Gary E. Fraser, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology. Born and largely educated in New Zealand. Main academic interest is how lifestyle, particularly diet, may prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
Larry Beeson, DrPH, MSPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology. Involved with the Adventist Health Study since 1974. Cares for database management, data quality control, and the record linkage between AHS-2 and the National Death Index and state cancer registries.
Hanni Bennett
Senior Research Associate and AHS-2 Office Manager. Born in Germany, Hanni has worked for the Adventist Health Studies for 20 years. Major role in management of personnel and resources and the processing of questionnaires.
Terry Butler, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Major role in recruitment of subjects and promotion. Born in Australia. A pastor and epidemiologist. Prior to current role was the Health Ministries Director of South Pacific Division.
Jacqueline Chan, DrPH
Primary role in planning and supervision of the church clinics pilot and calibration study. She has researched and reported the beneficial effect of drinking water to reduce heart disease risk.
Ella Haddad, DrPH, MS
Associate Professor of Nutrition. Supervises the AHS-2 blood specimen preservation lab. Taught for many years at Middle East College in Beirut, Lebanon. Research interests include the adequacy of vegetarian diets and the role of nuts in a healthy diet.
R. Patti Herring PhD, RN
Karen Jaceldo-Siegl, DrPH
Born in the Philippines. Karen and her staff supervise the nutrient analysis of all the foods that participants record on their questionnaires.
Synove Knutsen, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Epidemiology. Born in Norway where she has worked with other major longitudinal research studies. Principal Investigator of the Adventist Smog Study in California.
Andy Lampkin, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology (Oakwood College), Director of the Oakwood AHS-2 office. Also working on a support grant to better understand Black Adventist perspectives on health research.
Susanne Montgomery, PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Promotion and Director of the School of Public Health Research Center. Born in Germany. Involved in studying social and behavioral causes of ill health in the U.S. and overseas.
Susan Preston-Martin, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California. Responsible for identification of new cancers among AHS-2 cohort members. She helped establish the cancer registry for Los Angeles County and has conducted nationally recognized cancer research.
Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH
Professor and Chair of Nutrition. From Spain. Is in charge of the study dietary data quality control and the calibration study data. He is editor of the book Vegetarian Nutrition, published in 2001.
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Last Revised: Tue, Oct 30, 2007