About Us: Leadership
Executive Leadership
Director & Directors Group
The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is led by Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, Director, and a Director’s Group:
- Eric Small, MD, Assoc. Dir., Clinical Sciences;
- Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, Assoc. Dir., Population Sciences;
- Laura J. van ‘t Veer, PhD, Assoc. Dir., Applied Genomics.
- Peter Carroll, MD, Assoc. Dir., Strategic Planning and Clinical Services;
- Sorena Nadaf, MS, MMI, Assoc. Dir., Translational Bioinformatics;
- Daniel Pinkel, PhD, Assoc. Dir., Shared Resources;
- Gerrie Shields, MBA, Assoc. Dir., Clinical Services Administration;
- Kate Shumate, MPA, Assoc. Scientific Programs Administration;
(from left) McCormick, Small, Hiatt, van ‘t Veer
(from left) Carroll, Nadaf, Pinkel, Shields
Executive Committee & Advisory Groups
Associate Directors of the Executive Committee hold responsibility for Alliance Management (Teri Melese, PhD); Community Education and Outreach (Rena J. Pasick, DrPH); Health Care Disparities (Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD); and Professional Education (Martin McMahon, PhD).
Guiding the Executive Committee’s work are advisory groups, including an Institutional Advisory Board, External Advisory Board, and Community Advisory Board.
More info, Community Advisory Board >
Clinical Operations
A Clinical Cancer Center Governing Board, chaired by Peter Carroll, MD, comprises departmental chairs of clinical oncology programs at UCSF/Mount Zion, as well as representatives from the UCSF Medical Center, School of Medicine, and Medical Group. A Clinical Cancer Center Operations Group, which reports to the Governing Board, is responsible for day-to-day clinical operations.
Multidisciplinary Programs
Programmatically, the Cancer Center’s work is concentrated among highly multidisciplinary areas, each of which includes lab scientists, clinical investigators, epidemiologists, and providers of patient care. Collaboration across disciplines ensures that insights gained in the lab can move quickly and effectively to cancer patients’ bedsides. More about the Cancer Center’s program areas can be found in our Research section.
