Ginger E. Holt, MD
Dr. Holt is a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Radiology at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She was an All-American basketball player at Cullman High School in Cullman, Alabama, and a benchwarmer on the women’s basketball team at the University of Alabama– Birmingham. She was top gunner in medical school at the University of Alabama–Birmingham and completed residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Vanderbilt Medical Center. She completed two fellowships – musculoskeletal oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and adult reconstruction at Colorado Joint Replacement in Denver.

In 2003, Dr. Holt returned to Vanderbilt. After 17 years of service, she recently left her role as program director to become the head basketball coach of the Harding Hawks second grade boys basketball team.

Valerae O. Lewis, MD
Dr. Lewis, the John Murray Professor of Orthopaedic Oncology, attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in psychobiology. She then matriculated at Harvard Medical School, graduating with honors. Dr. Lewis completed her orthopedic training at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program in Boston and her fellowship in musculoskeletal oncology at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She is also the Associate Director of the Department of Thoracic/Orthopaedic Center and Associate Director of the Sarcoma Center. She is a leader in the field of orthopedic oncology with particular expertise in limb salvage and pelvic sarcoma surgery in adult and pediatric patients. In 2011, she started the Multidisciplinary Pelvic Sarcoma Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center that not only addresses the clinical needs of this unique group of patients, but also works to improve both the clinical and functional outcome of patients with pelvic sarcoma.