Movers & Shakers

Day: August 15, 2026

Dr. Steven Schiff: Advancing Pediatric Neurosurgery and Global Health

Dr. Steven Schiff is a U.S.-based physician-scientist whose career has combined pediatric neurosurgery, infectious disease research, engineering and global health. Based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Schiff has spent decades investigating neurological disorders in children and developing innovative approaches to medical problems that affect vulnerable populations around the world. Schiff is the Harvey […]

Dr. Vinod Balachandran: Developing Personalized Cancer Vaccines for Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. Vinod P. Balachandran is a New York-based surgeon-scientist whose work is helping explore a new frontier in cancer treatment: personalized vaccines designed to train the immune system to recognize and attack a patient’s own cancer cells. Balachandran is a hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon and physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where he serves as […]

Dr. Kenneth Liao: Transforming Heart Surgery Through Robotic Innovation

Dr. Kenneth K. Liao is a Houston-based cardiothoracic surgeon who is helping reshape the future of heart surgery through robotic and minimally invasive techniques. As chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of cardiothoracic transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, […]