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CRN Investigators

Executive Committee Members

Lawrence Kushi

Lawrence H. Kushi, ScD
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
CRN Principal Investigator, Site PI, Co-Lead: Outreach & Collaborations Core
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Title: Director of Scientific Policy

Other Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, University of California at Davis School of Medicine

Research Interests: Nutritional and cancer epidemiology, cancer etiology and prognosis

Contact: larry.kushi@kp.org

Heather Clancy

Heather A. Clancy, MPH
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
CRN Project Director
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Title: Research Project Manager

Contact: heather.a.clancy@kp.org

V. Paul Doria-Rose

V. Paul Doria-Rose, DVM, PhD
National Cancer Institute
NCI Project Scientist
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Title: Epidemiologist

Research Interests: Cancer screening: comparative effectiveness

Contact: doriarop@mail.nih.gov

Mark Hornbrook

Mark C. Hornbrook, PhD
Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Site PI, SWG Co-Lead: Health Care Quality & Cost
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Title: Senior Investigator and Chief Scientist

Research Interests: health care cost and utilization analysis, economic evaluation methods, patient classification methods, health status measurement, predictive modeling, and health-based payment systems

Contact: Mark.C.Hornbrook@kpchr.org

Kathleen Mazor

Kathleen Mazor, EdD
Meyers Primary Care Institute
Site PI, SWG Co-Lead: Communication & Dissemination
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Title: Assistant Director Meyers Primary Care Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts Medical School

Other Affiliations: Cancer Communication Research Center

Research Interests: Physical-patient communication, health literacy, disclosure of medical errors and decision-making

Contact: Kathy.mazor@meyersprimary.org

Diana Miglioretti

Diana L. Miglioretti, PhD
University of California, Davis
Co-Lead: Informatics Core
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Title: Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics, UC Davis

Other Affiliations: Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute

Research Interests: Breast cancer screening, radiation exposure from medical imaging and associated cancer risk

Contact: dmiglioretti@ucdavis.edu

Emilee Pressman

Emilee J. Pressman, MPH
National Cancer Institute
NCI Program Director
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Title: Public Health Advisor

Contact: Emilee.Pressman@nih.gov

Steering Committee Members

Alyce S. Adams

Alyce S. Adams, PhD
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Co-Lead: Outreach & Collaborations Core
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Title: Research Scientist II

Other Affiliations: Advisory Committee on Quality for the California Health Families Program

Research Interests: Healthcare Disparities/Vulnerable Populations, Health Services and Policy Research

Contact: alyce.s.adams@kp.org

Christine B. Ambrosone

Christine B. Ambrosone, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
SWG Co-Lead: Epidemiology of Prognosis & Outcomes
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Title: Professor of Oncology, Chair, Department of Cancer Prevention & Control

Other Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo

Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of cancer etiology and prognosis

Contact: christine.ambrosone@roswellpark.org

Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown, PhD
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School
Co-Lead: Informatics Core
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Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine

Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, distributed networks, health policy

Contact: jeff_brown@harvardpilgrim.org

Diana Buist

Diana SM Buist, PhD, MPH
Group Health Research Institute
Co-Lead: CRN Scholars
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Title: Senior Scientific Investigator

Other Affiliations: Affiliate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Public Health Sciences Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Department of Health Service, Department of Epidemiology.

Research Interests: cancer screening and prevention; outreach and primary care prevention; comparative effectiveness; cost transparency; surveillance; secondary prevention; breast cancer treatment; breast cancer screening; outcomes following cancer diagnosis; cancer survivorship; provider variability in care

Contact: buist.d@ghc.org

Jessica Chubak

Jessica Chubak, PhD, MBHL
Group Health Research Institute
Site PI, Co-Lead: Informatics Core
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Title: Assistant Scientific Investigator

Other Affiliations: Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests: cancer survivorship, cancer screening, epidemiologic methods, medication use, chronic disease management, health services

Contact: chubak.j@ghc.org

Douglas A. Corley

Douglas A. Corley, MD, PhD, MPH
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
SWG Co-Lead: Prevention & Screening
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Title: Research Scientist, Attending Gastroenterologist

Other Affiliations: Associate Member, University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Research Interests: outcomes and epidemiologic research in gastroenterology, with a particular emphasis on gastrointestinal cancer epidemiology, cancer surveillance, pharmacoepidemiology, and nutritional epidemiology

Contact: douglas.corley@kp.org

James W. Dearing

James W. Dearing, PhD
Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
SWG Co-Lead: Communication & Dissemination
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Title: Senior Scientist

Other Affiliations: Co-Director, Center for Health Dissemination and Implementation Research; Co-Director, Cancer Communication Research Center

Research Interests: advice networks among health practitioners, eHealth portrayals of innovations, and the adaptation of innovations in organizations

Contact: james.w.dearing@kp.org

Heather Spencer Feigelson

Heather Spencer Feigelson, PhD, MPH
Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
SWG Co-Lead: Epidemiology of Prognosis & Outcomes
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Title: Sr. Investigator, Genetic Epidemiologist

Other Affiliations: Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Cancer and Genomics (C-Gen), Institute for Health Research, KPCO; Associate Professor (Affiliate) in the Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; Member, University of Colorado Cancer Center

Research Interests: Genetic Susceptibility and genomics, molecular markers of treatment response and prognosis, gut microbiome, role of obesity in cancer

Contact: Heather.S.Feigelson@kp.org

Terry Field

Terry Field, D.Sc
Meyers Primary Care Institute
Co-Lead: Scholars Program
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Title: Associate Director, MPCI; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Other Affiliations:

Research Interests: provision of care to disabled and elderly patients in the ambulatory and long-term care settings; provision of care to cancer patients with a special interest in survival deficits for patients at risk of receiving less than optimal care, including elderly and minority patients

Contact: Terry.Field@umassmed.edu

Robert T. Greenlee

Robert T. Greenlee, PhD, MPH
Epidemiology Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
Site PI
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Title: Research Scientist

Other Affiliations: Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Faculty Executive Committee, Graduate Program in Clinical Investigation, University of Wisconsin

Research Interests: Cancer surveillance; cancer screening and early detection; clinical epidemiology and effectiveness research in cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Contact: greenlee.robert@mcrf.mfldclin.edu

Christine Cole Johnson

Christine Cole Johnson, MPH, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital & Health System/Health Alliance Plan
Site PI
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Title: Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences

Other Affiliations: Director, HFHS Josephine Ford Cancer Center’s Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention & Control Program; Director, HFHS Center for Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research

Research Interests: cancer epidemiology and prevention, etiologies of allergy and asthma

Contact: cjohnso1@hfhs.org

Elizabeth Trice Loggers

Elizabeth Trice Loggers, MD, PhD
Group Health Research Institute
SWG Co-Lead: Epiemiology of Prognosis & Outcomes
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Title: Assistant Investigator

Other Affiliations: Assistant Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Medical Director, Palliative Care, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Sarcoma Attending, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Washington

Research Interests: Comparative effectiveness, diagnostics and imaging, end of life, palliative and supportive care

Contact: loggers.e@ghc.org

Brian S. Mittman

Brian S. Mittman, PhD
VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support
SWG Co-Lead: Communication & Dissemination
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Title: Senior Advisor

Other Affiliations: Senior Scientist, KPSC Department of Research Evaluation. Senior Advisor, RAND Health Sciences Program

Research Interests: Implementation science, healthcare quality improvement research, patient-centered outcomes research

Contact: Brian.Mittman@va.gov

Virginia P. Quinn

Virginia P. Quinn, PhD, MPH
Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Site PI, SWG Co-Lead: Prevention & Screening
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Title: Research Scientist II

Research Interests: Prevention and screening, health behavior interventions, medication adherence, cancer quality of care, patient reported outcomes

Contact: Virginia.P.Quinn@kp.org

Debra Ritzwoller

Debra Ritzwoller, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Site PI, SWG Co-Lead: Health Care Quality & Cost
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Title: Sr. Investigator, Research Economist

Other Affiliations: Member University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research Interests: Comparative effectiveness, benefit design and patient cost-sharing, cost estimation and cost-effectiveness

Contact: Debra.Ritzwoller@kp.org

Thomas Vaughan

Thomas Vaughan, MD, MPH
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
SWG Co-Lead: Prevention & Screening
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Title: Member, Cancer Epidemiology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Professor, Dept of Epidemiology, University of Washington

Research Interests: Etiology of cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract and respiratory system

Contact: tvaughan@fhcrc.org

Jane Weeks

Jane Weeks, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
SWG Co-Lead: Health Care Quality & Cost
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Title: Division Chief, Division of Population Sciences

Other Affiliations: Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Research Interests: Health services research with focus on quality and outcomes of cancer treatment

Contact: Jane_Weeks@dfci.harvard.edu

Andrew E. Williams

Andrew E. Williams, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Hawaii
Site PI
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Title: Investigator

Other Affiliations: Adjunct Appointment as an Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Research Interests: Decision Making; Communication; Decision support; EMR-based measures of service quality; Predictive models

Contact: Andrew.e.williams@kp.org

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