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240-276-6740
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Adamo, Peggy – BS, RHIT, ODS-Certified
Team Lead, Quality Improvement Team
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6867
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Data Collection, Classification, Quality, Completeness, Timeliness
  • Cancer Registrar Training

Adeyemi, Ola – MD, MS, MBA
Program Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-6573
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Healthcare
  • Technology and Value-Based Health Delivery
  • Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Health Disparities

Akif, Katie – MPH
Public Health Advisor
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-7477
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Project Management and Support
  • Public Health Research
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Alston, Monique
Program Specialist
Administrative Support

(240) 276-7799
[email protected]

Ansah, Sylkk – B.Sc.
Project Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-5927
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Project Management
  • Program Support

Bonds, Sarah – MS
Science Program Manager
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6926
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Health Communications
  • Project Management
  • Social Media

Chen, Huann-Sheng – PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 276-6797
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Statistical Genetics
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics

Cronin, Kathy – PhD
Deputy Associate Director
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6836
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Developing Population Survival Measures
  • Modeling the Impact of Risk Factors, Screening & Treatment on Breast Cancer Incidence & Mortality

Cropp-Puckett, Monique
Program Analyst
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6109
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Budget Administration
  • Acquisition Support
  • Program Support

Dickie, Lois – ODS-Certified
Public Health Analyst
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6862
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Registry Operations
  • QC/QI
  • American Indian/Alaskan Native Data Collection

Devasia, Theresa – PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Surveillance
  • Survival Analysis
  • Statistical Methodology and Applications

Fernandez, Anna T. – PhD, MS
Contractor, Scientific IT Project Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-7032
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Scientific IT management
  • Medical imaging, biorepositories, clinical data management
  • Data Science and Analytics

Fitts, Austin - PharmD
Fellow
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Oncology treatments
  • Data analytics
  • Electronic Health Record Implementation

Forjaz de Lacerda, Gonçalo
Guest Researcher
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-7149
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Registration
  • CanReg-5
  • Descriptive Epidemiology
  • NCI’s analysis tools (SEER*Stat, SEER*Prep, JPSurv, Joinpoint)
  • Tumor classification and classification systems
  • Data management

Friedman, Steve – MHSA
Senior Advisor for Operations/SEER Program Manager
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6138
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Program Operations
  • Clinical Trials and Informatics
  • Data Quality
  • Contract/Project Management

Goderre, Johanna - MPH
Health Data Scientist
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-5848
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Data Science
  • Public Health Research
  • Evaluation

Goff, Camille - BS
Project Manager
Data Quality, Analysis, and Interpretation Branch

(240) 380-4748
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Strategic planning
  • Health Communications
  • Pilot projects

Hayes, Tiffany – BS, MS
Contractor
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-5802
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Project Management

Hong, Yoon Duk – PharmD, PhD
Scientific Program Manager
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Claims Data-based Research
  • Health Outcomes Research
  • Economics of Cancer Care

Howlader, Nadia – PhD, MS
Program Director and Cancer Epidemiologist
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6891
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Population-Based Cancer Statistics and Modeling
  • Harmonize Data Systems, Create and Validate New Data Elements
  • Survival Analysis
  • Missing Data Analysis

Hsu, Elizabeth – PhD, MPH
Chief, SIB
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-5733
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Program Management
  • Data Sharing
  • Technology
Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Prevention
  • Indigenous Health
  • Descriptive Epidemiology

Landgren, Annelie – MPH
Project Manager
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-7368
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Project Management
  • Process Management
  • Communications

Lewis, Denise – PhD, MPH
Epidemiologist
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6757
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Rates and Trends
  • Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancers
  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Determinants of Health Disparities

Liu, Benmei – PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 276-6718
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Sample Survey Design & Analysis
  • Small Area Estimation
  • Imputation for Missing Data
Areas of expertise:
  • Development, Evaluation & Dissemination of Cancer Progress Measures
  • Development and Application of Models to Predict Cancer Incidence and Prevalence
  • Models for Survival Projections

Marver, Melissa – PhD
Contractor/Program Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 476-6740
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Structural and social determinants of health
  • Illness and healthcare experiences
  • Qualitative and mixed-methods research
  • Systematic literature reviews

Matatova, Marina – MA
Informatics Program Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-6269
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Health Informatics
  • Technical Project Management
  • Software and System Development Governance
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach
  • Human Computer Interaction

Mills, Rose – BS
Program Analyst
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6923
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Grants Policy & Management
  • Program Evaluation
  • Contracts & Budget Management
  • Interagency Agreements

Mudiyanur, Sheshadri
Contractor/Data Scientist
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Data Strategy and Architecture
  • Data Analytics
  • Health Outcomes Research
  • Digital Pathology Systems

Murphy, Trish – MS
Program Analyst
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6903
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Communications
  • Program Support
  • Program Operations
  • Personnel

Negoita, Serban – MD, DrPH
Chief, DQAIB
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-5409
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer registry operations
  • Cancer data quality assessments
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer treatment

Noone, Anne-Michelle – PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Data Analytics Branch

(240) 276-6705
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Development and application of statistical methods to surveillance data
  • Population-based cancer statistics and modeling
  • Cancer epidemiology

Nosiri, Anastasia
Administrative Support Assistant
Administrative Support

(240) 276-6696
[email protected]

Penberthy, Lynne – MD, MPH
Associate Director
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6864
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Trials and Informatics
  • Cancer Surveillance Automation
  • Secondary Data (claims, electronic medical records)

Petkov, Valentina – MD, MPH
Health Sciences Administrator/Program Officer
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-5387
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Data Assessment (Scientific and clinical relevance; data quality)
  • Automation of data collection (Data linkages, Natural Language Processing)
  • Population-based cancer statistics
  • Precision Medicine
  • Clinical Trials

Philip, Marianna – MS
Program Specialist
Administrative Support

(240) 276-6084
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Administrative Support
  • Communication Support

Preda, Anca
Health Scientist Administrator
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-6809
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Data Science and Analytics
  • Health Informatics
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach

Radu Robotin, PhD
Technical Advisor
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-7157
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Cloud-Native Solutions
  • Serverless Architectures
  • Big Data

Ruhl, Jennifer – MS, CCS, RHIT, ODS-Certified
Public Health Analyst
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6808
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Data Collection, Classification
  • Quality control
  • Staging (EOD and Summary Stage)
  • Site-specific data items
  • Hematopoietic Neoplasms
  • Medical coding classifications (ICD-10-CM, ICD-10)
  • Cancer registrar training

Sanchez, Pamela – MPH, ODS-Certified
Program Analyst
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Health Disparities
  • Metabolic Disorders

Scott, Susan – MPH
Public Health Advisor
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6951
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Scientific Editing
  • Communication Planning
  • Grants Management

Sellers, Mark – PhD
Health Specialist
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6170
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Science Communication and Outreach
  • Data Analysis
  • Program Management

Stout, Natasha – PhD
Senior Decision Modeling Scientist
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 478-8909
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer control modeling
  • Economic evaluation of cancer screening technologies and interventions
  • Health outcomes research

Tatalovich, Zaria – PhD
Geospatial Scientist, Acting Chief
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 276-6976
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Geographic Information Systems, Science, and Technology
  • Geospatial analysis, modeling, and visualization of population-based cancer data

Terranova, Tina – MS
Project Manager
Surveillance Informatics Branch

(240) 276-7673
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Social and Racial Justice
  • Improving Health Disparities
  • Community health programs in marginalized communities

Thoburn, Kathleen
Senior Communications Specialist, Health Contractor
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(518) 944-1350
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Cancer data quality analyses
  • Standardized cancer data collection and classification
  • Cancer registry operations

Thompson, Tracy
Senior Project Manager
Office of the Associate Director

(240) 276-6740
[email protected]
Areas of expertise:
  • Project management
  • Health policy
  • Health communications

Van Dyke, Alison – MD, PhD, FCAP
Physician
Data Quality, Analysis, & Interpretation Branch

(240) 276-6039
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Surgical Pathology
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Developing Biospecimen Processes
  • Cancer Biology

Yu, Mandi – PhD
Team Lead, Population and Mortality Data
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 276-6866
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Statistical Disclosure Limitation
  • Methods for Missing Data
  • Statistical Estimation of Health Disparities
  • Statistical Matching and Record Linkage Methods

Zhu, Li – PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Statistical Research & Applications Branch

(240) 276-6851
[email protected]

Areas of expertise:
  • Spatial Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Hierarchical Modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Disease Mapping
Last Updated: 24 May, 2024