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Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Tucker	Katherine	Co-Chair	U Mass at Lowell	katherine_tucker@uml.edu
Carithers	Theresa	Co-Chair	U MS at Oxford	carither@olemiss.edu
Banahan	Ben	Data analyst	U MS at Oxford	banahan@olemiss.edu
Okhomina	Victoria	JHS DC Liaison	UMMC	vokhomina@umc.edu
Chinn	Felicia	Student Member	U MS at Oxford	fnchin@go.olemiss.edu
Correa	Adolfo	JHS Investigator	UMMC	acorrea@umc.edu
Djousse	Luc	VC	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	ldjousse@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Dubbert	Pat	Member	Veterans' Admin	Patricia.Dubbert@va.gov
Glover	La'Shaunte' (Tay)	Student Member	U MS at Oxford	lmglover@go.olemiss.edu
Griswold	Mike	Member	UMMC	mgriswold@umc.edu
Hickson	DeMarc	Member	UMMC	dhickson@umc.edu
Ikuta	Tossi	Member	U MS at Oxford	tikuta@olemiss.edu
Maras	Janice	Member	Northeastern	janice.maras@neu.edu
Newton	Robert	Member	Pennington Center	Robert.Newton@pbrc.edu
Norwood	Arnita	Member/JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	afnorwood@umc.edu
Saklani	Shilpa	Data analyst	UML	shilpa_saklani@uml.edu
Talagawkar	Sameera	Member	JHSPH	stalegaw@jhsph.edu
Yang	Yi	Member	U MS at Oxford	yiyang@olemiss.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Bertoni	Alain	Co-Chair	Wake Forest	abertoni@wakehealth.edu
Carnethon	Mercedes	Co-Chair	Northwestern	carnethon@northwestern.edu
Golden	Sherita	Co-Chair	Johns Hopkins	sahill@jhmi.edu
Norwood	Arnita	JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	afnorwood@umc.edu
Blackshear	Chad	JHS DC Liaison	UMMC	cblackshear@umc.edu
Correa	Adolfo	JHS Investigator	UMMC	acorrea@umc.edu
Sims	Mario	JHS Investigator	UMMC	msims@umc.edu
Lacy	Beth	Member	Brown	mary_lacy@brown.edu
Nelson	Cheryl	Member	NHLBI	nelsonc@nhlbi.nih.gov
Chen	Haiying	Member	Wake Forest	hchen@wakehealth.edu
Carr	Jeff	Member	Vanderbilt	j.jeffrey.carr@vanderbilt.edu
Joseph	Joshua	Member	Johns Hopkins	jjosep25@jhmi.edu
Echouffo Tcheugui	Justin B	Member		echouffotcheugui@gmail.com
Hairston	Kristen	Member	Wake Forest	kghairst@wakehealth.edu
Crago	Lenore	Project Manager	Wake Forest	lcrago@wakehealth.edu
Guzman	Levon A	Member	Northwestern	levon-guzman@northwestern.edu
Wagenknecht	Lynne	Member	Wake Forest	lwgnkcht@wakehealth.edu
Griswold	Michael	Member	UMMC	mgriswold@umc.edu
Casanova	Ramon	Member	Wake Forest	casanova@wakehealth.edu
Kalyani	Rita	Member	Johns Hopkins	rrastogi@jhmi.edu
Talegawkar	Sameera	Member	Johns Hopkins	stalegaw@jhsph.edu
Saldana	Santiago	Project Staff	Wake Forest	ssaldana@wakehealth.edu
Simpson	Sean L.	Member	Wake Forest	slsimpso@wakehealth.edu
Taylor	Uvonne	Member	Johns Hopkins	utaylor1@jhmi.edu
Effoe	Valery	Member	Wake Forest	veffoe@wakehealth.edu
Wu	Wen-Chih	Member	Veterans' Admin	Wen-Chih.Wu@va.gov
Bell	Ronny	Member	Wake Forest	rbell@wakehealth.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Boulware	Ebony	Co-Chair	Duke	ebony.boulware@duke.edu
Young	Bessie	Co-Chair	U Washington	youngb@uw.edu
Griswold	Mike	Biostatistician	UMMC	mgriswold@umc.edu
Katz	Ronit	Data Curator, Biostatistician	U Washington	rkatz@u.washington.edu
Himmelfarb	Jonathan	Director, KRI	U Washington	himmej@uw.edu
Robinson-Cohen	Cassy	Epidemiologist	U Washington	cassyrc@uw.edu
Afkarian	Maryam	Investigator	U Washington	afkarian@uw.edu
Yu	Margaret	Fellow	U Washington	mkyu@uw.edu
Roshanravan	Bob	Investigator	U Washington	broshanr@uw.edu
Suchy-Dicey	Astrid	Epidemiologist	U Washington	astridsd@uw.edu
Rivara	Matthew	Research Fellow	U Washington	mbr@uw.edu
Zelnick	Leila	Biostatistician	U Washington	lzelnick@uw.edu
Powe	Neil	Investigator	UC San Francisco	NPowe@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
Grubbs	Vanessa	Investigator	UC San Francisco	grubbsv@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
Fulop	Tibor	Investigator	UMMC	tfulop@umc.edu
Mwasongwe	Stanford	Investigator	UMMC	smwasongwe@umc.edu
Rebholz	Casey	Member	Johns Hopkins	crebholz@jhsph.edu
McMullan	Ciaran	Member		CMCMULLAN1@partners.org
Driesback	Albert	Member	UMMC	adreisbach@umc.edu
Argawal	Moheed	Member
Banerjee	Tunsheree	Member	UC San Francisco	BanerjeeT@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
Ekunwe	Lynette	JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	lekunwe@umc.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Muntner	Paul	Co-Chair	U Alabama - Birmingham	pmuntner@uab.edu
Shimbo	Daichi	Co-Chair	Columbia	ds2231@cumc.columbia.edu
Ogedegbe	Olugbenga	Co-Chair	NYU	Olugbenga.Ogedegbe@nyumc.org
Norwood	Arnita	JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	afnorwood@umc.edu
Griswold	Mike	JHS Investigator	UMMC	mgriswold@umc.edu
Diaz	Keith	Member/ESI	Columbia	kd2442@cumc.columbia.edu
Abdalla	Marwah	Member/ESI	Columbia	ma2947@columbia.edu
Ladapo	Joseph	Member/ESI	NYU	Joseph.Ladapo@nyumc.org
Spruill	Tanya	Member/ESI	NYU	tanya.spruill@nyumc.org
Redmond	Nicole	Member/ESI	U Alabama at Birmingham	nredmond@uab.edu
Carson	April	Member/ESI	U Alabama at Birmingham	apcarson@uab.edu
Howard	George	Co-I	U Alabama at Birmingham	ghoward@uab.edu
Sims	Mario	Member/ JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	msims2@umc.edu
Vemulapalli	Sreekanth	Member	Duke	sreekanth.vemulapalli@duke.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Curtis	Lesley	Co-Chair	Duke University	lesley.curtis@duke.edu
O'Brien	Emily	Co-Chair	Duke University	Emily.obrien@duke.edu
Shahar	Eyal	JHS Investigator	University of Arizona	shahar@email.arizona.edu
Hernandez	Adrian	JHS Investigator	Duke University	adrian.hernandez@duke.edu
Blackshear	Chad	JHS DC Liaison	UMMC	cblackshear@umc.edu
Min	Nancy	JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	ymin@umc.edu
Eapen	Zubin	JHS Investigator	Duke University	zubin.eaben@duke.edu
Ramachandran	Vasan	JHS Investigator	Boston University/Framingham Heart Study	vasan@bu.edu
Mentz	Robert	JHS Investigator	Duke University	Robert.mentz@duke.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Lange	Leslie	Co-Chair	UNC at Chapel Hill	Leslie_lange@med.unc.edu
Wilson	James	Co-Chair	UMMC	Jgwilson2@umc.edu
Musani	Solomon	Member	UMMC	smusani@umc.edu
Gao	Yan	JHS DC Liaison	UMMC	ygao@umc.edu
Ekunwe	Lynette	Member/JHS RC Liaison	UMMC	lekunwe@umc.edu
Correa	Adolfo	Member	UMMC	acorrea@umc.edu
Mei	Hao	Member	UMMC	hmei@umc.edu
Lange	Ethan	Member	UNC at Chapel Hill	Ethan_lange@med.unc.edu
Reiner	Alex	Member	U Washington	apreiner@uw.edu
Mwasongwe	Stanford	Member	UMMC	smwasongwe@umc.edu
Peloso	Gina	Ad hoc Member	Broad Institute	gina@broadinstitute.org
Kathiresan	Sek	Ad hoc Member	Broad Institute	sekar@broadinstitute.org
Young	Taylor	Ad hoc Member	Broad Institute	tyoung@broadinstitute.org
Li	Jin	Ad hoc Member/Mentee	UNC at Chapel Hill	jinli@email.unc.edu
Naik	Rakhi	Mentee	Johns Hopkins	Rakhi@jhmi.edu
Hyacinth	Hyacinth	Mentee	Medical U of SC	hyacinth@musc.edu
Hartmann	Kate	Mentee	Ohio State University	Katherine.hartmann@osumc.edu

Last Name	First Name	Type of Member	Institutional Affiliation	Email
Diez Roux	Ana	Co-Chair	Drexel University	avd37@drexel.edu
Sims	Mario	Co-Chair	UMMC	MSims2@umc.edu
Correa	Adolfo	Core member	UMMC	acorrea@umc.edu
Griswold	Michael	Core member	UMMC	MGriswold@umc.edu
Dudley	Amanda	Core member	U Michigan	aidudley@med.umich.edu
Wilson	Gregory	Core member	JSU	gregory.wilson@jsums.edu

JHS Working Groups

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Jackson State University was recently awarded a five year contract to implement the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Outreach Center (CORC). The contract period is from 8/16/2013-8/15/2014 for a total amount of 3,086,081. The CORC is an expansion of the highly successful operation of the Community Partnership Office (CPO), in the Jackson State University Coordinating Center, which operated from 1999-2013. During the era of the CPO, relationships and partnerships were developed with over 100 churches, community based organizations, governmental agencies, private non-profit organizations, other institutions of higher learning and individual partners. A community based participatory research (CBPR) component has been added under this new contract period.

Vanguard Centers

We are no longer accepting Vanguard Center Applications.

Jackson Heart Study Vanguard Centers

Vanguard Collaborative Centers offer an additional mechanism for sharing Jackson Heart Study (JHS) data to foster collaborations and increase scientific productivity. JHS Vanguard Centers will enhance the scientific productivity of the JHS by participating in and contributing to JHS collaborations in the development of manuscript and ancillary study proposals and manuscripts.

Benefits of JHS Vanguard Centers

a. Vanguard Centers will receive a JHS Data Package from the JHS Coordinating Center, please see the JHS Vanguard Center Package Contents document for the latest package description.

b. JHS Vanguard Centers with expertise and experience in analysis of genetic data and with approved access to JHS dbGap data may request access to genetic data on JHS participants who have provided consent for such collaborations.

c. The JHS Coordinating Center will assist in answering queries from the Vanguard Centers regarding the JHS data.

JHS Vanguard Center Eligibility Criteria

Each JHS Vanguard Center is expected to be affiliated with a biomedical/public health research institution. To apply to become a JHS Vanguard Center, an institution must fulfill the followingeligibility criteria:

a. Have an investigator willing to serve as PI for the Vanguard Center and assume responsibility for overseeing security of the JHS data received;

b. Have a data curator to serve as the primary contact for receipt of JHS Vanguard Center data updates and manage JHS datasets for Vanguard Center Investigators.

c. Have additional investigators at the same institution willing and able to collaborate on manuscript and ancillary study proposals and on manuscripts and ancillary studies of cardiovascular diseases among JHS participants.

Each JHS Vanguard Center is expected to:

a. Provide its own internal administrative support.

b. Participate in reviews of: 2 or more manuscript proposals; 2 or more ancillary study

proposals per year; and 2 or more penultimate manuscripts as requested by theJHS Publications and Presentations Subcommittee (PPS) and the Ancillary Studies Subcommittee (ANSS).

c. Submit at least 2 manuscripts per year to the PPS initiated by the Vanguard Centerand involving JHS data.

d. Submit a semi-annual progress report online on: (1) status of manuscript proposals,ancillary study proposals and active or penultimate manuscripts initiated by the Vanguard Center; and (2) lists of reviews completed for manuscript proposals, ancillary study proposals and penultimate manuscripts.

e. Work with JHS to improve the JHS Vanguard Center program and experience for others.

Investigators interested in submitting an application for a JHS Vanguard Center for their institution should contact Dr. Arnita Norwood (601-815-5783, jhsccrc@umc.edu) to request an application package.