Dr. Sara Hurvitz is professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), co-director of the Santa Monica-UCLA Outpatient Oncology Practice, and medical director of the Clinical Research Unit and director of breast oncology at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA. She is involved in designing, implementing, and leading multiple national and international clinical trials testing new targeted therapies, and also leads the preclinical evaluation of novel breast cancer targets in the Translation Oncology Research Laboratory at UCLA.