Ms. Paden brings 20 years of experience in cancer center financial and research administration to Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board. Currently the Associate Director of Research Administration at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center in Albuquerque, she has also held administrative leadership positions at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, the Children’s Hospital in Denver, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Paden holds a Master of Public Health in Health Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma (1988). She received her BS in community health from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces in 1985.