Mike Pishvaian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Pishvaian completed his undergraduate training at Duke, and earned both his MD and PhD (in Tumor Biology) from Georgetown in 2001.  He remained at Georgetown after graduation, completing his medical residency in 2004, then his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology in 2007.  He served on the faculty at Georgetown until moving to MD Anderson in 2019.  At MD Anderson, he was the co-director for Clinical Research at the Zayed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research.  He then moved to Johns Hopkins, where he works in the Washington, DC National Capitol Region, leading the GI and Phase I programs there.  On social media, Dr. Pishvaian is also the Founder of Tumor Board Tuesdays, a case-based weekly discussion on Twitter focusing on interesting biomarker-based therapies.
Dr. Pishvaian is a translational oncologist, focused on providing novel therapies for patients, particularly in the areas of pancreatic cancer and refractory colorectal cancer.  His work has been focused in the area of precision medicine, with a special focus on therapy targeted towards homologous recombination DNA repair deficient tumors, and Dr. Pishvaian is a Co-investigator on an NIH RO1 to study mechanisms of resistance to PARP inhibitor-based therapy, and a Co-PI of a U01 grant aimed at studying ex vivo patient derived models of cancer for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Dr. Pishvaian is recognized as a leader in the field of Pancreatic Cancer, and has published over 100 articles.  He has been an invited speaker at numerous academic centers in the United States and around the world.  He is also the National Study Chair or Co-Chair of several large Phase II and Phase III trials in pancreatic cancer.  He serves as the Alliance Co-Chair of the Pancreatic Cancer subcommittee, and is the Alliance member of the NIH Pancreatic Cancer Task Force, and serves as a member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and for Let’s Win PC.
Mike lives in Maryland with his family and enjoys playing tennis, cooking, and gardening in his free time.