Debra Fields
Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer
City of Hope
Debra Fields is executive vice president and chief transformation officer at City of Hope, a world-renowned biomedical research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases, with a National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer center and a large basic biosciences institute at its heart. She has been a leader at City of Hope since 1998, previously serving as chief compliance officer and then chief risk officer and privacy officer.
In her current role, Fields is responsible for an extensive portfolio, with the overall goal of ensuring that City of Hope’s growing, increasingly complex enterprise is united in pursuing its mission of transforming the future of health. She oversees the organization’s human resources, communications and diversity, equity and inclusion functions, as well as an enterprise transformation team with a prodigious array of initiatives that reach into every major facet of City of Hope’s activities.
