MALIKA MADDISON
Executive Director, Cancer and Blood Disease Institute
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
With 550 team members, the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, administratively managed by executive director Malika Maddison, is the largest pediatric hematology-oncology program of its kind in the Western United States. With 21 years of clinical and administrative experience, Maddison specializes in financial management, process improvement, business development and strategic planning in clinical, research and education domains.
Maddison oversees all aspects of service line operations for a program that has been continuously ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for pediatric cancer care by US News & World Report since she joined the institute in 2017. Under Maddison’s leadership, new patient growth has risen 20 percent since fiscal year 2020 and the institute has developed a new Brain Tumor Center with the Neurological Institute and an inpatient MIBG (meta-iodobenzylguanidine) radiation therapy program, the first in Southern California.
