Leadership and Administration

The Colorectal Cancer Research Center’s leadership and administrative team works together to help identify, clarify, accelerate, and establish new initiatives that further the center’s mission.

Co-Directors

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Julio Garcia-Aguilar
Chief, Colorectal Service; Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Surgical Oncology
Rona Yaeger
Attending Physician

Precision Pathology

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical pathologist Jinru Shia
Director, Gastrointestinal Pathology
Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani
Associate Attending Pathologist

Biobanking

Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Efsevia Vakiani
Associate Attending Pathologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering surgical oncologist Martin Weiser
Acting Chair, Department of Surgery; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, Department of Surgery; Stuart H.Q. Quan Chair in Colorectal Surgery

Radiology

Marc J. Gollub, MD, FACR
Director, Colorectal Radiology
MSK radiologist Iva Petkovska
Associate Attending Radiologist

Precision Modeling

Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Karuna Ganesh
Associate Attending Physician

Computational Biology

Francisco Sanchez-Vega
Assistant Attending

Young Onset

Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Andrea Cercek
Section Head, Colorectal Cancer; Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers
Dr. Robin Mendelsohn
Co-Director, Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers

Patient-Reported Outcomes

Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Emmanouil Pappou
Assistant Attending Surgeon

Administrative Core

  • Lalitha Ramanathapuram
  • Lerie Palmaira