Medical Oncologist
Dr. Adashek is the inaugural member of the TRACK Mentern program, providing early-career physicians with an opportunity for mentorship and participation on the TRACK Virtual Molecular Tumor Board. Dr Adashek has worked on numerous projects and papers under the guidance and direction of TRACK PIs Dr. Razelle Kurzrock, Dr. Vivek Subbiah, and Dr. Shumei Kato. He has been acquiring vast firsthand knowledge as their mentee since 2018. Dr. Adashek has a special interest in precision medicine and personalized therapies in addition to first-in-human clinical trials.
He completed his medical oncology fellowship at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and has cared for patients with a wide range of cancers. Dr. Adashek’s extensive research experience is evident in his publications of over 100 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals such as Nature Clinical Reviews Oncology and JAMA Oncology. He has also presented his work at national and international conferences. Before training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Adashek completed his internal medicine residency at the University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Before that, he completed a rigorous 7-year combined degree program, including an accelerated undergraduate degree at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges and a medical degree at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. Additionally, he spent a year training in clinical research in the genitourinary oncology section at the City of Hope. Dr. Adashek is also the current Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Trainee & Early Career Advisory Group.