Meet our Team

David Hui, M.D.
Director and Head, Center for Goal Concordant Care Research
Professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine

Dr. David Hui completed his internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship in Canada, followed by palliative medicine and clinical research training in the United States. As a tenured professor and clinical investigator, he has led multiple clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health and published extensively on many aspects of supportive/palliative care, including goal concordant care. His research focuses on personalizing supportive care interventions to optimize the quality of life and quality of care for patients living with cancer.

Maribel Mosqueda, M.P.A./H.C.A.
Administrative Director, Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Maribel Mosqueda has a B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.P.A. with a concentration in healthcare administration from The University of Texas at Tyler. With more than 13 years of professional experience at academic health care institutions and more than 10 years in cancer prevention and research, Maribel brings a background in research, project management, quality improvement, sponsored programs and philanthropy. She leads the center's strategic planning, operational and financial administration and personnel management.

Jessica Brown, Ph.D.
Manager, Technical Writing and Publications
Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Dr. Jessica Brown holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Davis and completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Jessica’s professional experience includes working as a technical writer for the Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine department at MD Anderson, and as a senior medical writer and director of medical writing for BostonGene. Jessica leads the scientific writing for protocols, manuscripts, grants and center-related communications.

Gabriella Brown Gellert, B.S.
Senior Research Data Coordinator
Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Gabriella Brown Gellert holds a B.S. in psychology from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Gabriella’s background includes conducting psychological assessments, study recruitment, data collection of clinical patient-reported outcomes and manuscript review. Gabriella is primarily engaged in enrollment and recruitment of study participants and data collection to ensure quality research data coordination for clinical protocols.

Allison de la Rosa, M.P.H.
Research Project Manager
Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Allison de la Rosa holds a B.S. in biology and an M.P.H., with a concentration in social and behavioral health, from Texas A&M University. Allison’s 15+ years of professional experience has centered entirely around research, with an emphasis on protocol design and development, survey and research materials design, participant recruitment strategies and quality data collection and analysis. She provides oversight of the conduct of center-related research studies, including design, activation, enrollment, quality assurance and team training and coordination.

Ethan Huang, Ph.D.
Research Biostatistician
Department of Biostatistics and the Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Dr. Ethan Huang has a Ph.D. in biostatistics from Saint Louis University. With a collaborative research background, he brings an expertise in causal inference, machine learning algorithms and innovative clinical trial design, enabling more precise evaluations of goal concordant interventions and improved patient outcomes. Ethan helps develop and apply advanced statistical methodologies, helping to translate statistical insights into meaningful strategies that enhance the quality of goal concordant care.

Lynda Nelson, M.A., C.C.R.C.
Clinical Protocol Administration Manager
Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Lynda Nelson holds a B.S. in philosophy from the University of Houston and an M.A. in health communication from the UH Jack Valenti School of Communication. Her more than 15 years of experience at MD Anderson includes quality control support of the National Cancer Institute’s National Clinical Trial Network, Phase I clinical trials, and regulatory management. Lynda provides regulatory and grant management, strategic planning for grants and protocols, and oversight of large-scale and multi-site center-related research activities.

Ediri Nesiama, B.S.
Clinical Studies Coordinator
Center for Goal Concordant Care Research

Ediri Nesiama holds a B.S. in biology from The University of Texas at San Antonio. His professional experience includes working as the clinical research coordinator team lead for The University of Texas Southwestern Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Ediri leads study coordination, recruitment, enrollment, data collection and data entry for clinical research protocols.

Jeffrey Lee, M.D.
Chief Medical Executive
Scientific Advisory Board Chair

Kerin Adelson, M.D.
Chief Quality and Value Officer

Carolynn Conley, M.S.
Patient representative
NASA scientist

Christopher Flowers, M.D., M.S.
Division Head
Cancer Medicine

Marina George, M.D.
Vice President
Inpatient Medical Operations

Carmen Gonzalez, M.D., M.S.
Chief Safety Officer
Emergency Medicine

Eileen Hacker, Ph.D., R.N.
Chair
Nursing 

Shreya Kanodia, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President
Program Infrastructure & Planning, Cancer Center Support Grant & Extramural Research Development

Quynh Nguyen, M.D.
Professor
Radiation Oncology

Nico Nortje, Ph.D.
Director
Goal Concordant and End-of-Life Care

Christa A. Poole, M.S.
Director of Social Work

Steve Swisher, M.D.
Division Head
Surgery

Robert Arnold, M.D.
Vice Chair for Professional Development, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Liz Gwyther, M.D.
CEO of Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, South Africa

Jennifer Mack, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Holly Prigerson, Ph.D.
Director, Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care

Camilla Zimmermann, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.C.
Director of Supportive Care, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada