Dr. Aronson grew up in New York city and went to college at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  He attended Yale’s Schools of Medicine and Public Health and graduated with both MD and MPH degrees.  He trained in Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and in Hematology and Oncology at Tufts-New England Medical Center.  Afterwards, he remained at Tufts where his focus was laboratory research.  After 5 years, he left Tufts for UCSF, where he was the Director of the Biological Response Modifiers Program doing National Cancer Institute-funded research in cancer immunotherapy, teaching, and caring for patients.  He has been actively involved in Clinical Research for over thirty years, serving as Principal Investigator on a large number of Clinical Trials.

In 1993, Dr. Aronson moved back to New England. He continues to teach at Tufts University School of Medicine while maintaining practice at New England Cancer Specialists. He lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife, who is also a physician. He is an avid, but not very talented, golfer and a long-time fly fisherman.

Over the past 35 years, Dr. Ernstoff has focused his clinical research in expanding our understanding or the immunobiology of human cancer and the development of new immune therapies for renal cell carcinoma, melanoma, glioblastoma multiforme and others. He completed his cancer immunology and immunotherapy training in the clinical research and laboratory program of John M. Kirkwood while at Yale University. He continued to develop my experience and qualifications as a translational immunotherapy clinical scientist while at Yale and the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. He currently serves on the executive committee of the Cancer Immunotherapy Trial Network and on the executive council of the Cytokine Working Group.  Dr. Ernstoff has published over 200 original research manuscripts in the areas of renal cell cancer, melanoma and immune therapy strategies including cytokine therapies, dendritic cell vaccines, immune checkpoint inhibition, targeted therapies and ex vivo expanded effector cells for adoptive transfer. His NCI supported clinical trials aimed at minimizing regulatory and suppressive pathways, and enhancing existent tumor specific immune function. His laboratory has developed phenotypic, functional and molecular assays as biomarkers to enable us to explore the immune response to disease and therapy. While at University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, he was the Director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program and PI on a T32 Training award from the NCI. Over the years he has successfully mentored over 50 residents, postdoctoral/fellows, and junior faculty. Dr. Ernstoff is currently the Chair of the Department of Medicine and the SVP of Clinical Investigation at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, in Buffalo NY.  He also serves as the Chief of the Division of Oncology and the Professor of Medicine, in the Department of Medicine, at the State University of New York, at Buffalo.

Dr. Francis is a native of New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Union College and his medical degree at Albany Medical College.  He completed residency in Internal Medicine at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University Medical Center, where he also served as Assistant Chief Medical Resident. He completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and a fellowship in Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Following fellowship, Dr. Francis was on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital for 6 years where he served as the founding Director of the Cardio-Oncology Program and maintained an active role in education at MGH and Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Francis currently serves as the Director of Education for the Cardiovascular Institute at Maine Medical Center and is a member of Maine Medical Partners - MaineHealth Cardiology where he practices general cardiology, advanced imaging and leads the cardio-oncology program.

Nicole graduated from the University of Vermont in 1998 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing and since then has worked as an oncology nurse at The University of Vermont Medical Center in a variety of roles, including staff nurse on the in-patient oncology unit and as a primary nurse in the Department of Surgical Oncology. She has been in her current role as the Upper GI nurse navigator since the initiation of the Upper GI Multidisciplinary Care Cancer Clinic in January, 2007 and the nurse navigator for the GU Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Clinic, initiated in March 2012.