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. 

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.

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.

Bobbi (Mott) has worked for the Iowa Cancer Registry for 27 years.  She is the manager of Data Quality Assurance staff for the Iowa central registry as well as oversee the education and training at the registry.    Bobbi received her RHIT in 1994, ODS in 2000 and Masters in Epidemiology in 2020.  She has done Death Clearance in Iowa for over 25 years.  Throughout the years she has been involved in various workgroups/committees like the NAACCR Death Clearance, MPH, Hematopoietic/Lymphoma, Change Control Board for SEER*DMS and NAACCR Data Consolidation workgroup.  

Lucinda Ham, RHIA, ODS-C,  joined MCR in 2021, as Quality Assurance Manager. She graduated from Stephens College in 1991 with a bachelor’s in Health Information Management.   Lucinda has 32 years of experience in Health Information Management in the hospital setting which included Cancer Registry. Lucinda has been a ODS-C since 2004. Lucinda is an active member of NCRA.

Stephanie Phipps is the Data Collection and Production Supervisor with The Cancer Registry of Greater California.  Ms. Phipps achieved her CTR in 2008 and has 18 years of service in the cancer registry field.  She has extensive cross-training in many registry functions, managed multiple projects, and has provided training to both new and seasoned registry staff.  

Vijay Medithi, MBBS, DEM, CTR, is currently serving as Program Director at Myriddian, LLC where he leads the Maryland Cancer Registry, overseeing all aspects of its operations. Vijay holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, which he earned from Christian Medical College in India. After practicing clinical medicine in his home country, he relocated to the United States, where he pursued a master’s in public health. Later, he earned a Diploma in Emergency Medicine (DEM). Vijay’s career in disease registry started with Birth Defects Registry and later transitioned to Cancer Registry, at which time he earned the Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) credential. Vijay’s expertise extends to over 15 years of experience working with both central registries and hospital-based registries. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a deep understanding of data collection methodologies, analysis techniques, and the importance of data in patient care. His dedication to continuous improvement processes led to the implementation of innovative processes and technologies within the field of cancer registry, enabling improved data management and analysis. He takes pride in his role in enhancing cancer surveillance efforts, ultimately leading to improved patient care and outcomes.

Dr. Frazier received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1984, followed by a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Boston and a pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at DFCI, where she joined the faculty in 1990. She received an ScM from Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. In clinical practice, she concentrates on germ cell tumors, while her epidemiologic research primarily focuses on colorectal cancer screening and prevention.

Dr. Nitin Shrivastava is a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow in his final year of training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital. He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed a Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in general pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. In addition to his clinical work, Nitin has been focused on improving access to pediatric cancer care globally. During his fellowship, he has worked to improve forecasting the amounts and costs of chemotherapy forecasting for pediatric patients in the U.S., Canada, and internationally under the mentorship of Dr. Lindsay Frazier.

Dr. Jonathan Simkin, PhD MPH, Scientific Director of the BC Cancer Registry and Co-Chair of the Canadian Council of Cancer Registries, holds a PhD and MPH from the University of British Columbia. His research expertise spans geospatial methods in cancer surveillance, population oncology research, and the application of deep learning methods in cancer surveillance. Dr. Simkin has a ten-year tenure in cancer registry and surveillance settings, including roles as a Cancer Epidemiologist at the Yukon Government and more recently as the Scientific Director of the British BC Cancer Registry at BC Cancer, which he has led since 2019. Dr. Simkin's leadership in implementing cutting-edge technology at the BC Cancer Registry is driving transformative change in cancer data management, ensuring improved efficiency, timeliness, and data quality to support cancer care and research. 

Dr. Gondara is a Research Scientist, with specialization in machine learning and biostatistics at the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). His research focus encompasses several areas within machine learning and biostatistics, including natural language processing, multimodal learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, flexible survival regression models, Bayesian statistics, and their integration into the healthcare domain. In his previous role as a biostatistician, Dr. Gondara was responsible for the design and analysis of multiple clinical trials spanning multiple disease domains, such as breast cancer, brain and CNS tumors, cervical cancer screening, etc.

Eric B. Durbin, DrPH, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine.  He serves as the Director of the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) and the Director of the Cancer Research Informatics Shared Resource Facility at the UK Markey Cancer Center.  He has over 30 years of experience in population-based cancer surveillance and informatics support for basic, clinical and translational cancer research.  His research interests include precision cancer surveillance, pathology informatics, machine learning methods and cancer epidemiology.
 
Dr. Durbin’s current research is focused on the integration of multi–omics data to support decision-making in precision medicine and cancer prevention and control, informatics methods to support pediatric and young adult cancer patient surveillance and research and the development of machine learning methods to derive clinical biomarkers from narrative electronic pathology reports and digital slide images.

Frank Boscoe worked at the New York State Department of Health from 1999 to 2019, nearly all of that time with the New York State Cancer Registry, before starting his own consulting business in 2019.

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