Advisory Committee
Our Advisory Committee represents wide-ranging expertise in cancer prevention and control and in training and mentoring pre- and post-doctoral fellows within the University of Texas School of Public Health, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and other academic environments.
This internal reviewe committee assists the Program Directors by:
- Recruiting -- by suggesting additional recruitment strategies and using their own professional networks to expand the applicant pool
- Selecting candidates who are a good fit for the Program and likely to achieve the Program goals
- Reviewing training plans, appraising trainee progress reports, and suggesting strategies for addressing systematic or any individual problems that are identified, including recommendations by mentors or Program Directors that a trainee be terminated or not renewed
- Suggesting next steps, including specific faculty, post-doc, and other relevant positions to foster the careers of trainees completing the program
- Reviewing the curriculum and new components that will be developed
- Approving indicators of success and evaluating the success of the Program in achieving its aims
Current members include:
Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD, MPH (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Shine Chang (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Xianglin L. Du, MD, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Disease Control
Maria E. Fernandez, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Director, UT SPH Office for Diversity
- Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Deanna M. Hoelscher, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Director, Susan and Michael Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living
- Member, UT System Steering Committee on Primary Prevention
- Professor
Stephen H. Linder, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Associate Director, Institute of Health Policy
- Professor, Management, Policy, and Community Health
Cheryl L. Perry, PhD (UT School of Public Health, Dell Center)
- Regional Dean, Austin Regional Campus
- Rockwell Chair in Society and Health
- Professor
Ex Officio:
Patricia Dolan Mullen, DrPH (UT School of Public Health)
- Training Director, Cancer Education and Career Development Program
- Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
L. Kay Bartholomew, MPH, EdD (UT School of Public Health)
- Co-Director, Cancer Education and Career Development Program
- Associate Dean for Education Programs
- Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
Sally W. Vernon, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Co-Director, Cancer Education and Career Development Program
- Member, American Cancer Society Extramural Grants Council
- Director of the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
- Blair Justice, PhD, Professor in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health
- Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
Susan R. Tortolero, PhD (UT School of Public Health)
- Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
- Director, Texas Prevention Research Center
External Advisory Committee
Members
Roshan Bastani, PhD, MPH (UCLA)
- Associate Professor, School of Public Health
- Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health
- Associate Director, Jonsson Cancer Center
- Site Director, NCI Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness
- Research & Training Program Leader, UCLA Cancer Education & Career Development
- PI, NCI Training Grant for Cancer Prevention & Control (R25T)
- Expertise: Training of researchers for and from special populations (Asian Americans), cancer prevention and control
Deborah Bowen, PhD (University of Washington)
- Professor of Health Services, School of Public Health
- Full Member, Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert Chamberlain, PhD (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Deputy Chair, Department of Epidemiology
- Director, Cancer Prevention Education
- PI, NCI Training Grants for Cancer Prevention & Control (R25T, R25E)
- Past President, American Association for Cancer Education
- Former member, NCI Scientific Review Group-Education
- Expertise: Cancer prevention training and training programs in the U.S.
George Delclos, MD (University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston)
- Associate Professor of Environmental Health & Occupational Health
- Director, Division of Environmental & Occupational Health
- Director Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
- Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Training Program
- Director, Fogarty International Research and Training Program in Occupational & Environmental Health
- Expertise: Post-doctoral training programs in the School of Public Health, research training for health care professionals
Amelie Ramírez, DrPH (San Antonio Cancer Center)
- Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
- Associate Director, Cancer Prevention & Control
- Director, NCI National Network Ctr Office, Redes En Accíon, Hispanic Network for Cancer Awareness Research & Training
- Mentor and former pre-doctoral fellow, CHPPR Cancer Prevention & Control Training Program
- Expertise: Training of researchers for and from special populations (Hispanics); cancer communication training
Patricia A. Stout, PhD (University of Texas - Austin)
- Professor of Advertising, College of Communication
- Former Associate Dean, College of Communication
- Expertise: Training of health communication specialists and resources in UT-Austin College of Communication
Jane Zapka, ScD (University of Massachusetts Medical School and Medical College of South Carolina)
- Professor of Medicine
- Former PI, NCI training grant for Cancer Prevention & Control Education for Medical, Nurse Practitioner & Public Health Students
- Co-PI, NCI specialized training grant, "Policy to Support Tobacco Treatment in Healthcare" 9R25E)
- Expertise: Training for medical and public health professions students in cancer prevention and control; cancer screening; tobacco cessation treatment in healthcare settings
