Principal Investigators
Susan Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH
Dr. Vadaparampil serves as MPI of the ECHO Training Program. In this role, she shares responsibility with Dr. Quinn to provide administrative and scientific leadership as well as oversee the overall management of the training program.
Associate Center Director of Community Outreach & Engagement
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Senior Member, Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Division of Population Science
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Professor, Morsani College of Medicine
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
BS, Health Science Education
MHSE, Public Health Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
PhD, Health Behavior
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
MPH, Epidemiology
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Prevention
Dr. Susan Vadaparampil is Senior Member and Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior at Moffitt Cancer Center. Her work is influenced by transdisciplinary collaboration and contributes to both scientific literature and clinical practice. Her research program focuses on breast and cervical cancer prevention/early detection with a focus on risk assessment and screening, reproductive health among adolescent and young adult patients, and diversity in clinical trials.
Dr. Vadaparampil was appointed as Moffitt’s inaugural Associate Center Director for Community Outreach and Engagement in 2018. She has been recognized for her outstanding scientific contributions and leadership through her appointments from 2020-2024 as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the ACS National Roundtable on Cervical Cancer in 2023. Dr. Vadaparampil seeks to accelerate advances in cancer prevention and control through research, education, and outreach, to impact the health of communities served by Moffitt and beyond.
Gwendolyn P. Quinn, PhD, MS
Dr. Quinn serves as MPI of the ECHO Training Program. In this role, she shares responsibility with Dr. Vadaparampil to provide administrative and scientific leadership as well as oversee the overall management of the training program.
Livia Wan Endowed Chair and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
New York University, New York, NY
Professor, Department of Population and Health Division of Medical Ethics
Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University, New York, NY
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
BS, Child Development/Family Relations
PhD, Educational Psychology/Health Psychology
MS, Educational Psychology
Cert, Program Evaluation
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Cert, Biomedical Ethics
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Public Health
Dr. Gwendolyn Quinn (she/her) is the Livia S. Wan MD Endowed Tenured Professor in the Departments of OB/GYN and Population Health, the section of Medical Ethics, and the Perlmutter Cancer Center at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as well as a Fellow in the American Association of Cancer Education. She is a chair of the NYU IRB Board and editor in chief of the journal Gynecologic Surgery and on the editorial boards of the journals Fertility and Sterility, Human Reproduction, Cancer Survivorship, and Reproductive Medicine.
As a behavioral scientist and bioethicist, Dr. Quinn’s research focuses on patient-clinician communication, primarily in reproductive health and cancer in adolescent and young adults, genetic technologies, clinical trials, and access to care. Her current research and training efforts focus on reproductive health and ethics; fertility preservation; quality of life issues in pediatric, adolescent & young adults; cancer clinical trials (including barriers to participation); and training researchers to conduct research with high-risk populations. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, The American Cancer Society, Pfizer Education Foundation, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The V Foundation, and LiveStrong. She is also the PI of an ACS consortium grant to improve transition to primary care for cancer survivors, and serves as a co-investigator on several external grants that focus on hereditary cancer genetics, decision tools for fertility preservation, ethics of telehealth, social determinants of health, and rapid issue donation among patients with late-stage cancer for biobanking research. She is the author of over 450 scientific papers and book chapters.
ECHO's Expert Panel
Jennifer Levine, MD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Medical Director of Survivorship and Supportive Care Services, Division of Oncology
Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC
Associate Professor for Clinical Pediatrics
George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington DC
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
BA, Psychology
Hunter College, New York, NY
MSW, Social Work
Columbia University, New York, NY
MD, Medicine
Columbia University, New York, NY
MSc, Biostatistics, Patient Oriented Research
Dr. Levine is a board-certified pediatric hematologist-oncologist with a goal of curing cancer, one child at a time. In addition to supportive care, she specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents with leukemia. Dr. Levine has a special interest in the effects of chemotherapy on fertility, with a research focus on identifying patients most at risk of impaired fertility so they can be offered fertility-preserving approaches. She also directs a team that provides long-term follow-up care for survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers. For those who may not survive, she works to enhance the delivery of palliative care and to improve end-of-life services for patients.
Brad Zebrack, PhD, MSW, MPH
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Professor
University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI
Member
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
BA, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley, CA
MPH, Community Health Education
MSW
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
PhD, Social Work and Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pediatrics
Dr. Brad Zebrack is a Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and a member of the Health Behavior and Outcomes Research program at the Rogel Cancer Center. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of health, medicine, cancer survivorship and quality of life. He is particularly interested in the effects of cancer on human growth and the development of adolescents and young adults. His research has been funded over the past 25 years by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Livestrong, and Hope Lab Foundation. Dr. Zebrack has clinical social work experience in both pediatric and adult oncology and currently serves on the medical advisory boards of several cancer support programs, including Triage Cancer, the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, First Descents, and the Cancer Support Community of Southeast Michigan.
James Klosky, PhD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Attending Psychologist
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of Research
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Fertility Preservation Team
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
BA, Psychology
MS, Clinical Psychology
PhD, Pediatric Psychology
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Internship, Pediatric Psychology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Fellowship, Pediatric Psychology
Dr. James Klosky is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is also an Attending Psychologist within the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and serves as the psychologist on CHOA’s Fertility Preservation team. Dr. Klosky’s professional activities have broadly centered on behavior-based cancer prevention and control among survivors of childhood cancer, and his extramurally-funded research program has focused in the areas of fertility preservation, risky sexual behavior, and HPV vaccination. As the Founder and Co-Director of the Fertility Preservation Clinic at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Dr. Klosky has 20+ years of experience providing clinical care to pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients, and actively works on committees to develop national and international guidelines for fertility preservation among at-risk youth.
Kristen Wells, PhD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Professor, Department of Psychology
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
BA, Psychology
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
MPH, Behavioral Sciences
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
PhD, Clinical Psychology
Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Wells is a Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Sciences at San Diego State University, Director of the Cancer Disparities and Cancer Communication Lab, and Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Director of HealthLINK Center, working to advance minority health and health disparities research among racially/ethnically diverse, sexual and gender minority, and lower-income populations through a community-engaged transdisciplinary research approach. Her research focuses on evaluating the quality of healthcare delivered to underserved populations, with a focus on patient navigation and cancer communication.
Dr. Wells is an internationally recognized expert in patient navigation. She has developed, implemented, and tested patient navigation interventions to improve care related to cancer (1R21CA161077; R21CA167418; R01CA236034), HIV prevention (R34MH114699), suicide prevention (R61MH120236), and COVID-19 vaccination (1OT2HL156812-01). She also co-leads a project (R01CA239246) to develop a system to capture multi-dimensional complexities of endocrine therapy medication adherence among breast cancer survivors. This system uses data from mobile sensing technologies to understand medication-taking behaviors, predict individual risk factors, and deliver interventions to improve adherence that are needed by the individual at the optimal time, place, and in the optimal context.
Brooke Cherven, PhD, MPH, RN
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Nurse Scientist
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
BSN, Nursing
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
MPH, Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
PhD, Nursing
Dr. Cherven is a pediatric oncology nurse with expertise in adolescent and young adult cancer survivorship and fertility preservation. She has over 18 years of clinical experience working within the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where she helped develop the center’s pediatric Fertility Preservation Program. Dr. Cherven’s research focuses on reproductive and sexual health among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Children’s Oncology Group Nursing Discipline. She has over 25 peer-reviewed publications in the field of adolescent and young adult oncology, survivorship, and reproductive health. She is a member of the Oncofertility Consortium Pediatric Initiative Network and the Vice Chair for the Children’s Oncology Group Adolescent and Young Adult Discipline Sexual Health Task Force.
Natasha Frederick, MD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Director, Comprehensive Fertility and Sexual Health Program
Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
BA, Biology
Pace University, New York, NY
MST, Adolescent Education
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
MPH, Family and Community Health
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
MD
Brown University, Providence, RI
Residency, Pediatrics
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s, Boston, MA
Fellowship, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Boston Children’s, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Fellowship, Medical Humanism and Professionalism
Dr. Frederick (she/her) is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at the Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where she is also the director of the Comprehensive Fertility and Sexual Health Program. She is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Her clinical work focuses on the care of adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer. She is also a founding member of the Sexual Health Task Force within the Adolescent and Young Adult Discipline Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group, of which she currently serves as chair. Her research interests focus on improving communication between oncology clinicians and AYA oncology patients on sexual and reproductive health issues during and after cancer therapy.
Leena Nahata, MD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Associate Division Chief of Research, Endocrinology
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Principal Investigator, Center for Biobehavioral Health
Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Columbus, OH
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
BS, Psychology
MD
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Internship and Residency, Pediatrics
Boston Children’s, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Clinical and Research Fellowship, Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Nahata is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and founding medical director of the Fertility and Reproductive Health Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. As an NIH-funded Principal Investigator in the Center for Biobehavioral Health at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute, she leads and collaborates on several clinical research studies focused on improving reproductive and psychosocial outcomes in pediatric populations at risk for infertility such as cancer and sickle cell disease. She contributes to evidence-based fertility guidelines through multiple national and international organizations and is the author of over 150 scientific papers and book chapters.
Sharon Bober, PhD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Institute Psychologist and Founding Director of the DFCI Sexual Health Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
BA, Psychology/Philosophy
Clark University, Worcester, MA
MA and PhD, Clinical Psychology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Boston, MA
Advanced Mental Health Fellowship
Dr. Bober is a behavioral health researcher and clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School and the Founding Director of the DFCI Sexual Health Program. She is also past Chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer, an interdisciplinary network of researchers and clinicians working to promote sexual well-being in women affected by cancer. Dr Bober’s clinical research primarily focuses on sexual health, quality of life, and cancer survivorship. She has been a pioneer in developing brief sexual health interventions for women after cancer as well as interventions for women at high risk for cancer who undergo risk-reducing surgery at a young age. Dr. Bober has also conducted multiple studies illuminating barriers to addressing sexual health within a variety of health care settings. In addition, Dr. Bober has served on several national and international guideline committees to establish evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for addressing sexual health after cancer. Her research has been funded by the NIH and multiple other foundations. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.
Joyce Reinecke, JD
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Executive Director
Alliance for Fertility Preservation
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
BA, English and Comparative Literary Studies
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
JD, Law
Ms. Reinecke is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Fertility Preservation, and was previously a fertility advisor for Livestrong (a.k.a. the Lance Armstrong Foundation) and a co-founder of Fertile Hope. She is also a member of the Oncofertility Consortium. Ms. Reinecke is the co-author of 100 Questions & Answers About Cancer and Fertility as well as several articles on cancer & fertility. She has also given countless presentations to varied audiences across the country, and collaborates with leading professional and patient organizations to promote dialogue and policy change.
H. Irene Su, MD, MSCE
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Innovations, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Director, Moores Cancer Center Leadership Academy
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
BS, Biological Sciences
AB, East Asian Studies
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
MSCE, Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology
Internship and Residency
Fellowship
H. Irene Su, MD MSCE is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Su, physician scientist, and her team conduct patient-oriented research on reproductive health in young cancer survivors, focused on estimating reproductive risks after cancer, delivery of evidence-based practices, and improving equity in reproductive health care delivery. Most recently, her group’s work on fertility preservation benefit mandates focuses on policy design, downstream implementation, and patient outcomes.
Nina Francis-Levin, PhD, MSW
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Lecturer, Health Sciences Scholars Program
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Ann Arbor, MI
Faculty Research Associate, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Research (AYA CARES)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Joint PhD, Social Work and Anthropology
MSW
BA, Comparative Literature
Dr. Nina Francis-Levin is a Lecturer in the Health Sciences Scholar Program and a Faculty Research Associate in the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Research Group (AYA CARES) at the University of Michigan. Recently, she completed her National Institutes of Health-sponsored T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes at Michigan Medicine, and formerly completed her National Cancer Institutes-sponsored T32 Predoctoral Fellowship in the Rogel Cancer Center. Her interdisciplinary research program is invested in improving psychosocial outcomes among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, with a focus on behavioral health interventions that target fertility preservation uptake and use of assisted reproductive technology for family building after cancer. As an early career scientist, she contributes expertise in supportive care delivery as it pertains to the unique experiences of underrepresented adolescent and young adult populations.
Kyle Stimpert, MSN, RN, ACNP
ECHO Training Expert Panel Member
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
US Department of Veterans Affairs and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH
Ohio University, Columbus, OH
BA, Psychology
Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Certificate: DNP Pre-Licensure Program
Kent State University, Kent, OH
MSN, Acute Care
Kyle Stimpert, MSN, RN, ACNP is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner working in the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She has previous experience as a research assistant and coordinator in clinical trials studying neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, and stroke, and currently specializes in caring for patients with oncologic, benign, and malignant hematologic conditions. A prior ECHO-TORCH learner, Kyle brings both a faculty and student background to her role as a panel member, and lends clinical expertise to the training curriculum.
ECHO Program Coordinators
Joon Kim, MPH
Joon is the Lead Research Coordinator of the ECHO-TORCH program. She is based in NYU Langone Health's OB/GYN department.