Our Team

Leadership

• Lorna H. McNeill, Ph.D.
  Director, Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research
  Chair, Health Disparities Research.
• Kamisha H. Escoto, Ph.D.
  Project Director, Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research
• Lynne H. Nguyen, M.P.H.
  Project Director, Community and Populations Core, Center for Community-Engaged Translational Research 

Staff

• Terrence Adams, M.S.
  Health Education Specialist
• Georgina Avalos
  Program Coordinator
• Tanya Shaw
  Data Manager
  
• Loren Bryant, M.S.
  Program Manager
• Cassandra Harris, M.S., MCHES
  Health Education Manager
• Crystal Roberson, M.P.H.
  Program Manager

Advisory board

• Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D.
  Professor, Behavioral Science
  UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Abenaa Brewster, M.D.
  Professor, Clinical Cancer Prevention
  UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Lewis Foxhall, M.D.
  Vice president, Health Policy
  UT MD Anderson Cancer Prevention Center
• Carrie Cameron, Ph.D
  Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Robert Volk, Ph.D.
  Professor, Health Service Research
  UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Ann Barnes, M.D.
  Chief Medical Officer
  Legacy Community Health Services
• Michael Salazar -Martinez
  Director of Program Planning & Grant Development
  Baker - Ripley.
• Shao-Chee Sim, Ph.D.
  Vice President for Applied Research
  Episcopal Health Foundation 

Selected Projects

• Engaging Asian Stakeholders to Create a Shared Understanding of Cancer Risk
• We Can
• Project CHURCH
• Komen Training Program to Reduce Braest Cancer Disparities inBlack and Hispanic Women
  
• UHAND ( University of Houston /MD Anderson) Program to reduce Cancer Disparities
• A peer and family -based approach to obesity in African American families (Project FAITH)