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Administration & Staff

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s leadership, program directors, communications and development staff, and N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital administration.

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UNC Lineberger Administration

To contact UNC Lineberger administrative staff, please call the UNC Lineberger front desk at (919) 966-3036.

  • Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, Executive Director
  • Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO, Deputy Director, Clinical Sciences
  • Jeremy Rich, MD, MHS, MBA, Deputy Director, Research; Chief Scientific Officer
  • Ronny Bell, PhD, MS, Associate Director, Cancer Care Access & Excellence
  • Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Director, Community Outreach and Engagement for Patient-Centered Research
  • Tracey Conrad, CPA, MHA, Associate Director, Finance Administration
  • Claire Dees, MD, ScM, Associate Co-Director, Education
  • Holly Kloos Dressman, PhD, Assistant Director, Shared Resources and Operations
  • Barbara Alvarez Martin, DrPH, MPH, Assistant Director, Community Outreach and Engagement and Population Science
  • Wendy Sarratt, DrPH, MPH, Associate Director, Planning and Administration
  • Melissa Troester, PhD, Associate Director, Population Sciences
  • Bernard Weissman, PhD, Associate Co-Director, Education
  • Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
  • Jen Jen Yeh, MD, Associate Director, Translational Research

UNC Lineberger Research Program Leaders

  • Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, Cancer Prevention & Control
  • James Bear, PhD, Cancer Cell Biology
  • Blossom Damania, PhD, Virology
  • Ian Davis, MD, Cancer Genetics
  • Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Virology
  • Gianpietro Dotti, MD, Immunology & Immunotherapy
  • Gaorav P. Gupta, MD, PhD, Breast Cancer
  • Louise Henderson, PhD, Cancer Epidemiology
  • William Y. Kim, MD, Cancer Genetics
  • Terry Magnuson, PhD, Cancer Genetics
  • Matthew Milowsky, MD, Cancer Therapeutics
  • Hazel Nichols, PhD, MSc, Cancer Epidemiology
  • Chad Pecot, MD, Cancer Therapeutics
  • Charles M. Perou, PhD, Breast Cancer
  • Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, Immunology & Immunotherapy
  • Kurt Ribisl, PhD, Cancer Prevention & Control
  • Deborah Stephens, DO, Cancer Therapeutics
  • Jessica Thaxton, PhD, Cancer Cell Biology

Development

The development team is part of the UNC Health Foundation, located at 123 W. Franklin Street, Suite 510, Chapel Hill, NC.

The mailing address is: UNC Health Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

Communications

The Office of Communications and Marketing at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center supports the cancer center and UNC Health cancer communications.

Clinical Services at N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital

  • Jonathan Serody, MD, Chief of Hematology
  • Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, Chief of Oncology
  • David Ollila, MD, Associate Physician in Chief
  • Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH, Clinical Medical Director
  • Ian Buchanan, MD, Senior Vice President, Operations, Chief Research Officer
  • Laura Kelsey, MHA, FACHE, Vice President, Cancer Services
  • Brendan Fitzpatrick, MBA, Associate Vice President, Cancer Services
  • Tracy Carroll, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN, Director, Medicine and Oncology Services