Administrative Core
The NACP provides a unique and valuable opportunity for collaboration with investigators and the Native American communities to address their health concerns related to cancer as well as provides advanced training programs for Native American students entering undergraduate and graduate research.
Through the NCI U54 grant, the NACP Administration Core recruits and supports additional early-stage Native American investigators focused on cancer research.
Programs are designed to advance Native Americans students into biomedical research. Research projects include laboratory and community-based participatory cancer research focusing on the needs and interests of the communities we serve.
All programs involving communities originate in those communities and are developed and implemented in partnership with NACP students and faculty.
Program aims
- Build on NACP’s positive Native American-focused research trajectory to conduct research that addresses Native American community priorities and cancer disparities (Planning and Evaluation Core).
- Leverage this NCI U54 grant with institutional support to recruit and support additional early-stage Native American investigators focused on cancer research (Administrative Core).
- Expand on NACP’s successes in workforce development by implementing a new shared resource, providing services and enhanced mentoring to facilitate the transition of early stage investigators to research independence (Guiding U54 Investigator Development to Sustainability Shared Resource).
- Broaden the exemplary cancer research education activities for Native American students by providing new undergraduate curriculum in cancer disparities, enhanced undergraduate to graduate transitional opportunities, and mentored graduate and post graduate level experiential research opportunities including guidance in developing and submitting National Cancer Institute Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) applications (Research Education Core).
- Continue building on the trust NACP has established with the Native American community partners by integrating community engagement principles into all NACP activities, providing more in-depth cultural competency training pertinent to the design and conduct of research, and facilitating the dissemination of the Partnership’s research findings and the National Outreach Network’s screening and education initiatives to Native American communities (Outreach Core).
NACP Advisory Committee members
Paloma Beamer, PhD, Professor, Public Health
Nathan Ellis, PhD, Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Levi Esquerra (Chemehuevi), Senior Vice President for Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement
Francisco Moreno, MD, Associate Vice President, Diversity, and Inclusion; Professor of Psychiatry
Monica Yellowhair, PhD (Navajo), UACC COE Interim Director
Maria Lluria-Prevatt, PhD, Research Administrator/NACP Partnership Manager (non-voting)
Manley Begay, PhD, (Navajo), Chair, Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies
Ann Marie Chischilly, JD (Navajo), VP for the Office of Native American Initiatives
Andy Koppisch, PhD, Interim Associate VP, Office of the Vice President for Research
Gabriel Montano, PhD, Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science
Samantha Sabo, DrPH, Associate Professor, Health Sciences & Center for Health Equity Research
Maria E. Jackson, MS (Navajo), NACP Partnership Manager (non-voting)
Shiraz Mishra, PhD (Chair), Professor of Pediatrics &Family & Community Medicine, University of New Mexico
Raymond Bergan, MD (Co-chair), Deputy Director, Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center, Professor, Division of Oncology & Hematology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Thomas Becker, MD, Professor and Chair, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Linda Burhansstipanov, DrPH, MSPH (Cherokee), Founder, Native American Cancer Research Corporation; President, Native American Cancer Initiatives
Dorothy Rhoades, MD, MPH (Kiowa), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Stephenson Cancer Center
Isabel Scarinci, PhD, Professor and Associate Director for Faculty Development & Education, University of Alabama
LeeAnn Bailey, MD, PhD, CPACHE Program Director (non-voting)
Maria Jamela Revilleza, PhD, MS, CPACHE Program Director (non-voting)
Miguel Flores Jr. (Tohono O’odham), Chair, Holistic Wellness Counselor and Consultant
Shannon Williams (Navajo)- Vice Chair, Program Specialist, Centene Corporation (Opioid response with healthcare providers in northern AZ)
Joachim David Chino, MD (Pueblo), Deputy Chief of Surgery, Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
Katrina Claw (Navajo), Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Ann Garcia (Tohono O’odham), Cancer Prevention Coordinator for Tohono O’odham Nation Health Care
LuAnn Leonard (Hopi), Executive Director, Hopi Education Endowment Fund
Bess Tsosie (Navajo), Navajo Nation, Mariano Lake Chapter
David Tsosie (Navajo), Azee’ Bee Nahagha of Diné (Navajo) Nation