Richard A. Erali, MD MPH

Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellow
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York, United States

I am one of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellows at Roswell Park. I obtained my BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee and MD from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. I went on to complete my general surgery residency at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. During my professional development time in residency, I obtained my Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. I also was a research fellow at the Wake Forest Organoid Research Center (WFORCE) in the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. At the WFORCE, I worked with Dr. Konstantinos Votanopoulos creating patient-derived tumor organoid models from multiple different GI tumors to predict response to cancer treatments. My clinical interests are in esophageal, gastric, hepatopancreatobiliary, and peritoneal surface malignancies.

Presentation(s):

• P56. Standardizing Patient-Derived Tumor Organoid Generation: A Prospective Analysis of 515 Specimens Identifies Key Determinants of Success Across Diverse Malignancies

  Thursday, March 5, 2026
  2:46 PM - 2:53 PM MST

• P57. Defining success parameters for appendiceal cancer organoids: the first comprehensive analysis of 223 specimens from 78 patients

  Thursday, March 5, 2026
  2:53 PM - 3:00 PM MST

• BP16. Establishing Clinical Correlation of Patient-derived Tumor Organoids for HIPEC: Long-term Outcomes in Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

  Friday, March 6, 2026
  1:23 PM - 1:30 PM MST