Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist specializing in experimental therapeutics and head and neck cancer. She received her undergraduate degree from Miami University and medical and graduate degree and completed her internal medicine residency and hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. She is now an associate professor and medical director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office. Dr. Wise-Draper is nationally recognized for her research in the development of innovative cancer therapies and translational research in her laboratory on therapy resistance mechanisms and biomarker identification specifically in head and neck cancer. She is also the recipient of grants from the Department of Defense, American Cancer Society, and NIH and a member of ASCO, AACR, ESMO, and SITC. She was named Clinical Trialist of the Year at the University of Cincinnati in 2019 after receiving the Rising Star Award the prior.