Sponsoring Investigators

Review the list of WHI Sponsoring Investigators by mentorship areas to identify an investigator with appropriate expertise in your area of interest. Some investigators are currently involved with multiple ancillary studies and/or manuscripts and may be unable to devote time to an additional project. Once you have identified a possible collaborator, consult their institutional profile () for additional information. If that information is missing or not current, try contacting their institution or the WHI Help Desk. Please see the WHI Investigator Categories for guidelines and responsibilities of a Sponsoring PI. For sponsoring investigators, if you would like to be added to the list, please complete the following survey: https://surveyhero.com/c/WHImentor

Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role	Mentorship Areas

Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Garnet Anderson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience Biomarkers: Early Detection Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Ovarian, Prevention, Screening, Survivorship Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Hoda Anton-Culver University of California - Irvine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Precision Medicine Cancer Epidemiology Genetic Epidemiology Disease Prevention Translational Epidemiology
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Themistocles (Tim) Assimes Stanford University School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Epidemiology Cardiovascular Disease Biostatistics Genetics Proteomics Biomarkers
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Christy Avery University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas genomics gene-environment interaction cardiovascular disease metabolomics epidemiology
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Laura Baker Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Multi-domain (Nutrition, Exercise, Cognitive Training, Risk Factor Management) Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity Other Areas: Sleep and Cognition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Jennifer Bea University of Arizona Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas body composition lifestyle interventions biomarkers genetics cancer
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Daniel Beavers Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence Biomarkers: Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Home Environment Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis Other Areas: Statistical Approaches (i.e., Bayesian Methods), Methods for Clinical Trials and Observational Studies, Missing Data, Misclassification
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Cara Carty George Washington University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Environmental health translational health sciences Genetics Biostatistics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Jane Cauley University of Pittsburgh Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Independence Lifestyle Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis, Sarcopenia Other Areas: Sleep
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Zhao Chen University of Arizona Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas body composition osteoporosis prevention sarcopenia biomarker and genetic variations for chronic diseases
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Michele Cote Wayne State University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Genomics Health Disparities and Equity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Carolyn Crandall University of California - Los Angeles Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy Musculoskeletal: Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoperosis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Chongzhi Di Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas biostatistics mobile-health tools biomedical research physical activity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Peggye Dilworth University of North Carolina Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas health disparities Alzheimer’s disease Health Policy Aging
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Macarius Donneyong The Ohio State University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity Other Areas: Pharmacoepidemiology, Comparative Effectiveness, Health Services Research
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Charles Eaton Brown University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking, Sleep Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Mark Espeland Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience Diabetes Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Other Areas: Statistics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Nora Franceschini University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas nephrology cardiovascular disease genetics social/environmental factors
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Lorena Garcia Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Social Determinants of Health Epidemiology Biostatistics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Bernhard Haring Saarland University, Germany Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Preventive Cardiology Hypertension Blood Pressure Ageing, Longevity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Laura Harrington Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular epidemiology Physical Activity Obesity Diabetes Aging & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Kathleen Hayden Wake Forest Univ School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Alzheimers disease Social sciences Health policy Gerontology
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Barbara Howard MedStar Research Institute and Georgetown University Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet Diabetes Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Karen Johnson University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Study Methods: Clinical Trials
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Charles Kooperberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics Study Methods: Statistical Genetics Other Areas: High-Dimensional Statistical Methods
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Andrea LaCroix University of California, San Diego Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence Biomarkers: Epigenomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory Cytokines, Lipids Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Screening, Survivorship Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy, Sexual Dysfunction Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Smoking Musculoskeletal: Bone Health / Fractures, Osteopenia / Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis Other Areas: longevity, healthy survival
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Michael LaMonte University at Buffalo Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Prevention Diabetes Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Physical Function, Lifestyle Composite Scores Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Sarcopenia Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Other Areas: Periodontal Disease, Microbiome
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Marian Limacher University of Florida College of Medicine Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Simin Liu University of California, Irvine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Polypharmacy Biomarkers: Discovery Methodologies, Early Detection, Epigenomics, Genomics, Hormone, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition Cancer: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack Diabetes Environmental Risk Factors: Rural/Urban, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Heavy Metals Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Juhua Luo Indiana University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Pancreatic, Prevention, Survivorship Diabetes Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity, Smoking Mental/Psychosocial: Depression, Optimism/Pessimism, Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation, Stress Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Tracy Madsen University of Vermont Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Stroke epidemiology Cardiovascular disease Health disparities
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role JoAnn Manson Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Nutrition Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology / Risk Prediction, Prevention Diabetes Lifestyle: Physical Activity Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Lisa Martin George Washington University Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Lipids Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Hypertension, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Amy Millen University at Buffalo Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet Other Areas: Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, etc.
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani Albert Einstein College of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Nutrition Diet Sleep Physical Activity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Michelle Naughton The Ohio State University Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity, Rural/Urban Mental/Psychosocial: Social Determinants, Social Support/Social Isolation Other Areas: Quality of Life/Patient-Reported Outcomes, Sleep, Urinary Incontinence Measurement
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Marian Neuhouser Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Lipids, Metabolomics, Nutrition Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Prevention, Survivorship Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Mary Jo O'Sullivan University of Miami Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Hormone research Gynecological conditions Obstetrics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Heather Ochs-Balcom University at Buffalo Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Genetic epidemiology Body composition Obesity and cancer risk
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Judith Ockene University of Massachusetts Medical School Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease Health Disparities/Health Equity Lifestyle Mental/Psychosocial Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Electra Paskett Ohio State University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer Health Equity Epidemiology
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Marco Perez Stanford University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease Genetics Atrial Fibrillation
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Ulrike Peters Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Colorectal Cancer Genetics Health Disparities
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Ross Prentice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Meta-Analysis, Pooling and Dietary Pattern Analysis, Survival Analysis
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Stephen Rapp Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Geropsychology Cognitive aging Cognitive impairment
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Alexander Reiner Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Genomics, Immune/Autoimmune, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Proteomics Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Lindsay Reynolds Wake Forest University School of Medicine Sponsors writing proposals	Mentorship Areas interactions between the environment and genome epigenetic states in aging and disease pathogenesis relationships between lifestyle exposures, such as tobacco use and diet, and epigenetic states in the context of disease susceptibility
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Tom Rohan Albert Einstein College of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction Lifestyle: Smoking Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Jacques Rossouw Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease Hormones Epidemiology
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Aladdin Shadyab Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence Biomarkers: Early Detection, Epigenomics, Genomics, Proteomics Gynecologic Health: Menarche, Menopause Lifestyle: Physical Activity Musculoskeletal: Osteoarthritis Other Areas: Exceptional longevity, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, cognitive aging
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Sally Shumaker Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cognition Dementia Cardiovascular Disease Aging Psychosocial health
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Brian Silver University of Massachusetts Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Neurology Stroke prevention Stroke treatment Alzheimer's Disease
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Michael Simon Wayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer: Breast, Clinical Medicine/Oncology, Clinical Cancer Genetics, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Survivorship Health Disparities/Health Equity: Race/Ethnicity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Sylvia Smoller Albert Einstein College of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Hypertension, Stroke, CVD risk factors Aging and Cognition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Beverly Snively Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Mental/Psychosocial: Cognitive Function/Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, Psychosocial Comorbidities in Neurological Diseases Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Other Areas: Biostatistics, Genetics, Disease Screening, Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Maternal Vaccination
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Marcia Stefanick Stanford University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience Cancer: Breast, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Ovarian, Prevention, Screening, Survivorship Gynecologic Health: Menopausal Hormone Therapy Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis Health Disparities/Health Equity: Gender/Sex/Sexual Orientation, Race.Ethnicity
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Cynthia Thomson University of Arizona Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer prevention Nutrition/Diet Obesity Health promotion
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Lesley Tinker Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Biomarkers: Lipids, Nutrition Cardiovascular Disease: Hypertension, Prevention Diabetes Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Other Areas: WHI in General
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Linda Van Horn Northwestern University Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Diet/Nutrition Cardiovascular epidemiology Breast cancer
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Mara Vitolins Wake Forest School of Medicine Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cancer: Prevention, Survivorship Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Jean Wactawski-Wende University at Buffalo Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience Biomarkers: Early Detection, Genomics, Hormonal, Inflammatory/Cytokines, Lipids, Metabolomics Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship Diabetes Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics Gynecologic Health: Hysterectomy/Oophorectomy, Menopausal Hormone Therapy, Oral Contraceptives, Pregnancy Health Disparities/Health Equity Lifestyle: Physical Activity, Smoking Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Sarcopenia Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition Study Methods: Clinical Trials, Longitudinal Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Survival Analysis Other Areas: Oral Health, Microbiome
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Robert Wallace University of Iowa Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Aging/Gerontology/Geriatrics: Falls, Healthy Aging/Resilience, Independence, Polypharmacy Cancer: Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial/Uterine, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Lung, Pancreatic, Prevention, Screening/Early Detection, Survivorship Cardiovascular Disease: Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis/Coronary Heart Disease, Epidemiology/Risk Prediction, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Prevention, Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack Lifestyle: Nutrition/Diet, Smoking Mental/Psychosocial: Anxiety, Cognitive Function/Dementia, Depression, Social Determinants, Stress Musculoskeletal: Body Composition, Bone Health/Fractures, Osteoarthritis, Osteopenia/Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sarcopenia Obesity/Weight Management/Body Composition
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Gretchen Wells University of Alabama Medical Center Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular disease Psychologic attributes in heart failure.
Name, Institution, Sponsorship Role Eric Whitsel University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Sponsors writing and study proposals	Mentorship Areas Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology/Risk Prediction Environmental Risk Factors: Air Pollution, Built Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Noise Pollution, Rural/Urban Genomics/Proteomics/Metabolomics