Leadership of the NCI Cohort Consortium

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

Steering Committee Members

Note: Year listed after Steering Committee Members’ names indicates the term end year, with all terms concluding on December 31.

• Kimberly Bertrand, ScD - 2027
  Chair
  Boston University School of Medicine
  Representing Black Womens Health Study (BWHS)

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

• Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH - 2027
  University of California, San Francisco
  Representing Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer (MEC)

• Arash Etemadi, MD, PhD - 2027
  National Cancer Institute, NIH
  Representing Golestan Cohort study

• Renée Turzanski Fortner, PhD - 2027
  Cancer Registry of Norway
  Representing Janus Serum Bank Cohort at Cancer Registry of Norway

• Montse Garcia-Closas, MD, MPH, DrPH - 2027
  Institute for Cancer Research (ICR)
  Representing Breast Cancer Now Generations cohort

• Ping-Ching Hsu, MSc, PhD - 2028
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  Representing Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH)

• Harindra Jayasekara, MBBS, MSc, MD, PhD - 2028
  Cancer Council Victoria
  Representing The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS)

• Marilyn Kwan, PhD - 2028
  Kaiser Permanente Northern California
  Representing Pathways Study (Pathways)

• Jessica Madrigal, PHD - 2028
  AMC Representative
  University of Illinois
  Representing the Associate Member Council (AMC)

• Katie O’Brien, PhD - 2028
  National Institute of Environmental Health, NIH
  Representing the Sister Study (SIS)

• Martha Shrubsole, PhD - 2028
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Representing the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS)

• Karl Smith-Byrne, BSc, MPhil, DPhil - 2028
  University of Oxford
  Representing European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

• Konrad Stopsack, MD, MPH - 2028
  Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS
  Representing Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS)

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