Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute (CPPCI)
The Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute (CPPCI) leverages innovative behavioral science and health communication methodologies to address cancer prevention and control, community outreach and engagement, and improved health outcomes across the entire cancer care continuum.
CPPCI’s Mission
Create a transformational translational research Institute within the Center for Discovery & Innovation that connects science to practice with a tripartite mission focused on cancer prevention and control, improving patient outcomes through improved patient-clinician communication leveraging novel digital and social media outreach tools, and community-engaged participatory research methods.
- Leverage opportunities for community engagement in the greater New Jersey area to improve patient outcomes through cross-cutting cancer prevention and control-focused research;
- Increase the ‘precision’ of cancer prevention and control through tailored interventions as opposed to a ‘one size fits all’ approach;
- Employing innovative quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodology;
- Build a complementary research team at CDI that cross collaborates with the Georgetown Lombardi CPC research team to improve patient outcomes in the New Jersey and District of Columbia catchment areas (and beyond);
- Develop a community advisory board of diverse citizen scientists who represent the communities we serve to advise the CPPCI leadership quarterly on research needs, foci of clinical interest, and broader direction;
- Build a broad and robust extramural funding portfolio, robust extramural funding portfolio; and
- Recruit and retain exceptional, forward-thinking scholars committed to advancing the field of population sciences in cancer prevention and control.
Lisa Carter-Bawa
Director | Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute
Deputy Associate Director | Community Outreach & Engagement
Director | Cancer Community Outreach & Engagement
Professor of Medicine | Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Professor of Oncology | Georgetown University School of Medicine
Associate Editor | Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Ana Vielma
Senior Research Associate
Gia Nealy
Research Associate
Subha Sumaiya Binte Jamal
Clinical Data Coordinator
Alene Mathurin
Clinical Research Coordinator
Nicole Chester
Clinical Research Coordinator
Francis Valenzona
Program Coordinator and Assistant
Abraham Aragones
Manager, Associate Member
Rachel Loia
Research Associate
Heather Derry-Vick
Manager, Associate Member
Amanda Khoudary
Senior Behavioral Research Coordinator
Osairys Billini
Behavioral Research Coordinator
Ilona Fridman
Manager, Associate Member
Maame Duah
Research Assistant
Diya Vemuganti
Research Assistant
Gary Kwok
Manager, Associate Member
Shannon Chueng
Assistant Research Associate
Elissa Faro
Manager, Associate Member
Isabella Sarria
Project Coordinator
Tobacco Quit Center
Isabella Sarria
Project Coordinator
Harpreet Kaur
Research Associate
German Martinez
Research Associate
Hackensack Meridian Health New Jersey Cancer Education & Early Detection Program (NJCEED)
Isabella Sarria
Project Coordinator, CDI
Claudia Pallasa
Research Associate, CDI
Hackensack Meridian Health Child & Adult Asthma Program (CAAP)
Michelle Villanova
Project Coordinator, CDI
Melanie Perez Research
Associate, CDI
Christina Cho, M.D.
Nitin Yerram, M.D.
Antonia Francis Oladipo, M.D.