Dr. Vishu Avutu attained his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and began his research endeavors with the Pediatric Oncology Education Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; finding a passion for working with adolescents and young adults, Vishu matched to the internal medicine-pediatric residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s/Boston Children’s Hospitals. In addition to serving as Chief Resident, Vishu helped develop and launch the Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He then completed his medical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a co-founder of MSK's Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program, where his work has garnered MSK's Patient and Family Centered Care Grant Initiative and the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is an assistant attending in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and cares for AYAs with sarcomas.