蜜桃传媒

Roswell Park Alliance Foundation Endowed Chair in Cancer Prevention and Senior Vice President of Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Director of Cancer Screening and Survivorship, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Areas of expertise: Lung cancer, cancer screening, cancer early detection, epidemiology, cancer prevention

Spangler is one of the world's leading experts in tobacco epidemiology and was the keynote speaker for 2004 World Health Organization Tobacco and Community Health Conference in New Delhi, India. He founded the first physician-run tobacco-cessation clinic in North Carolina and was recently awarded $1.6 million grant to develop tobacco cessation curriculum for medical schools across the United States. He has won several prestigious awards including the Association of Teachers of Preventative Medicine Program of the Year Award and the Behavioral Sciences Forum Program of the Year Award. He is currently co-Principal Investigator on a longitudinal study of tobacco use among students at 11 colleges and universities in NC and VA.

The primary goal of my research program is to refine and inform evidence-based dietary recommendations across the cancer continuum (i.e., from cancer prevention to improving outcomes during and after cancer treatment). As a nutritional epidemiologist, much of my work has focused on identifying diet-related risk or protective factors in large, prospective cohorts of healthy individuals followed for the development of cancer. Since joining MD Anderson in 2012, my research has been increasingly motivated by the many unanswered questions and complexities surrounding nutrition, the microbiome, obesity and inflammation in cancer patients and survivors. Together with clinical and laboratory colleagues, we continue to learn by carefully "observing" patients, collecting data and biological specimens while also pushing forward to answer these questions more definitively in clinical trials.
 
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Faculty Director, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Bionutrition Research Core, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Adjunct Faculty, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX
Regular Member, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
Degree-Granting Education
2008 Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, PHD, Nutrition and Health Sciences, Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2005 Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, MPH, Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
2002 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Postgraduate Training
2008-2012 Research Fellowship, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD

Lorna H. McNeill, Ph.D., MPH, is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Disparities at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. McNeill's research is on the elimination of cancer-related health disparities in minority populations. Her research has a particular emphasis on understanding the influence of social contextual determinants of cancer in minorities, with a special focus on the role of physical activity as a key preventive behavior and obesity as a major cancer determinant. Her research takes place in minority and underserved communities such as public housing developments, black churches, community-based clinics, and low-income neighborhoods-communities with excess cancer death rates. She has been continuously funded, receiving grants from various funding agencies (i.e., National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, etc.), to better understand and design innovative solutions to address obesity in racial/ethnic minority communities. She is the PI of several community-based studies, primarily working with African-American churches. One is called
Project CHURCH, an academic-faith-based partnership established to 1) identify underlying reasons for health disparities in cancer and cancer risk factors (e.g., screening, diet) among AAs using a cohort study (N=2400), 2) engage AAs as partners in the research process, and 3) to ultimately eliminate disparities among AAs. In 2014, Dr. McNeill furthered her partnership through the Faith, Health, and Family (FHF) Collaborative. To date, we have 50 churches as members. Dr. McNeill is also director of the Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research (CCETR) at MD Anderson. CCETR works with MD Anderson faculty to develop collaborations with underserved communities with a focus on conducting high-quality, relevant cancer prevention research.
Primary Appointment
Department Chair, Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Degree-Granting Education
2004 Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA, PhD, Public Health Studies - Behavioral Science
1999 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, MPH, Health Behavior and Health Education
1995 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, BA, Afro-American Studies and Industrial Relations
Postgraduate Training
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
 
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2012 - 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2006 - 2012
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research, Houston, TX, 2010 - Present
Institutional Committee Activities
Committee Member, Epidemiology Chair Search Committee, 2017 - 2017
Faculty Achievement Award Review Committee, Faculty Senate, 2014 - 2016
Co-Chair, Health Disparities Research Faculty Search Committee, 2012 - 2013
Steering Committee Member, Mexican American Cohort Study, 2012 - Present
Shared and videotaped personal experiences and/or advice for viewers of the online companion for new faculty, Faculty Companion, 2011 - Present
Senator (departmental representative), University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty Senate Committee, 2011 - 2014
Member, Psychosocial, Behavioral, and Health Services Research Committee (PBHSRC), 2007 - 2010

Aldo Russo, MD, is a board certified and fellowship trained gastroenterologist at Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge in Louisiana. He also serves as medical director for the Ochsner Baton Rouge region. His expertise includes the prevention of colorectal cancer, treatment of viral hepatitis, management of inflammatory bowel disease and treating gastrointestinal emergencies.
Dr. Russo earned a medical degree from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He completed an internship and residency at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in New Orleans. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He is a frequent participant in health forums and other events for Spanish-speaking audiences.

Department Chair, Department of Behavioral Science, UT MDACC, Houston, TX
Prof. w/Tenure, Department of Behavioral Science, UT MDACC, Houston, TX

Ernest Hawk, M.D., MPH, is vice president and head of the division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and holds the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair for Early Prevention of Cancer. Additional responsibilities include leadership of the Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment and co-leadership of MD Anderson’s Cancer Prevention and Control Platform which advances community health promotion and cancer control through evidence-based public policy, public and professional education, and community-based service implementation and dissemination.

Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., M.P.H.,is the Annie Laurie Howard Research Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Disparities Research and the Director of the Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on cancer survivors and high-risk individuals and investigates the role of health behavior interventions in optimizing quality of life and reducing risk of cancer, cancer recurrence, and other chronic diseases. She also studies behavior change methods with a focus on digital health interventions and implementation of interventions in clinical and community settings. Her research on physical activity for cancer survivors has been translated into Active Living After Cancer, a community program to increase physical activity among minority and medically underserved cancer survivors throughout Texas funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The program has reached over 1,500 cancer survivors in Texas through partnerships with community organizations in Houston, El Paso, Beaumont, and Tyler. Active Living After Cancer is a project of the Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship, which works to expand energy balance research at MD Anderson by facilitating collaboration among investigators in basic science, clinical, and population research who study physical activity, nutrition, obesity, and cancer. Dr. Basen-Engquist is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors, has served on the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and is the past president of the American Society of Preventive Oncology.