Collection: Clinical Genomics

Facilitate capture of real-world next-generation genomic data
Last updated on Jan 5, 2021 11 min read

Reference Management in RMarkdown

Integrate your EndNote library into RMarkdown
Last updated on Jan 6, 2021 4 min read
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Publications

Real-world assessment of response to anti-PD1 therapy in advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

We provide a real-world assessment of response to anti-PD1 therapy in advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
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A REDCap-Based Operational Tool to Guide Care Coordination in a Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Clinic

We present A REDCap-Based Operational Tool to Guide Care Coordination in a Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Clinic
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Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as multiple immune-related Adverse Events

We present a case of MCC masquerading as Multiple Immune-Related Adverse Events
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Regionally Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma Associated with Paraneoplastic Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Encephalitis

We present a case of MCC presenting with NMDA Receptor Encephalitis.
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Evaluation of the fragility of pivotal trials used to support FDA approval for plaque psoriasis

We evaluate the fragility of pivotal trials used to support FDA approval in Plaque Psoriasis.
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Past and Current Funding

Project Data Sphere’s Mentoring Award in Oncology, Advanced Analytics and Regulatory Science

Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patient Registry
Last updated on Dec 12, 2019

ECOG ACRIN Paul Carbone, MD Fellowship Award

A Novel JAK1 Inhibitor to Overcome BRAF/MEK Inhibitor Resistance in V600-BRAF Mutant Melanoma
Last updated on Dec 12, 2019

American Skin Association Research Grant

JAK1 Inhibition to Overcome BRAF/MEK Inhibitor Resistance in V600-BRAF Mutant Melanoma
Last updated on Dec 12, 2019

American Diabetes Association Physician Scientist Training Award

Umbilical cord blood stem cells as therapy for Diabetes Mellitus
Last updated on Dec 12, 2019

Popular Topics

Clinical Trials Columbia University Medical Center Data Science Dermatology Education Hematology Immunology MCC Registry Medical Oncology Melanoma Merkel Cell Carcinoma MGODS Quality Control Real World Data REDCap Regulatory Medicine Rstudio Sezary Syndrome Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tumor Registries

Contact

Clinical Matters:

For clinical questions, please contact the MGH Cancer Center
Telephone: 617-724-5197
Fax: 617-643-1740

Lab Related Matters

The below contact information is for The Miller Lab related matters

Email

  • 617-726-2667
  • 15 Parkman Street, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
  • Enter Bartlett Hall, to Basement, Room 132
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