Jordan Berlin, MD is an Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC). He is Director the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Director of Phase I research at VICC. He is a recognized expert in Gastrointestinal Cancers Translational Research and early phase drug development across a range of cancers, has been co-PI of the Vanderbilt GI SPORE and is the Chair of the ECOG-ACRIN GI Committee. He is past Chair of the Overall Program for the GI Cancers Symposium (aka ASCO GI) and served as chair of the Pancreas Cancer Task Force for the NCI GI Steering Committee. He holds a UM1 to conduct trials in the Early Therapeutics Clincial Trials Network and serves on the National Cancer Institute’s Investigational Drug Steering Committee. He is also chair of the NCCN Investigaotr Steering Committee and has served on multiple guidelines committees in the past.