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None of the following persons on the TobPRAC research team in any capacity has a known conflict of interest with the stated missions of TobPRAC or the National Cancer Institute. None of the individuals is, or has been, remunerated in any form by a tobacco company, a cigarette manufacturer, an organization promoting tobacco or any product containing tobacco or tobacco carcinogens.


              
  • Peter G. Shields, MD, Principal Investigator
    Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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  • Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
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  • Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Site-Principal Investigator
    Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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  • Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH, Site-Principal Investigator
    Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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  • Richard Higby, PhD, Site-Principal Investigator
    Arista Laboratories, Richmond VA
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  • Stephen Hecht, PhD, Site-Principal Investigator
    University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Michael Tacelosky, Site-Principal Investigator
    tobacco.org, Washington, DC
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  • Richard J. O'Connor, PhD, Investigator
    Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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  • Jeanine M.Genkinger, PhD, MHS, Investigator
    Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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  • Vaughan Rees, PhD, Investigator
    Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA
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  • Catalin Marian, MD, PhD, Scientific Program Manager
    TobPRAC NCI Contract, and Research Instructor, Georgetown University

Tobacco Expert Consulting Committee
              
  • Mitchell Zeller, JD - Chair, Tobacco Expert Consulting Committee
    Vice President for Policy and Strategic Communications
    Pinney Associates
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  • David Liddell Ashley, PhD, Chief
    Emergency Response and Air Toxicants Branch
    National Center for Environmental Health
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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  • Harvey J. Clewell III, PhD, DABT
    Director, Center for Human Health Assessment
    The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
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  • Thomas Evan Eissenberg, PhD, Associate Professor
    Dept. of Psychology and Institute of Drug and Alcohol Studies
    Virginia Commonwealth University
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  • William A. Farone, PhD
    Applied Power Concepts, Inc.
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  • Curtis C. Harris M.D., Chief
    Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis
    National Cancer Institute
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  • Murray Kaiserman, PhD, Director
    Office of Research, Surveillance and Evaluation Tobacco Control Program
    Health Canada
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  • Scott J. Leischow, PhD, Associate Director Behavioral and Social Science
    Research, The University of Arizona
    Arizona Cancer Center
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  • Ellen Peters, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
    Decision Research
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  • Jonathon Samet, MD, MS
    Professor and Chair, Department of Preventative Medicine
    Director, USC Institute for Global Health, Keck School of Medicine
    USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
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  • Maxine Stitzer, Ph.D.
    Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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  • Rita Schoeny, PhD, Senior Science Advisor
    Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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  • Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD, Ashbel Smith Professor of Epidemiology
    Department of Epidemiology
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
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  • Steven Belinsky, PhD, Director
    Lung Cancer Program
    Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute