Dr. Esnaola is a clinician-scientist dedicated to optimizing cancer care and outcomes, cancer prevention and control, and cancer health equity. As Deputy Director of Cancer Clinical Services at HMNCC, he is tasked with optimizing and streamlining multidisciplinary cancer care system-wide. Dr. Esnaola is an experienced surgical oncologist and has served as Division Chief of Surgical Oncology and Gastrointestinal Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital since 2018, where he participates in the multidisciplinary care of patients with gastrointestinal cancers, hepatico-pancreatico-biliary malignancies, melanoma, and soft tissue sarcomas. He is a formally trained, health services researcher and clinical trialist, has numerous peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, has a sustained track record of intramural and external funding, and has served on numerous National Institute of Health and National Cancer Institute study sections.