Bauman is chief of UA Cancer Center division

Dr. Julie E. Bauman has joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine β€” Tucson as professor and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine and the UA Cancer Center.

Bauman is a member of the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee, and a former Tucsonan, having graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School.

Her research focuses on design of biomarker-driven, early-phase clinical trials to prevent and improve survival in head and neck cancer.

Bauman was associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, where she was co-director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, among other roles. She has also been an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico and its Cancer Center in Albuquerque.

She completed her fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Washington, her residency in internal medicine at the University of Utah, and earned her medical and master’s in public health degrees from Tufts University.


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