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Members of the Adult CIRB and Pediatric CIRB
Adult CIRB
 

Chair
Roy E. Smith, MD, MS  (Bio)
University of Pittsburgh Physicians
UPMC Cancer Centers - Medical Oncology
Pittsburgh, PA

Vice Chair
David Parda, MD, FACP  (Bio)
Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology
Allegheny General Hospital & West Penn Allegheny Health System Radiation Oncology Network

Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Drexel University College of Medicine

Pittsburgh, PA

Consumer Advocates
Barbara Beckwith  (Bio)
Independent Consultant
Diversity Enhancement Program
at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
and Richard J. Solove Research Institute

OSU Medical Center
Columbus, OH
Pat Haugen  (Bio)
Retired (IBM)
Sioux Falls, SD
 
Colette Johnston  (Bio)
Patient Advocate
Moab, UT, 84532

Health Professionals
Michael Gibson, MD  (Bio)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cancer Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
Melissa L. Johnson, PharmD, BCOP  (Bio)
Clinical Pharmacist Oncology/Investigational Drugs
Huntsman Cancer Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT
 
Lee Krug, MD  (Bio)
Associate Attending Physician
Weill Cornell Medical College
NY
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Julia Lawrence, DO  (Bio)
Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Section of Hematology and Oncology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
 
Helen Leather, BPharm  (Bio)
Consultant Pharmacist
Shands at the University of Florida,,
Gainesville, FL

Scientific Director,

NucleusX,
New York, NY
Bernard Parker, MD  (Bio)
Senior Medical Evaluation Officer
Medical Evaluation Staff
Medical Affairs Branch, Office of Commissioned Corps Support Services

Program Support Center, Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, MD
 
Sarah Taylor, MD  (Bio)
Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
Director

University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Joan Westendorp, RN, MSN, OCN  (Bio)
Chief Nursing Officer
West Michigan Cancer Center
Kalamazoo, MI
 

Ethicists
Dena Davis, JD, PhD  (Bio)
Professor
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland, OH

Brief adult roster

 
Pediatric CIRB
 

Chair
Stacey L. Berg, MD  (Bio)
Professor of Pediatrics
and Medical Ethics Associate Dean for Research Assurances Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Vice Chair
John L. Sever, MD, PhD  (Bio)
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
and Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Microbiology, Immunology and
Tropical RMedicine George Washington University,
The Children's National Medical Center

Washington, DC

Consumer Advocates
Octavio Zavala  (Bio)
Project Coordinator/Research Assistant
Children's Hospital
Los Angeles, CA
Jeanne P. Young  (Bio)
President
Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation
Germantown, MD
 

Health Professionals
Chris Fryer, FRCP(C)  (Bio)
Radiation Oncologist
British Columbia's Children's Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
Vancouver, BC
Ellen R. Brooks, PhD  (Bio)
Physiologist and Assistant Professor
Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
 
Jeffrey P. Krischer, PhD  (Bio)
Director, Pediatrics Epidemiology Center
Professor and Chief of Bioinformatics and Statistics
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
Claudia Anne Deffenbaugh, PharmD  (Bio)
Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Bass Center Pharmacy
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
 
Victor M. Santana, MD  (Bio)
Vice President for Clinical Trials Administration
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Department of Hematology Oncology

262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN, 38105
Richard Drachtman, MD  (Bio)
Interim Chief Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Div.
Medical Director Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Program Professor of Pediatrics

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
 
Allen Chauvenet, MD, PhD  (Bio)
Professor of Pediatrics (Heme/Onc)
West Virginia University
Charleston, WV
Paul Colombani, MD, MBA  (Bio)
Pediatric Surgeon
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
 
Susannah Koontz, PharmD  (Bio)
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/SCTCT Children's Cancer Hospital
at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
Ann McNeil, RN, BSN  (Bio)
Oncology Nurse
Pediatric Neurosurgical Alliance
University of Miami Dept of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Miami, FL
 

Ethicists
Terri O’Lonergan, MA, PhD  (Bio)
University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics

Colorado Clinical Translational Research Institutes
Denver, CO

Brief pediatric roster

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