Meet Our Leadership

Cancer Center Leadership

Michael Teitell, MD, PhD
Director, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roshan Bastani
Director, Community Engagement, and Co-Director, Prevention and Control Research
Heather Christofk
Director, Basic and Translational Research
UCLA cancer researcher Dr. Amy Cummings
Director, Lung Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Access
UCLA's Melissa Fitzmaurice Neligan
Chief Administrative Officer
Zoran Galic, PhD
Director, Shared Resources
Patricia Ganz, MD
Director, Prevention and Control Research
Beth Y. Karlan, MD
Director, Cancer Population Genetics
Cancer researcher Dr. Felicia Knaul
Director, Global Health
William Lowry
Director, Cancer Education, Training and Mentoring
Arash Naeim, MD
Director, Informatics
Tina Shih, PhD
Director, Cancer Health Economics
Dennis J. Slamon, MD
Director, Clinical/Translational Research
UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation Executive Director Margaret Steele
Executive Director, Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation
Dr. Michael Steinberg, wearing glasses and a dark suit with striped tie, smiling in a professional headshot.
Director, Clinical Affairs
Liying Zhang, PhD, MS
Director, Cancer Molecular Diagnostics

Clinical Leadership

Timothy R. Donahue, MD
Medical Director, Cancer Services
Barb Jagels, RN, MHA, CPHQ
Senior Director, Cancer Services
Emil Kamiya, MBA
Administrative Director, Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapies
Mariana Niell Swiller, MS, CGC
Director, Cancer Genetic Counseling
Stephen Harris, Director of Radiation Oncoloy
Director, Radiation Oncology
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Director, Palliative Care Operations
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Joni Boucher
Clinical Director, Hematology/Oncology
Shannon LaCava, PsyD
Director, Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology