Office of Academic Clinical Affairs

Masonic Cancer Center

Available Clinical Trials

MCC Internal Hub

Leadership and Staff Directory

Senior Leadership

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD

Associate Director, Translational Research

Melissa Geller, MD

Associate Director, Clinical Research

Rahel Ghebre, MD, MPH

Associate Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Carol A. Lange, PhD

Associate Director for Basic Sciences

David Largaespada, PhD

Interim Deputy Director

Jeffrey Miller, MD

Interim Director; Co-Leader Immunology Program

Heather Nelson, PhD, MPH

Associate Director, Cancer Prevention & Control

Christopher Pennell, PhD

Associate Director, Training and Education; Director, Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

Jen Poynter, PhD, MPH

Associate Co-Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Rebekah Pratt, PhD

Associate Co-Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Aaron Schilz, MPA

Executive Director & Associate Director of Administration

Administrative Leadership

Kiara Ellis, MSW

Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Amna Hussein, MBS

Community Outreach and Engagement Manager

Megan Johnson

Director of Quality Assurance, Clinical Trials Office

Andrea Johnson, MBA

Finance Director

Elizabeth Kerr, RN

Clinical Director, Clinical Trials Office

Laura Klein, MPH

Research Development Manager

Deepa Kolaseri, PhD, CCRP

Director, Business Development and Industry Partnership; Scientific Director of Translation

Lissa Martinez Huebner, CMP

Event and Administrative Manager

Erica Orcholski, CCRP

Director of Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Trials Office

Megan Pingry

HR Manager

Marie L. Rahne, MBA

Director, Minnesota Cancer Clinical Trials Network

Susan Rottschaefer, MS

Center Evaluation and CCSG Analyst

Briana Sajan, MA

Marketing and Communications Manager

Dedra Schendzielos, MHA

Executive Director, Clinical Research

Aaron Schilz, MPA

Executive Director & Associate Director of Administration

Marina Sladojevic

Senior Office Manager, Executive Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Miller

MCC Executive Committee

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD

Associate Director, Translational Research

Veronika Bachanova, MD, PhD

Co-leader, Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program

Silvia Balbo, PhD

Co-Leader, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program

Anne Blaes, MD

Co-Leader, SPECS Program

Robert Clarke, PhD, DSc

Executive Director, The Hormel Institute

Melissa Geller, MD

Associate Director, Clinical Research

Rahel Ghebre, MD, MPH

Associate Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Daniel Harki, PhD

Co-Leader, Cellular Mechanisms Program

R. Stephanie Huang, PhD

Co-Leader, Genetic Mechanisms Program

Eric Jensen, MD

Associate Chief of Surgical Services, Cancer Care Service Line

Mark Juckett, MD

Medical Director, Cellular, Gene and Immunotherapy Initiative, Clinical Trials Office

Samir Khariwala, MD, MS, FACS

Department Chair and Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Carol A. Lange, PhD

Associate Director for Basic Sciences

Margaret MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Director, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy

Jeffrey Miller, MD

Interim Director; Co-Leader Immunology Program

Katie Nelson

Executive, Cancer Care Service Line

Heather Nelson, PhD, MPH

Associate Director, Cancer Prevention & Control

Frank G. Ondrey, MD, PhD

Co-Leader, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program

Helen Parsons, PhD, MPH

Co-Leader, SPECS Program

Christopher Pennell, PhD

Associate Director, Training and Education; Director, Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

Jen Poynter, PhD, MPH

Associate Co-Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Rebekah Pratt, PhD

Associate Co-Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Aaron Schilz, MPA

Executive Director & Associate Director of Administration

Kaylee Schwertfeger, PhD

Co-Leader, Cellular Mechanisms Program

Yoji Shimizu, PhD

Co-Leader, Immunology Program

Stephanie Terezakis, MD

Department Head, Department of Radiation Oncology

Lucie Turcotte, MD, MPH, MS

Director, Survivorship Program

John E. Wagner, MD

Co-Leader, Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program

Christopher Warlick, MD, PhD

Department Head for the Department of Urology

Masato Yamamoto, MD, PhD

Co-Leader, Genetic Mechanisms Program

Bevan Yueh, MD, MPH

CEO, University of Minnesota Physicians; Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Minnesota Medical School

Shared Resource Directors

Kenny Beckman, PhD

Co-Director, Cancer Genomics Shared Resource

Martin Felices, PhD

Director of the Translational Therapy Laboratory

Timothy Griffin, PhD

Director, Proteogenomics Shared Resource

Betsy Hirsch, PhD

Co-Director, Cancer Genomics Shared Resource

Branden Moriarity, PhD

Co-Director, Genome Engineering Shared Resource

Christopher Pennell, PhD

Associate Director, Training and Education; Director, Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

J. Sunil Rao, PhD

Director of Biostatistics, Masonic Cancer Center

Davis Seelig, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Director, Comparative Pathology Shared Resource

Peter Villalta, PhD

Director, Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource

Jinhua Wang, PhD

Director, Cancer Informatics Shared Resource

Beau Webber, PhD

Co-Director, Genome Engineering Shared Resource