Leadership
SIO’s leadership reflects the organization’s multi-disciplinary approach to integrative oncology. The organization is governed by a Board of Trustees, with officers and trustees, and an Executive Committee composed of the President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary and Immediate Past President. In addition, SIO maintains a Past Presidents’ Council, drawing on the extensive knowledge and insights of the organization’s leaders through the years.
Executive
Board of Trustees
Channing Paller, MD
President
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Santosh Rao, MD
Immediate Past President
Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Richard T. Lee, MD, FASCO
President-Elect/Treasurer
City of Hope
Ana Maria Lopez, MD. MPH, MACP
Vice President of TAO
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University
Gabriel Lopez, MD
Vice President of Governance
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Eran Ben-Arye, MD
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Tara Berman, MD, MS
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Julie Deleemans, PhD
University of Calgary
Betsy Glosik, BS
Patient Advocate
Judith Lacey, MBBS, FRACGP, FAChPM
Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Leigh Leibel, MSc, C-IAYT, ACSM-CET
Columbia University Medical Center
Shelley Wang, MD, MPH
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Iris Zhi, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Susan Veleber DACM MS LAc
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Moshe Frenkel MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Smitha Mallaiah MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Santhosshi Narayanan, MD, FACP
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Burt Rosen
Patient Advocate
Konstantina Stylianou, DAOM, Lac, Nutritionist
German Cancer Center
Alissa Huston, MD
University Rochester Medical Center
Nina Fuller-Shavel, MB BChir (Medicine) MA MSc
Synthesis Clinic
Past Presidents
- 2004 SIO Founding President, Barrie Cassileth, PhD, , Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Retired) – In Memoriam
- 2005 David Rosenthal, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- 2006 Debu Tripathy, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 2007 Peter Johnstone, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa
- 2008 Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 2009 Stephen Sagar , BSc (Hons), MBBS, MRCP, FRCR, FRCPC, DAB, McMaster University
- 2010 Donald I. Abrams, MD, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
- 2011 Gary Deng, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 2012 Kara Kelly, MD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- 2013 Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mind and Life Institute
- 2014 Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- 2015 Suzanna Zick, ND, MPH, University of Michigan Health System
- 2016-2017 Jun Mao, MD, MSCE, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 2018-2019 Lynda Balneaves, PhD, RN, University of Manitoba
- 2020-2021 Ting Bao, MD, DABMA, MS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 2022-2023 Linda Carlson, PhD, RPsych, University of Calgary
- 2024-2025 Santosh Rao, MD, Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center







