Comings . . . Goings

Hannah Arem, M.H.S., has joined DCEG’s Office of Communications and Special Initiatives as an NCI Health Communications Intern. She received an M.H.S. degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she focused on international health. Previously, she worked for an international nonprofit organization that operates primary care clinics in developing countries, and she also worked on the National Diabetes Education Program, a joint program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIH, and more than 200 partners. Through her six-month internship with DCEG, she will work with Jennifer K. Loukissas, M.P.P., on numerous communications initiatives, including translation of scientific findings into practical and accessible public health messages.

Parveen Bhatti, Ph.D., M.S., a fellow in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch, left in January to take a position in the Epidemiology Program of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Victoria M. Chia, Ph.D., M.P.H., a postdoctoral fellow in the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch (HREB), has taken a position at Amgen, Inc., in Thousand Oaks, California. While in HREB, Dr. Chia worked on studies of testicular and endometrial cancer.

Kathryn Hughes, M.P.H., has joined the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) as a predoctoral fellow under the Yale University-NCI Partnership Training Program. Ms. Hughes will be working with Michael C. R. Alavanja, Dr.P.H. (OEEB); Jay H. Lubin, Ph.D., Biostatistics Branch (BB); members of the Agricultural Health Study team; and her mentors from Yale, Drs. Tongzhang Zheng and Xiaomei Ma. She will conduct research on the effects of pesticides and genetic susceptibility on cancer.

Tamra Meyer, Ph.D., has joined HREB as a postdoctoral Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellow. Dr. Meyer received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, where she studied relationships between genetic variation and chronic diseases. She is working with Ann W. Hsing, Ph.D., on the molecular epidemiology of prostate and biliary tract cancers.

 

 

In February, Elisabetta Petracci, M.Sc., joined BB and the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a predoctoral fellow. Ms. Petracci is completing her Ph.D. in biomedical statistics from the Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry “Giulio A. Maccacaro,” University of Milan. She will be working with Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D. (BB), Mark H. Greene, M.D. (Chief of CGB), and her advisor from the University of Milan, Dr. Adriano Decarli, on projecting breast cancer risk, with a focus on mammographic density, modifiable risk factors, and analytic methods.

 

Ingrid Wentzensen, M.D., has joined CGB as a postdoctoral fellow. She received her M.D. from Heidelberg University in Germany and has completed four years of general surgery residency, with a strong focus on surgical oncology, at the University Hospital of Heidelberg and the General Hospital of Weinheim. Dr. Wentzensen has a special interest in hereditary cancer syndromes and will be working with Sharon A. Savage, M.D., on the epidemiology of Ewing sarcoma, studies of telomere biology and cancer genetic risk factors, and genetic studies of Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

 

Hong Zhang, Ph.D., has joined BB as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he also served as a faculty member. He also has had postdoctoral training at both Yale University and George Washington University. He will be working with Kai Yu, Ph.D., on developing new statistical methods that address challenges from genetic association studies.

 

 

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