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:

• James Allison, Ph.D., Chair and Regental Professor, Immunology
• Thomas Aloia, M.D., Chief Quality Officer
• Bill Atkinson, Executive Director, Office of the Chief Operating Officer
• 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
• Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., Chair-elect, Faculty Senate
• Richard Gorlick, M.D., Division Head, Pediatrics
• Carin Hagberg, M.D., Chief Academic Officer; Division Head, Anesthesiology and Critical Care
• Ernest Hawk, M.D., Division Head, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
  
• Danielle Hay, Director, Strategy
• Marshall Hicks, M.D., Division Head, Diagnostic Imaging
• Patrick Hwu, M.D., Division Head, Cancer Medicine
• 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
• Allyson Kinzel, J.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
• 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
• Jennifer Litton, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Research ad interim
• 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
• Rosanna Morris, Chief Operating Officer
• 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., Past Chair, Faculty Senate
• Nyma Shah, Director, Strategic Projects, Office of Research Administration & Office of Sponsored Projects, Employee Representative
• Fatima Sheriff, Chief of Staff
• Steven Sherman, M.D., Chair, Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders
• 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, Employee Representative
• 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