Roy S. Weiner, M.D. - Dr. Roy Weiner is the Schlieder Professor of Medical Oncology and Director of the Tulane Cancer Center and also serves as Director of the CRCA Program. Dr. Weiner trained at the NCI, at the Institut for Cancerologie et d'Immunogenetique in Villejuif under Prof. George Mathe, and at Harvard. His laboratory research focused on stem cell physiology and cryobiology of lymphoid populations. He has enormous experience in designing and executing small translational clinical trials, large prospective randomized therapeutic trials, and the analysis of large registry databases. He has directed cancer activities as PI of the NCI-funded Cancer Center Planning Grant at the University of Florida. During his tenure as Program Director at the University of Florida, he was responsible for the training of 29 medical oncologists, 14 of whom currently hold full-time academic positions on the faculty of major medical schools. He was also the laboratory preceptor for eight trainees who are now full-time academicians and have independent research programs. He has served the NIH as Chairman of the Clinical Sciences Study Section (NRSA), and was a member of the Clinical Program Project Study Section and the CCIRC.

L. Lee Hamm, M.D. serves as Associate Project Director for the CRCA Program. Dr. Hamm is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Section of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the recently established Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence. He is an established, productive scientist who is involved in both basic investigation and clinical studies. He has been funded by the NIH for many years, and also by the VA and the American Heart Association. He has received many awards for his work including a Merit Award from the NIH, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He currently belongs to the Nephrology Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine. As listed elsewhere, he has published widely and has trained many academic physicians, several with ongoing NIH support.

Larry Webber, Ph.D. - Dr. Webber is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, TSPHTM. He has over 25 years of experience in medical and epidemiological research. He received a doctorate in Biometry from Yale University. Since 1987 he has been the Principal Investigator for the Louisiana site for the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health, (CATCH) an NIH-sponsored multi-site clinical trial to promote healthy behaviors in elementary school children. He is a member of the CATCH National Steering Committee and chairs the CATCH Measurement Committee. Dr. Webber is the principal author or co-author of over 160 publications in scientific journals, 2 books, and several book chapters. In 1999, he was appointed as a permanent member of the Epidemiology and Disease Control-1 (EDC-1) Study Section. The total funding to Dr. Webber is over $3.2 million.

Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D. will serve as a member of the Core Faculty and “host” for the CRCA Program’s MPH in Clinical Research. Dr. He is Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. He has extensive experience in NIH-sponsored clinical and population-based research. Currently, his NIH research funding is approximately 3 million dollars per year. He also has extensive experience in training physician scientists. He has trained 7 MD/PhD or MD/MPH researchers and currently advises 8 physician trainees.

John J. Lefante, Jr., Ph.D. - Dr. Lefante is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, TSPHTM. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Alabama. Dr. Lefante has 19 years of experience teaching a variety of applied statistics courses, including Introductory Biostatistics, Intermediate Biostatistics, Regression Analyses, and Sampling. He has twice been the recipient of the TSPHTM Excellence in Teaching Award, and a recipient of the Department of Health Systems Management Masters of Medical Management Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Lefante's research interests focus on statistical analyses and environmental and occupational health effects data, including statistical methodology for study design, sample size and power calculations, especially for longitudinal data.

Marie Krousel-Wood, M.D., M.S.P.H. - Dr. Krousel-Wood received her M.D. degree from Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans and an MSPH degree from the TSPHTM. She is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the TSPHTM and is the Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program. She also co-directs the combined Preventive Medicine/Internal Medicine Program at Tulane University Medical Center. The combined Preventive Medicine/Internal Medicine Program is a unique program designed to train residents for careers in academic, administrative and/or clinical preventive medicine/public health. The Preventive Medicine Residency Program is a 2-year accredited program designed to lead to certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She is funded by several grants in clinical research including being the PI of a grant from the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research (studies in hypertension) and PI for a Center for Disease Control and Prevention grant (medical genetics test reporting). Dr. Krousel-Wood also directs the combined MD/MPH Program at Tulane which offers a four-year program resulting in the awarding of both degrees.

Juan Lertora, M.D., Ph.D. - Dr. Lertora received his M.D. degree from the National University of the Northeast, Faculty of Medicine, Corrientes, Argentina and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Tulane University. He is a Professor of Medicine and Chief, Section of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-sponsored Tulane-LSU Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and Program Director of the NIH-sponsored Tulane/LSU GCRC. Dr. Lertora has trained several fellows in Clinical Pharmacology and also provided mentorship for fellows in infectious diseases conducting special projects. Total funding to Dr. Lertora is approximately $3 million.

William C. Steinmann, M.D., M.Sc. - Dr. Steinmann received his M.D. degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and a M.Sc. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. Prior to coming to Tulane he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine and holds the Jack R. Aron Chair in Primary Care. He is the Director of the Tulane Center for Clinical Effectiveness and Prevention.

Barbara Beckman, Ph.D. - Dr. Beckman received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1978. She is currently Professor of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine. Her research interests include: Cellular/molecular pharmacology; signal transduction, hematopoietic growth factors, and cancer.