Mark Burkard MD, PhD

Mark Burkard, MD, PhD, has been named director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. He will also begin as a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood Marrow Transplantation in the Carver College of Medicine. Burkard currently serves as the Mary and Rob Gooze Chair in Metastatic Breast Cancer and professor in the Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison’s Department of Internal Medicine. Burkard specializes in precision oncology and the treatment of breast cancer. He serves as the associate director of Genomics and Precision Medicine within the UW Carbone Cancer Center and director of the UW-Madison Medical Scientist Training Program.