Senior Leadership
Executive Leadership
Joe W. Ramos, 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
Michelle Matter, PhD
Chair
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
Daniel Han, Director, Fiscal Administration
Paula Higuchi, Director, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement
Wendy Richards, Director, Information Technology
Cathy Zhang, Director, Research Education and Training