Leadership and Administration

Leadership and Administration

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The Colorectal Cancer Research Center’s leadership and administrative team works together to help identify, clarify, accelerate, and establish new initiatives that further the center’s mission.

Co-Directors

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Julio Garcia-Aguilar
Julio Garcia-Aguilar

Chief, Colorectal Service; Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Surgical Oncology

Rona D. Yaeger, MD
Rona Yaeger

Associate Attending Physician

Precision Pathology

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical pathologist Jinru Shia
Jinru Shia

Director, Gastrointestinal Pathology

Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani
Efsevia Vakiani

Associate Attending Pathologist

Biobanking

Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani
Efsevia Vakiani

Associate Attending Pathologist

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical oncologist Martin Weiser
Martin R. Weiser

Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Surgery; Stuart H.Q. Quan Chair in Colorectal Surgery

Radiology

Marc J. Gollub, MD, FACR
Marc J. Gollub

Director, Colorectal Radiology

MSK radiologist Iva Petkovska
Iva Petkovska

Associate Attending Radiologist

Precision Modeling

Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Karuna Ganesh
Karuna Ganesh

Assistant Attending Physician

J. Joshua Smith, MD, PhD
J. Joshua Smith

Associate Attending Surgeon

Computational Biology

Francisco Sanchez-Vega
Francisco Sanchez-Vega

Assistant Attending

Young Onset

Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Andrea Cercek
Andrea Cercek

Section Head, Colorectal Cancer; Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers

Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Robin Mendelsohn
Robin Mendelsohn

Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers

Patient-Reported Outcomes

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Emmanouil Pappou
Emmanouil P. Pappou

Assistant Attending Surgeon

Administrative Core

  • Lalitha Ramanathapuram
  • Lerie Palmaira