Coordinating Committee

The CHTN is organized into five adult divisions and one pediatric division. Representatives from NCI and a CHTN Coordinating Committee consisting of the principal investigators (PI) and coordinators from each division make up the governing body of the CHTN. The CHTN Coordinating Committee develops and approves the operational plans for the CHTN and each institutional PI and coordinator implements the plans for their division. The CHTN Coordinating Committee focuses on developing its processes and procedures to serve investigators in a uniform fashion, such as a uniform application, user agreement, and data agreement forms, and protocols to manage the investigator requests. The CHTN divisions interact to serve investigators with tissues of interest either independently or as a group depending on the scope and difficulty of the request(s).

Coordinating Committee Members
Yaffa Rubinstein, Ph.D.
NCI Cancer Diagnosis Program
E-mail: rubinsty@mail.nih.gov
Ms. Kerry Wiles
Western Division
Vanderbilt University
E-mail: kerry.wiles@vanderbilt.edu
Ms. Laura Monovich
Pediatric Division
Nationwide Children's Hospital
E-mail: Laura.Monovich@nationwidechildrens.org
Dr. Nilsa Ramirez
Pediatric Division
Nationwide Children's Hospital
E-mail: Nilsa.Ramirez@nationwidechildrens.org
Ms. Kelly Feil
Eastern Division
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
E-mail: feil@mail.med.upenn.edu
Dr. Scott Jewell, Ph.D.
Midwestern Division
The Ohio State University Medical Center
E-mail: scott.jewell@osumc.edu
Dr. William E. Grizzle
Southern Division
University of Alabama at Birmingham
E-mail: grizzle@path.uab.edu
Ms. Katherine C. Sexton
Southern Division
University of Alabama at Birmingham
E-mail: sexton@uab.edu
Mr. Craig Rumpel
Mid-Atlantic Division
University of Virginia
E-mail: crumpel@virginia.edu
Dr. Wendy Frankel
Midwestern Division
The Ohio State University
E-mail: wendy.frankel@osumc.edu
Dr. Virginia A. LiVolsi
Eastern Division
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
E-mail: linus@mail.med.upenn.edu
Dr. Mary Kay Washington
Western Division
Vanderbilt University
E-mail: kay.Washington@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Christopher A. Moskaluk
Mid-Atlantic Division
University of Virginia
E-mail: cam5p@virginia.edu

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