SISOMB2012att3consults

ATTACHMENT 3: Sister Study Consultation and Review Record

The Sister Study
Internal and External Consultation, Formal Reviews, and Advisory Groups
The Sister Study began development in October 1997. The study concept, drafts of the protocol, and
various components of the study received extensive formal and informal review. Some reviews were
mandated to meet specific administrative milestones; others were designed to better inform the study
design or seek advice on “best practices” for a specific aspect of the proposed work. Most recently, the
study and its progress received an outstanding evaluation by the NIEHS Division of Intramural Research
Board of Scientific Counselors during the review of the Epidemiology Branch in April 2005. Key
milestones in the development and review process are summarized below.
November 1997 — Concept reviewed by Interagency Steering Committee for proposed
NCI/NIEHS/CDC Collaborative Study of Gene-Environment Interaction in the Etiology of Breast
Cancer. Non-NIEHS Steering Committee Members were from CDC, DHHS, NIOSH, and NCI.
1998-1999 — Protocol development and consultation with various experts and consumer groups, e.g.,
National Breast Cancer Coalition and informal focus groups of different racial, ethnic, and economic
backgrounds.
June 1, 1999 — NIEHS Epidemiology Branch Concept Review
1999-2001 — Consultation and external peer review during protocol development from experts at CDC,
USEPA, NCI, NIA, DHHS/OWH, and extramural institutions
February 2001 — Reviewed by NIEHS Board of Scientific Counselors and special ad hoc reviewers
December 2001 — Presented for discussion with NIEHS Breast Cancer Interest Group
May 2002 — Presented for discussion at NIEHS Leadership Retreat with NIEHS upper management and
senior scientists, National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, and invited outside experts.
June 2002 — Epidemiology Branch Protocol Review and Questionnaire Review
August 2002 — Reviewed for Certificate of Confidentiality
October 2002 — Initial review by NIEHS Institutional Review Board Initial Review
October 2002 through July 2003 — Office of Management and Budget Review
November 2002 — Final External Peer Review
January 2003 — Presented for discussion with National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences
Council
January 2003 — Sister Study Minority Recruitment Strategy Meeting with leaders in breast cancer
advocacy for minority populations, and experts in recruitment of minority populations for research.
February and July 2003 — NIEHS Division of Intramural Research Contract Review

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NIEHS Board of Scientific Counselors June 2009
Dr. Jack Keene, BSC Chair
James B. Duke Professor
Duke University
414 Jones Building
PO Box 3020, Research Dr., DUMC
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919/684-5138
Fax: 919/684-8735
E-mail: keene001@mc.duke.edu

Dr. Jeffrey L. Thorne
Professor of Genetics and Statistics
Bioinformatics Research Center
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7566
Raleigh, NC 27695-7566
Phone: 919/515-1946
Fax: 919/515-7315
E-mail: thorne@statgen.ncsu.edu

Dr. Steven A. Belinsky
Director, Lung Cancer Program
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
2425 Ridgecrest Drive, SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-5127
Phone: 505/348-9465
Fax: 505/348-4990
E-mail: sbelinsk@LRRI.org

Ex-Officio BSC Member
Dr. Joan P. Schwartz
Assistant Director
Office of Intramural Research, OD, NIH
Building 1 – Room 152
Bethesda, MD 20892-0151
Phone: 301/496-1248
Fax: 301/402-0027
E-mail: jps@helix.nih.gov

Dr. Samuel M. Cohen
Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
983135 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-3135
Phone: 402/559-6388
Fax: 402/559-9297
E-mail: scohen@unmc.edu
Dr. Jay I. Goodman
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Michigan State University
B-440 Life Sciences Building
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517/353-9346
Fax: 517/353-8915
E-mail: Goodman3@msu.edu
Dr. Andrew H. Liu
Associate Professor, Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
National Jewish Medical & Research Center
1400 Jackson Street (K1023)
Denver, CO 80206
Phone: 303/398-1143 (office/voicemail)
Fax: 303/398-1225
E-mail: liua@njhealth.org
Dr. Thomas A. Louis
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Johns-Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 North Wolfe Street, E3545
Baltimore, MD 21205-2179
Phone: 410/614-7838
Fax: 410/955-0958
E-mail: tlouis@jhsph.edu
Dr. Roberta B. Ness (Effective November 2008)
Dean, The University of Texas School of Public Health
1200 Herman Pressler, Suite W114
Houston, TX 77030
Phn: 713/500-9052
Fax: 713/500-9020
E-mail: Roberta.B.Ness@uth.tmc.edu

Ad Hoc Reviewers
Dr. Amy Borenstein
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
College of Public Health, MDC-56
University of South Florida
13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33612-3805
Phone: 813/974-6670
Fax: 813/974-4719
E-mail: aborenst@health.usf.edu
Dr. Phyllis C. Leppert
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Vice Chair, Office of Research Support in the Dept of
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Duke University Medical Center
Baker House, Trent Drive, Room 213
Box 3279
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919/668-0296
Fax: 919/688-0295
E-mail: phyllis.leppert@duke.edu
Dr. Jorn Olsen
Professor and Chair
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health, UCLA
650 Charles E. Young Drive, South
Room 71-264
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: 310/825-3516
Fax: 310/206-6039
E-mail: jo@ucla.edu
Dr. Westley H. Reeves
Professor and Chair
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Box 100221
Gainesville, FL 32610
Phone: 352/273-5340
Fax: 352/392-8483
E-mail: westley.reeves@medicine.ufl.edu

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Dr. David A. Savitz
Charles W. Bluhdorn Professor of Community & Preventive
Medicine
Director, Disease Prevention & Public Health Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
17 E. 102nd Street, West, D3-135
New York, NY 10029-6574
Phone: 212/824-7025
Fax: 212/966-0407
E-mail: david.savitz@mssm.edu
Dr. John E. Vena
University of Georgia Foundation Professor in Public Health
Head, Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
College of Public Health Georgia Cancer Coalition
Distinguished Scholar - University of Georgia
132 A Paul D. Coverdell Center
Athens, GA 30602-7396
Phone: 706/583-8202
Fax: 706/583-0695
E-mail: jvena@uga.edu
Dr. Qingyi Wei
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
1155 Pressler – Unit 1365
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713/745-2481
Fax: 713/563-0999
E-mail: qwei@mdanderson.org

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Sister Study Steering Committee
Advisory to the Sister Study investigators in regular monthly meetings
NIEHS senior staff
Address:

PO Box 12233, MD# A3-05
Research Triangle Park NC 27709

Honglei Chen, Investigator, Epidemiology Branch (919-541-3782)
Lisa DeRoo PhD, Staff Scientist, Epidemiology Branch (919-541-0799)
Jane Hoppin ScD, Staff Scientist, Epidemiology Branch (919-541-7622)
Stephanie London MD DrPH, Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch (919-541-5772)
Jack Taylor MD PhD, Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch (919-541-4631)
SSS senior staff
Address:

1009 Slater Road, Suite 120
Durham NC 27703

Sandra Deming Halverson PhD, Project Director (919-287-4502)

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Sister Study Scientific Advisory Board 2012
Leslie Bernstein, PhD (SIS SAB CHAIR)

Julie R Palmer, ScD (SIS SAB Chair Elect)

City of Hope National Medical Center and
Beckman
Research Institute
Professor and Director, Department of Cancer Etiology,
Division of Population Sciences & Dean of Faculty
Development
1500 E Duarte Road, Bldg 173
Duarte, CA 91010
626‐471‐7316
lbernstein@coh.org

Boston University School of Public Health
Professor and Senior Epidemiologist
Slone Epidemiology Center
1010 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA O2115
617‐734‐6006
jpalmer@bu.edu

Lisa Carey, MD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Medical Director, UNC Breast Center
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
3009 Old Clinic Building, CB 7305
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919‐843‐7719
lisa_carey@med.unc.edu

Michele Forman, PhD MS MSPH
Dell Pediatric Research Institute
Bruton Professor
Department of Nutritional Sciences
1400 Barbara Jordan Boulevard
Austin, TX 78723‐3092
512‐495‐4701
mforman@austin.utexas.edu

Patricia Hartge, ScD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Deputy Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
6120 Executive Boulevard, Rm 8090
Rockville, MD 20852
301‐496‐7887
hartgep@mail.nih.gov

Kirsten Moysich, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Prevention
and Control
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, NY 14263
716‐845‐8004
kirsten.moysich@roswellpark.org

Lisa A Newman, MD MPH FACS
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
Center
Director, Breast Care Center and Professor of Surgery
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734‐936‐8771
Lanewman@umich.edu

Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Cancer Prevention Institute of California
Senior Research Scientist
2001 Center Street, Suite 700
Berkeley, CA 94704
510‐608‐5180
Peggy.Reynolds@CPIC.org

Jeanne Rizzo, RN
Breast Cancer Fund, San Francisco CA
President and CEO
1388 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94109‐5400
415‐346‐8223 x 26
jeanne@breastcancerfund.org

Kent Thomas, BSPH
US Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development
National Exposure Research Laboratory
4930 Page Road, MD E205‐04
Durham, NC 27703
919‐541‐7939
thomas.kent@epa.gov

Melissa Troester, PhD MPH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Epidemiology
135 Dauer Drive, CB 7435
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919‐966‐7408
troester@unc.edu

Sholom Wacholder, PhD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Branch
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
Executive Plaza South, Rm 8046
Rockville, MD 20852
301‐496‐3358
wacholds@mail.nih.gov

Shelia Zahm, ScD
Sheila K Zahm Consulting
5600 Lone Oak Drive
Bethesda, MD 20814
301‐496‐8157

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zahms1@verizon.net

Shumin Zhang, MD ScD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co‐Director of Preventative Medicine
900 Commonwealth Avenue East
Boston, MA O2215
617‐278‐0856
szhang@rics.bwh.harvard.edu