Sponsoring Investigators

Review the list of WHI Sponsoring Investigators by mentorship areas to identify an investigator with appropriate expertise in your area of interest. Some investigators are currently involved with multiple ancillary studies and/or manuscripts and may be unable to devote time to an additional project. Once you have identified a possible collaborator, consult their institutional profile () for additional information. If that information is missing or not current, try contacting their institution or theWHI Help Desk. Please see theWHI Investigator Categories for guidelines and responsibilities of a Sponsoring PI. For sponsoring investigators, if you would like to be added to the list, please complete the following survey: https://surveyhero.com/c/WHImentor

Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMentorship Areas
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleGarnet Anderson
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Biomarkers: Early Detection
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Ovarian, Prevention, Screening, Survivorship
  • Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleLaura Baker
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Multi-domain (Nutrition, Exercise, Cognitive Training, Risk Factor Management)
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
  • Other Areas: Sleep and Cognition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleDaniel Beavers
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence
  • Biomarkers: Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Home Environment
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis
  • Other Areas: Statistical Approaches (i.e., Bayesian Methods), Methods for Clinical Trials and Observational Studies, Missing Data, Misclassification
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleJane Cauley
University of Pittsburgh
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Independence
  • Lifestyle
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia
  • Other Areas: Sleep
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleCarolyn Crandall
University of California - Los Angeles
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy
  • Musculoskeletal: Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMacarius Donneyong
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
  • Other Areas: Pharmacoepidemiology, Comparative Effectiveness, Health Services Research
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleCharles Eaton
Brown University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking, Sleep
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMark Espeland
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Statistics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleGerardo Heiss
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity
  • Study Methods: Longitudinal Analysis, Observational Studies
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleBarbara Howard
MedStar Research Institute and Georgetown University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleRebecca Jackson
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence
  • Biomarkers: Genomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Nutrition
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia
  • Other Areas: Substance Use Disorders
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleKaren Johnson
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleCharles Kooperberg
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Study Methods: Statistical Genetics
  • Other Areas: High-Dimensional Statistical Methods
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMike LaMonte
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Physical Function, Lifestyle Composite Scores
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Periodontal Disease, Microbiome
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMarian Limacher
University of Florida College of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleSimin Liu
Brown University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Polypharmacy
  • Biomarkers: Discovery Methodologies, Early Detection, Epigenomics, Genomics, Hormone, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cancer: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Diabetes
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Rural/Urban, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Heavy Metals
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleJuhua Luo
Indiana University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Pancreatic, Prevention, Survivorship
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Depression, Optimism/Pessimism, Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation, Stress
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleJoAnn Manson
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology / Risk Prediction, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleLisa Martin
George Washington University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleAmy Millen
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Other Areas: Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, etc.
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMichelle Naughton
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation
  • Other Areas: Quality of Life/Patient-Reported Outcomes, Sleep, Urinary Incontinence Measurement
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMarian Neuhouser
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids, Metabolomics, Nutrition
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Survivorship
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleJudith Ockene
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity
  • Lifestyle
  • Mental/Psychosocial
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleRoss Prentice
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Meta-Analysis, Pooling and Dietary Pattern Analysis, Survival Analysis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleAlex Reiner
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Genomics, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Proteomics
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleTom Rohan
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Lifestyle: Smoking
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleGloria Sarto
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/ Ethnicity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMichael Simon
Wayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Center
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Clinical Medicine/Oncology, Clinical Cancer Genetics, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleBeverly Snively
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Cognitive Function/Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, Psychosocial Comorbidities in Neurological Diseases
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Biostatistics, Genetics, Disease Screening, Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Maternal Vaccination
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleLesley Tinker
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Hypertension, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: WHI in General
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleMara Vitolins
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Prevention, Survivorship
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleJean Wactawski-Wende
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Biomarkers: Early Detection, Genomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Metabolomics
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship
  • Diabetes
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Gynecologic Health: Hysterectomy/Oophorectomy, Menopausal Hormone Therapy, Oral Contraceptives, Pregnancy
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Survival Analysis
  • Other Areas: Oral Health, Microbiome
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleRobert Wallace
University of Iowa
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence, Polypharmacy
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Smoking
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Anxiety, Cognitive Function/Dementia, Depression, Social Determinants, Stress
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship RoleEric Whitsel
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Noise Pollution, Rural/Urban
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
Mentorship Areas

Garnet Anderson
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Biomarkers: Early Detection
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Ovarian, Prevention, Screening, Survivorship
  • Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis

Laura Baker
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Multi-domain (Nutrition, Exercise, Cognitive Training, Risk Factor Management)
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
  • Other Areas: Sleep and Cognition

Daniel Beavers
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence
  • Biomarkers: Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Home Environment
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis
  • Other Areas: Statistical Approaches (i.e., Bayesian Methods), Methods for Clinical Trials and Observational Studies, Missing Data, Misclassification

Jane Cauley
University of Pittsburgh
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Independence
  • Lifestyle
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia
  • Other Areas: Sleep

Carolyn Crandall
University of California - Los Angeles
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy
  • Musculoskeletal: Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis

Macarius Donneyong
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
  • Other Areas: Pharmacoepidemiology, Comparative Effectiveness, Health Services Research

Charles Eaton
Brown University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking, Sleep
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Mark Espeland
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Statistics

Gerardo Heiss
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity
  • Study Methods: Longitudinal Analysis, Observational Studies
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity

Barbara Howard
MedStar Research Institute and Georgetown University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Rebecca Jackson
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence
  • Biomarkers: Genomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Nutrition
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia
  • Other Areas: Substance Use Disorders

Karen Johnson
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials

Charles Kooperberg
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Study Methods: Statistical Genetics
  • Other Areas: High-Dimensional Statistical Methods

Mike LaMonte
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Physical Function, Lifestyle Composite Scores
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Periodontal Disease, Microbiome

Marian Limacher
University of Florida College of Medicine
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack

Simin Liu
Brown University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Polypharmacy
  • Biomarkers: Discovery Methodologies, Early Detection, Epigenomics, Genomics, Hormone, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cancer: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Diabetes
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Rural/Urban, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Heavy Metals
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Juhua Luo
Indiana University
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Pancreatic, Prevention, Survivorship
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Depression, Optimism/Pessimism, Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation, Stress
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

JoAnn Manson
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology / Risk Prediction, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Lisa Martin
George Washington University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Amy Millen
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Other Areas: Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, etc.

Michelle Naughton
The Ohio State University
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation
  • Other Areas: Quality of Life/Patient-Reported Outcomes, Sleep, Urinary Incontinence Measurement

Marian Neuhouser
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids, Metabolomics, Nutrition
  • Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Survivorship
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Judith Ockene
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity
  • Lifestyle
  • Mental/Psychosocial
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Ross Prentice
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Meta-Analysis, Pooling and Dietary Pattern Analysis, Survival Analysis

Alex Reiner
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Genomics, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Proteomics
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics

Tom Rohan
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Lifestyle: Smoking
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Gloria Sarto
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/ Ethnicity

Michael Simon
Wayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Center
Sponsors writing proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Breast, Clinical Medicine/Oncology, Clinical Cancer Genetics, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity

Beverly Snively
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Cognitive Function/Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, Psychosocial Comorbidities in Neurological Diseases
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: Biostatistics, Genetics, Disease Screening, Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Maternal Vaccination

Lesley Tinker
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Biomarkers: Lipids, Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Hypertension, Prevention
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Other Areas: WHI in General

Mara Vitolins
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cancer: Prevention, Survivorship
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Jean Wactawski-Wende
University at Buffalo
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience
  • Biomarkers: Early Detection, Genomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Metabolomics
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship
  • Diabetes
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
  • Gynecologic Health: Hysterectomy/Oophorectomy, Menopausal Hormone Therapy, Oral Contraceptives, Pregnancy
  • Health Disparities/Health Equity
  • Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Smoking
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
  • Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Survival Analysis
  • Other Areas: Oral Health, Microbiome

Robert Wallace
University of Iowa
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence, Polypharmacy
  • Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Smoking
  • Mental/Psychosocial: Anxiety, Cognitive Function/Dementia, Depression, Social Determinants, Stress
  • Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sarcopenia
  • Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition

Eric Whitsel
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sponsors writing and study proposals
Mentorship Areas
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction
  • Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Noise Pollution, Rural/Urban
  • Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics