Management Committee

Learn more about executive leadership at M. D. Anderson.

John Mendelsohn, M.D.
President - Executive Committee

Mendelsohn has recruited a visionary management team and implemented new priorities for integrated programs in patient care, research, education and cancer prevention.

Raymond DuBois, M.D., Ph.D.
Provost and Executive Vice President

DuBois provides executive leadership for the development of research programs and policies and the allocation of institutional resources such as space and funding. He oversees faculty evaluations, promotions and the tenure review process. He's directly responsible for performance evaluations and leadership development of all institutional faculty leaders. Additionally, he's responsible for the recruitment of all department chairs and divisions heads, and oversight of all educational programs.

Leon J. Leach
Executive Vice President - Executive Committee

Leach provides executive leadership for the institution's financial, business, administrative and infrastructure activities. He's responsible for our financial planning and represents the institution as chief business officer to the UT System. Areas that Leach oversees include business development, facilities management, finance, human resources, information services, marketing, patient financial services, research finance and technology commercialization. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of M. D. Anderson Services Corporation, an M. D. Anderson subsidiary.

Thomas Burke, M.D.
Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief - Executive Committee

Burke provides leadership for our Clinical Operations and Programs. He is responsible for oversight and strategic planning for patient care delivery throughout the hospital, clinics and outreach programs. He ensures that all clinical operations are efficient, effective and appropriately support the research-driven, multidisciplinary, patient centered clinical mission of the institution. Burke is a practicing physician in Gynecologic Oncology with a research emphasis in vulvar and endometrial cancers.

Dan Fontaine, J.D.
Senior Vice President for Business Affairs

Fontaine serves a dual role in the Office of Business and Regulatory Affairs. With our chief business officer, he provides executive co-leadership for Business Development, Facilities, Finance, Human Resources, Information Services, Marketing, and Technology Commercialization and the subsidiary corporations. Under the direction of the president, Fontaine operates as the institution’s chief regulatory officer and is responsible for providing executive oversight for regulatory functions including legal, governmental compliance, internal audit and risk management. Fontaine also serves as the institution's representative on the M. D. Anderson International Espana board of directors.

Stephen Tomasovic, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Tomasovic provides executive leadership for our academic programs, including undergraduate education, graduate research and medical education, post-graduate education, continuing medical education, and the student and faculty appointments, records and policies. Tomasovic is also responsible for the institutional accreditations for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education, our academic support service departments, and our extramural local, national and international affiliations, program agreements, and sister institution relationships.

Gerard J. Colman
Senior Vice President and Chief of Clinical Operations

Colman is responsible for all inpatient and outpatient operations through direct oversight of the clinical administrative directors, division administrators, medical operations and the vice president for Clinical Support Services. He collaborates with division heads and other vice presidents in support of inpatient and outpatient operations, as well as clinical research.

Harry Gibbs, M.D.
Vice President, Institutional Diversity

Gibbs advises executive leadership on issues of diversity, inclusion and cultural competency, which affect our patients as well as our workforce and trainees. He also serves as the Affirmative Action Officer for the institution, as required by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. In addition, Gibbs is a member of the Department of Health Disparities Research.

Ernest Hawk, M.D., M.P.H. 
Vice President, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences

Hawk is responsible for advancing the science and application of cancer through multidisciplinary programs in research, clinical service and education, as well as eliminating the unequal burden of cancer in minority and underserved populations. These goals are achieved through the efforts of four departments within Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences (Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology and Health Disparities Research) as well as the Cancer Prevention Center, the Behavioral Research and Treatment Center, and the Center for Research in Minority Health.

Adrienne Lang
Vice President, Center Programs

Lang serves as chief of staff to M. D. Anderson's President, managing and analyzing all information provided to him and serving as a liaison and an interface between him and the institution-at-large, its committees, faculty and staff. Lang helps coordinate the President's activities in governmental relations, public affairs and the Board of Visitors. She also organizes and serves on the Management Committee.

Dwain Morris
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Morris provides leadership for the institution's long-term and short-term financial planning, internal and external financial reporting, accounting, treasury and cash management, supply chain services, business case analysis, and the management of assets. He also provides leadership to ensure that we meet all financial regulatory requirements of The University of Texas and the State of Texas.

Shibu Varghese
Vice President, Human Resources

Varghese sets the strategic direction of Human Resources based on the institution's vision. He's responsible for the overall management and direction of human resources programs including Organizational Development, Benefits, Compensation, Recruitment, Employee Development, the Generalist organization, Employee Health and Well-being, WorkLife programs, Employee Programs and the HR Service Center (myHR). He guides the development of short and long term strategies to hire, develop and train a highly qualified workforce.

Robert F. Gagel, M.D.
Division of Internal Medicine

Gagel is the Head, Division of Internal Medicine, and Professor of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine.

Thomas A. Buchholz, M.D., F.A.C.R.
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

Buchholz is Chair, Radiation Oncology, Medical Director of Radiation Oncology in the Mays Clinic, and Program Director and Section Chief, Breast Radiation Oncology.

Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics

Lozano is Chair, Department of Cancer Genetics