Sean Porter MSHI, Health Scientist (Informatics), leads the Physician Reporting module development team for eMaRC Plus and the Cancer Report Validator, which support accurate reporting from EHRs. Sean also leads an internal CDC workgroup to determine the minimum data set requirements to improve and speed up the reporting of cancer incidences and serves on the NAACCR Minimum Data Set Task Force.

Caitlin Kennedy, MSPH, Health Scientist (Informatics), provides expertise on projects that facilitate EHR interoperability, the CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative in the context of cancer surveillance, and she coordinates on solutions that standardize the collection and exchange of cancer data, such as cancer content HL7 FHIR IGs. 

Kasey Diebold, MS, Health Informaticist, has spent the past decade focused on the intersection of epidemiology and data science, defining and implementing best practices for surveillance epidemiology, rapid response systems, and data modernization of public health systems.

Sandy Jones is a Public Health Advisor with the Cancer Surveillance Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.  She coordinates the implementation of electronic reporting of cancer pathology and biomarker data from national and regional laboratories to state cancer registries using the NAACCR Volume V and CAP Cancer Protocols and Templates. Mrs. Jones serves as Co-Chair of the NAACCR Volume V Revision Task Force that is charged with updating the implementation guide for laboratory reporting of cancer pathology and biomarker data. She has been with the CDC since 1989 and has spent most of that time providing expertise in the areas of data management, computer programming, informatics, and network administration for cancer prevention and control and environmental health programs.

Joseph D. Rogers received his B.S. and M.S. in Biology/Chemistry and Information Management respectively from Arizona State University (ASU).  He worked in Arizona for the Maricopa County Health Department as a project manager and data analyst before joining CDC in 1991 (first as a contractor and then as a federal employee in 1997).  During Mr. Rogers’ contracting years at CDC, he worked as a systems analyst on information technology projects, as a project manager, and as a data manager within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).  When Mr. Rogers joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a federal employee, he initially worked for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) as data manager and later joined the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC)/Cancer Surveillance Branch (CSB) in 1998 as the Team Lead for the IDSAT Team

Connie has been a CTR since 2018 working in a Multi facility Academic Enterprise followed by working as the Quality Assurance Manager & Education/Training Coordinator for South Carolina. She is currently the cancer registry manager of a multi-facility health system in SC.  Recipient of the April Fritz Award in 2020, NAACCR Future Leaders Award in 2022.  She is also the current president of the SC Cancer Registrars Association.

Pierre Goovaerts (PhD) is Chief Scientist at BioMedware. Prior to joining BioMedware in 2002,Dr. Goovaerts studied at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)and at Stanford University. He spent five years on the Faculty at theUniversity of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering department. He hastaught geostatistics workshops on six continents, which are attended byacademics, consultants and government employees, and was the 2013 International Association forMathematical Geosciences Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Goovaerts has authored more than160 refereed papers in the field of theoretical and applied geostatistics,written the reference textbook in the field, and he is a reviewer for50 international journals. He is a consultant on environmental projects dealingwith the characterization of air, soil and water pollution and its impact onhuman health. Since 2006, Dr. Goovaerts has been a Courtesy Associate Professorat the University of Florida, Soil and Water Science Department. (See also Google Scholar and ResearchGate.)

Geoffrey M. Jacquez (MS, PhD) is President of BioMedware, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Healthat The University of Michigan, and former Professor of Geography, StateUniversity of New York at Buffalo. Prior to founding BioMedware in 1990, Dr.Jacquez was a Research Associate at the Stony Brook Research Foundation at theState University of New York. Dr. Jacquez has led several successful softwaredevelopment efforts in the area of spatial and space-time data analysis,simulation, and modeling. He is internationally recognized in the field of GISand health, and holds four patents with one pending for unique softwareinnovations he conceived and developed. He is a founding member of theeditorial board of the journal Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, and was recently co-science directorof crcsiAustralia health program (See also Google Scholar and ResearchGate.)

Dr. Claudia Allemani is Professor of Global Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Claudia’s background covers the range from applied mathematics to public health and education, via epidemiology and medical statistics. She graduated [laurea magistrale] in mathematics from the University of Turin, Italy, in 1996, then completed a Master’s degree in Statistical and Informatic Methods for data analysis in the University of Milan, Italy, in 1998, followed by a specializzazione [PhD equivalent] in Medical Statistics in 2001, and a PhD in Public Health and Education in 2006, both in the University of Pavia, Italy. She was elected a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy in July 2012, and an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) in March 2014. She was awarded the Faculty’s inaugural Global Public Health Award in June 2016.

Her main interests are in international comparisons of cancer survival trends (EUROCARE, HAEMACARE, CONCORD Programme), “high‐resolution” studies on patterns of care, as well as the estimation of avoidable premature deaths, with focus on their impact on cancer policy. She has over 20 years’ experience in this domain. She leads the data management, quality control and survival analyses for the global surveillance of cancer survival (CONCORD), for which she is co‐Principal Investigator. In 2017, she obtained a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator grant to carry out a world‐wide study on inequalities in survival from cancers of the breast, cervix and ovary (VENUSCANCER).

Dr. Bozena Morawski is an epidemiologist at the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho and co-Principal Investigator for Idaho’s SEER contract. She received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles. She chairs the NAACCR Data Security and Confidentiality Work Group, is a member of the CiNA Editorial Work Group, and a member of the CiNA Survival and Prevalence Work Group.

Michel Coleman has been a Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) since 1995; Head of the Cancer Survival Group at LSHTM since 2005, and Honorary Consultant in Oncology at UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2012.

He has worked for the World Health Organisation at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon (1987-1991), and was Medical Director of the Thames Cancer Registry in London (1991-1995). He was Head of the Cancer and Public Health Unit (LSHTM) during 1998-2003; Deputy Chief Medical Statistician (Office for National Statistics) during 1995-2004, and Head of the WHO UK Collaborating Centre on the Classification of Diseases during 1996-2004. With Professor Claudia Allemani, he is co-Principal Investigator of the CONCORD programme for the global surveillance of trends in cancer survival.

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.

Dr.Hiatt is a Professor, immediate past Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics atUSCF, and the Associate Director of Population Sciences for the Helen DillerFamily Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the PI of the National PrecisionMedicine Initiative, All of Us, as UCSF since the beginning of theproject. His research is in cancer epidemiology, health inequities,environmental health research, global health science, and implementation science.He is strongly interested in the conduct of and training in transdisciplinary,team and translational science and was responsible for developing the PhDprogram in Epidemiology and Translational Science at UCSF. 

Asthe Scientific Director at the Surveillance and Health equity Sciencesdepartment at the American Cancer Society, Dr. Nogueira’s research focuses oncancer disparities that can be addressed by policy changes, especially thoserelated to structural racism and climate change. She also holds an AdjunctProfessor position at Emory University and is one of the inaugural NIH ClimateChange and Health Scholars. Dr. Nogueira received the Women in Cancer ResearchAward from the American Association for Cancer Research, the NIH Fellows Awardfor Excellence, and was inducted into the University of Texas at Austin Hall ofHonors. She has pioneered research on the impact of climate-driven disasters oncancer patients – using cancer registry data.

Dr. Ortiz is a cancer epidemiologist with over 18 years of experience in cancer prevention and control research. She is an Investigator of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), Director of the Training and Education Programs Office of the UPRCCC, and an Ad-Honorem Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus.  Dr. Ortiz has strong interests on cancer health disparities and climate change, and has participated in NCI and NASA funded research projects related to climate change, extreme events and cancer. Her publications in the field include describing the impact of hurricanes on gynecologic cancer patients and their health services, and the need for cancer control plans to include goals and objectives that help mitigate the impact of climate change on cancer prevention and control.  

Dennis Deapen is a public health policy wonk who seeks to extend his cancer registry and research experience to reduce barriers and increase efficiency in cancer research and prevention.  He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California.

Castine Clerkin is the Program Manager for NAACCR’s Virtual Pooled Registry Cancer Linkage System. In this role she oversees all aspects of the project, including system development and testing, coordination with researchers and registries, and identification of efficiencies to streamline the cancer registry linkage, approval and data release process.  She serves as chair to both the VPR DUA Task Force and the Secondary Data Sharing Task Force. 

Dr. Wilkens has a DrPH from the University of North Carolina in Biostatistics and has worked in health research for over 30 years including over 25 years in cancer research. Much of this effort has focused on prevention in the domains of epidemiology and intervention research. A primary focus for Dr. Wilkens at UHCC has been in the quantification of cancer incidence and mortality rates for the multiethnic populations of Hawaiʻi and the US affiliated Pacific, and studying the underlying causes of differences in cancer risks between ethnic groups. Genetic as well as lifestyle factors, including diet, physical activity, smoking and neighborhood environment, have been considered. Dr. Wilkens has published over 300 publications from these efforts.

Hanna Jorgenson is a cancer survivor and lives with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a cancer predisposition syndrome. She is passionate about sharing her story and advocates for data sharing to help improve outcomes for cancer patients and their families.