Leadership of the NCI Cohort Consortium

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• Steering Committee Members
• Ex-Officio Members
• NCI Executive Staff

Steering Committee Members

Note: Year following Steering Committee Members' names indicates term end date.

• Janet Olson, MPH, PhD - 2024
  Outgoing Chair
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  Representing the Mayo Clinic Biobank

• Yu Chen, PhD, MPH - 2025
  Chair
  New York University School of Medicine
  Representing the NYU Women’s Health Study

• Kimberly Bertrand, ScD - 2028
  Boston University School of Medicine
  Representing Black Womens Health Study (BWHS)

• Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH - 2028
  University of California, San Francisco
  Representing Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer (MEC)

• Arash Etemadi, MD, PhD - 2028
  National Cancer Institute, NIH
  Representing Golestan Cohort study

• Pietro Ferrari, PhD - 2025
  International Agency for Research on Cancer
  Representing the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

• Renée Turzanski Fortner, PhD - 2028
  Cancer Registry of Norway
  Representing Janus Serum Bank Cohort at Cancer Registry of Norway

• Montse Garcia-Closas, MD, MPH, DrPH - 2028
  Institute for Cancer Research (ICR)
  Representing Breast Cancer Now Generations cohort

• Alpa Patel, PhD - 2025
  American Cancer Society, Inc.
  Representing the Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS-II, CPS-II Nutrition Cohort, CPS-III)

• Dale P. Sandler, PhD - 2025
  National Institute of Environmental Health, NIH
  Representing the Sister Study (SIS)

• V. Wendy Setiawan, PhD - 2025
  University of Southern California
  Representing the Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer (MEC)

• Caroline Um, PHD, MPH, RD - 2025
  AMC Representative
  American Cancer Society
  Representing the Associate Member Council (AMC)

• Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH - 2025
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Representing the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS)

Ex-Officio Members

• Katrina A.B. Goddard, PhD
  Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), NCI

• Stephen Chanock, MD
  Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI

• Mia Gaudet, PhD
  Senior Scientist, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI

NCI Executive Staff

• Pothur R. Srinivas, PhD, MPH (Deputy Associate Director)
  Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI

• Sonia Rosenfield, PhD (Executive Director)
  EGRP, DCCPS, NCI

• Scott Rogers, MPH (Advisor, Cohorts and Grants)
  EGRP, DCCPS, NCI
  Ad hoc Steering Committee Participant