Lopa Mishra, M.D. is currently Director, Center for Translational Medicine, Department of Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Heatlh Sciences. Dr. Mishra was at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas from December 2009 until 2015, as Professor and Chair of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. In 2010, she was named holder of the endowed position: Del & Dennis McCarthy Distinguished Professorship. Dr. Mishra also served as Associate Director of the Texas Digestive Diseases Center, an NCI-funded, multi-investigator program project in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. Her research has led to more than 200 peer review articles. She has mentored over 70 physicians and scientists- many to leadership positions in academic medicine and science.
