Christopher Flowers, MD, MS, FASCO is Professor and Chair of the UT MD Anderson Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma. In 2020, he also became the Division Head ad interim for the Division of Cancer Medicine. Dr. Flowers will serve as the LLS IMPACT overall PI. As Chair of the ASCO Health Disparities Committee, Dr. Flowers co-authored the AACR/ACS/ASCO/NCI position statement -Charting the Future for Cancer Disparities Research. He has held NCI and V Foundation grants to investigate the biology of racial disparities in lymphoma. He is an internationally recognized expert in lymphoma clinical and outcomes research and leads the Lymphoma Integrated Network for Access to Clinical trials for Under-represented Populations (LINCT-UP), a partnership with MCC and the Lyndon B. Johnson County Hospital in Houston to increase minority clinical trial participation at these sites.