Global Oncology Team and Partners

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Global partnerships

Two doctors standing in front of a building that displays RD Rwanda and Dartmouth Health logos
Dr. Fidel Rubagumya and Gallican Kubwimana, Executive Director of RD Rwanda (Research and Development NGO) with international collaborating institutions’ logos above

Our primary global oncology locations leverage long-term Dartmouth relationships resulting in collaborations where we are invited and have existing scientific and clinical colleagues. Currently, the primary locations are:

  • Honduras: hrHPV in tumors vs screening samples, multi-organ screening in the rural poor, operationalizing a mobile workplace screening innovation
  • Rwanda: Research on molecular characterizations of breast cancers to determine unique and potentially preventable risk factors, optimizing cervical cancer surveillance for women with HIV; HPV genotyping and Head and Neck Cancer
  • Kosovo: Research mentoring; faculty teaching collaborations; research on metabolic syndrome and breast cancer

We collaborate with shared effort, data, and findings to inform contemporary projects. Coordinated studies and storage of de-identified data benefit multiple investigators from many perspectives.

Program leadership

Three people dressed in bicycling clothes and helmets, standing on a grassy rise over a harbor view in Rwanda
Jane McLaughlin and Mary Chamberlin with a guide ride the Congo Nile Trial in western Rwanda.
  • Oluwatoyin Asojo, PhD
    Dartmouth Cancer Center's Associate Director for Inclusive Excellence
    Dr. Asojo leads DCC's Center for Global Oncology, providing a central point of contact and creating synergies among investigators and clinicians by sourcing and connecting talent and opportunities. This includes working relationships at the Center for Global Health Equity, Mary Chamberlin, and the Research and Patient Support philanthropic fund. Our Global Oncology programs at DCC have been critical to recruiting a diverse and intellectually rigorous faculty. Internationally, our focus is relationship building to facilitate high-quality cancer science, education, and cancer care.
  • Mary Chamberlin, MD
    Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncologist
    Dr. Chamberlin is responsible for DCC's platform in Rwanda, which includes training, capacity building, translational research, and fundraising. Specifically working in Rwanda since 2015, she built the DCC Global Oncology fellowship elective and contributed to the recruitment of brilliant and diverse fellows and faculty, strategic relationships with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda to provide multi-disciplinary training opportunities for oncology Fellows and general practitioners from all over the globe. Dr. Chamberlin is our expert on Rwandan oncology capacity building and training.
  • Frederick Lansigan, MD
    Director of the Hematology Oncology Fellows Program at DCC
    Dr. Lansigan's vision for the fellowship program is to train conscientious physician researchers, educators, global health equity champions, social justice advocates, and clinicians who will continue to advance the care of cancer patients. Through a holistic approach to nurturing each trainee, we are effective at maximizing the potential of each of our fellows. Their diverse interests guide our mentorship efforts, and fellows engage in all aspects of learning through clinical practice, formal didactics, research projects, case presentations, quality improvement work, health and workforce diversity, equity and inclusion projects, advocacy work, and community engagement. We are proud to see such growth in our fellows during training and their careers after graduation.
  • Joseph Weygand, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Applied Medicine
    Dr. Weygnad serves as the department's global health contact. Dr. Weygand's research interests are at the interface of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiotherapy. Dr. Weygand is passionate about global health equity and increasing global access to radiological health sciences through didactic education, clinical training, the clinical implementation of new technology, and studying global health's historical, political, and economic determinants. He has gone on outreach missions in Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda, Ghana, and Mongolia. He serves as the Director of Radiation Oncology Physics for the philanthropic organization RAD-AID International.

Global oncology partners

  • Steven P. Bensen, MD, Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Founder of GI Rising, LLC
  • Charles D. Brackett, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Associated Professor of The Dartmouth Institute; Instructor at University of Rwanda for Human Resources for Health Program, 2014- 2015; Clinical faculty URwanda Medical Oncology Fellowship program March 2025 to present
  • Victoria Forbes, MD, Associate Professor of Hematology and Global Oncology, University of Connecticut; Director, Global Oncology and Disparities of Care monthly fellowship course
  • Ilir S. Hoxha, MD, MS, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
  • Fidel Rubagumya, MD, MMed, MPH, 2023-Present Founding Program Director, Medical Oncology Fellowship, College of Medicine & Health Sciences (CMHS), University of Rwanda; 2022-Present Senior Lecturer School of Medicine and Pharmacy College of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; 2022-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor of Oncology Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada