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Academic Programs

Sally McIver, PhD

Graduate Educator
Cassandra VanDunk, PhD

Assistant Dean, Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

Biostatistics

Cheng Cheng, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Guolian Kang, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Yimei Li, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Biostatistics
Arzu Onar-Thomas, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Haitao Pan, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stan Pounds, PhD

Director of Biostatistics Courses

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Sedigheh Mirzaei Salehabadi, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Anna Seffernick, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Li Tang, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Huiyun (William) Wu, PhD

Lead Senior Biostatistician

Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy

Christopher DeRenzo, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stephen Gottschalk, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Giedre Krenciute, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Akshay Sharma, MBBS

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Aimee C. Talleur, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Fellowship Director, BMTCT Fellowship Program
Brandon Triplett, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Service
Paulina Velasquez, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Cell and Molecular Biology

Chi-Lun Chang, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Bryan A. Gibson, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Andrew T. Kodani, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Mondira Kundu, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Peter J. McKinnon, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research

Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurological Diseases.
Heather Mefford, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stacey K. Ogden, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Joseph T. Opferman, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Shondra Pruett-Miller, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering

ssociate Director, Shared Resources, Comprehensive Cancer Center
J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Cell & Molecular Biology Department

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Director, St. Jude Translational Neuroscience Initiative

Chemical Biology and Therapeutics

Aseem Ansari, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Chemical Biology & Therapeutics
Daniel J. Blair, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Taosheng Chen, PhD, PMP

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, High Throughput Bioscience Center
Tommaso Cupido, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Hai T. Dao, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Marcus Fischer, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Richard E. Lee, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Zoran Rankovic, PhD

Principal Scientist
Anang A. Shelat, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Lead Discovery Informatics

Computational Biology

Brian J. Abraham, PhD

Course Director, Computational Biology

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Samuel W. Brady, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Xiang Chen, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Paul Geeleher, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Xiaotu Ma, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jiyang Yu, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jinghui Zhang, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Computational Biology
Xin Zhou, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director of Data Visualization

Developmental Neurobiology

Suzanne Baker, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Brain Tumor Research Division
Jay B. Bikoff, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Xinwei Cao, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Fabio Demontis, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Michael Dyer, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Developmental Neurobiology
Young-Goo Han, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Myriam Labelle, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stephen C. Mack, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Paul A. Northcott, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jamy C. Peng, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Lindsay Schwarz, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
David J. Solecki, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jason Vevea, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stanislav Zakharenko, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Division of Neural Circuits and Behavior

Diagnostic Imaging

Asim Bag, MBBS, MD, EDiNR

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Interim Director, Neuroimaging Section
Kiel Neumann, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Matthew Scoggins, PhD

Manager, Data Science Resource
Amy Vavere, PhD

Director, Laboratory Operations

Epidemiology & Cancer Control

Greg Armstrong, MD, MSCE

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control

Co-Leader, Cancer Control & Survivorship Program
Heather M. Brandt, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, HPV Cancer Prevention Program
Tara M. Brinkman, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Zhaoming Wang, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Carmen Wilson, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Matthew Wogksch, PhD

Clinical Research Scientist
Yutaka Yasui, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Genetics

Alessandra d'Azzo, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Global Pediatric Medicine

Monnie Abraham, PhD, MSN, FISQua, CPHQ

Director, Global Nursing
Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Global Critical Care Program, St. Jude Global

Director, Eurasia Regional Program, St. Jude Global
Nickhill Bhakta, MD, MPH

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, St. Jude Global
Nancy Sobhy Bolous, MD, MA, MSc

Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Miguela Caniza, MD, MPH

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Infectious Diseases Program, St. Jude Global
Meenakshi Devidas, PhD, MBA

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Global Analytics Unit
Paola Friedrich, MD, MPH

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Mexico Region, St. Jude Global
Dylan Graetz, MD, MPH

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Culture and Communication
Sima Jeha, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Eastern Mediterranean Region, St. Jude Global
Catherine G. Lam, MD, MPH

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Asia Pacific Region, St. Jude Global

Director, Health Systems Unit

Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer
Julie Laveglia, MA

Assistant Dean, Global Child Health MSc Program

Program Manager, Global Scholars Program
Michael McNeil, MD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty

Director, St. Jude Global Palliative Care Program
Sheena Mukkada, MD, MPH

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Shaloo Puri, MBBS, DTCD, MPH, MPA

Associate Dean, Global Child Health MSc Program

Director, Global Scholars Program
Ibrahim Qaddoumi, MD, MS

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Global Neuro-Oncology Program

Director, Jordan Program
Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine

Executive Vice President

Director, St. Jude Global
Victor M. Santana, MD

Associate Dean, Clinical Investigations MSc Program

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Hematology

Yong Cheng, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Wilson K. Clements, PhD

Associate Dean, Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
John D. Crispino, PhD, MBA

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Division of Experimental Hematology
Jane S. Hankins, MD, MS

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Hans-Martin Herz, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Dirk Loeffler, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Shannon McKinney-Freeman, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Ulrike M. Reiss, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center
Clifford Takemoto, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Clinical Hematology

Lemuel Diggs Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease
Shengdar Q. Tsai, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Hematology Department
Marcin Wlodarski, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Immunology

Hongbo Chi, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Yongqiang Feng, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Douglas R. Green, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Vice-Chair, Immunology Department
Maureen A. McGargill, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Paul G. Thomas, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Benjamin A. Youngblood, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Infectious Diseases

Elisabeth E. Adderson, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Patricia Flynn, MD

Associate Dean, Clinical Investigations MSc Program

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Senior Vice President and Medical Director of Quality and Patient Care

Deputy Clinical Director
Aditya H. Gaur, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Medical Director, Occupational Health

Director, Translational Trials Unit

Director, Clinical Research, Infectious Diseases
Diego Hijano, MD, MSc

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Julia L. Hurwitz, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Ellie Margolis, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Gabriela M. Marón Alfaro, MD, MSc

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Nehali Patel, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director of Clinical Services, Infectious Diseases Clinic
Jason W. Rosch, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Charles J. Russell, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry, PhD

Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
Elaine I. Tuomanen, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Infectious Diseases Department

Director, Children's Infection Defense Center (CIDC)

Co-Leader, Bacterial Pathogenesis, CIDC
Richard Webby, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
Joshua Wolf, PhD, MBBS

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Oncology

Justin N. Baker, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care

Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
Michael W. Bishop, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Patrick K. Campbell, MD, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Adam Durbin, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Sara M. Federico, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Elizabeth Fox, MD, MS, MD, MS

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Senior Vice President, Clinical Trials Research
Dylan Graetz, MD, MPH

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Culture and Communication
Daniel M. Green, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Lillian M. Guenther, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Mark E. Hatley, MD, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Sara Helmig, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Melissa Hudson, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Cancer Survivorship Division

Co-Leader, Cancer Control & Survivorship Program

The Charles E. Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship
Hiroto Inaba, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Liza-Marie Johnson, MD, MPH, MSB

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Seth Karol, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Erica C. Kaye, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Michael McNeil, MD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty

Director, St. Jude Global Palliative Care Program
Daniel Mulrooney, MD, MS

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Min Ni, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Kim E. Nichols, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Cancer Predisposition Division
Esther A. Obeng, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Alberto Pappo, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Solid Tumor Division

Co-Leader, Developmental Biology & Solid Tumor Program
Anand Patel, MD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
Ching-Hon Pui, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Oncology Department

Co-Leader, Hematological Malignancies Program

Director, China Region, St. Jude Global
Raul C. Ribeiro, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Charles W. M. Roberts, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Executive Vice President

Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Director, Molecular Oncology Division
Giles W. Robinson, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jeffrey E. Rubnitz, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Elizabeth A. Stewart, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Pathology

Terrence L. Geiger, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Senior Vice President and Deputy Director for Academic and Biomedical Operations

Interim Chair, Department of Immunology
Jeffery M. Klco, MD, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Division of Hematopathology and Molecular Pathology

Medical Director, Hematopathology and Immunopathology
Paul Mead, PhD

Director, Research Operations
Charles Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Co-Leader, Hematological Malignancies Program

Medical Director, St. Jude Biorepository
Brent Orr, MD, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Medical Director, Anatomic Pathology
Gang Wu, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center for Applied Bioinformatics
Jian Xu, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Gerard Zambetti, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Vice President and Director of Academic Programs in Biomedical Sciences

Associate Director, Education and Training, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pediatric Medicine

Richard Finkel, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics
Belinda N. Mandrell, PhD, RN, PNP

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Nursing Research Division
Jennifer McArthur, DO

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
R. Ray Morrison, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, Critical Care Division

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Samuel W. Brady, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
William E. Evans, PharmD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Markos Leggas, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Pharmacokinetic Shared Resource
Peijun Ma, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Leslie Robison, PhD

Emeritus, St. Jude Faculty
P. David Rogers, PharmD, PhD, FCCP

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Daniel Savic, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
John D. Schuetz, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Vice-Chair, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department
Clinton F. Stewart, PharmD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Jun J. Yang, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Vice-Chair, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Psychology

Tara M. Brinkman, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Heather Conklin, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, Section of Neuropsychology
Valerie Crabtree, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, Psychosocial Services
Jerlym Porter, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Victoria Willard, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Radiation Oncology

Matthew J. Krasin, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Thomas E. Merchant, DO, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Radiation Oncology Department
Christopher Tinkle, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Scientific Editing

Angela McArthur, PhD

Director, Scientific Editing

Structural Biology

M. Madan Babu, PhD, FRSC

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery
Scott C. Blanchard, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Single-molecule Imaging Center
Mario Halic, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Structural Biology
Elizabeth Kellogg

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Richard W. Kriwacki, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Chia-Hsueh Lee, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Tanja Mittag, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Junmin Peng, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics
Ji Sun, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Surgery

Andrew M. Davidoff, MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Surgery Department

Director, Surgical Research
Andrew Jackson Murphy, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chief, General Pediatric Surgery Division

Pediatric Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program Director
Jun Yang, MD, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Tumor Cell Biology

Chunliang Li, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Martine F. Roussel, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty