Appendix A: Special Research Initiatives "Identifying Gaps in Breast Cancer Research" Science Advisors, Staff, and Consultants

Science Advisors

Deborah Bowen, Ph.D., Professor, Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University
Judy Bradford, Ph.D., Director, Community Health Research, Virginia Commonwealth University
Julia G. Brody, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Silent Spring Institute
Linda Burhansstipanov, MSPH, Dr.P.H., Grants Director, Native American Cancer Research
Christina A. Clark, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Northern California Cancer Center
Lisa Clarke, M.S., Research Associate, Northern California Cancer Center
Richard W. Clapp, D.Sc, M.PH., Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University
Melissa B. Davis, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow/Scholar, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research, University of Chicago
Suzanne E. Fenton, Ph.D., Research Biologist, Reproductive Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Maria Feychting, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute
Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Northern California Cancer Center
Robert B. Gunier, M.P.H., Research Associate, Northern California Cancer Center
Dawn Hershman, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
Chanita Hughes Halbert, Ph.D., Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania
Susan E. Hurley, M.P.H., Research Associate, Northern California Cancer Center
Esther M. John, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Northern California Cancer Center
Lovell Jones, Ph.D., Director, M.D. Anderson’s Center for Research on Minority Health
Sue Joslyn, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Dean of Graduate Academic Affairs, University of Northern Iowa
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Ph.D., RN, MN, MA, Professor, School of Public Health and School of Asian
American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Marion H.E. Kavanaugh-Lynch, M.D., M.P.H., Director, California Breast Cancer Research Program
Judith Salmon Kaur, M.D., Medical Director, Professor of Oncology, Native American Programs, Mayo Comprehensive Cancer Center
Steve Kaye, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Charles Land, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute
Robert Millikan, Ph.D., Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rachel Morello-Frosch, M.P.H., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Kirsten Moysich, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Margaret Nosek, Ph.D., Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D., Professor of Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Chicago
Sharon Perry, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Blase N. Polite, M.D. M.P.P., Instructor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Anh-Thu Quach, M.P.H., Research Associate, Northern California Cancer Center
Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Northern California Cancer Center
Stephanie Robert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ruthann Rudel, M.S., Senior Scientist, Toxicologist, Silent Spring Institute
Theresa M. Saunders, B.A., Research Program Manager, Northern California Cancer Center
Ted Schettler, M.D. M.P.H., Science Director, Science & Environmental Health Network
Susan Shinagawa, co-founder/co-chair of the Asian & Pacific Islander National Cancer Survivors
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College and author
Richard Stevens, Ph.D., Cancer Epidemiologist, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut
Joseph Thornton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon
Julie Von Behren, M.P.H., Research Associate, Northern California Cancer Center
David Wallinga, M.D., M.P.A., Director of the Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Barbour Warren, Ph.D., Research Associate, Program on Breast Cancer & Environmental Risk Factors, Cornell University
Tom Webster, D.Sc., Associate Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University
David R. Williams, Ph.D., Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard University School of Public Health
Mary Wolff, Ph.D., Professor, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Staff and Consultants

Janna Cordeiro, M.P.H., Coordinator of Special Projects
Judy MacLean, B.A., Editorial Consultant
Katherine McKenzie, Ph.D., Manager of Research Dissemination and Outreach
Marj Plumb, Dr.PH., M.N.A., Senior Consultant, Plumbline Coaching and Consulting, Inc.
Patrice Sutton, M.P.H., Technical Consultant
Catherine Thomsen, M.P.H., Project Lead