Office of Academic Clinical Affairs

Masonic Cancer Center

Available Clinical Trials

Staff

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)

Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD

Associate Director, Cancer Prevention & Control

Carol A. Lange, PhD

Associate Director for Basic Sciences

Jeffrey Miller, MD

Deputy Director; Co-Leader Immunology 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

Douglas Yee, MD

Director

Administrative Leadership

Kiara Ellis, MSW

Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Megan Johnson

Director of Quality Assurance, Clinical Trials Office

Andrea Johnson, MBA

Finance Director

Briana Kerber, MA

Marketing and Communications Manager

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

Event and Administrative Manager

Erica Orcholski, CCRP

Director of Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Trials Office

Megan Pingry

HR Partner

Marie L. Rahne, MBA

Director, Minnesota Cancer Clinical Trials Network

Susan Rottschaefer, MS

Center Evaluation and CCSG Analyst

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. Douglas Yee

MCC Executive Committee

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD

Associate Director, Translational Research

Brian Betts, MD

Co-Leader, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program

Anne Blaes, MD

Co-Leader, SPECS Program

Clark C. Chen, MD, PhD

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)

Edward Greeno, MD

green048@umn.edu

Daniel A. Harki , PhD

daharki@umn.edu

Daniel Harki, PhD

Co-Leader, Cellular Mechanisms Program

Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD

Associate Director, Cancer Prevention & Control

R. Stephanie Huang, PhD

Co-Leader, Genetic Mechanisms Program

Eric Jensen, MD

Associate Chief of Surgical Services, Cancer Care Service Line

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

Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP

emil-lou@umn.edu

Margaret MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC

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

Jeffrey Miller, MD

Deputy Director; Co-Leader Immunology Program

Heather Nelson, PhD, MPH

Co-Leader, SPECS Program

Frank G. Ondrey, MD, PhD

Co-Leader, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program

Christopher Pennell, PhD

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

Lisa Peterson, PhD

Co-Leader, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program

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 Schwartfaeger, PhD

Co-Leader, Cellular Mechanisms Program

Yoji Shimizu, PhD

Co-Leader, Immunology Program

Stephanie Terezakis, MD

Department Head, Department of Radiation Oncology

John E. Wagner, MD

Co-Leader, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program

Christopher Warlick, MD, PhD

Department Head for the Department of Urology

Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc

weige007@umn.edu

Masato Yamamoto, MD, PhD

Co-Leader, Genetic Mechanisms Program

Douglas Yee, MD

Director

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

Timothy C. Hallstrom , PhD

halls026@umn.edu

Betsy Hirsch, PhD

Co-Director, Cancer Genomics Shared Resource

Chap T. Le, PhD

Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource

Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP

emil-lou@umn.edu

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

Brain Tumor Program

Susan Arnold, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)

W. Robert Bell , MD, MHS

Lynne T. Bemis , PhD

ltbemis@d.umn.edu

Kayli Britos

kbritos@umn.edu

Clark C. Chen, MD, PhD

H. Brent Clark , MD, PhD

clark002@umn.edu

Hai Dang Nguyen, Ph.D.

hdnguyen@umn.edu

Lester R. Drewers , PhD

ldrewes@d.umn.edu

Kathryn Dunsenbery, MD

dusen001@umn.edu

William Elmquist, PharmD, PhD

elmqu011@umn.edu

Miguel Fiol, MD

fiolx001@umn.edu

Michael Garwood, PhD

Edward Greeno, MD

green048@umn.edu

Daniel J. Guillaume, MD, MS

dguillau@umn.edu

Stephen J. Haines , MD, FACS

fello062@umn.edu

Timothy C. Hallstrom , PhD

halls026@umn.edu

Daniel A. Harki , PhD

daharki@umn.edu

Stephen Jameson, PhD

james024@umn.edu

Tomoyuki Koga , MD, PhD

koga0012@umn.edu

Alicia Kunin-Batson , PhD, LP

kunin003@umn.edu

David Largaespada , PhD

larga002@umn.edu

Ming Li , PhD

li001705@umn.edu

Wensheng Lin, MD, Phd

Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP

emil-lou@umn.edu

Walter C. Low , PhD

lowwalt@umn.edu

Erin Marcotte, MPH, PhD

marcotte@umn.edu

Erin Marcotte, MPH, PhD

marcotte@umn.edu

Venkatram Mereddy, PhD

vmereddy@d.umn.edu

Shalom Michaeli, PhD

micha042@umn.edu

Christopher Moertel , MD

moert001@umn.edu

Elizabeth Neil, MD

Jianfang Ning , PhD

David Odde, PhD

oddex002@umn.edu

Michael Olin, PhD

olin0012@umn.edu

Liz Pluhar, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVS

pluha006@umn.edu

Theresa Reineke , PhD, MS

treineke@umn.edu

Ashley Schempp

john3587@umn.edu

Davis Seelig, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP

dseelig@umn.edu

Davis Seelig, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP

dseelig@umn.edu

Lindsey Sloan , MD, PhD

sloan153@umn.edu

Logan Spector, PhD

spect012@umn.edu

Daniel Vallera , PhD

valle001@umn.edu

Andrew Venteicher , MD, PhD

aventeic@umn.edu

Carston R. Wagner , PhD

wagne003@umn.edu

Jianping Wang

Chun Wang, PhD

wangx504@umn.edu

Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc

weige007@umn.edu

Christopher Wilke, Md, PhD