Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD Appointed Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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2023 External Advisory Board


Name	Title
Chair
Roy Jensen, MD	Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Professor, Cancer Biology Director, The University of Kansas Cancer Center William R. Jewell, M.D. Distinguished Kansas Masonic Professor of Cancer Research and Director, Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center
Programs and Shared Resources
Stanton Gerson, MD	Dean, School of Medicine Sr. Vice President for Medical Affairs (Immediate past) Acting Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director, National Center for Regenerative Medicine Professor, Department of Medicine Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences Member, Immune Oncology Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Steven D. Leach, MD	Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Professr Director, Dartmouth Cancer Center Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer
Martha Mims, MD, PhD	Professor, Medicine Chief, Hematology and Oncology Associate Director of Clinical Research Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Dan L Duncan Professorship, Baylor College of Medicine
Kathi Mooney, RN, PhD	Distinguished Professor, College of Nursing Co-Leader Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute University of Utah
Joe W. Ramos, PhD, MPH	Director, CEO, Louisiana Cancer Research Center
Matthew D. Ringel, MD	Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics Ralph W. Kurtz Chair Co-Leader Cancer Biology Program Co-Director Center for Cancer Engineering Deputy Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center & OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center
Susan T. Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH	Associate Center Director for Community Outreach, Engagement & Equity Professor, Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior Director, Behavioral Oncology T32 Postdoctoral Training Program Moffitt Cancer Center
Administration
Melissa Fitzmaurice Neligan, MPH, CRA	Chief Administrative Officer UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Vermont E3 Participants
Emily Hallgren, PhD	Assistant Professor University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest
Tianxiang "Sean" Hu, PhD	Assistant Professor Georgia Cancer Center

Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD Appointed Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

October 19, 2023 by Kate Strotmeyer

Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine-Hematology Oncology

Diego Adrianzen Herrera, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has been appointed to serve as associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC).

As associate director, Adrianzen Herrera will help to oversee the Cancer Center’s plan to enhance diversity. He will join the UVMCC senior leadership team and will coordinate programs that advance a culture of inclusion across the four pillars of the cancer center: research, education, community outreach, and clinical care.

Adrianzen Herrera is from Peru and received his Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at Alberto Hurtado School of Medicine at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. He did his post-doctoral training as a hematology & medical oncology fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and an internal medicine residency at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

He currently serves on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs Committee for the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and was a participant in the 2023 ASH Health Equity Collective Roundtable. In 2022, he was named a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion at the annual ASH meeting. Dr. Adrianzen Herrera’s research focuses on health outcomes and translational epidemiology in hematologic malignancies.