Dr. Marie Suga is the Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente Oncology Clinical Trials program in Northern California and the Kaiser Permanente NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Principal Investigator. She has over 10 years of experience in oncology clinical trials working as a principal investigator/sub-investigator in NIH/NCI and pharmaceutical sponsored trials. Dr. Suga serves as the KP Northern California Lung Cancer Subspecialty Leader and chair of the KP National Lung Cancer Program. She is a current member of the NCI Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee, as the NCORP community representative for developing concepts that would be sponsored through the National Clinical Trials Network. In addition, she is a national co-chair of LUNG-MAP sub-study 1900C, sponsored through the Southwest Oncology Cooperative Group (SWOG) and an active working group member of the SWOG Lung Cancer Committee and the Alliance Respiratory Committee.

Dr. Suga started her career with Kaiser Permanente as an Oncologist/Hematologist and now specializes in both lung and breast cancer patients in her clinic. She holds a BA in Cell Physiology from the University of California, Berkeley, CA and a MD/MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. She did her Internal Medicine Residency training at Brown University, Providence, RI and her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, CA.