The central mission of the Penn TREC Survivor Center is to advance science on energetics and cancer survivorship, toward the goal of improving both the length and quality of cancer survivorship.

Penn TREC Personnel

Principal Investigator

Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, FACSM
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives
Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Abramson Cancer Center
schmitz@mail.med.upenn.edu

Venetia Lambert, Administrative Coordinator

Investigators

Rexford Ahima, MD, PhD

Lewis Chodosh, MD, PhD

Angela DeMichele, MD, MSCE

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

Dan Heitjan, PhD

Linda Jacobs, PhD, RN

Joseph Libonati, PhD

Sandra Ryeom, PhD

David Sarwer, PhD

J. Sanford Schwartz, MD

Carrie Stricker, PhD, RN

Andrea Troxel, ScD

 

Project Managers and Staff

Project 1: 

 

Project 2:

Lorraine ‘Lori’ Dean, ScD – Project Manager, Instructor

Justin Brown, MA, CSCS – Exercise Interventionist

Renata Alford, MS.Ed. – Recruitment Coordinator

Zi ‘Jill’ Zhang, M.D. – Measurement Coordinator

Margaret Evangelisti, M.Ed. – Measurement Assistant

 

Project 3:

J. Sanford Schwartz, MD

Andrea Cheville, MD, MSCE
Co-Investigator, Lymphedema and Rehabilitation Physician

Lorraine ‘Lori’ Dean, ScD
Project Manager/Instructor, WISER Survivor
 

Trainees

Justin Brown, MA, CSCS
PhD Student, Division of Clinical Epidemiology

Ashley Ford, MD
Fellow, Oncology

Anagha Kumar
PhD Student, Biostatistics Core for Project II (WISER Survivor)

Shannon Lynch, MPH
PhD Student, Manager of the I CAN study

Jonathan Mitchell, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (F32), Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Kathleen Sturgeon, PhD
Postdoc focusing on CVD and cardiotoxicity in cancer survivors