Researchers & Clinicians

Organizational Structure

Cores

Administrative Core

The Administrative Core oversees the I-CHER Center to track, evaluate and ensure:

• Timely completion of objectives and goals for projects and the overall center
• Equitable community-clinical-academic partnerships across research projects and cores
• Scientific and organizational consistency across research projects and cores for multilevel solutions to social determinants of health
• Access to institutional and cancer center infrastructure (biostatistics, bioinformatics, epidemiology, clinical trials)
• The I-CHER Center website’s knowledge transfer, scientific outreach, and promotion of pilot opportunities

Leadership

Jan Kitajewski, PhD, Principal Investigator and Cancer Center Director

Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD

Yamile Molina, PhD

Pamela Ganschow, PhD

Ahlam Al-Kodmany, PhD

Aileen Shen, MPH, Project Director

Elizabeth “Lisi” Rivera, Community Advisory Board (CAB) Chair

Investigator Development Core

The I-CHER Center Investigator Development Core (IDC) is co-led by Cancer Center Associate Director for Population Sciences Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD, and Cancer Center Deputy Director VK Gadi, MD, PhD, who have mentored and sponsored multiple postdocs, clinical fellows and early career faculty for more than 25 years, and they have led robust structured training programs.

The goal of the IDC core is to:

• Strengthen and increase the pipeline of interdisciplinary early career faculty focused on cancer health equity research to improve health and eliminate cancer health disparities.
• Implement a pilot project mechanism to strengthen institutional and investigators’ capacity to address social and structural determinants via multi-level, solution-based cancer research with marginalized communities.
• Provide structured career development opportunities to project principal investigators. postdocs and pilot awardees.

Leadership

Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD

VK Gadi, MD, PhD