Dr. Lydia Pace is a primary care physician and a researcher in the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research focuses on advancing equity in delivery of women’s healthcare services, including cancer screening, in both the United States and in limited-resource settings around the world. She is the recipient of National Cancer Institute funding to examine breast cancer care quality and implementation of early detection programs in Rwanda, where she lived from 2011-2014 and continues to work. She also partners with the World Health Organization’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative. Dr. Pace also leads policy research and clinical initiatives to improve access to high-quality contraceptive care in the United States. She directs Women’s Health Policy and Advocacy in the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and directs the Connors Center’s Global Women’s Health Fellowship. Clinically, she practices primary care at the Jen Center for Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and cares for women at elevated risk of developing breast cancer in the BWH Breast Cancer Risk Assessment, Education and Prevention (B-PREP) program.

Elsie M. Taveras is Chief of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics and Executive Director of the Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also Conrad Taff Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Taveras is a Pediatrician, clinical epidemiologist, and a childhood obesity researcher. Her main focus of research is understanding determinants of obesity in women and children and developing interventions across the lifecourse to prevent obesity and chronic diseases, especially in underserved populations. Her work spans the spectrum of observational studies and interventions—to identify and quantify risk factors— and to modify these risk factors for health promotion and disease prevention. She has published over 200 research studies and has received continuous research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the American Diabetes Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Boston Foundation, among many other federal and foundation sources. Elsie is a Co-Principal Investigator and leads the ISCCCE team with Karen Emmons.

Dr. Gina Kruse is a physician researcher in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the Colorado Research Program on Vaping, E-cigarette, Nicotine and Tobacco (C-VENT). She trained in internal medicine and primary care at Mass General. She completed a Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine research fellowship, earned her MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention from the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kruse’s research examines technology-based interventions to improve the delivery of preventive services, particularly tobacco cessation treatment. She focuses on underserved populations at risk for tobacco-related illness in settings in the US and internationally. Gina is the Director of the Implementation Team and leads the coordination of the dual screening pilot studies and capacity building work with the health centers.

Maddie Davies is the Implementation Team’s Senior Project Manager. Before joining the team in January 2020,  she worked at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Office of Community Health. In her role at Children’s, she managed the Fitness in the City program, a childhood obesity intervention in health centers, and also worked on health center capacity building and professional development projects. Prior to Children’s, she was on the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement’s Evaluation Team, evaluating youth programs and coalitions in Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere.
Maddie holds a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Science. Maddie is the Implementation Team’s Project Manager and supports the coordination of the dual screening pilots and health center capacity building work.

Stephanie Martinez a Clinical Research Coordinator on the Implementation Team. Alongside providing support to the ISCCCE team, she also works closely on the RADx-MA grant which aims to increase COVID-19 testing in underserved communities in MA. Prior to joining the team in November 2020, she worked at Beth Israel Lahey Health as a Project Coordinator on the Community Benefits team. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Science and a minor in Medical Anthropology from Boston University. Stephanie is a Clinical Research Coordinator on the ISCCCE Implementation Team supporting the RADx-MA grant and pilot study focused on lung cancer screening.