Team Biographies

Team role:  Principal Investigator

 

Dr. Esserman is a surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist practicing at the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center where she has also been the Director since 1996.  She co-leads the Breast Oncology Program, which is the largest of the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center’s multidisciplinary programs, comprising 69 faculty members who represent 16 academic specialties. It is an internationally recognized, well-established program with major initiatives in epidemiology, genetics, biology, therapeutics, and clinical cancer care.  She is a professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF and Associate Director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. There she founded and is faculty leader of the program in Translational Informatics spanning the disciplines of bioinformatics, medical and clinical informatics, systems integration, and clinical care delivery. The Communication & Care planning tool that was developed as part of the CHCF/RWJ PHD initiative is one example of the innovative tools being developed at UCSF.