Our mission at UTSW Simmons Cancer Center is to ease the burden of cancer in our catchment area in North Texas through exceptional patient care, transdisciplinary research, discovery, community engagement and education, partnership, and collaboration.
UT Southwestern provides over a dozen major cancer care programs that advance the treatment and prevention of cancer through innovative therapies, leading-edge clinical trials and the latest technology.
Simmons Cancer Center supports 13 multidisciplinary teams of individual clinicians and researchers woven together to bring broad expertise to bear on scientific and clinical challenges unique to different cancers. These experts facilitate access to compassionate, quality, leading-edge care including the forefront of what's available in Clinical Trials.
Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D. is Associate Professor, Cell Biology, irginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research and Chair of Graduate School Admissions Committee.
Kenneth S. Chen, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern, and an Attending Physician in the Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, TX.
