Loraine A. Escobedo, PhD is a Research Scientist at the Cancer Research Center for Health Equity at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.  Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Escobedo was a Senior Service Fellow/Statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.  She is interested in research that pushes invisible health issues to the forefront using multi-level, multi-component and replicable methods to characterize disease risk in underrepresented populations and for policy-relevant geographies.

Dr. Varella is a medical oncologist and a clinical investigator specializing in breast cancer. She has led several studies examining breast cancer outcomes and has been a co-investigator in multiple breast cancer clinical trials. In addition, she teaches medical students, residents, and fellows, and was awarded the “Teacher of the Year” award by the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell in 2019. She will now be joining the Dana-Farber Institute as a breast cancer oncologist and clinical researcher, and will continue to focus her research on improving outcomes for young patients with breast cancer.

Dr. Miriam Siegel, DrPH, MPH, is Lead Epidemiologist for the National Firefighter Registry at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She completed her doctorate in occupational epidemiology at the University of Kentucky in 2016. Dr. Siegel joined NIOSH in 2017 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer where she worked on a range of research topics related to occupational reproductive health, workplace violence, firefighter fatality surveillance, and wildland firefighter safety and health. She now works as part of a team developing a national registry of firefighters to evaluate cancer incidence and risk factors within the U.S. fire service.

Dr. Sherman Program Manager of Data Use & Research, NAACCR received her PhD from University of Miami Miller Medical School and her MPH from Oregon Health & Sciences University. Prior to her role at NAACCR, she worked at the Oregon and Florida registries. 

Jim is the NAACCR Program Manager of Education and Training and NAACCR Edits Metafile Administrator

Mr. Green has over 30 years of experience with IMS, providing biomedical computing support to the National Cancer Institute. Currently, Mr. Green is the manager that oversees the development of the VPR-CLS web portal and the VPR linkage tool Match*Pro. Mr. Green also manages a group of computer programmers supporting NAACCR products including the CINA publication and CiNA*Explorer. Mr. Green is also the task leader for the NCI's Joinpoint software and has worked as a senior systems analyst for NCI's SEER*Stat, TNM and Collaborative staging.

Mr. Howe is a Senior Programmer/Analyst at Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS) and the creator of Match*Pro.  He has over 10 years of experience in conducting record linkages and studying record linkage concepts/theory.

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.. 

Dr. Meredith Shiels earned her M.H.S. and Ph.D. in cancer epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch (IIB) as a Cancer Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow in 2009, and was promoted to research fellow in 2011. She became a tenure-track investigator in 2016 and was promoted to senior investigator and awarded NIH scientific tenure in 2021. Dr. Shiels has been recognized for her work, receiving the Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research in 2009 as well as the DCEG Women Scientist Advisor’s Mentoring and Leadership Award in 2020.

Keri Miller, has a Masters in Health Administration, a B.S. in Health Promotion, and A.S. in Graphic Design.  he is currently the SEER Manager for the Alaska Native Tumor Registry and she has also worked as a Hospital Registrar for nearly 10 years.    

Breana Norton was interested in a healthcare job when she was introduced to the field of Cancer Registry where she quickly found it was a good fit for her. She has a background in Anatomy and  was a nursing student so getting a CTR certificate was a great next step. She has been CTR certified since September 2020 and has been working for a hospital network in Minnesota where she abstracts and casefinds for multiple facilities.