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UNC TREND Joint Leadership


Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, UNC-Chapel Hill


Tope Keku, PhD
Professor, Gastroenterology, UNC-Chapel Hill


Andrew Olshan, PhD
Barbara S. Hulka Distinguished Professor, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Project 1 and Carolina Endometrial Cancer Study Leaders

Andrew Olshan, PhD
Barbara S. Hulka Distinguished Professor, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Hazel Nichols, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, PhD, MSc, Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Russell Broaddus, MD, PhD
Joe W. & Evelyn M. Grisham Distinguished Professor, Pathology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Jason Merker, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Genetics, UNC-Chapel Hill

Project 2 Leaders


Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, UNC-Chapel Hill


Tope Keku, PhD
Professor, Gastroenterology, UNC-Chapel Hill


Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD 
Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Bernard Weissman, PhD
Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Pediatrics, UNC-Chapel Hill

All UNC TREND Collaborators

Gynecologic Oncology

  • Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
  • Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD
  • Sarah Paraghamian, MD
  • Gabrielle Hawkins, MD
  • Lindsey Buckingham, MD
  • Jillian O’Donnell, MD
  • Caroline Cochrane, MD
  • Chunxiao Zhou, MD PhD
  • Kemi Doll, MD, MCSR, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Gastroenterology

  • Tope Keku, PhD

Epidemiology

  • Andrew Olshan, PhD
  • Hazel Nichols, PhD
  • Whitney Robinson, PhD

Health Policy and Management

  • Lisa Spees, PhD
  • Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH

Pathology

  • Russell Broaddus, MD, PhD
  • Jason Merker, MD, PhD
  • Bernard Weissman, PhD
  • Cyrus Vaziri, PhD
  • Andrew Gladden, PhD
  • Jessica Bowser, PhD
  • Sherette Godfrey, PhD

Genetics

  • Joel Parker, PhD
  • Sushant Patil, PhD
  • Franco Hector, PhD
  • Jonathan Berg, MD
  • Julianne O’Daniel, MS, CGC

Nursing

  • Victoria Petermann

Nutrition

  • Stephen Hursting, PhD
  • Kristina Camp, PhD

Pharmacy

  • Bill Zamboni, PhD
  • Lee Graves, PhD
  • Aaron Anselmo, PhD
  • Megan Roberts, PhD

Radiation Oncology

  • Ashley Weiner, MD

Radiology

  • Sarah Nyante, PhD
  • Jorge Oldan, MD
  • Kristen Olinger, MD

Biomedical Engineering

  • Imran Rizvi, PhD
  • Brittany Rickard

Biostatistics

  • Xianming Tan, PhD

Exercise and Sports Medicine

  • Abbie Smith-Ryan, PhD

Infectious Disease

  • Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH

GI Surgery

  • Jose Guillem, MD, MPH, MBA