Executive Leadership

Candace Johnson, PhD
President & CEO
Elizabeth Bouchard, MA, PhD
Senior Vice President, Community Outreach & Engagement
Renier Brentjens, MD PhD
Deputy Director
Errol Douglas
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Julia Faller, DO, MS
Chief Medical Officer
Ann Marie Gibney
Administrative Chief of Staff
Ryan Grady, BS
Chief Financial Officer
George T. 'Buddy' Hickman, C-DHE, CHCIO, LCHiME, FCHiME, LFHIMSS, CPHIMS
Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Information Officer
James Kennedy
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Shawn Kleitz, BA
Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer
Crystal Rodriguez-Dabney, Esq, LLM, CDP
Senior Vice President, Employee Advocacy & Fairness
Margot P. Schoenborn, Esq
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer
Kathy Smith
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Wendi Strauss-Pulse, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Interim Chief Nursing Officer
David Tear, MBA
Senior Vice President, Chief of Hospital and Network Operations
Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development and Outreach, Chief Strategy Officer

Clinical Leadership

Ermelinda Bonaccio, MD
Chair, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Renier Brentjens, MD PhD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Amy Case, MD, FAAHPM, headshot 2025
Chair, Department of Supportive and Palliative Care
Andrew J. Fabiano, MD, FAANS
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Chair, Department of Urology
Wesley Hicks Jr., MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Head & Neck/Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Kara Kelly, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology
Thaer Khoury, MD, FCAP
Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Dheerendra Prasad, MD, MCh, FACRO
Chair, Department of Radiation Medicine
Moshim Kukar, MD
Chair, Department of Surgical Oncology
Mark Lema, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Gyorgy Paragh, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Mukund Seshadri, DDS, PhD
Chair, Department of Oral Oncology
Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Emese Zsiros, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Gynecologic Oncology

Research Leadership

Scott Abrams, PhD
Chair, Department of Immunology
Christine Ambrosone, PhD
Chair, Department of Cancer Prevention & Control
Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW
Chair, Department of Indigenous Cancer Health
Alan Hutson, PhD, MA
Chair, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Andrew Hyland, PhD
Chair, Department of Health Behavior
Erik Knudsen, PhD
Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Joyce Ohm, PhD - Updated Headshot April 2022
Chair, Department of Cancer Genetics & Genomics
Dean Tang, PhD
Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Senior Leadership

Edith Ballard
Vice President, Patient Accounts

Ericka Bennett
Vice President, Research Subject Protection

Lauren Bruckner
Chief Medical Information Officer, Information Technology

Yeong Choi
Senior Vice President, Industry Partnerships and Technical Director CGMP Facility

Eugene Cullen
Vice President, Internal Audit

Marco Davila
Senior Vice President, Department of Medicine - Translational Research

David Donovan
Vice President, Office of Transformation Management

Mark Frattini
Senior Vice President, Clinical Investigation

Dale Henry
Chief Scientific Operations Officer, Executive Office

Kathryn Hineman
Vice President, General Counsel

Andrew Hyland
Senior Vice President, Population Sciences

Kathryn Kartalis
Vice President, Clinical Trials Office

Amy Kirkpatrick
Vice President, Risk Management

Erik Knudsen
Senior Vice President, Basic Science Research

Tammy Lightcap
Vice President, Finance & Operations, Alliance Foundation

Todd Maier
Vice President, Fiscal Administration

Peter Maslak
Senior Vice President, Clinical Systems and Infrastructure

Michelle Moore
Vice President, Human Resources Management

Carl Morrison
Senior Vice President, Scientific Development & Integrative Medicine

Steven Nurkin
Vice President, Value-Based Care

Sunita Panesar
Vice President, Strategy, Business Development & Outreach

Anthony Putrelo
Vice President, Facilities Management

Igor Puzanov
Senior Vice President, Early Phase Clinical Trials

Robert Reynolds
Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety

Elisa Rodriguez
Vice President, Institutional Leadership

Adam Rosen
Chief Information Security Officer, Information Security

Mukund Seshadri
Senior Vice President, Chief Academic Officer

Kimberly Sweeney
Chief Patient Experience Officer, Vice President, Patient Care Experience

Paul Visco
Vice President, Chief Digital Transformation Officer

Daniel Weinrieb
Vice President, Payer Relations