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](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/18001/image/garcia-aguilar_0-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Chief, Colorectal Service; Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Surgical Oncology
![Rona D. Yaeger, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/674/1x1/yeager_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Physician
Precision Pathology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical pathologist Jinru Shia](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/578/1x1/shia_170724_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Gastrointestinal Pathology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/645/1x1/vakiani-efsevia_171108_13_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Pathologist
Biobanking
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/645/1x1/vakiani-efsevia_171108_13_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Pathologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical oncologist Martin Weiser](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/660/1x1/weiser_clinic_180831_301r_1200x1200_0.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Surgery; Stuart H.Q. Quan Chair in Colorectal Surgery
Radiology
![Marc J. Gollub, MD, FACR](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/239/image/gollub-marc-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Director, Colorectal Radiology
![MSK radiologist Iva Petkovska](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/125920/1x1/petkovska_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Radiologist
Precision Modeling
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Karuna Ganesh](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/133807/1x1/ganesh_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![J. Joshua Smith, MD, PhD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/105272/1x1/jesse-joshua-smith_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Surgeon
Computational Biology
![Francisco Sanchez-Vega](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/278081/main_image/francisco-3x2.jpg?h=c9f93661)
Assistant Attending
Young Onset
![Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Andrea Cercek](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/112/1x1/2017msk_mp_04_colorectal53rd_310.nef.1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Section Head, Colorectal Cancer; Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers
![Memorial Sloan Kettering gastroenterologist Robin Mendelsohn](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/425/1x1/mendelsohn_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers
Patient-Reported Outcomes
![Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Emmanouil Pappou](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/147448/1x1/pappou_171107_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Surgeon
Administrative Core
- Lalitha Ramanathapuram
- Lerie Palmaira