Lara E. Davis, M.D.

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, School of Medicine
  • Co-Leader, Knight Cancer Institute Translational Oncology Program
  • Sarcoma Program Director

Biography

Dr. Davis received her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College and her M.D. from OHSU.  She returned to the East Coast for residency training before completing her oncology training at OHSU.  Dr. Davis is board-certified in both Medical Oncology and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2005, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Residency

    • Harvard - combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency program, 2005-2009
  • Fellowship

    • Medical oncology and pediatric hematology/oncology, Oregon Health & Science University, 2009-2013
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, 2009

Memberships and associations:

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • Children’s Oncology Group
  • Connective Tissue Oncology Society
  • Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC)
  • SWOG Cancer Research Network

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Activity of pemetrexed in recurrent, metastatic sacral chordoma

    Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports
    1. Dominique G. Celestino
    2. Lara E. Davis
    3. Santosh Kesari
  • CSF1R Inhibition in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors or Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor

    Clinical Cancer Research
    1. Hans Gelderblom
    2. Albiruni A. Razak
    3. Matthew H. Taylor
    4. Todd M. Bauer
    5. Breelyn Wilky
    6. Javier Martin-Broto
    7. Alejandro F. Gonzalez
    8. Piotr Rutkowski
    9. Bartlomiej Szostakowski
    10. Thierry Alcindor
    11. Ramy Saleh
    12. Sofia Genta
    13. Silvia Stacchiotti
    14. Michiel van de Sande
    15. Andrew J. Wagner
    16. Nicholas Bernthal
    17. Lara E. Davis
    18. Jacqueline Vuky
    19. Christopher Tait
    20. Bahar Matin
    21. Supraja Narasimhan
    22. Maitreyi G. Sharma
    23. Rodrigo Ruiz-Soto
    24. Matthew L. Sherman
    25. William D. Tap
  • Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase I/II, First-in-Human Trial of TK216: A First-Generation EWS::FLI1 Fusion Protein Antagonist in Ewing Sarcoma

    Journal of Clinical Oncology
    1. Paul A. Meyers
    2. Noah Federman
    3. Najat Daw
    4. Peter M. Anderson
    5. Lara E. Davis
    6. Ae Rang Kim
    7. Margaret E. Macy
    8. Angela Pietrofeso
    9. Ravin Ratan
    10. Richard F. Riedel
    11. Matteo Trucco
    12. James B. Breitmeyer
    13. Jeffrey A. Toretsky
    14. Joseph A. Ludwig
  • Safety and efficacy of pembrolizumab, radiation therapy, and surgery versus radiation therapy and surgery for stage III soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity (SU2C-SARC032)

    The Lancet
    1. Yvonne M. Mowery
    2. Karla V. Ballman
    3. Angela M. Hong
    4. Scott M. Schuetze
    5. Andrew J. Wagner
    6. Varun Monga
    7. Rachel S. Heise
    8. Steven Attia
    9. Edwin Choy
    10. Melissa A. Burgess
    11. Susie Bae
    12. David I. Pryor
    13. Brian A. Van Tine
    14. Gabriel Tinoco
    15. Bartosz Chmielowski
    16. Carolyn Freeman
    17. Alessandro Gronchi
    18. Christian F. Meyer
    19. Mark A. Dickson
    20. Lee Hartner
    21. Lara E. Davis
    22. Benjamin C. Powers
    23. Everett J. Moding
    24. Kent J. Weinhold
    25. Matt van de Rijn
    26. Brian E. Brigman
    27. Richard F. Riedel
    28. David G. Kirsch
  • Single nucleotide variants in nuclear pore complex disassembly pathway associated with poor survival in osteosarcoma

    Frontiers in Genetics
    1. James E. Jacobs
    2. Lara Davis
    3. Shannon McWeeney
  • A phase II trial of regorafenib in patients with advanced Ewing sarcoma and related tumors of soft tissue and bone

    Cancer medicine
    1. Steven Attia
    2. Vanessa Bolejack
    3. Kristen N. Ganjoo
    4. Suzanne George
    5. Mark Agulnik
    6. Daniel Rushing
    7. Elizabeth T. Loggers
    8. Michael B. Livingston
    9. Jennifer Wright
    10. Sant P. Chawla
    11. Scott H. Okuno
    12. Denise K. Reinke
    13. Richard F. Riedel
    14. Lara E. Davis
    15. Christopher W. Ryan
    16. Robert G. Maki
  • Intraosseous Spindle Cell Rhabdomyosarcoma with MEIS1::NCOA2 Fusion–Case Report with Substantial Clinical Follow-up and Review of the Literature

    Cancer Investigation
    1. Benjamin F. Smith
    2. Yee Cheen Doung
    3. Brooke Beckett
    4. Christopher L. Corless
    5. Lara E. Davis
    6. Jessica L. Davis
  • Nirogacestat, a γ-Secretase Inhibitor for Desmoid Tumors.

    New England Journal of Medicine
    1. Mrinal Gounder
    2. Ravin Ratan
    3. Thierry Alcindor
    4. Patrick Schöffski
    5. Winette T. Van Der Graaf
    6. Breelyn A. Wilky
    7. Richard F. Riedel
    8. Allison Lim
    9. L. Mary Smith
    10. Stephanie Moody
    11. Steven Attia
    12. Sant Chawla
    13. Gina D'Amato
    14. Noah Federman
    15. Priscilla Merriam
    16. Brian A. Van Tine
    17. Bruno Vincenzi
    18. Charlotte Benson
    19. Nam Quoc Bui
    20. Rashmi Chugh
    21. Gabriel Tinoco
    22. John Charlson
    23. Palma Dileo
    24. Lee Hartner
    25. Lore Lapeire
    26. Filomena Mazzeo
    27. Emanuela Palmerini
    28. Peter Reichardt
    29. Silvia Stacchiotti
    30. Howard H. Bailey
    31. Melissa A. Burgess
    32. Gregory M. Cote
    33. Lara E. Davis
    34. Hari Deshpande
    35. Hans Gelderblom
    36. Giovanni Grignani
    37. Elizabeth Loggers
    38. Tony Philip
    39. Joseph G. Pressey
    40. Shivaani Kummar
    41. Bernd Kasper
  • Functional impact and targetability of PI3KCA, GNAS, and PTEN mutations in a spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma with MYOD1 L122R mutation

    Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies
    1. Florence Choo
    2. Igor Odintsov
    3. Kevin Nusser
    4. Katelyn S. Nicholson
    5. Lara Davis
    6. Christopher L. Corless
    7. Linda Stork
    8. Romel Somwar
    9. Marc Ladanyi
    10. Jessica L. Davis
    11. Monika A. Davare
  • Identified Enrollment Challenges of Adolescent and Young Adult Patients on the Nonchemotherapy Arm of Children's Oncology Group Study ARST1321

    Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology
    1. Viswatej Avutu
    2. Aaron R. Weiss
    3. Damon R. Reed
    4. Safia K. Ahmed
    5. Wendy A. Allen-Rhoades
    6. Yen Lin E. Chen
    7. Lara E. Davis
    8. Bree R. Eaton
    9. Douglas S. Hawkins
    10. Danny J. Indelicato
    11. Shreyaskumar R. Patel
    12. R. Lor Randall
    13. Denise K. Reinke
    14. Richard F. Riedel
    15. Thomas J. Scharschmidt
    16. Katherine A. Thornton
    17. Dian Wang
    18. Katherine A. Janeway
    19. Lisa M. Kopp
  • Pregnancy outcomes related to the treatment of sarcomas with anthracyclines and/or ifosfamide during pregnancy

    Cancer medicine
    1. Devon Miller
    2. John A. Livingston
    3. Yeonhee Park
    4. Kristi Posey
    5. Sonia Godbole
    6. Keith Skubitz
    7. Steven I. Robinson
    8. Mark Agulnik
    9. Lara E Davis
    10. Brian A. Van Tine
    11. Angela C. Hirbe
    12. Amanda Parkes
  • Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 is essential for oncogene product EWSR1-ATF1-mediated gene transcription in clear cell sarcoma

    Journal of Biological Chemistry
    1. Bingbing X. Li
    2. Larry L. David
    3. Lara E. Davis
    4. Xiangshu Xiao
  • GAB1-ABL1 fusions in tumors that have histologic overlap with NTRK-rearranged spindle cell tumors

    Genes Chromosomes and Cancer
    1. Florence Choo
    2. Dinesh Rakheja
    3. Lara E. Davis
    4. Monika Davare
    5. Jason Y. Park
    6. Charles F. Timmons
    7. Tanaya Neff
    8. Carol Beadling
    9. Christopher L. Corless
    10. Jessica L. Davis
  • Primary aortic angiosarcoma

    Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging
    1. Case H. Keltner
    2. Ana Paula Santos Lima
    3. Malinda West
    4. Kenneth R. Gundle
    5. Cristina Fuss
    6. Lara E. Davis
  • Vimseltinib

    Molecular cancer therapeutics
    1. Bryan D. Smith
    2. Michael D. Kaufman
    3. Scott C. Wise
    4. Yu Mi Ahn
    5. Timothy M. Caldwell
    6. Cynthia B. Leary
    7. Wei Ping Lu
    8. Gege Tan
    9. Lakshminarayana Vogeti
    10. Subha Vogeti
    11. Breelyn A. Wilky
    12. Lara E. Davis
    13. Maitreyi Sharma
    14. Rodrigo Ruiz-Soto
    15. Daniel L. Flynn
  • A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase II Study of Regorafenib Versus Placebo in Advanced/Metastatic, Treatment-Refractory Liposarcoma

    Oncologist
    1. Richard F. Riedel
    2. Karla V. Ballman
    3. Yao Lu
    4. Steven Attia
    5. Elizabeth T. Loggers
    6. Kristen N. Ganjoo
    7. Michael B. Livingston
    8. Warren Chow
    9. Jennifer Wright
    10. John H. Ward
    11. Daniel Rushing
    12. Scott H. Okuno
    13. Damon R. Reed
    14. David A. Liebner
    15. Vicki L. Keedy
    16. Leo Mascarenhas
    17. Lara E. Davis
    18. Christopher Ryan
    19. Denise K. Reinke
    20. Robert G. Maki
  • Correlative analyses of the SARC028 trial reveal an association between sarcoma-associated immune infiltrate and response to pembrolizumab

    Clinical Cancer Research
    1. Emily Z. Keung
    2. Melissa Burgess
    3. Ruth Salazar
    4. Edwin R. Parra
    5. Jaime Rodrigues-Canales
    6. Vanessa Bolejack
    7. Brian A. Van Tine
    8. Scott M. Schuetze
    9. Steven Attia
    10. Richard F. Riedel
    11. James Hu
    12. Scott H. Okuno
    13. Dennis A. Priebat
    14. Sujana Movva
    15. Lara E. Davis
    16. Damon R. Reed
    17. Alexandre Reuben
    18. Christina L. Roland
    19. Denise Reinke
    20. Alexander J. Lazar
    21. Wei Lien Wang
    22. Jennifer A. Wargo
    23. Hussein A. Tawbi
  • Feasibility of Treating Adults with Ewing or Ewing-Like Sarcoma with Interval-Compressed Vincristine, Doxorubicin, and Cyclophosphamide Alternating with Ifosfamide and Etoposide

    Oncologist
    1. Eric Lu
    2. Christopher W. Ryan
    3. Solange Bassale
    4. Jeong Youn Lim
    5. Lara E. Davis
  • Tazemetostat in advanced epithelioid sarcoma with loss of INI1/SMARCB1

    The Lancet Oncology
    1. Mrinal Gounder
    2. Patrick Schöffski
    3. Robin L. Jones
    4. Mark Agulnik
    5. Gregory M. Cote
    6. Victor M. Villalobos
    7. Steven Attia
    8. Rashmi Chugh
    9. Tom Wei Wu Chen
    10. Thierry Jahan
    11. Elizabeth T. Loggers
    12. Abha Gupta
    13. Antoine Italiano
    14. George D. Demetri
    15. Ravin Ratan
    16. Lara E. Davis
    17. Olivier Mir
    18. Palma Dileo
    19. Brian A. Van Tine
    20. Joseph G. Pressey
    21. Trupti Lingaraj
    22. Anand Rajarethinam
    23. Laura Sierra
    24. Shefali Agarwal
    25. Silvia Stacchiotti
  • Discovery and characterization of recurrent, targetable ALK fusions in leiomyosarcoma

    Molecular Cancer Research
    1. Lara E. Davis
    2. Kevin D. Nusser
    3. Joanna Przybyl
    4. Janet Pittsenbarger
    5. Nicolle E. Hofmann
    6. Sushama Varma
    7. Sujay Vennam
    8. Maria Debiec-Rychter
    9. Matt van de Rijn
    10. Monika A. Davare
  • Probabilistic modeling of personalized drug combinations from integrated chemical screen and molecular data in sarcoma

    BMC cancer
    1. Noah E. Berlow
    2. Rishi Rikhi
    3. Mathew Geltzeiler
    4. Jinu Abraham
    5. Matthew N. Svalina
    6. Lara E. Davis
    7. Erin Wise
    8. Maria Mancini
    9. Jonathan Noujaim
    10. Atiya Mansoor
    11. Michael J. Quist
    12. Kevin L. Matlock
    13. Martin W. Goros
    14. Brian S. Hernandez
    15. Yee C. Doung
    16. Khin Thway
    17. Tomohide Tsukahara
    18. Jun Nishio
    19. Elaine T. Huang
    20. Susan Airhart
    21. Carol J. Bult
    22. Regina Gandour-Edwards
    23. Robert G. Maki
    24. Robin L. Jones
    25. Joel E. Michalek
    26. Milan Milovancev
    27. Souparno Ghosh
    28. Ranadip Pal
    29. Charles Keller
  • Randomized double-blind phase II study of regorafenib in patients with metastatic osteosarcoma

    Journal of Clinical Oncology
    1. Lara E. Davis
    2. Vanessa Bolejack
    3. Christopher W. Ryan
    4. Kristen N. Ganjoo
    5. Elizabeth T. Loggers
    6. Sant Chawla
    7. Mark Agulnik
    8. Michael B. Livingston
    9. Damon Reed
    10. Vicky Keedy
    11. Daniel Rushing
    12. Scott Okuno
    13. Denise K. Reinke
    14. Richard F. Riedel
    15. Steven Attia
    16. Leo Mascarenhas
    17. Robert G. Maki
  • Safety and efficacy of high-dose methotrexate for osteosarcoma in adolescents compared with young adults

    Cancer medicine
    1. Brittany Wippel
    2. Kenneth R. Gundle
    3. Theresa Dang
    4. Jillian Paxton
    5. Joseph Bubalo
    6. Linda Stork
    7. Rongwei Fu
    8. Christopher W. Ryan
    9. Lara E. Davis
  • Epirubicin and Ifosfamide with Preoperative Radiation for High-Risk Soft Tissue Sarcomas

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Eric Lu
    2. Kelly S. Perlewitz
    3. James B. Hayden
    4. Arthur Y. Hung
    5. Yee Cheen Doung
    6. Lara E. Davis
    7. Atiya Mansoor
    8. John T. Vetto
    9. Kevin Billingsley
    10. Andy Kaempf
    11. Byung Park
    12. Christopher W. Ryan