President's Advisory Council

The President's Advisory Council monitors and reviews high-level efforts impacting MD Anderson at large in order to advise President Peter WT Pisters, M.D. This includes all aspects of the institution’s Strategy and associated priorities.

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
• Bill Atkinson, Associate Vice President, Office of the COO
• Lara Bashoura, M.D., Professor, Pulmonary Medicine; Executive Committee of the Medical Staff (ECMS) representative
• Diane Bodurka, M.D., Vice President, Chief Education and Training Officer
• Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President; Chief Scientific Officer
• Jason Duca, Manager, Clinical Protocol Administration, Surgical Oncology - Research, Employee Representative
• Chris Flowers, M.D., Division Head ad interim, Cancer Medicine; Chair, Lymphoma-Myeloma
• Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., Professor, Leukemia; Faculty Senate Representative
• Richard Gorlick, M.D., Division Head, Pediatrics
• Carin Hagberg, M.D., Chief Academic Officer; Division Head, Anesthesiology and Critical Care
• Ernest Hawk, M.D., Vice President, Cancer Prevention
• Danielle Hay, Director, Strategy
• Marshall Hicks, M.D., Division Head, Diagnostic Imaging
• David Jaffray, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Digital Officer
• Phil Jones, Ph.D., Vice President, Therapeutics Discovery
• Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Cancer Biology
• Allyson Kinzel, J.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer
• Albert Koong, M.D., Ph.D., Division Head, Radiation Oncology
• Brittany Kruse, D.B.H., Director, Office of the Chief Nursing Officer; Employee Representative
• 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 
• Christopher McKee, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
• Mark Moreno, Vice President, Government Relations
• Rosanna Morris, Chief Operating Officer
• Jeffrey Myers, M.D., Chair, Head and Neck Surgery; Community of Chairs Representative
• Isabella Claudia Glitza Olivia, M.D. Ph.D., Associate Professor,  Melanoma Medical Oncology,  Faculty Senate Representative
• Michael Overman, M.D., Professor, GI Medical Oncology; ECMS Representative
• ​​​​​​​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
• Tadd Pullin, Senior Vice President, Institutional Affairs
• Jose Rivera, Chief Administrative Quality Officer
• Fatima Sheriff, Chief of Staff
• Steven Sherman, M.D., Chair, Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders; Community of Chairs Representative
• Omer Sultan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Stephen Swisher, M.D., Division Head, Surgery
• Welela Tereffe, M.D., Chief Medical Executive
• David Tweardy, M.D., Division Head, Internal Medicine
• Shibu Varghese, Senior Vice President, People, Culture and Infrastructure; Chief Diversity Officer
• Garrett Walsh, M.D., Professor, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, ECMS representative
• ​​​​​​​Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., Division Head ad interim, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Kwong Wong, Ph.D., Professor, Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine; Faculty Senate Representative
• Wei Yang, M.B.B.S., Chair, Breast Imaging, Community of Chairs Representative
• Darrow Zeidenstein, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer