Senior Leadership

Executive Leadership

Director
Randall Holcombe, MD, MBA

Associate Director for Administration
Clifford Martin, MBA

Deputy Director
Joe W. Ramos, PhD

Associate Directors

Shared Resources
Wei Jia, PhD

Ethnic Diversity
Loïc Le Marchand, MD, PhD

Research Education
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, PhD

Program Leaders

Cancer Biology Program Leader
James Turkson, PhD

Population Sciences in the Pacific
Cancer Prevention in the Pacific
Thomas A. Wills, PhD (Co-leader)

Population Sciences in the Pacific
Cancer Epidemiology
Herbert Yu, MD, PhD (Co-leader)

Special Liaisons

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Marcus Tius, PhD

Clinical Trials Office Medical Director
Jessica Rhee, MD, MS

CCSG Coordinator
Kornelia Szauter, PhD

UH Cancer Center Faculty Senate

Chair
Unhee Lim, PhD

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Michelle Matter, PhD

Communicating Secretary
Lenora Loo, PhD

Recording Secretary
Maarit Tiirikainen, PhD

Administrative Service Managers

Francis Blanco, Director, Facilities Management

Kate Bryant-Greenwood, Manager, Clinical Trials Office

Namrata Gurung, Director, Human Resources

Michelle Kau, Assistant Director, Fiscal Administration

Nana Ohkawa, Director, Communications

Wendy Richards, Director, Information Technology

Sandra Thompson, Director, Research Compliance

Cathy Zhang, Director, Research Education and Training