Research Summary

I am a physician-investigator. I care for patients with advanced cancer who are hospitalized and patients with genitourinary malignancies, such as prostate cancer. My research interests involve improving patient-centered outcomes for patients with cancer. This includes patient decision-making support, outcomes research, survivorship, cognition, and biomarkers. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as implementation science methods.

Research Funding

  • April 1, 2022 - March 30, 2026 - Improving Informed Decision-Making for Precision Oncology in Veterans with Advanced Prostate Cancer , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Department of Defense, Sponsor Award ID: W81XWH2210159
  • August 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022 - Consultation audio recordings to improve informed treatment decision-making in patients with advanced prostate cancer , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Conquer Cancer/ANCO, Sponsor Award ID: P0549228

Education

  • 2021 ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop
  • 2021 Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology, UCSF
  • 2018 Residency, Internal Medicine, UCSF
  • 2015 M.D., UCLA
  • 2011 B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Honors & Awards

  • 2020,  GU ASCO Merit Award
  • 2020 - 2021 Rosenberg Endowed Fellowship
  • 2021 GU ASCO Merit Award

Selected Publications

  1. Jindal T, Zhu X, Bose R, Kumar V, Maldonado E, Deshmukh P, Shipp C, Feng S, Johnson MS, Angelidakis A, Kwon D, Borno HT, de Kouchkovsky I, Desai A, Aggarwal R, Fong L, Small EJ, Wong A, Porten S, Chou J, Friedlander T, Koshkin VS. Somatic alterations of TP53 and MDM2 associated with response to enfortumab vedotin in patients with advanced urothelial cancer. Front Oncol. 2023; 13:1161089.  View on PubMed
  2. Nagaraj G, Vinayak S, Khaki AR, Sun T, Kuderer NM, Aboulafia DM, Acoba JD, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Balmaceda NB, Bao T, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bindal P, Blau S, Bodin BE, Borno HT, Castellano C, Choi H, Deeken J, Desai A, Edwin N, Feldman LE, Flora DB, Friese CR, Galsky MD, Gonzalez CJ, Grivas P, Gupta S, Haynam M, Heilman H, Hershman DL, Hwang C, Jani C, Jhawar SR, Joshi M, Kaklamani V, Klein EJ, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Lammers PE, Lathrop KI, Lewis MA, Li X, de Lima Lopes G, Lyman GH, Makower DF, Mansoor AH, Markham MJ, Mashru SH, McKay RR, Messing I, Mico V, Nadkarni R, Namburi S, Nguyen RH, Nonato TK, O'Connor TL, Panagiotou OA, Park K, Patel JM, Patel KG, Peppercorn J, Polimera H, Puc M, Rao YJ, Razavi P, Reid SA, Riess JW, Rivera DR, Robson M, Rose SJ, Russ AD, Schapira L, Shah PK, Shanahan MK, Shapiro LC, Smits M, Stover DG, Streckfuss M, Tachiki L, Thompson MA, Tolaney SM, Weissmann LB, Wilson G, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Mishra S, French B, Warner JL, Lustberg MB, Accordino MK, Shah DP. Clinical Characteristics, Racial Inequities, and Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Cohort Study. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 10.  View on PubMed
  3. Kwon DH, Aggarwal RR. Intermittent Hormonal Therapy in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer Is Worth Considering Because of Mitigation of Cardiovascular Events and Reduction of Other Effects. Eur Urol Focus. 2023 Jan 21.  View on PubMed
  4. Kwon DH, Gordon KM, Tong B, Borno HT, Beigh M, Fattah D, Schleicher A, Aggarwal RR, Blanco AM, Small EJ, Dhawan M. Implementation of a Telehealth Genetic Testing Station to Deliver Germline Testing for Men With Prostate Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Jan 12; OP2200638.  View on PubMed
  5. Bakouny Z, Labaki C, Grover P, Awosika J, Gulati S, Hsu CY, Alimohamed SI, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bowles D, Castellano C, Desai A, Elkrief A, Eton OE, Fecher LA, Flora D, Galsky MD, Gatti-Mays ME, Gesenhues A, Glover MJ, Gopalakrishnan D, Gupta S, Halfdanarson TR, Hayes-Lattin B, Hendawi M, Hsu E, Hwang C, Jandarov R, Jani C, Johnson DB, Joshi M, Khan H, Khan SA, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Matar S, McKay RR, Mishra S, Moria FA, Nizam A, Nock NL, Nonato TK, Panasci J, Pomerantz L, Portuguese AJ, Provenzano D, Puc M, Rao YJ, Rhodes TD, Riely GJ, Ripp JJ, Rivera AV, Ruiz-Garcia E, Schmidt AL, Schoenfeld AJ, Schwartz GK, Shah SA, Shaya J, Subbiah S, Tachiki LM, Tucker MD, Valdez-Reyes M, Weissmann LB, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Xie Z, Yang YJ, Thompson MA, Shah DP, Warner JL, Shyr Y, Choueiri TK, Wise-Draper TM, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Interplay of Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy Among Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA Oncol. 2023 01 01; 9(1):128-134.  View on PubMed
  6. Kwon DH, Velazquez AI, de Kouchkovsky I. PSMA PET Scan. JAMA Oncol. 2022 12 01; 8(12):1860.  View on PubMed
  7. Kwon DH, Shakhnazaryan N, Shui D, Hong JC, Mohamad O, de Kouchkovsky I, Borno HT, Bose R, Chou J, Desai A, Fong L, Friedlander TW, Koshkin VS, Aggarwal RR, Feng FY, Hope TA, Small EJ. Serial stereotactic body radiation therapy for oligometastatic prostate cancer detected by novel PET-based radiotracers. Urol Oncol. 2023 Mar; 41(3):145.e7-145.e15.  View on PubMed
  8. Wagner MJ, Hennessy C, Beeghly A, French B, Shah DP, Croessmann S, Vilar-Compte D, Ruiz-Garcia E, Ingham M, Schwartz GK, Painter CA, Chugh R, Fecher L, Park C, Zamulko O, Trent JC, Subbiah V, Khaki AR, Tachiki L, Nakasone ES, Loggers ET, Labaki C, Saliby RM, McKay RR, Ajmera A, Griffiths EA, Puzanov I, Tap WD, Hwang C, Tejwani S, Jhawar SR, Hayes-Lattin B, Wulff-Burchfield E, Kasi A, Reuben DY, Nagaraj G, Joshi M, Polimera H, Kulkarni AA, Esfahani K, Kwon DH, Paoluzzi L, Bilen MA, Durbin EB, Grivas P, Warner JL, Davis EJ, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Demographics, Outcomes, and Risk Factors for Patients with Sarcoma and COVID-19: A CCC19-Registry Based Retrospective Cohort Study. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Sep 05; 14(17).  View on PubMed
  9. Kwon DH, Paciorek A, Zhang L, Borno HT, Bucknor M, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR. Skeletal-related events after abiraterone or enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A population-based study using the SEER-Medicare linked dataset. Urol Oncol. 2022 08; 40(8):379.e17-379.e24.  View on PubMed
  10. Rubinstein SM, Bhutani D, Lynch RC, Hsu CY, Shyr Y, Advani S, Mesa RA, Mishra S, Mundt DP, Shah DP, Sica RA, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Stratton C, Weiss M, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Accordino M, Assouline SE, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Castellano CA, Cogan JC, Kc D, Friese CR, Gupta S, Hausrath D, Hwang C, Johnson NA, Joshi M, Kasi A, Klein EJ, Koshkin VS, Kuderer NM, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Latif T, Lau E, Li X, Lyman GH, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Nizam A, Nonato TK, Olszewski AJ, Polimera HV, Portuguese AJ, Puc MM, Razavi P, Rosovski R, Schmidt A, Shah SA, Shastri A, Su C, Torka P, Wise-Draper TM, Zubiri L, Warner JL, Thompson MA, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Patients Recently Treated for B-lymphoid Malignancies Show Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022 05 05; 3(3):181-193.  View on PubMed
  11. Shah NJ, Patel VG, Zhong X, Pina L, Hawley JE, Lin E, Gartrell BA, Febles VA, Wise DR, Qin Q, Mellgard G, Joshi H, Nauseef JT, Green DA, Vlachostergios PJ, Kwon DH, Huang F, Liaw B, Tagawa S, Kantoff P, Morris MJ, Oh WK. The Impact of Androgen Deprivation Therapy on COVID-19 Illness in Men With Prostate Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2022 05 02; 6(3).  View on PubMed
  12. Kwon DH, Cadena J, Nguyen S, Chan KHR, Soper B, Gryshuk AL, Hong JC, Ray P, Huang FW. COVID-19 outcomes in patients with cancer: Findings from the University of California health system database. Cancer Med. 2022 06; 11(11):2204-2215.  View on PubMed
  13. Satyanarayana G, Enriquez KT, Sun T, Klein EJ, Abidi M, Advani SM, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Berg S, Bernardes M, Egan PC, Elkrief A, Feldman LE, Friese CR, Goel S, Gomez CG, Grant KL, Griffiths EA, Gulati S, Gupta S, Hwang C, Jain J, Jani C, Kaltsas A, Kasi A, Khan H, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Lyman GH, McKay RR, McNair C, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nguyen R, Nonato TK, Olszewski AJ, Panagiotou OA, Puc M, Razavi P, Robilotti EV, Santos-Dutra M, Schmidt AL, Shah DP, Shah SA, Vieira K, Weissmann LB, Wise-Draper TM, Wu U, Wu JT, Choueiri TK, Mishra S, Warner JL, French B, Farmakiotis D. Coinfections in Patients With Cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Mar; 9(3):ofac037.  View on PubMed
  14. Kwon DH, Karthikeyan S, Chang A, Borno HT, Koshkin VS, Desai A, Bose R, Friedlander T, Rodvelt T, Li P, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR, Belkora J. Mobile Audio Recording Technology to Promote Informed Decision Making in Advanced Prostate Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 05; 18(5):e648-e658.  View on PubMed
  15. de Kouchkovsky I, Zhang L, Philip EJ, Wright F, Kim DM, Natesan D, Kwon D, Ho H, Ho S, Chan E, Porten SP, Wong AC, Desai A, Huang FW, Chou J, Oh DY, Pruthi RS, Fong L, Small EJ, Friedlander TW, Koshkin VS. TERT promoter mutations and other prognostic factors in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma treated with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. J Immunother Cancer. 2021 05; 9(5).  View on PubMed
  16. Tsu-Yu Wu J, Kwon DH, Glover M, Henry S, Wood D, Rubin D, Koshkin V, Schapira L, Shah SA. Reply to R. Kebudi et al. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 06; 17(6):364.  View on PubMed
  17. Kwon DH, Booth CM, Prasad V. Untangling the PROfound Trial for Advanced Prostate Cancer: Is There Really a Role for Olaparib? Eur Urol. 2021 06; 79(6):710-712.  View on PubMed
  18. Kwon DH, Chou J, Yip SM, Reimers MA, Zhang L, Wright F, Dhawan MS, Borno HT, Desai A, Aggarwal RR, Wyatt AW, Small EJ, Alva AS, Chi KN, Feng FY, Koshkin VS. Differential treatment outcomes in BRCA1/2-, CDK12-, and ATM-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Cancer. 2021 06 15; 127(12):1965-1973.  View on PubMed
  19. Kwon DH, Vashisht R, Borno HT, Aggarwal RR, Small EJ, Butte AJ, Huang FW. Androgen-deprivation therapy and SARS-CoV-2 in men with prostate cancer: findings from the University of California Health System registry. Ann Oncol. 2021 05; 32(5):678-679.  View on PubMed
  20. Wu JT, Kwon DH, Glover MJ, Henry S, Wood D, Rubin DL, Koshkin VS, Schapira L, Shah SA. Changes in Cancer Management due to COVID-19 Illness in Patients with Cancer in Northern California. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Mar; 17(3):e377-e385.  View on PubMed

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