Research Summary

I care for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer and patients with genitourinary malignancies. My research involves improving the delivery of patient-centered care in patients with cancer. This spans decision-making, implementation, outcomes, and disparities research.

Research Funding

  • September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2029 - Improving delivery of germline testing in Veterans with advanced prostate cancer , Co-PI . Sponsor: Department of Defense, Sponsor Award ID: HT94252510667
  • November 1, 2024 - October 31, 2027 - Eliminating Inequities in Prostate Cancer Genetic Testing Access with an Artificial Intelligence - Assisted Health Coach Model , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Prostate Cancer Foundation, Sponsor Award ID:
  • 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
  • November 19, 2021 - November 18, 2023 - MET-PAAM: Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of tumor progression in metastatic prostate cancer among men of African ancestry , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: Prostate Cancer Foundation, Sponsor Award ID:
  • 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. Kwon DH, Trihy L, Darvish N, Hearst E, Sumra S, Borno HT, Bose R, Chou J, de Kouchkovsky I, Desai A, Ekstrand B, Friedlander T, Kaur G, Koshkin VS, Nesheiwat S, Sepucha K, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR, Belkora J. Patients Can Administer Mobile Audio Recordings to Increase Knowledge in Advanced Prostate Cancer. Cancer Med. 2024 Nov; 13(22):e70433.  View on PubMed
  2. Kwon DH, Scheuner MT, McPhaul M, Hearst E, Sumra S, Ursem C, Walker E, Wang S, Huang FW, Aggarwal RR, Belkora J. Germline testing for veterans with advanced prostate cancer: concerns about service-connected benefits. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2024 Sep 02; 8(5).  View on PubMed
  3. Cao JJ, Kwon DH, Ghaziani TT, Kwo P, Tse G, Kesselman A, Kamaya A, Tse JR. Large language models' responses to liver cancer surveillance, diagnosis, and management questions: accuracy, reliability, readability. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2024 12; 49(12):4286-4294.  View on PubMed
  4. Shakhnazaryan N, Gima-Lange L, Desai A, Fitzgerald K, Kwon DH. Accuracy, readability, and quality of websites about metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment. Urol Oncol. 2024 11; 42(11):375.e1-375.e13.  View on PubMed
  5. Reyes KR, Wong P, Petrofsky M, Dai A, Pelayo A, Brondfield S, Kwon DH. Shared decision-making needs, barriers, and facilitators of patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer in the hospital: a multi-level, mixed-methods study. Support Care Cancer. 2024 Apr 29; 32(5):315.  View on PubMed
  6. Aggarwal R, Starzinski S, de Kouchkovsky I, Koshkin V, Bose R, Chou J, Desai A, Kwon D, Kaushal S, Trihy L, Rastogi M, Ippisch R, Aslam M, Friedlander T, Feng F, Oh D, Cheung A, Small E, Evans M, Fong L, Hope TA. Single-dose 177Lu-PSMA-617 followed by maintenance pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: an open-label, dose-expansion, phase 1 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2023 11; 24(11):1266-1276.  View on PubMed
  7. 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, Lopes GL, 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, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Clinical characteristics, racial inequities, and outcomes in patients with breast cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and cancer consortium (CCC19) cohort study. Elife. 2023 10 17; 12.  View on PubMed
  8. Gulati S, Hsu CY, Shah S, Shah PK, Zon R, Alsamarai S, Awosika J, El-Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Beeghly A, Berg S, de-la-Rosa-Martinez D, Doroshow DB, Egan PC, Fein J, Flora DB, Friese CR, Fromowitz A, Griffiths EA, Hwang C, Jani C, Joshi M, Khan H, Klein EJ, Heater NK, Koshkin VS, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Latif T, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nonato T, Polimera HV, Puc M, Razavi P, Ruiz-Garcia E, Saliby RM, Shastri A, Singh SRK, Tagalakis V, Vilar-Compte D, Weissmann LB, Wilkins CR, Wise-Draper TM, Wotman MT, Yoon JJ, Mishra S, Grivas P, Shyr Y, Warner JL, Connors JM, Shah DP, Rosovsky RP, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Systemic Anticancer Therapy and Thromboembolic Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA Oncol. 2023 10 01; 9(10):1390-1400.  View on PubMed
  9. Litt HK, Kwon DH, Velazquez AI. FDG PET Scans in Cancer Care. JAMA Oncol. 2023 09 01; 9(9):1304.  View on PubMed
  10. Moey MYY, Hennessy C, French B, Warner JL, Tucker MD, Hausrath DJ, Shah DP, DeCara JM, Bakouny Z, Labaki C, Choueiri TK, Dent S, Akhter N, Ismail-Khan R, Tachiki L, Slosky D, Polonsky TS, Awosika JA, Crago A, Wise-Draper T, Balanchivadze N, Hwang C, Fecher LA, Gomez CG, Hayes-Lattin B, Glover MJ, Shah SA, Gopalakrishnan D, Griffiths EA, Kwon DH, Koshkin VS, Mahmood S, Bashir B, Nonato T, Razavi P, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Oligino E, Puc M, Tregubenko P, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Xie Z, Halfdanarson TR, Farmakiotis D, Klein EJ, Robilotti EV, Riely GJ, Durand JB, Hayek SS, Kondapalli L, Berg S, O'Connor TE, Bilen MA, Castellano C, Accordino MK, Sibel B, Weissmann LB, Jani C, Flora DB, Rudski L, Dutra MS, Nathaniel B, Ruíz-García E, Vilar-Compte D, Gupta S, Morgans A, Nohria A, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. COVID-19 severity and cardiovascular outcomes in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer and cardiovascular disease. Transl Oncol. 2023 Aug; 34:101709.  View on PubMed
  11. Cao JJ, Kwon DH, Ghaziani TT, Kwo P, Tse G, Kesselman A, Kamaya A, Tse JR. Accuracy of Information Provided by ChatGPT Regarding Liver Cancer Surveillance and Diagnosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2023 10; 221(4):556-559.  View on PubMed
  12. Jindal T, Zhang L, Deshmukh P, Reyes K, Chan E, Kumar V, Zhu X, Maldonado E, Feng S, Johnson M, Angelidakis A, Kwon D, Desai A, Borno HT, Bose R, Wong A, Hong J, Carroll P, Meng M, Porten S, Aggarwal R, Small EJ, Fong L, Chou J, Friedlander T, de Kouchkovsky I, Koshkin VS. Impact of Squamous Histology on Clinical Outcomes and Molecular Profiling in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors or Enfortumab Vedotin. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2023 10; 21(5):e394-e404.  View on PubMed
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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 05; 9(3):405-406.  View on PubMed
  16. 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 05; 19(5):e773-e783.  View on PubMed
  17. 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
  18. Kwon DH, Velazquez AI, de Kouchkovsky I. PSMA PET Scan. JAMA Oncol. 2022 12 01; 8(12):1860.  View on PubMed
  19. 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 03; 41(3):145.e7-145.e15.  View on PubMed
  20. 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

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