David Bub, MD

David S. Bub was trained at the New York University School of Medicine and completed his General Surgery Residency at the St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York.  After completing a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, he spent a year studying the use of endorectal ultrasound with Dr. Douglas Wong at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  He is current Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City where he heads the anorectal physiology lab.  He belongs to a busy private practice specializing in the treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease as well as colon and rectal cancer.

Susannah Rose, MS, MSW - PhD Candidate, Health Policy Program, Harvard University

Susannah Rose graduated from Furman University in 1996 with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology. In 1998, she graduated with an MS in Social Work from Columbia University, and she received an MS in Bioethics from Albany Medical Center/Union College in 2006. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the ethics concentration of Harvard’s Health Policy Program, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a graduate fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center of Ethics. She was a recipient of a predoctoral traineeship from the National Institute of Mental Health from 2006-2008. Prior to her graduate work at Harvard, Ms. Rose provided psychosocial clinical services and conducted research for approximately eight years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. She specialized in clinical interventions for people with many types of cancers and their family members. She served on the hospital’s Ethics Committee. Susannah is the primary author on a book for family and friends of people with cancer and a co-author of another book about colorectal cancer. Ms. Rose has published and presented on many topics related to psychosocial oncology, to bioethics and to health policy, and she is dedicated to helping people with serious medical illnesses and their families.

W. Douglas Wong, MD

W. Douglas Wong is Chief of Colorectal Service in the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York.  He received his medical training in Manitoba, Canada, and held a fellowship at the University of Minnesota before coming to MSKCC.  His areas of clinical expertise include colorectal and anal cancer; endorectal ultrasound; anorectal physiology testing; anal incontinence surgery.