Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry

Reda Wilson, MPH, CTR is an Epidemiologist with CDC’s Cancer Surveillance Branch.  Ms. Wilson has more than 30 years’ experience in cancer surveillance; in an oncology practice and pathology laboratory, as a hospital cancer registrar, Director of the Alabama Statewide Cancer Registry, and Program Consultant with CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries before moving to her current epidemiology position.  She is the author or co-author of several presentations and publications.

Mr. Bhavsar is currently a technical specialist at ICF, with more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry, of which over 10 years have been dedicated to cancer surveillance community. He is a development manager and security steward for the CDC/NPCR-CSS project awarded to ICF.  His responsibilities include supporting the project operations from systems and application perspective, involving in the system and software design and full life cycle system implementation, including NPCR-CSS document server, monitoring system, various utility programs, and on-line query applications. He is a certified Microsoft application developer with extensive experience in VB and .Net technologies and many data reporting development tools.  As a security steward, he is also well versed in security issues and familiar with federal IT security standards. Mr. Bhavsar holds a B. Ed degree, two BS degrees in physics and mathematics respectively, all from Gujarat University in India.