Meet the Epidemiology Program team!
Program Administration
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Ph.D.
Program Director
Director of Graduate Studies
Epidemiology Teaching Faculty
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Dr. Adams-Campbell is an epidemiologist who specializes in community health research, interventions, and outreach. With a focus on prevention, she studies issues that affect populations at the greatest risk for developing cancer. [CE concentration] View Dr. Adams-Campbell’s faculty profile
Ilona Argirion, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Argirion is an epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Science in the School of Health, and member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her primary areas of expertise lie in molecular cancer epidemiology, with a special focus on immunoepidemiology and molecular pathology epidemiology. [CE concentration] View Dr. Argirion’s faculty profile
Chiranjeev Dash, M.B.B.S., Ph.D, M.P.H.
Assistant Director of Health Disparities Research, Associate Professor
Dr. Dash is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Oncology in the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics. Dr. Dash’s research focuses on cancer epidemiology and prevention intervention studies among minorities and medically underserved populations. Some of his ongoing research projects include investigating the molecular epidemiology of oxidative stress among African-Americans, a pilot study of exercise among African-American men, and a study on the association of endocrine disruptors with breast density among women undergoing breast cancer screening. Dr. Dash is also part of transdisciplinary teams conducting research on physical activity interventions in high-risk health disparity populations, oral health disparities in the District of Columbia, and impact of environmental metal exposures on mammographic breast density. [CE concentration]
Anca Dragomir, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Dragomir is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the Department of Oncology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics(BBB). Her current research focuses on the epidemiology of colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers, and also environmental exposures related to childhood cancers. [Core Epidemiology/CE Concentration] View Dr. Dragomir’s faculty profile
Kristi Graves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Graves received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and completed post-doctoral training at the University of Kentucky. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Oncology and in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program. She is interested in translational research and research that improves cancer survivorship. [SBE concentration] View Dr. Graves’ faculty profile
Nina Singh Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH
Professor
Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH, is a professor of oncology and pediatrics, member of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Director of the Survivorship Research Initiative, and PI of Georgetown-Medstar Hospital Children’s Oncology Group clinical trials. Dr. Kadan-Lottick is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and research scientist who has focused her work on improving medical, cognitive, and psychosocial long-term outcomes in children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer across the lifespan. [CE concentration]
Seble Kassaye, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kassaye is a clinical Infectious Diseases physician, and epidemiologist. Dr. Kassaye holds a strong interest in improving access to high quality care for those with limited resources, particularly interest in HIV during pregnancy, and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Her plan is to study the molecular epidemiology of HIV; HIV drug resistance; and HIV/HCV co-infection to further improve HIV treatment and prevention strategies for women and their families. [IDE, CE concentrations]
Valeriy R. Korostyshevsky, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Korostyshevskiy received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current research interests include confirmatory basket trial designs, tumor growth dynamics, biomedical image analysis. His teaching interests are Probability Theory, Quantitative Data Analysis, Statistical Software, Applied Linear Models, Ethics and Communication in Statistical Research. [Core Biostatistics]
Kepher H. Makambi, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Makambi is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics at Georgetown University. His research interests include meta-analysis, adaptive design methods in clinical trials, structural equation modeling, statistical methods in epidemiology, and application of complex survey methods. [CORE Biostatistics]
Suzanne O’Neill, Ph.D.
Professor
Suzanne O’Neill, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Oncology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A clinical psychologist with postdoctoral training in public health, Dr. O’Neill’s research focuses on developing and testing interventions to support care delivery across the cancer continuum, with a specific focus on precision oncology, and has led several NCI-funded intervention trials in this area. [SBE concentration] View Dr. O’Neill’s faculty profile
Luz Sanchez Romero
Assistant Professor
Dr. Luz Sanchez Romero is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Program. Her work centers on using simulation modeling to estimate the long-term population health impacts of public health policies and preventive interventions. She brings particular expertise in evaluating tobacco regulations and obesity prevention strategies. View Dr. Sanchez Romero’s faculty profile
Laura Rozek, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Rozek is a Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center and co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control program for Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her work integrates molecular and epidemiology data from studies of head and neck and colorectal cancer to identify avenues for prevention and improved survival. She also has several global cancer projects in Southeast Asia and Africa, in particular studies that address cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Ming Tan, Ph.D.
Biostatistics Chair & Bioinformatics Professor
Dr. Tan has long standing research interests in methods for the design, monitoring and analysis of clinical trials and predictive analytics in clinical trials and Big Data. One of his current research foci is statistical methods for searching and evaluating multi-drug combinations utilizing both experimental data and system biology, innovative methods to optimally design and efficiently analyze pre-clinical drug combination therapies in cancer by integrating concepts in modern statistical and number-theoretic methods and pharmacology; and high dimensional genomics data analysis in Cancer Epidemiology, all funded by R01 grants from the NCI and NHLBI. [Core Biostatistics]
Kenneth Tercyak, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Tercyak is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. At the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Tercyak serves as Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention & Control research program in the Division of Population Sciences. Dr. Tercyak’s work in tobacco control focuses on primary prevention, behavior change, high-risk special populations, and cessation. His work in survivorship addresses health behaviors and outcomes among children treated for cancer. [SBE concentration] View Dr. Tercyak’s faculty profile
Randi Williams, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
Randi M. Williams, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology and a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program within the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Williams co-leads the Lung Screening, Tobacco, and Health lab with Dr. Kathryn Taylor. Her research focuses on methods to promote the adoption of evidence-based lung cancer control practices. [Cancer Epidemiology] View Dr. Williams’ faculty profile