President's Advisory Council

Our President's Advisory Council monitors, reviews, advises and provides recommendations to President Peter WT Pisters, M.D., about high level efforts that impact the institution.

The Council is a forum for decisions to be informed by the perspectives of employees across the organization, including physicians, researchers, nurses and other frontline staff members.

"Our focus is on building openness and transparency so that everyone in the organization understands how complex decisions are made," Pisters says.

Council members:

• Diane Bodurka, M.D., Vice President, Education and Training
• Sharon Dent, Ph.D., Chair, Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
• Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President; Chief Scientific Officer
• Richard Gorlick, M.D., Division Head, Pediatrics
• Carin Hagberg, M.D., Chief Academic Officer; Division Head, Anesthesiology and Critical Care
• Stephen Hahn, M.D., Chief Medical Executive
• Stanley Hamilton, M.D., Division Head, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Ernest Hawk, M.D., Division Head, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
• Marshall Hicks, M.D., Division Head, Diagnostic Imaging
• Jacqueline Hupe, Project Director, Office of the Chief Medical Executive
• Patrick Hwu, M.D., Division Head, Cancer Medicine
• Julie Izzo, M.D., Executive Director, Office of the Chief Medical Executive
• David Jaffray, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Digital Officer
• Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Cancer Biology
• Ann Killary, Ph.D., Chair-elect, Faculty Senate
• Albert Koong, M.D., Ph.D., Division Head, Radiation Oncology.
• Michael Kupferman, M.D., Senior Vice President, Clinical and Academic Network Development
• Crista Latham, Vice President, Strategic Communications
• Christopher McKee, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer,Strategy and Business Development
• Ben Melson, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Mark Moreno, Vice President, Government Relations
• Peter WT Pisters, M.D., President
• Carol Porter, D.N.P., R.N., Senior Vice President; Chief Nursing Officer
• Ferran Prat, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Vice President, Strategic Industry Ventures
• Victor Prieto, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Pathology and Anatomical
• Tadd Pullin, Senior Vice President, Institutional Advancement
• Michael Riben, M.D., Chair, Faculty Senate
• Nyma Shah, Director, Research Funding Programs, Office of Research Administration & Office of Sponsored Projects
• Fatima Sheriff, Chief of Staff
• Stephen Swisher, M.D., Division Head, Surgery
• Welela Tereffe, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
• David Tweardy, M.D., Division Head, Internal Medicine
• Shibu Varghese, Senior Vice President, People and Business Operations and Chief Diversity Officer
• Tricia White-Rhemtulla, Department Administrator, Department of Health Disparities Research
• George Wilding, M.D., Vice President; Deputy Chief Academic Officer
• Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., Division Head ad interim, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Darrow Zeldenstein, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer