Meet Our Team

William Lowry

William Lowry, PhD

Associate Director of Education, Training, and Mentoring

William Lowry is a professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. As the Associate Director of Education, Training, and Mentoring for the Cancer Center, and Faculty Director of the Office of Cancer Training and Education, he provides strategic direction and collaborates closely with his team to design, develop, implement, and manage cancer-focused education and training programs across the entire training continuum.

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UCLA's Nishtha Agarwal

Nishtha Agarwal, BDS, MPH

Administrative Director

Nishtha is a foreign trained Dentist with a Master’s degree in Public Health. She oversees all office staff and daily operations of the Office of Cancer Training and Education. She's also responsible for overall strategic planning and supervision of all Cancer Center’s education, training and mentoring activities including developing, implementing, and modifying strategies to meet goals and objectives.

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UCLA's Monique Townson

Monique Townson

Program Coordinator

Monique is responsible for supporting a wide variety of education, training and mentoring activities and initiatives. As well as assisting in new program development, data collection, analysis, and reporting program outcomes tracking.

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Zeana Yousef

Zeana Yousef

Program Specialist

Zeana assists with coordinating and supporting education and training activities and programs as well as aid in collecting and organizing data for continual improvement on offerings.

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