Senior Leadership

Executive Leadership

Loïc Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Interim Director

Clifford Martin, MBA
Associate Director for Administration

John Shepherd, PhD
Interim Deputy Director/Chief Scientific Officer

Associate Directors

Lynne R. Wilkens, DrPH
Shared Resources

Loïc Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Ethnic Diversity

Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, PhD
Research Education

Program Leaders

Pallav Pokhrel, PhD, MPH
Co-Leader
Population Sciences in the Pacific
Cancer Prevention

Lani Park, PhD 
Co-Leader
Population Sciences in the Pacific
Cancer Epidemiology

Xin Chen, PhD 
Co-Leader
Cancer Biology

Special Liaisons

Jeffrey Berenberg, MD
NCORP Principal Investigator

Jonathan K. Cho, MD
Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office

Neal Palafox, MD
Coordinator, Pacific Island Programs/U54 PIPCHE

Kornelia Szauter, PhD
Coordinator, Cancer Center Support Grant

Marcus Tius, PhD
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

UH Cancer Center Faculty Senate

Yurii Shvetsov, PhD
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect

Lenora Loo, PhD
Communicating Secretary

Kevin Cassel, DrPH
Recording Secretary

Administrative Service Managers

Francis Blanco, Director, Facilities Management

Namrata Gurung, Director, Human Resources

Daniel Han, Director, Fiscal Administration

Paula Higuchi, Director, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Ashley Leinbach, Director, Human Subject Research Compliance

Wendy Richards, Director, Information Technology

Kornelia Szauter, Director, Grants Administration

Cathy Zhang, Director, Research Education and Training