Diane Simeone, MD, director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health provides strategic and intellectual direction for research programs, administrative structure, and multidisciplinary cancer clinical care. She is principal investigator for the Cancer Center’s support grant sponsored by the NCI.

Previously, she was director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center and associate director, translational research at Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health. She is an internationally renowned pancreatic surgeon and researcher focused on treating pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cystic tumors.

She chaired the scientific and medical advisory board of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and is a past president of the American Pancreatic Association and Society of University Surgeons. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, NCI Pancreatic Cancer Task force and NCI Cancer Centers Study Section. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

She is the principal investigator and lead of Precision Promise, anational clinical trials consortium focused on next generation clinical trials for pancreatic cancer. She founded the Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection Consortium to drive early detection of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Simeone completedher residency at the University of Michigan and earned her MD at Duke University.