Name: Aguila, H. Nelson, D.V.M.
Title: Program Director, CMBB
Affiliation: National Cancer Institute
Division/Department: Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program Branch
Phone: 301-496-7344
Email: Aguilah@mail.nih.gov

Name: Anderson, Norman B., PhD
Title: Professor of Health and Social Behavior
Affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health
Division/Department: Department of Health & Social Behavior
Phone: 617-432-1135
Email: nanderso@hsph.harvard.edu
Specialization and Interests: processes underlying ethnic/racial and socioeconomic disparities in health, especially on the interaction of social, behavioral, and biological processes in such disparities.

Name: Bearison, David, PhD
Title: Professor of Psychology; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and consultant to the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center; Adjunct Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry and Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY, Mount Sinai Medical Center and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Division/Department: Developmental Psychology
Phone: (212) 817-8716 
Email: dbearison@gc.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: Social cognitive development, social interaction, intelligence and affectivity, children's understanding and adjustment to trauma, pediatric psychology, forensic psychology
Cancers of Interest: pediatric cancer

Name: Boyar, Andrea, PhD, RD, CDN
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Health Services
Affiliation: Lehman College, CUNY
Division/Department: Dietetics, Food and Nutrition
Phone: (718) 960-8084
Email: aboyar@lehman.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: increase awareness of cancer risk and prevention factors through outreach programs targeting minority communities; creation of research program that teaches members of the minority staff, faculty, and students at Lehman College about the relationship between nutrition and cancer risk; change food-related knowledge, attitudes, cooking and eating behavior to increase the content of certain phytonutrients associated with a reduced risk of cancer development

Name: Coates, Deborah, PhD
Title: Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: City College, and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Phone: (212) 817-8713
Fax: (908) 754-4472
Email: dlcoates@bellatlantic.net ; dcoates@gc.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: psychometric theory, research methods and evaluation design; research on developmental phases from infancy to adulthood; normative developmental social processes in African American middle income adolescents and on the influence of mother-infant interactions at three-months of age and child developmental outcomes from birth to age six in European and African American families; evaluation of community-based public health intervention designed to reduce risky health behavior and low birth weight births for low income African American women.
Cancers of Interest: minority health, adolescent smoking.

Name: Dunbar, Christopher, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Physical Education and Exercise Science
Phone: (718) 951-4169 
Email: ccdunbar@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Name: Franklin, Anderson J., PhD
Title: Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: The Graduate School and The City College of the CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Email: ajaxfrank@aol.com
Phone: (212) 650-5666
Fax: (212) 650-5673

Name: Freudenberg, Nicholas, DrPH
Title: Professor and Director of the Urban Public Health Program
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: Urban Public Health
Phone: (212) 481-4363
Email: nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: urban public health, HIV prevention, criminal justice and public
Health, evaluation of community interventions.

Name: Grassman, Jean, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Health and Nutrition
Phone: (718) 951-3124
Email: grassman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: recognition, assessment, and control of health risks from occupational and environmental contaminants; variability in toxicant responses

Name: Hoy, Kathy, Ed.D.
Title: National Coordinator, Women's, Intervention Nutrition Study
Affiliation: IFCP
Phone: 212-551-2568
Fax: 212-687-2339
Email: khoy@ifcp@us
Specialization and Interests: Behavior change techniques; adherence promotion; body wt issues
Cancers of Interest: Breast
Ongoing projects: 1) motivational interviewing, behavior change and adherence in a long-term intevention trial; 2) post-treatment weight variability in post-menopausal women treated for early stage breast cancer.

Name: Hubbard, Karen, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Biology
Affiliation: City College, CUNY
Division/Department: Biology
Phone: (212) 650-8566
Email: khubbard@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

Name: Jia, Haomiao, PhD
Title: Director, Population Laboratory
Affiliation: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY Medical School
Division/Department: Department of Community Health and Social Medicine
Phone: (212) 650-7786
Fax: (212) 650-7778
Email: jia@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: relationship between the perception of cance risk, knowledge of risk, and use of preventive services among low income ethnic/racial minority patients in primary care settings

Name: Jones, Walretta, MS, RD, CDN
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: Nutrition and Food Science, Urban Public Health
Phone: (212) 674-6866 
Email: rjnut10099@aol.com

Name: Koizumi, Kiyoka, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Health and Nutrition Sciences
Phone: (718) 951-5443
Email: kkoizumi@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: Consumer health education; aging and health; health education evaluation; health care systems; international health; women's health issues.

Name: Lakshman, Mahesh, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry
Affiliation: City College, CUNY
Division/Department: Chemistry
Phone: (212) 650-7835
Email: lakshman@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: Chemical carcinogenesis by environmental contaminants, synthesis of site-specifically modified DNA, development of new and biologically interesting nucleoside analogs, development of novel synthetic methods.

Name: Lee, Miok, EdD
Title: Assistant Professor, Nursing
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: The Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing
Phone: (212) 481-5164
Fax: (212) 481-4427
Email: iolee@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: prevention and reduction of health risks associated with cervical cancer through the implementation of community based intervention strategies; effects of increased knowledge and psychosocial support for cervical cancer screening.
Cancers of Interest: cervical

Name: Lepore, Stephen, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Phone: (718) 951-5012
Fax: (718) 951-5607
Email: slepore@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: quality of life, health education, support groups, health behaviors, stress & coping, social disparities
Cancers of Interest: prostate, lung, breast, colo-rectal
Ongoing Projects: (a) randomized trial on the effects of social support and group education on quality of life in prostate cancer patients; (b) experimental study on the effects of racial stress on smoking behaviors

Name: Lubetkin, Erica, MD
Title: Assistant Medical Professor
Affiliation: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY Medical School
Division/Department: Department of Community Health and Social Medicine
Phone: (212) 650-7785
Fax: (212) 650-7778
Email: lubetkin@med.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: relationship between the perception of cancer risk, knowledge of risk, and use of preventive services among low income ethnic/racial minority patients in primary care settings

Name: Melikian, Assieh, Ph.D.
Title: Scientist, Head-Section of Carcinogen Biomarkers
Affiliation: IFCP
Division/Department: Division of Cancer Etiology and Prevention
Phone: 914-789-7117
Fax: 914-592-6317
Email: amelikia@ifcp.us
Specialization and Interests: biorganic chemistry; mechanisms of environmental carcinogens; molecular epidemiology
Cancers of Interest: Lung, skin, leukemia
Ongoing Projects: 1) The role of peroxynitrite in benzene-induced toxicity; dosimetry of risk for lung and bladder cancer among cigarette smokers

Name: Mills, Sherry, MD, MPH
Title: Area Manager of Clinical Research and Epidemiology Unit
Affiliation: Abt Associates, Inc.
Phone: (301) 913-0500
Email: sherry_mills@abtassoc.com

Name: Nixon, Daniel W., MD
Title: President, American Health Foundation
Affiliation: IFCP
Phone: 212-551-2502
Fax: 212-687-2339
Email: dnixon@ifcp.us
Specialization and Interests: Translational research in chemo-prevention; preventive proteomics/genomics; nutritional mechanisms in cancer cause and prevention; cancer prevention and minorities
Ongoing Projects: breast cancer prevention research; prostate cancer control via telemedicine; women's intervention nutrition study

Name: O’Malley, Michael S., Ph.D.
Title: Associate Director
Affiliation: UNC at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
Division/Department: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Phone: (919) 966-3036
Email: clover@med.unc.edu

Name: Pinto, John T., Ph.D.
Title: Senior Scientist and Associate Program Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Affiliation: IFCP and New York Medical College
Division/Department: Nutrition and Carcinogenesis
Phone: 914-789-7314
Phone: 914-592-6317
Email: jpinto@ifcp.us
Specialization and Interests: Chemopreventive strategies for prevention of primary and secondary cancers; Areas of research: the effects of specific phyto- and zoochemicals upon intracellular antioxidant and cell cycle pathways including transcription factors within normal and transformed cells; the laboratory characterizes mechanisms by which plant-derived constituents regulate growth and metabolism by modifying signal transduction pathways.
Cancers of Interest: Prostate, breast, colo-rectal
Ongoing Projects: 1) Allium Compounds in Control of Human Prostate Cancer; 2) Strategies for Prostate Cancer Prevention: Combined Effects of Aged Garlic Constituents and Sulindac Sulfide Using an In Vitro Model System; 3) Antiproliferative Effects of Garlic-Derived S-Allylmercaptocysteine (SAMC) are Associated With Microtubule Depolymerization; 4) Phase I trial of high dose acetaminophen in patients with metastatic melanoma. Specific role in project: Free and bound glutathione in biopsies of melanoma tissues; 5) Induction of disulfide formation, S-glutathiolation, and S-thioallylation of signal and transcriptional proteins by garlic-derived allylsulfide compounds.

Name: Revenson, Tracey A., PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY
Division/Department: Social Personality Psychology & Concentration in Health Psychology
Phone: (212) 817-8709
Email: trevenson@gc.cuny.edu
Fax: (212) 817-1533
Specialization and Interests: stress and coping processes among individuals, couple, and families facing chronic physical illnesses; the use of gender and age stereotypes by physicians; the influence on supportive and non-supportive interpersonal relationships on health; issues of breast cancer survivorship and the interplay of gender, stress, and ethnicity on smoking.
Cancers of Interest: breast, lung
Ongoing Projects: (a) coping with the threat of breast cancer recurrence; (b) experimental study on the effects of racial stress on smoking behaviors

Name: Richie, John Jr., Ph.D.
Title: Chief
Affiliation: IFCP
Division/Department: Epidemiology & Cancer Susceptibility
Phone: (914) 789-7156
Fax: (914) 592-6317
Email: jrichie@ifcp.us
Specialization and Interests: Molecular epidemiology and biochemistry of cancer and aging, race/ethnicity, nutrition, oxidative damage, and cancer susceptibility.
Cancers of Interest: Lung, bladder, colon and oral cavity.
Ongoing Projects: Role of glutathione in aging and cancer; Molecular epidemiology of tobacco-related cancers in black and white Americans; Glutathiolation as a post-transcriptional regulator of protein function.

Name: Roberts, Lynn, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: Urban Public Health
Phone: (212) 481-5110
Email: lroberts@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: young women’s health; violence prevention; youth development

Name: Rosario, Margaret, PhD
Title: Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Phone: (212) 650-5420
Email: mr37@earthlink.net
Specialization and Interests: health psychology, urban adolescents, HIV research

Name: Saegert, Susan, PhD
Title: Professor of Environmental Psychology
Affiliation: The Graduate Center, CUNY
Division/Department: Environmental Psychology, Center for Human Environments
Phone: (212) 817-1886
Email: susansaegert@aol.com

Name: Sammarco, Angela, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor, Nursing
Affiliation: College of Staten Island, CUNY
Division/Department: Nursing
Phone: (718) 982-3829
Email: sammarco@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Specializations and Interests: quality of life of Hispanic-American long-term breast cancer survivors, compared to White American women
Cancers of interest: breast

Name: Santana, Annabel, MPH
Title: Clinical Campus Program Coordinator
Affiliation: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY Medical School
Division/Department: Department of Community Health and Social Medicine
Phone: (212) 650-7804
Fax: (212) 650-7805
Email: santana@med.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: relationship between the perception of cancer risk, knowledge of risk, and use of preventive services among low income ethnic/racial minority patients in primary care settings

Name: Sayeed, Sarah, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY
Division/Department: School of Public Affairs
Phone: (212) 802-5725
Email: sarah_sayeed@baruch.cuny.edu

Name: Sgherza, Anthony, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Exercise Science
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Physical Education and Exercise Science
Phone: (718) 951-5881
Email: asgherza@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: treatment and prevention of athletic injuries; athletics training (sports medicine)

Name: Spark, Arlene, EdD, RD, CSP, FADA, FACN
Title: Associate Professor & Program Coordinator for Nutrition Tracks
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: Nutrition and Food Science, Urban Public Health
Phone: (212) 481-7590
Email: aspark@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: pediatric nutrition, nutrition education, nutrition and preventive cardiology, and eating disorders

Name: Springfield, Sanya, PhD
Title: Chief of the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program Branch
Affiliation: National Cancer Institute
Division/Department: Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program Branch
Phone: (301) 496-7344
Email:ss165I@nih.gov

Name: Stellman, Steven D., PhD, MPH
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Affiliation: IFCP
Division/Department: Epidemiology
Phone: 212-305-4911
Fax: 212-305-9413
Email: sds91@columbia.edu
Specialization and Interests: Epidemiology of tobacco-related cancers; occupational and environ-mental causes of cancer; public health; health of Vietnam veterans.
Cancers of Interest: Lung, breast
Ongoing Projects: 1) Tobacco and Cancer Risk: Dose, Metabolism and Genetics; 2) Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam.

Name: van Olphen, Juliana, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Hunter College, CUNY
Division/Department: Urban Public Health
Phone: (212) 481-5154
Email: vjuliana@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: STD/HIV prevention, social capital and community development, social justice and health

Name: Weston, Peter, PhD
Title: Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Phone: (718) 951-5043
Email: pweston@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: the relationship between African American men's identity and their health

Name: Weston, Raymond, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition
Affiliation: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Division/Department: Health and Nutrition Sciences
Phone: (718) 951-5167
Email: rweston@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Specialization and Interests: clinical and research experience on the mental and public health needs of persons of African descent; the impact of racial identity on mental and public health outcomes such as alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; serious and persistent mental illness; HIV/AIDS; cancer, and heart disease

Name: Yali, Ann Marie, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: City College, CUNY
Division/Department: Psychology
Phone: (212) 650-5705
Email: annmarieyali_ccny_psych@hotmail.com
Cancers of Interest: breast and colo-rectal

Name: Zang, Edith A., Ph.D.
Title: Head, Biostatistics & Data Mgmt.
Affiliation: IFCP
Division/Department: Biostatistics & Data Mgmt.
Phone: 212-551-2510
Fax: 212-687-2339
Email: ezang@ifcp.us
Specialization and Interests: Biostatistics and epidemiology; clinical intervention trials
Cancers of Interest: Lung, colorectal, breast
Ongoing Projects: The effect of soy intake on breast cancer risk; The S.C. Prostate Cancer Telehealth Project.