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.

• Heather Eliassen, ScD - 2022
  Chair
  Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  Representing the Nurses’ Health Study-II (NHS-II)

• James V. Lacey, Jr., PhD, MPH - 2023
  Chair Elect
  Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
  Representing the California Teachers Study

• Jelena Besevic, MSc, PhD - 2024
  University of Oxford
  Representing the UK Biobank

• Shine Chang, PhD - 2022
  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  Representing the Mexican American (Mano a Mano) Cohort Study

• Yu Chen, PhD, MPH - 2024
  New York University School of Medicine
  Representing the NYU Women’s Health Study

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

• Melissa A. Merritt, PhD - 2024
  AMC Representative
  The University of Sydney
  Representing the Associate Member Council (AMC)

• Roger Milne, PhD - 2022
  Outgoing Chair
  Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
  Representing the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study

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

• 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)

• Jeannette M. Schenk, PhD, MS, RD - 2022
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Representing the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial

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

• Lynne Wilkens, DrPH
  Special Advisor
  University of Hawaii Cancer Center
  Representing the Multiethnic/Minority Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer

• 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

• Kathy Helzlsouer, MD, MHS
  Associate Director, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI

NCI Executive Staff

• Rachel Hanisch, PhD, MPH (Executive Director)
  Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI

• Scott Rogers, MPH (Advisor, Cohorts and Grants)
  Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP), DCCPS, NCI

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

Ad hoc Steering Committee Participants: Pothur Srinivas and Scott Rogers