Fall 2009 Program Steering Committee Meeting
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
375 Longwood Ave, 7th Floor, Room 752
8:00 am-5:30 pm
Program Steering Committee Members
Program Director
Nelson Aguila, D.V.M.- A Program Director in the Diversity Training Branch (formerly the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch) at the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. He oversees funding mechanisms such as Predoctoral Fellowships, and the Minority Institution/ Cancer Center Partnership program and is involved in trans-NCI and trans-NIH activities.
*David Burgess, Ph.D.- Professor of Biology at Boston College
Alfred Neugut, M.D. Ph.D.- Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University, Head of Prevention, Control, and Disparities Research for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia, and Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, FAAN, RN- van Ameringen Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, and Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.- Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics and Director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Dielmann Chair in Health Disparities Research and Community Outreach at UTHSCSA and Director of Outreach and Health Care Disparities at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center.
Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H.- Professor in the UAB Division of Preventive Medicine, Director of the University of Alabama (UAB) Minority Health and Research Center, and Senior Scientist in the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Aging at UAB.
Philip Hinds, Ph.D.- Professor of Radiation Oncology, Graduate Programs in Biochemistry and Genetics at Tufts University
*PSC Chair