Cathy Eng, MD, FACP, FASCO, Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, is the David H. Johnson Endowed Chair of Surgical and Medical Oncology, VICC Associate Director of Strategic Relations and Research Partnerships, Executive Director of the Young Adults Cancers Program. She was the Ambassador for the American Cancer Society ResearcHERS campaign (2020-2022). She is a highly sought mentor and served on the Vanderbilt-Ingram Mentorship Council and is currently a mentor on the T-32 grant and serves on the Professional Development Mentor. She continues to assume leadership positions devoted to development of phase I-III clinical trials using novel therapeutics for biomarker discovery and enhanced drug utilization in colorectal, appendiceal and anal cancer patients.

Nationally, Dr. Eng has also been highly active serving on multiple committees for ASCO, ECOG, and SWOG. She was chosen for the ASCO Leadership Development Program, ASCO Social Media Committee, the ASCO Colorectal Guidelines Committee, ASCO Scientific Program Committee (Colorectal Cancer Track) and the ASCO Communications Committee. She has served as the co-chair of the SWOG Rectal/Anal Cancer Subcommittee; the Vice-Chair for the SWOG GI Committee; the Chairman of the NCI Rectal/Anal Task Force, member of the NCI GI Steering Committee, and is now the co-Chair of the NCI GI Steering Committee. She participated in the President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot White House Colorectal Cancer Forum.

She has published in many peer-reviewed journals and served on many national grant review panels.