Jonathan Simkin is the Scientific Director of the British Columbia (BC) Cancer Registry, BC Cancer, Provincial Health Services Authority located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He completed a Master’s of Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Population and Public Health, UBC. His research focuses on applications of geospatial methods to cancer surveillance and population oncology research. Jonathan has worked at cancer registries since 2015, previously working with the Yukon Cancer Registry as a Cancer Epidemiologist.

KevinHenry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and UrbanStudies at Temple University and a member of Fox Chase Cancer Center’s CancerPrevention and Control program. He is a medical geographer, and his researchand teaching focus on describing and understanding place-based and geographicdisparities in health and disease, with a specific emphasis on appliedgeographic methods and the role geographic factors play in cancer outcomes andprevention.  https://medicalgeography.us/ 

Daniel Wiese, PhD is a senior scientist at the American Cancer Society and adjunct assistant professor at Temple University. He is a medical geographer with main research focus on geographic cancer disparities. His expertise is in the application of spatial analytic tools using GIS and remote sensing modeling techniques. He has conducted research on how social and environmental neighborhood factors may influence individual and populational health outcomes,   including several cancer types. 

Chris Johnson has worked as an epidemiologist for the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho, a program of the Idaho Hospital Association, since 1998. Mr. Johnson received a Master of Public Health degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina, a long time ago. He has been involved with NAACCR since early in his career as a cancer epidemiologist, and his main contributions to NAACCR today are on the Virtual Pooled Registry Cancer Linkage System and as lead editor for the NAACCR Cancer in North America (CiNA) survival and prevalence volumes.

Steve Scoppa, Senior Systems Analyst at Information Management Services focuses on the design and implementation of biomedical computer systems.  He has extensive experience and expertise in systems design and object-oriented programming, focusing mainly on desktop applications. Mr. Scoppa is a lead developer and designer of several systems, including the SEER*Stat, SEER*Prep, and HD*Calc software.  Mr Scoppa holds a BS in Computer Science from James Madison University.  He has been with IMS since 1990.

James ‘Todd’ Gibson is a Senior Systems Analyst at Information Management Services, Inc.  His work at IMS focuses on data management of biomedical data.  He has extensive experience and expertise with Census Bureau’s population data, The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality data and the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS).  For the population project, he is involved in various aspects of the project including developing the county and census tract level attribute files, creating population denominator files and providing support to users of the files.  Mr. Gibson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Waynesburg College.  He has been with IMS since 1989.

Greg Armstrong MD, MSCE, joined the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2006. Dr. Armstrong is the Principal Investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCCS). The CCSS is a multi-institutional, collaborative cohort study initiated in 1994, which has successfully established and followed a cohort of five-year survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970-1999 and a sibling comparison group. The cohort, derived through 31 original participating clinical centers, has collected detailed information on cancer diagnosis and therapy received along with health-related long-term outcomes. His research has provided novel identification of a reduction in late mortality among survivors of childhood cancer from more recent eras attributable to reduced treatment exposure, extending the lifespan of these survivors (NEJM 2016). He has been continuously funded by NCI since 2010.

Dr. Engels earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1987 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991. From 1991 to 1994, he trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Subsequently, Dr. Engels received clinical training in infectious diseases and an M.P.H. at Tufts University School of Medicine. He joined the NCI Viral Epidemiology Branch (later the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch (IIB)) in 1998 as a senior staff fellow, became an investigator in 2000, and was tenured in 2007. He was appointed Chief of the Infections and Immuneopidermiology Branch in 2017. Dr. Engels holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.. 

Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine and his MPH and DrPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Stampfer’s research program is broadly concerned with the etiology of chronic diseases, with particular focus on nutrition and cancer. Dr. Stampfer is closely involved in four large prospective cohort studies: Nurses’ Health Study I (N = 121,700) – Principal Investigator; Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (N = 51,259) – Founding co-Investigator; Physicians’ Health Studies I and II (N = 22,071) – Founding co-Investigator; Nurses’ Health Study II (N = 116,678) – Founding co-Investigator. In addition, Dr. Stampfer leads several other NIH-funded projects, and is Principal Investigator of two NIH training programs that support pre-doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.