Kent Adler, M.D.

Kent Adler, M.D.
Medical oncologist

Dr. Adler completed his medical training at University of California at San Francisco in 1984 following undergraduate work at Harvard University. He completed his internship and residency at Cornell Medical Center in New York and his medical oncology fellowship at Stanford University Medical School. He is a faculty member at Stanford, where he was involved in the founding of the comprehensive thoracic clinic. He is a recognized regional expert in the treatment of lung cancer.
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Jennifer Brown, M.D.

Jennifer Brown, M.D.
Medical oncologist

Dr. Brown received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and her subsequent medical education at Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1999. She completed her internship and residency at Stanford University School of Medicine and her oncology fellowship at Northwestern University, where she developed expertise in the treatment of breast cancer.
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Bradley Ekstrand, M.D., Ph. D.

Bradley Ekstrand, M.D., Ph. D.
Medical oncologist

Dr. Ekstrand attended Yale University School of Medicine where he earned his medical degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. in cancer biology in 1998. He completed a fellowship in medical oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he currently is a member of the clinical faculty. His clinical and investigational interests center on lymphoma and the genitourinary malignancies. He is actively involved with groups supporting patients with lymphomas and prostate cancer.
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Brian H. Henderson, M.D.

Brian H. Henderson, M.D.
Medical oncologist, hematologist

Dr. Henderson completed his medical degree at the University of Washington Medical School in 1974 and his internship and residency at University of California at Los Angeles in 1977. He completed his hematology fellowship and oncology training at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980, where he served on the oncology faculty. Dr. Henderson helped develop the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center at Mills-Peninsula and serves as Medical Director for the center. He also chairs the oncology committee and is director of the quality assurance programs at the Cancer Center.
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John V. Siebel, M.D.

John V. Siebel, M.D.
Medical oncologist, hematologist

Dr. Siebel received his medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1969 following completion of undergraduate work at Harvard University. He served two years as a general medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, Navajo Ana Indian Health Services in Gallup, New Mexico, before completing his training in internal medicine and medical oncology at Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, and Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. A board certified oncologist, he has practiced in San Mateo for more than 35 years. His greatest expertise is in the treatment of gynecologic cancer.
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Steven M. Kurtzman, M.D.

Steven M. Kurtzman, M.D.
Radiation oncologist

Dr. Kurtzman completed undergraduate work at Cornell University in New York and received his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992. He has specialized training in intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), conformal radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery. The world’s foremost expert in cesium-131 radioisotope treatment, his specialty is prostate seed implantations. He has been with Mills-Peninsula and the Dorothy Schneider Cancer Center since 1998.
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Stephen A. Weller, M.D.

Stephen A. Weller, M.D.
Radiation oncologist

Dr. Weller has been instrumental in advancing the cancer program and development of the Dorothy E. Schneider Center at Mills-Peninsula. He completed his medical degree at University of Minnesota in 1971 and his fellowship in radiation oncology at Stanford University Medical Center, where he currently is a clinical associate professor. He has been in practice at Mills-Peninsula since 1975.
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Aziz Ahmad, M.D.

Aziz Ahmad, M.D.
Surgical oncologist

Dr. Ahmad received his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School in 2000 and completed his residency in surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York in 2005. He completed his surgical oncology fellowship at John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica. His research has focused on colorectal cancer and thyroid cancers.
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Bruce L. Allen, M.D.

Bruce L. Allen, M.D.
General surgery

Dr. Allen received his medical degree at Stanford University in 1974, following undergraduate work at Harvard University. He was a resident in surgery at University of California at San Francisco. He practices general surgery and surgical oncology with a special interest in laparoscopic colon resection. He began practicing at Mills-Peninsula in 1981.
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Andrea P. Metkus, M.D.

Andrea P. Metkus, M.D.
General surgery, breast specialist

Dr. Metkus received her medical degree at the University of Chicago, Prizker School of Medicine in 1991 following completion of undergraduate work at Yale University. She completed her residency in general surgery at University of California at San Francisco in 1996. Dr. Metkus has been with Mills-Peninsula Health Services for over 10 years. She is chair of Mills-Peninsula’s multi-disciplinary breast tumor board and director of Breast Cancer Services. She is a leader in the Sutter Health System Breast Cancer Project and recently developed a comprehensive breast cancer clinic at Mills-Peninsula’s Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center. She has published and lectured on sentinel node biopsy, less invasive approaches to breast cancer surgery and the role of a multidisciplinary breast cancer board.
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Barry Sheppard, M.D.

Barry Sheppard, M.D.
Surgeon, chief physician
Thoracic Oncology Program
Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center

Dr. Sheppard received his medical degree from University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1987. He completed his residency at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center in 1989 and his thoracic surgery residency at UC Davis Medical Center in 1995. He is leading development of a thoracic oncology program at the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center.
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Randolph Wong, M.D.

Randolph Wong, M.D.
General and thoracic surgeon

Dr. Wong received his medical degree at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 1988. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Arizona. His clinical interests are in esophageal, colorectal, pancreatic and lung cancers. He has been with Mills-Peninsula since 1993.
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