Leadership at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is led by a director, a deputy director, and team of associate center directors representing all aspects of the center. A Cancer Clinical Enterprise Committee oversees strategy and decision-making for the clinical operations of the center. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is also guided by a volunteer community Board of Overseers and external scientific advisory board.
Executive Leadership Team
- Ben Ho Park, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center - Theresa M. Keske Sberna, M.P.H.
Chief Business Officer; Deputy Director for Strategy and Analytics
Associate Directors
- Jordan D. Berlin, M.D.
Associate Director for Clinical Research - David K. Cortez, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Basic Science Research - Debra L. Friedman, M.D.
Associate Director for Community Science and Health Outcomes - Scott Hiebert, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Shared Resources and Associate Director for Research Education - Beth Jones, M.A.
- Executive Director of Development
- Tuya Pal, M.D.
Associate Director for Cancer Health Disparities - Xiao-Ou Shu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Director for Global Health
- Julie C. Schaum, M.S.
Associate Director for Research Administration - Yu Shyr, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Quantitative Sciences - Anne Washburn, M.P.H.
Administrative Director for Community Relations and Affiliations - Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director for Population-Based Research
Research Program Leaders
Breast Cancer Research Program
Cancer Cell Biology Research Program
Cancer Epidemiology Research Program
Cancer Health Outcomes and Control Research Program
Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program
Genome Maintenance Research Program
Host-Tumor Interactions Research Program
Translational Research and Interventional Oncology Research Program
Other Key Leaders
- Georgia Wiesner, M.D., M.S.
Director, Clinical and Translational Hereditary Cancer Program
Executive Committee
- Ben Ho Park, M.D., Ph.D., Chair
- Ronald Alvarez, M.D., M.B.A.
- Dan Beauchamp, M.D.
- Jordan Berlin, M.D.
- Sam Chang, M.D., M.B.A.
- David K. Cortez, Ph.D.
- Nancy Davis, M.D.
- Debra L. Friedman, M.D.
- Laura Goff, M.D.
- Scott Hiebert, Ph.D.
- Kamran Idrees, M.D., M.S.C.I., M.M.H.C., FACS
- Beth Jones, M.A.
- Tuya Pal, M.D.
- David Penson, M.D., M.P.H., MMHC
- W. Kimryn (Kim) Rathmell, M.D., Ph.D.
- Brian Rini, M.D.
- Theresa M. Keske Sberna, M.P.H.
- Julie C. Schaum, M.S.
- Xiao-Ou Shu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Yu Shyr, Ph.D.
- Anne Washburn, M.P.H.
- Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D, M.P.H.
- Mary M. Zutter, M.D.