Steering Committee

Mariana C. Stern, PhD
Steering Committee Chair
Vice-Chair of Culture & Engagement and Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Ira Goodman Chair in Cancer Research
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Associate Director of Population Science
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California

Nadine J. Barrett, PhD, MA, MS
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Senior Associate Dean, Community Engagement and Research Access
Professor, Social Science and Health Policy, Population Health Sciences
Director, Office of Community Engagement and Outreach
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center and the CTSI/Maya Angelo Center for Health Equity
Chief Community Engagement Officer, Cancer Service Line
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Linda B. Baughn, PhD
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Co-Director, Genomics Laboratory
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Consultant, Division of Hematopathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Consultant, Department of Hematology Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

John M. Carethers, MD, MACP, FAACR
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Public Health
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Jennifer Tsui, PhD, MPH
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Professor, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Co-Leader, Cancer Control Research Program
Director, Cancer Care Delivery Research and Implementation Science
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Kira Bona, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician, Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Advancing Mentoring and the Professoriate
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
University of California, Davis
Davis, California

Iona C. Cheng, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Head, Cancer Epidemiology Division
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry (GBACR)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Jonathon B. Cohen, MD, MS
Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Co-Director, Lymphoma Program
Chair, Data Safety Monitoring Committee
Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute
Atlanta, Georgia

David W. Craig, PhD
Deputy Director, Translational Sciences in Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Associate Director, Data Science, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Translational Sciences
City of Hope
Duarte, California

Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Cancer Research®
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kevin L. Gardner, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Donald W. King, MD and Mary Elizabeth King, MD Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Pathologist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital CUIMC
Columbia University
New York, New York

Erin F. Gillespie, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology Division
Member, Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Charles S. Kamen, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Cancer Control (SMD)
Associate Professor, Center for Community Health and Prevention
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry (SMD)
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York

Kimberly A. Miller, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Neal A. Palafox, MD, MPH
B.H. and Alice C. Beams Endowed Professor in Cancer Research
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawai‘i
Professor, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Prevention in the Pacific)
University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center
Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Manali I. Patel, MD, MPH, MS, FASCO
Associate Professor, Division of Oncology
Stanford School of Medicine
Staff Oncologist
VA Palo Alto Health Care System Partnerships to Advance Cancer Care
Palo Alto, California

Claradina Soto, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health
School of Medicine
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Jose G. Trevino, MD, FACS
Geoffrey R. Shudtz Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Walter Lawrence Jr. Chair of Oncology
Director of Pancreas Program
Chair, Division of Surgical Oncology
Professor of Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief
Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia