Laura Thompson is a Programmer Analyst at the University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine. She has an MA in Geography and primarily supports the department with geographic data analysis aimed at understanding spatial uncertainty in cancer control. Her ongoing work involves the application of novel spatial analysis methods in an exploration of the effects of residential ambient pesticide exposure on cancer incidence. Laura also supports research related to understanding spatial differences in cancer diagnosis, burden and treatment outcomes.

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.

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.

Amanda Kahl is an epidemiologist and researcher at the Iowa Cancer Registry. who has conducted studies of data quality and completeness of cancer registry data, assessed the quality of data linkages with registry data, and examined the associations between viral infections and cancer in Iowa.