The Committee for Health Equity and Community Outreach & Engagement (CHECOE) meets monthly to identify the cancer problems and disparities affecting western Pennsylvanians and to develop, implement, and monitor progress on research and implementation efforts aimed at amelioration.
Committee Members
| Monica Baskin, PhD (Chair) | Deputy Director, Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, and Associate Director for Health Equity, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Community Health Equity, Health Sciences, and Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| Katie Schmitz (Co-Chair) | Associate Director, Catchment Area Research, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Visiting Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
| Todd Bear | Director, Population Survey Facility (Developing Shared Resource), UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
| Dana H. Bovbjerg, PhD | Co-Leader, Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Behavioral, of Community Health Sciences, and of Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
| Kathryn Demanelis, PhD | Member, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
| Steven Evans, MD | Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD | Director, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Hillman Professor of Oncology, Professor of Otolaryngology, of Immunology, and of Radiation Oncology, and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Cancer Research, University of Pittsburgh |
| Jeremy Rich, MD, MHS, MBA | Deputy Director, Research, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Lindsay M. Sabik, PhD | Member, Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health; Director, Workgroup on Cancer Health Services Research, University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute |
| Laura A. Stabile, PhD | Member, Cancer Biology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Meghan Tipre, DrPH | Member, Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Instructor, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
| Jian-Min Yuan, MD, PhD | Associate Director, Cancer Control and Population Sciences, and Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; Professor of Epidemiology, Arnold Palmer Endowed Chair in Cancer Prevention, University of Pittsburgh |
