
Laura Barton, MA, MS, LCGC
Licensed Certified Genetic Counselor
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Laura Barton has been a cancer genetic counselor with Moffitt Cancer Center since 2014 after working with prenatal and cancer patients at Greenwood Genetic Center in South Carolina. She attended college at the University of Central Florida, graduating with a BS in Medical Laboratory Science, and then worked at Moffitt in the Cell Therapy laboratory prior to moving to Richmond, VA to complete her MS in Genetic Counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. In addition, she earned her MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities from the University of South Florida in 2010. Laura is the current president of the Florida Association of Genetic Counselors and serves on the Moffitt ethics committee.

Dr. Daryoush Saeed-Vafa, MD
Anatomic Pathology Specialist, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Dr. Daryoush Saeed-Vafa is a Clinical Instructor in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Anatomic Pathology. Dr. Saeed-Vafa earned his MD degree from Temple University School of Medicine. He completed an Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency in the Department of Pathology at Temple University Hospital. Following residency, Dr. Saeed-Vafa completed an Anatomic Fellowship in Surgical Pathology at the University of California, San Diego; a Digital Pathology Fellowship in the Department of Cancer Imaging and Metabolism and the Department of Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center; an Oncologic Molecular Pathology Fellowship in the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center; and a Personalized Medicine Fellowship, DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Saeed-Vafa’s clinical interests are in molecular and digital pathology, focusing on the Moffitt STAR panel for solid tumors. His research interests reside in digital image analysis and deep learning, specifically leveraging deep learning to automate pathology.

Dr. Christine Walko, PharmD, FCCP, BCOP
Personalized Medicine Specialist, Department of Individualized Cancer Management
DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Christine M. Walko, Pharm.D., BCOP, FCCP, is a Personalized Medicine Specialist at the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and is also Associate Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. She is also the Chair of the Clinical Genomics Action Committee (CGAC) and attending on the Personalized Medicine Clinical Service
at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Walko received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University
in Pittsburgh. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Virginia Commonwealth University
Health System/Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. She also completed a
Hematology/Oncology specialty residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals and Clinics
and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. She is a board certified oncology pharmacist.
She has researched and published extensively in oncology therapy and has presented nationally and
internationally on oncology and pharmacogenomics and other topics related to treating patients with cancer.
Planning Committee:
Beth Pitel, MS, CG(ASCP)
Gordana Raca, MD, PhD, FACMG
Alex Wagner, PhD
Manuela Benary, PhD
Jason Saliba, PhD
Jane Radford, MHA, CHCP