Cancer Prevention and Control Program

Program Co-Leaders
Lisa Carter-Bawa, PhD, MPH, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN
Program Overview
The Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program is the nexus for population sciences-focused research at Georgetown Lombardi. Its mission is to conduct innovative and impactful population sciences research across the translational continuum, from discovery to intervention to policy, to help alleviate the burden of cancer. A unique aspect of the CPC Program is its capacity to rapidly translate findings through the phases of this continuum within and across each of the Program’s scientific aims.
CPC appoints both full and associate members who address the cancer prevention-control needs of our catchment area through research focused on cancer risk factors and biomarkers, primary and secondary cancer prevention, and outcomes of cancer treatment and survivorship. Research in the catchment area is facilitated through community-based research sites, including the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention and the community-based Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities located in Southeast Washington, DC. CPC is also leading the cancer center’s newly established Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging and the development of the Office for Global Oncology and the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute.
Cross-cutting themes in CPC include investigations of genetic/genomic underpinnings of cancer risk and response (in collaboration with the Fisher Center) and cancer burdens and disparities.
The CPC Program is also home to an FDA-funded center for tobacco research, is an active contributor to many cancer center-wide initiatives, including cancer survivorship, and provides leadership to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Smoking Treatment and Recovery (STAR) and Cancer Survivorship programs. Our educational efforts take place across Georgetown University, including the Master’s in Epidemiology and Tumor Biology graduate training programs. Additionally, the program organizes postdoctoral fellowship training in cancer control and population science, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute through an institutional T32 training grant.
Promoting Science and Research Collaboration
To help support programmatic science in all aspects of cancer control and prevention, CPC offers members several mechanisms that promote collaboration within and across the cancer center. This includes Idea Lab for brainstorming about early stage research concepts, Research Strategy Sessions for work-in-progress on ongoing studies and planned future directions, and Mock Study Section for peer review of extramural grant/contract applications prior to agency submission. Please contact the program’s leadership if interested in a hosted meeting. The program’s leadership is also instrumental in convening research affinity groups around focal and emerging areas of cancer population sciences, including cancer care delivery research, translational genomics, and in studying the burdens of cancer among older adults and long-term cancer survivors.
A reminder that all human subjects research protocols by CPC’s program members should be submitted to the CPC Discipline Group. Please use this link to initiate your submission; additional information can be found in the accompanying presentation.
For program members based at GU, please see important information about submitting joint IRB protocols for human subjects research across the consortium.
Find us on X (Twitter) @GeorgetownCPC
Full Members
- Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Community Outreach and Engagement, Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Abraham Aragones, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Center for Discovery and Innovation/JTCC
- Hannah Arem, PhD, Scientific Director of Implementation Science, MedStar Health Research Institute; Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Ilona Argirion, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Human Science/GU
- Traci Bethea, PhD, MPA, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Alaina Carr, PhD, Instructor, Oncology/GU
- Lisa Carter-Bawa, PhD, MPH, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, Program Co-Leader, Professor, Center for Discovery and Innovation/JTCC
- Ami Chitalia, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/GU
- Claire Conley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Chiranjeev Dash, PhD, MBBS, MPH, Associate Professor, Oncology, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Biomathematics/GU
- Heather Derry-Vick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Discovery and Innovation/JTCC
- Radoslav Goldman, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Biochemistry & Molecular & Cellular Biology/GU
- Kristi Graves, PhD, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Interim Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Derek Griffith, PhD, PhD, Co-Director, Georgetown Racial Justice Institute, Director, Center for Men’s Health Equity, Professor, Health Management and Policy, Oncology/GU
- Alejandra Hurtado de Mendoza, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, Professor, Medicine/GU
- So-Yeon Kang, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy/GU
- Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH, Director of Cancer Survivorship Research, Professor, Oncology, Pediatrics/GU
- David Levy, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Christopher Loffredo, PhD, Director of Global Oncology, Professor, Oncology, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics/GU
- Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH, Professor, Oncology, Medicine/GU
- Jean Mitchell, PhD, Professor, Public Policy/GU
- Suzanne O’Neill, PhD, Director of Education and Training, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Beth Peshkin, MS, CGC, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Arnold Potosky, PhD, Director of Health Services Research, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Habtom Ressom, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Laura Rozek, PhD, Program Co-Leader, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Luz Maria Sanchez-Romero, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Susan Schembre, PhD, RD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Marc Schwartz, PhD, Associate Director for Population Science, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Nawar Shara, PhD, Director, Center of Biostatistics, Informatics and Data Science, Associate Professor, Medicine/GU
- Kathryn Taylor, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Kenneth Tercyak, PhD, Program Co-Leader, Professor, Oncology, Pediatrics/GU
- Judy Wang, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Kristen Whitaker, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/GU
- Randi Williams, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Yun-Ling Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU