On a recent night in Chicago, Taylor Swift was in town, along with the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
A few block from Solider Field, where Swift was set to perform, doctors and researchers were crowding into Buddy guy’s Legends club to see The CheckPoints, a cover band of immunotherapy all-stars.
The CheckPoints band members:
Tom Gajewski – U Chicago guitar
Jim Allison – MD Anderson harmnonica
Jon Timmerman – UCLA guitar
Rachel Humphrey – Normunity (https://normunity.com/about-us/) Vocals
Lisa Butterfield – UCSF vocals
Anna Corsetti – UCSF med school vocals
Brad Reinfield – Vanderbilt med school > about to start UCLA medicine residency bass guitar
Patrick Hwu – Moffitt Cancer Center CEO keyboards
Jason Luke – U Pittsburg trumpet
Ferran Pratt – MD Anderson sax
Jedd Wolchock – Weill Cornell tuba
Dirk Spitzer – WashU Department of Surgery drums
Russell Pachynski – WashU Division of Hematology & Oncology trombone