Dr. Jorge Nieva is the section head of solid tumors, division of medical oncology at the Keck School of Medicine and director of the lung cancer research program within the USC/Norris Cancer Center. He serves as the chair of the data and safety monitoring committee at the cancer center and leads the internal advisory committee for the CARE2 Health Equity Center at USC. Dr. Nieva an expert in biomarker development and informatic approaches to the evaluation of patient health. He is a graduate of the University of California Irvine College of Medicine, trained internal medicine at the University of California, San Diego and in Oncology/Hematology at the Scripps Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, he was on the faculty at the Scripps Research Institute and the Billings Clinic.