Leadership
Leadership for the e-Health Technology program is provided by Alex Prokhorov, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Behavioral Science, and Ludmila Cofta-Woerpel, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science. Each of these faculty members is internationally renowned in delivering and evaluating distance-medicine–based cancer prevention interventions that are highly disseminable and in leveraging technology.
Dr. Prokhorov's expertise encompasses the research and delivery of tobacco prevention and cessation interventions among various populations through the development and implementation of advanced multi-media applications. Dr. Cofta-Woerpel's expertise is in tobacco research and outreach, community-based research, health disparities research, and real-time assessment using mobile devices. Together, they will spearhead the e-Health Technology program to address primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of cancer across the entire cancer continuum and lifecycle.
Advisory Board
An Advisory Board is composed of a cadre of interdepartmental faculty with expertise in cancer screening, genetic risk, sexual health, health disparities and e-Health applications will provide additional oversight and will review developmental grant applications. Current members of this board include the following faculty members:
- Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Professor, Behavioral Science
- Elise Cook, M.D., M.S. - Associate Professor, Clinical Cancer Prevention
- Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Health Disparities Research
- Cho Lam, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science
- Susan Peterson, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Associate Professor, Behavioral Science
- Susan M. Schembre, Ph.D., R.D. - Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science
- Jennifer Tektiridis, M.S., C.P.A - Executive Director, Research Planning & Development, OVP, Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences
- Jo Ann Ward, M.P.H. - Associate Vice President, Public Affairs
Administrative and Technical Staff
- Michela Aguirre, M.B.A. - Project Director
- Victor Welch, M.S., M.A., M.B.A - Sr. Applications Programmer
- Sandy Chen, M.S. - Applications Programmer
- Laurie Haischer, M.B.A. - Applications Programmer
- Wenyan Li, M.S. - Applications Programmer
- Alexander Reyes Pino, M.S. - Applications Programmer
Contact Us
Mailing Address:
e-Health Technology, Unit 1330
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd.
P.O. Box 301439
Houston, TX 77230-1439
Physical Location: Cancer Prevention Building, CPB3.3408
Email: e-Health@mdanderson.org
Main Line: 713-794-4344