Body Mass Index (BMI) and All-Cause Mortality Pooling Project Participants

BMI and All-Cause Mortality Pooling Project Participants Gather at 2009 NCI Cohort Consortium Annual Meeting.

Front Row (left to right): James Cerhan, Cari Meinhold, Howard Sesso, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Michael Thun, Walter Willett, Alicja Wolk, Elisabete Weiderpass Vainio.
Back Row (left to right): Roy Shore, Synnove Knutsen, Paolo Boffetta, Deborah Winn, Scott Rogers, Geoffrey Tobias, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Patricia Hartge, Arthur Schatzkin, Alpa Patel, Yikyung Park.

Participating Cohorts

• Adventist Health Study 1 (AHS-1)
  W. Lawrence Beeson, DrPH
  Gary Fraser, MBChB, PhD
  Loma Linda University
• Agricultural Health Study (AHS)
  Michael Alavanja, DrPH
  Laura Beane-Freeman, PhD, MPH
  Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI
• Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study
  Demetrius Albanes, MD
  DCEG, NCI
• Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project Follow-up Study (BCDDP)
  Arthur Schatzkin, MD, DrPH
  Stephen Moore, PhD
  DCEG, NCI
• California Teachers Study (CTS)
  Leslie Bernstein, PhD
  University of Southern California
  Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD
  University of California, Irvine
  Katie Henderson, PhD
  City of Hope National Medical Center
  Pam Horn Ross, PhD
  Stanford School of Medicine and Northern California Cancer Center
• CLUE I and II (Give Us A Clue to Cancer)
  Sandra Clipp, MPH
  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM)
  Alicja Wolk, PhD
  Karolinska Institutet
• Health Professionals Follow-up Study
  Walter Willett, MD, MPH, DrPH
  Alan Flint, MD
  Harvard University
• Iowa Womens Health Study
  James Cerhan, MD, PhD
  The University of Iowa
• Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
  Robert MacInnis, PhD
  The University of Melbourne
• NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
  Yikyung Park, ScD
  DCEG, NCI
• New York University (NYU) Women’s Health Study
  Karen Koenig, PhD
  Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, MD
  NYU
• Nurses’ Health Study I (NHS I)
  Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
  Diane Feskanich, ScD
  Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Physicians Health Study I (PHS I)
  J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH
  Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH
  Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial
  Patricia Hartge, ScD
  DCEG, NCI
  Christine Berg, MD
  Philip Prorok, PhD
  Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), NCI
• SENECA Finnish and Swedish Cohorts
  Rik Bogers, PhD
  Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research,
  National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
• Swedish Mammography Cohort(SMC)
  Alicja Wolk, PhD
  Karolinska Institutet
• U.S. Radiation Technologists Study
  D. Michal Freedman, J.D., MPH PhD
  Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, PhD
  DCEG, NCI
• VITamins And Lifestyle Study (VITAL)
  Emily White, PhD
  Ulrike Peters, PhD, MPH
  University of Washington
• Womens Health Study
  I-Min Lee, ScD
  Julie  Buring, ScD
  Harvard University
• Women’s Lifestyle and Health Study
  Elisabete Weiderpass Vainio, MD, PhD
  Karolinska Institutet

Other Collaborators

• Lindsay Hannan, MSPH, American Cancer Society (ACS)
• Alpa Patel, PhD, ACS
• Michael Thun, MD, ACS
• Wei Zheng, PhD, Vanderbilt University
• Michelle Brotzman, MPH, Westat, Inc.
• Arti Varanasi, PhD, Westat, Inc.

Project Leaders

• Patricia Hartge, ScD, DCEG, NCI
• Michael Thun, MD, MS, ACS

NCI Staff

• Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, PhD, DCEG, NCI
• Patricia Hartge, ScD, DCEG, NCI
• Robert Hoover, MD, ScD, DCEG, NCI
• Yikyung Park, ScD, DCEG, NCI
• Scott Rogers, MPH, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), NCI
• Geoffrey Tobias, DCEG, NCI
• Deborah Winn, PhD, DCCPS, NCI

Questions about the BMI and All-Cause Mortality Pooling Project? Contact Geoffrey Tobias, DCEG, NCI.