Daniel Kwon, MD

HS Asst. Clinical Professor

I am a physician-investigator. I care for patients with advanced cancer who are hospitalized and patients with genitourinary malignancies, such as prostate cancer. My research interests involve improving patient-centered outcomes for patients with cancer. This includes patient decision-making support, outcomes research, survivorship, cognition, and biomarkers. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as implementation science methods.

Education
2021 - , ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop
Fellowship, 2021 - Hematology/Oncology, UCSF
Residency, 2018 - Internal Medicine, UCSF
M.D., 2015 - , UCLA
B.A., 2011 - Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Honors and Awards
  • GU ASCO Merit Award, 2021
  • Rosenberg Endowed Fellowship, UCSF, 2020-2021
  • GU ASCO Merit Award, 2020
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, UCLA, 2015
Publications

  1. Cao JJ, Kwon DH, Ghaziani TT, Kwo P, Tse G, Kesselman A, Kamaya A, Tse JR. Large language models' responses to liver cancer surveillance, diagnosis, and management questions: accuracy, reliability, readability. Abdominal radiology (New York) 2024. PMID: 39088019


  2. Shakhnazaryan N, Gima-Lange L, Desai A, Fitzgerald K, Kwon DH. Accuracy, readability, and quality of websites about metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment. Urologic oncology 2024. PMID: 38955572


  3. Reyes KR, Wong P, Petrofsky M, Dai A, Pelayo A, Brondfield S, Kwon DH. Shared decision-making needs, barriers, and facilitators of patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer in the hospital: a multi-level, mixed-methods study. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2024. PMID: 38684522


  4. Aggarwal R, Starzinski S, de Kouchkovsky I, Koshkin V, Bose R, Chou J, Desai A, Kwon D, Kaushal S, Trihy L, Rastogi M, Ippisch R, Aslam M, Friedlander T, Feng F, Oh D, Cheung A, Small E, Evans M, Fong L, Hope TA. Single-dose 177Lu-PSMA-617 followed by maintenance pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: an open-label, dose-expansion, phase 1 trial. The Lancet. Oncology 2023. PMID: 37922930


  5. Nagaraj G, Vinayak S, Khaki AR, Sun T, Kuderer NM, Aboulafia DM, Acoba JD, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Balmaceda NB, Bao T, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bindal P, Blau S, Bodin BE, Borno HT, Castellano C, Choi H, Deeken J, Desai A, Edwin N, Feldman LE, Flora DB, Friese CR, Galsky MD, Gonzalez CJ, Grivas P, Gupta S, Haynam M, Heilman H, Hershman DL, Hwang C, Jani C, Jhawar SR, Joshi M, Kaklamani V, Klein EJ, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Lammers PE, Lathrop KI, Lewis MA, Li X, Lopes GL, Lyman GH, Makower DF, Mansoor AH, Markham MJ, Mashru SH, McKay RR, Messing I, Mico V, Nadkarni R, Namburi S, Nguyen RH, Nonato TK, O'Connor TL, Panagiotou OA, Park K, Patel JM, Patel KG, Peppercorn J, Polimera H, Puc M, Rao YJ, Razavi P, Reid SA, Riess JW, Rivera DR, Robson M, Rose SJ, Russ AD, Schapira L, Shah PK, Shanahan MK, Shapiro LC, Smits M, Stover DG, Streckfuss M, Tachiki L, Thompson MA, Tolaney SM, Weissmann LB, Wilson G, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Mishra S, French B, Warner JL, Lustberg MB, Accordino MK, Shah DP, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Clinical characteristics, racial inequities, and outcomes in patients with breast cancer and COVID-19: a COVID-19 and cancer consortium (CCC19) cohort study. eLife 2023. PMID: 37846664


  6. Gulati S, Hsu CY, Shah S, Shah PK, Zon R, Alsamarai S, Awosika J, El-Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Beeghly A, Berg S, de-la-Rosa-Martinez D, Doroshow DB, Egan PC, Fein J, Flora DB, Friese CR, Fromowitz A, Griffiths EA, Hwang C, Jani C, Joshi M, Khan H, Klein EJ, Heater NK, Koshkin VS, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Latif T, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nonato T, Polimera HV, Puc M, Razavi P, Ruiz-Garcia E, Saliby RM, Shastri A, Singh SRK, Tagalakis V, Vilar-Compte D, Weissmann LB, Wilkins CR, Wise-Draper TM, Wotman MT, Yoon JJ, Mishra S, Grivas P, Shyr Y, Warner JL, Connors JM, Shah DP, Rosovsky RP, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Systemic Anticancer Therapy and Thromboembolic Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA oncology 2023. PMID: 37589970


  7. Litt HK, Kwon DH, Velazquez AI. FDG PET Scans in Cancer Care. JAMA oncology 2023. PMID: 37440237


  8. Moey MYY, Hennessy C, French B, Warner JL, Tucker MD, Hausrath DJ, Shah DP, DeCara JM, Bakouny Z, Labaki C, Choueiri TK, Dent S, Akhter N, Ismail-Khan R, Tachiki L, Slosky D, Polonsky TS, Awosika JA, Crago A, Wise-Draper T, Balanchivadze N, Hwang C, Fecher LA, Gomez CG, Hayes-Lattin B, Glover MJ, Shah SA, Gopalakrishnan D, Griffiths EA, Kwon DH, Koshkin VS, Mahmood S, Bashir B, Nonato T, Razavi P, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Oligino E, Puc M, Tregubenko P, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Xie Z, Halfdanarson TR, Farmakiotis D, Klein EJ, Robilotti EV, Riely GJ, Durand JB, Hayek SS, Kondapalli L, Berg S, O'Connor TE, Bilen MA, Castellano C, Accordino MK, Sibel B, Weissmann LB, Jani C, Flora DB, Rudski L, Dutra MS, Nathaniel B, Ruíz-García E, Vilar-Compte D, Gupta S, Morgans A, Nohria A, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. COVID-19 severity and cardiovascular outcomes in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer and cardiovascular disease. Translational oncology 2023. PMID: 37302348


  9. Cao JJ, Kwon DH, Ghaziani TT, Kwo P, Tse G, Kesselman A, Kamaya A, Tse JR. Accuracy of Information Provided by ChatGPT Regarding Liver Cancer Surveillance and Diagnosis. AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2023. PMID: 37222278


  10. Jindal T, Zhang L, Deshmukh P, Reyes K, Chan E, Kumar V, Zhu X, Maldonado E, Feng S, Johnson M, Angelidakis A, Kwon D, Desai A, Borno HT, Bose R, Wong A, Hong J, Carroll P, Meng M, Porten S, Aggarwal R, Small EJ, Fong L, Chou J, Friedlander T, de Kouchkovsky I, Koshkin VS. Impact of Squamous Histology on Clinical Outcomes and Molecular Profiling in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma PatientsTreated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors or Enfortumab Vedotin. Clinical genitourinary cancer 2023. PMID: 37316414


  11. Jindal T, Zhu X, Bose R, Kumar V, Maldonado E, Deshmukh P, Shipp C, Feng S, Johnson MS, Angelidakis A, Kwon D, Borno HT, de Kouchkovsky I, Desai A, Aggarwal R, Fong L, Small EJ, Wong A, Porten S, Chou J, Friedlander T, Koshkin VS. Somatic alterations of TP53 and MDM2 associated with response to enfortumab vedotin in patients with advanced urothelial cancer. Frontiers in oncology 2023. PMID: 37091148


  12. Nagaraj G, Vinayak S, Khaki AR, Sun T, Kuderer NM, Aboulafia DM, Acoba JD, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Balmaceda NB, Bao T, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bindal P, Blau S, Bodin BE, Borno HT, Castellano C, Choi H, Deeken J, Desai A, Edwin N, Feldman LE, Flora DB, Friese CR, Galsky MD, Gonzalez CJ, Grivas P, Gupta S, Haynam M, Heilman H, Hershman DL, Hwang C, Jani C, Jhawar SR, Joshi M, Kaklamani V, Klein EJ, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Lammers PE, Lathrop KI, Lewis MA, Li X, de Lima Lopes G, Lyman GH, Makower DF, Mansoor AH, Markham MJ, Mashru SH, McKay RR, Messing I, Mico V, Nadkarni R, Namburi S, Nguyen RH, Nonato TK, O'Connor TL, Panagiotou OA, Park K, Patel JM, Patel KG, Peppercorn J, Polimera H, Puc M, Rao YJ, Razavi P, Reid SA, Riess JW, Rivera DR, Robson M, Rose SJ, Russ AD, Schapira L, Shah PK, Shanahan MK, Shapiro LC, Smits M, Stover DG, Streckfuss M, Tachiki L, Thompson MA, Tolaney SM, Weissmann LB, Wilson G, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Mishra S, French B, Warner JL, Lustberg MB, Accordino MK, Shah DP. Clinical Characteristics, Racial Inequities, and Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Cohort Study. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37205429


  13. Kwon DH, Aggarwal RR. Intermittent Hormonal Therapy in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer Is Worth Considering Because of Mitigation of Cardiovascular Events and Reduction of Other Effects. European urology focus 2023. PMID: 36690547


  14. Kwon DH, Gordon KM, Tong B, Borno HT, Beigh M, Fattah D, Schleicher A, Aggarwal RR, Blanco AM, Small EJ, Dhawan M. Implementation of a Telehealth Genetic Testing Station to Deliver Germline Testing for Men With Prostate Cancer. JCO oncology practice 2023. PMID: 36649492


  15. Bakouny Z, Labaki C, Grover P, Awosika J, Gulati S, Hsu CY, Alimohamed SI, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bowles D, Castellano C, Desai A, Elkrief A, Eton OE, Fecher LA, Flora D, Galsky MD, Gatti-Mays ME, Gesenhues A, Glover MJ, Gopalakrishnan D, Gupta S, Halfdanarson TR, Hayes-Lattin B, Hendawi M, Hsu E, Hwang C, Jandarov R, Jani C, Johnson DB, Joshi M, Khan H, Khan SA, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Matar S, McKay RR, Mishra S, Moria FA, Nizam A, Nock NL, Nonato TK, Panasci J, Pomerantz L, Portuguese AJ, Provenzano D, Puc M, Rao YJ, Rhodes TD, Riely GJ, Ripp JJ, Rivera AV, Ruiz-Garcia E, Schmidt AL, Schoenfeld AJ, Schwartz GK, Shah SA, Shaya J, Subbiah S, Tachiki LM, Tucker MD, Valdez-Reyes M, Weissmann LB, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Xie Z, Yang YJ, Thompson MA, Shah DP, Warner JL, Shyr Y, Choueiri TK, Wise-Draper TM, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Interplay of Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy Among Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA oncology 2023. PMID: 36326731


  16. Kwon DH, Velazquez AI, de Kouchkovsky I. PSMA PET Scan. Volume 8 of Issue 12. JAMA oncology 2022. PMID: 36201182


  17. Kwon DH, Shakhnazaryan N, Shui D, Hong JC, Mohamad O, de Kouchkovsky I, Borno HT, Bose R, Chou J, Desai A, Fong L, Friedlander TW, Koshkin VS, Aggarwal RR, Feng FY, Hope TA, Small EJ. Serial stereotactic body radiation therapy for oligometastatic prostate cancer detected by novel PET-based radiotracers. Urologic oncology 2022. PMID: 36435709


  18. Wagner MJ, Hennessy C, Beeghly A, French B, Shah DP, Croessmann S, Vilar-Compte D, Ruiz-Garcia E, Ingham M, Schwartz GK, Painter CA, Chugh R, Fecher L, Park C, Zamulko O, Trent JC, Subbiah V, Khaki AR, Tachiki L, Nakasone ES, Loggers ET, Labaki C, Saliby RM, McKay RR, Ajmera A, Griffiths EA, Puzanov I, Tap WD, Hwang C, Tejwani S, Jhawar SR, Hayes-Lattin B, Wulff-Burchfield E, Kasi A, Reuben DY, Nagaraj G, Joshi M, Polimera H, Kulkarni AA, Esfahani K, Kwon DH, Paoluzzi L, Bilen MA, Durbin EB, Grivas P, Warner JL, Davis EJ, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Demographics, Outcomes, and Risk Factors for Patients with Sarcoma and COVID-19: A CCC19-Registry Based Retrospective Cohort Study. Volume 14 of Issue 17. Cancers 2022. PMID: 36077869


  19. Kwon DH, Paciorek A, Zhang L, Borno HT, Bucknor M, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR. Skeletal-related events after abiraterone or enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A population-based study using the SEER-Medicare linked dataset. Urologic oncology 2022. PMID: 35750560


  20. Rubinstein SM, Bhutani D, Lynch RC, Hsu CY, Shyr Y, Advani S, Mesa RA, Mishra S, Mundt DP, Shah DP, Sica RA, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Stratton C, Weiss M, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Accordino M, Assouline SE, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Castellano CA, Cogan JC, Kc D, Friese CR, Gupta S, Hausrath D, Hwang C, Johnson NA, Joshi M, Kasi A, Klein EJ, Koshkin VS, Kuderer NM, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Latif T, Lau E, Li X, Lyman GH, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Nizam A, Nonato TK, Olszewski AJ, Polimera HV, Portuguese AJ, Puc MM, Razavi P, Rosovski R, Schmidt A, Shah SA, Shastri A, Su C, Torka P, Wise-Draper TM, Zubiri L, Warner JL, Thompson MA. Patients recently treated for B-lymphoid malignancies show increased risk of severe COVID-19: a CCC19 registry analysis. 2022. PMID: 35262738


  21. Shah NJ, Patel VG, Zhong X, Pina L, Hawley JE, Lin E, Gartrell BA, Febles VA, Wise DR, Qin Q, Mellgard G, Joshi H, Nauseef JT, Green DA, Vlachostergios PJ, Kwon DH, Huang F, Liaw B, Tagawa S, Kantoff P, Morris MJ, Oh WK. The Impact of Androgen Deprivation Therapy on COVID-19 Illness in Men With Prostate Cancer. 2022. PMID: 35657341


  22. Kwon DH, Cadena J, Nguyen S, Chan KHR, Soper B, Gryshuk AL, Hong JC, Ray P, Huang FW. COVID-19 outcomes in patients with cancer: Findings from the University of California health system database. 2022. PMID: 35261195


  23. Satyanarayana G, Enriquez KT, Sun T, Klein EJ, Abidi M, Advani SM, Awosika J, Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Berg S, Bernardes M, Egan PC, Elkrief A, Feldman LE, Friese CR, Goel S, Gomez CG, Grant KL, Griffiths EA, Gulati S, Gupta S, Hwang C, Jain J, Jani C, Kaltsas A, Kasi A, Khan H, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Lyman GH, McKay RR, McNair C, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nguyen R, Nonato TK, Olszewski AJ, Panagiotou OA, Puc M, Razavi P, Robilotti EV, Santos-Dutra M, Schmidt AL, Shah DP, Shah SA, Vieira K, Weissmann LB, Wise-Draper TM, Wu U, Wu JT, Choueiri TK, Mishra S, Warner JL, French B, Farmakiotis D. Coinfections in Patients With Cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Study. 2022. PMID: 35198648


  24. Kwon DH, Karthikeyan S, Chang A, Borno HT, Koshkin VS, Desai A, Bose R, Friedlander T, Rodvelt T, Li P, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR, Belkora J. Mobile Audio Recording Technology to Promote Informed Decision Making in Advanced Prostate Cancer. 2021. PMID: 34932386


  25. de Kouchkovsky I, Zhang L, Philip EJ, Wright F, Kim DM, Natesan D, Kwon D, Ho H, Ho S, Chan E, Porten SP, Wong AC, Desai A, Huang FW, Chou J, Oh DY, Pruthi RS, Fong L, Small EJ, Friedlander TW, Koshkin VS. TERT promoter mutations and other prognostic factors in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma treated with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 2021. PMID: 33980590


  26. Tsu-Yu Wu J, Kwon DH, Glover M, Henry S, Wood D, Rubin D, Koshkin V, Schapira L, Shah SA. Reply to R. Kebudi et al. JCO oncology practice 2021. PMID: 33881937


  27. Kwon DH, Booth CM, Prasad V. Untangling the PROfound Trial for Advanced Prostate Cancer: Is There Really a Role for Olaparib? Volume 79 of Issue 6. European urology 2021. PMID: 33722420


  28. Kwon DH, Chou J, Yip SM, Reimers MA, Zhang L, Wright F, Dhawan MS, Borno HT, Desai A, Aggarwal RR, Wyatt AW, Small EJ, Alva AS, Chi KN, Feng FY, Koshkin VS. Differential treatment outcomes in BRCA1/2-, CDK12-, and ATM-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Cancer 2021. PMID: 33690902


  29. Kwon DH, Vashisht R, Borno HT, Aggarwal RR, Small EJ, Butte AJ, Huang FW. Androgen-deprivation therapy and SARS-CoV-2 in men with prostate cancer: findings from the University of California Health System registry. Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 2021. PMID: 33571636


  30. Wu JT, Kwon DH, Glover MJ, Henry S, Wood D, Rubin DL, Koshkin VS, Schapira L, Shah SA. Changes in Cancer Management due to COVID-19 Illness in Patients with Cancer in Northern California. JCO oncology practice 2020. PMID: 33332170


  31. Kwon DH, Aggarwal RR, Esserman LJ, Belkora JK. Prime Time for Consultation Audio Recordings: Supporting Shared Decision Making During and After the COVID-19 Era. JCO oncology practice 2020. PMID: 33332174


  32. Kwon DH, Friedlander TW. Does One Size Fit All? Re-evaluating Prostate-specific Antigen Progression Thresholds for Clinical Trials. European urology 2020. PMID: 32958300


  33. Kwon DH, Zhang L, Quigley DA, Foye A, Chen WS, Wong CK, Feng FY, Bailey A, Huang J, Stuart JM, Friedl V, Weinstein AS, Beer TM, Alumkal JJ, Rettig M, Gleave M, Lara PN, Thomas GV, Li P, Lui A, Small EJ, Aggarwal RR. Down-regulation of ADRB2 expression is associated with small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer and adverse clinical outcomes in castration-resistant prostate cancer. Urologic oncology 2020. PMID: 32624423


  34. Kwon DH, Friedlander T. A TITAN step forward: apalutamide for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Annals of translational medicine 2019. PMID: 32016082


  35. Narayan V, Harrison M, Cheng H, Kenfield S, Aggarwal R, Kwon D, McKay R, Hauger R, Hart N, Conzen S, Borno H, Jim H, Dicker A, Dorff T, Moslehi J, Mucci L, Parsons JK, Saad F, Soule H, Morgans A, Ryan CJ. Improving research for prostate cancer survivorship: A statement from the Survivorship Research in Prostate Cancer (SuRECaP) working group. Urologic oncology 2019. PMID: 31734020


  36. Kwon DH, Borno HT, Cheng HH, Zhou AY, Small EJ. Ethnic disparities among men with prostate cancer undergoing germline testing. Urologic oncology 2019. PMID: 31630993


  37. Kwon DH, Paciorek A, Mulvey CK, Chan H, Fidelman N, Meng L, Nakakura EK, Zhang L, Bergsland EK, Van Loon K. Periprocedural Management of Patients Undergoing Liver Resection or Embolotherapy for Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastases. Pancreas 2019. PMID: 30946246


  38. Kwon DH, Tisnado DM, Keating NL, Klabunde CN, Adams JL, Rastegar A, Hornbrook MC, Kahn KL. Physician-reported barriers to referring cancer patients to specialists: prevalence, factors, and association with career satisfaction. Volume 121 of Issue 1. Cancer 2014. PMID: 25196776


  39. Veiseh M, Kwon DH, Borowsky AD, Tolg C, Leong HS, Lewis JD, Turley EA, Bissell MJ. Cellular heterogeneity profiling by hyaluronan probes reveals an invasive but slow-growing breast tumor subset. Volume 111 of Issue 17. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014. PMID: 24733940