Statewide Colon Cancer Initiative

OCCPI Study Group

Learn more about the Ohio Colorectal Cancer Prevention Initiative study group.

Below are members of the Ohio Colorectal Cancer Prevention Initiative study group.

  • Adena Regional Medical Center (Linda Kight, Jeyanthi Ramanaratanan, Waheed Gul, Ganapathy Krishnan, Jaswant Madhavan, John Miller, Zion Oshikanlu, Herbert Sinning)

  • Akron General Medical Center (Esther Rehmus, Cathy Farmer, Debbie Thomas, Michael McNeal, Scott Awender, Walter Chlysta, Jason Fried, Mark Horattas, Kathryn Leininger, Kevin Lu, Robert Marley, Laurie Matt-Amaral, Scott McGee, Osei-Tutu Owusu, William Papouras, John Petrus, Sonia Sandhu)

  • Atrium Medical Center (Albert Malcolm, Sandy Fletcher, Caitlin Conaway, Ronald Hale, Nkeiruka Okoye, Radhika Rajsheker, Mridula Reddy, Cheryl Skinner, Ryan Steinmetz, Nandagopal Vrindavanam)

  • Aultman Hospital (Kisa Weeman, Kristin Shine, Janet Moore, Kathleen Collins, Donna Cobedesh, Juli Grove, Jen McCutchan, Steven Albertson, Nicholas Bisconti, Ferdinando Cortese, Michael Gurney, Amir Iqbal, John Jakob, Steven Kelly, Raza Khan, Sawjiv Khetarpal, Brandis Lewis, Warren Kofol, Khalil Korkor, Paul Manuszak, Alan Meshekow, Norman Rarique, Joseph Saddey, James Schmotzer, Mona Shay, Sabrina Shilad, Richard Sternjholm, Shruti Trehan, Michael Van Ness, Sunitha Vemulapalli)

  • Blanchard Valley Health System (Sharon Cole, Shannon Kohls, Brianne Hottinger, Christine Montgomery, Eric Browning, Ihsan Haq, Geetika Kumar, Chaoyang Li, Mohammad Mabayed, Britt Olmsted, Kevin Shannon, Thomas Stringle, Douglas Yoder)

  • Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron (Catherine Ward-Melver, Julie D’attoma, Marcie Parker, Jennifer Stein, Lance Grau)

  • Cincinnati OHC – Mercy West, Mercy Fairfield, Mercy Anderson, Mercy Clermont, The Jewish Hospital (Lynette Hart, Brittany Hagen, Nicole Given, Sheena Chandler, Kim Brockman, Lindsay Vogel, Kimmy Miller, Alessa Hubbell, Susan Hendricks, Laura Kokenge, Brittany Gardner, Michelle Nguyen, Lisa Schmid, Dawn Abshire, Kyla Scott, Ashley Vollmer, Randy Drosick, Mark Johns, Peter Ruehlman, John Bismayer, Cynthia Chua, Edward Crane, Colleen Darnell, Patrick Ward, David Waterhouse, Paula Weisenberger, Karyn Dyehouse, Kurt Leuenberger, Suzanne Partridge)

  • Cleveland Clinic – Main Campus, Hillcrest, Fairview, South Pointe, Independence/Strongsville (Matthew Kalady, Timothy Spiro, Herman Kessler, Brandie Leach, Jessica Marquard, Carla Greenwood, Traci Stafford, Cathy Hugney, Samantha Kopack, Michelle Parson, Patti O-Reilly, Kathy Smolenski, Cathy Schilero, Thomas Plesec, Kimberly McDonald, Mary Oldenburgh, Donna McPeek, Cathy Schilero, Drew Abramovich, Mir Ali, Jean Ashburn, Amit Bhatt, Ravi Chari, Ronald Charles, Aneel Chowdhary, Byron Coffman, James Church, Megan Costedio, Saurabh Das, Robert Debernardo, Conner Delaney, David Dietz, Donald Eicher, Charis Eng, Bassan Estfan, Emre Gorgun, Michael Grillis, Abdo Haddah, Emina Huang, Tracy Hull, David Hykes, Dinesh Khera, Alok Khorana, Mark Kyei, Paul Laffay, Richard Latuska, Ian Lavery, Jeremy Lipman, David Kiska, Vinit Makkar, James Malgieri, Paul Masci, Neha Mitra, Michael Menunaitis, Ila Tamaskar, Brian Murphy, Gokhan Ozuner, Robert Pelley, Vitaliy Pishchik, Feza Remzi, Warren Rose, Marc Shapiro, Davendra Sohal, Luca Stocchi, Scott Strong, Albert Tsang, Michael Valente, Albert Vargas, Ravi Verma, Rich Wieseck, Hamed Daw, Bachar Dergham, Rick Gemma, David Gottesman, Kevin Kerwin, Michael Springer, Jason Collweiler, Ryan Williams, Samir Abrasksia)

  • Columbus NCORP (J. Philip Kuebler, Sheree Oxley, Julie O’Brian, Ed Perigo)

  • Dayton Clinical Oncology Program (Howard Gross, Mary Ontko, Karen Dickerson, Michele Hamann)

  • Doctors Hospital (Sanjay Yadav, Janet Harvey, Michele Dillow)

  • Fairfield Medical Center (Lisa Stevens, David Hasl, Scott Johnson, Srinvas Kolli, David Robertson, Margaret Sawyer, Kanwalijit Singh, Jeffrey Yenchar)

  • Genesis Cancer Care Center (Shyamal Bastola, Karen Wickham, Annette Barr, Carrie Lee, Kristen Miller, Alicia Hunt, Terence Campbell, Robert Chess, Jan Elston, Adam Rothermel, Scott Wegner)

  • Good Samaritan Hospital - Dayton (Charles Bane, John Haluschak, Katherine Peyton, Eileen Flynn, Jennifer Neikamp, Minia Hellan, Shamim Jilani, Jhansi Koduri, Mark Marinella, James Sabiers, Laszlo Toth)

  • Grady Memorial Hospital (Raymond Fuller, Kelly Reynolds, Bonnie Baker, Vickie Maggard, Patti Dunn, Eileen Troutman, Michelle McKinney-Harris, Chaoyang Li, Christopher George, Kenneth Graffeo, Arun Kumas, Erin Macrae, Jerry Mitchell, Timothy Moore, William Schirmer, Michelle Wood)

  • Grant Medical Center (Shakir Sarwar, Laura Reebel, Juliana Hite, Angel Spencer, Angie Mullholland, Patti Dunn, Pedro Aguilar, Joshua Braverman, Sudhathi Chennuru, Mark Jump, Munit Kapoor, Brandon Machicao, Timothy Moore, Anitha Nallari, Kristin Ryan, Dale Thomas, John Tzagournis, Michael Tzagournis)

  • Kettering Medical Center (Manisha Nanda, Judy Bair, Krista Bensman, Gary Anderson, Alejandro Calvo, Gregory Gordon, Minia Hellan, Priya Jain, Amanda Laubemthal, Joseph Lavelle, Stuart Merl, Malek Safa, Carol Sawmiller, Emily Vannorsdall, Stephanie Hartke)

  • Knox Community Hospital (Husain Rasheed, Katy Breeze, Katy Breeze, Bethany Lee, Diana Endsley, Michael Heuman, Hypi Laidlaw-Smith, Husain Rasheed, Paul Taiganides)

  • Licking Memorial Hospital (Arunda Gowda, Kenita Keck, Suzanne Posey, Michelle Majoy, Jacqueline Jones, D’Anna Mullins)

  • Marion General Hospital (Arvinder Bhinder, Eileen Troutman, Arun Kumar, Prasad Maturu, John Mcdonough, Prasad Ravi, Jose Vale)

  • Marietta Memorial Hospital (Kelli Cawley, Joanna Lupardus, Sheryl Corp, Utpal Bhanja, Rajendra Bhati, David Blevins, Bradley Carmen, Anirban Gupta, Matthew Matacol, Allen Mcelroy, Tuan Nguyen, M Nill, Shinoj Pattali, Devaki Siva)

  • MedCentral Mansfield Hospital (Katie Stafford, Srividya Viswanathan, Robert Exten)

  • Mercy Medical Center – Canton (Mitchell Haut, Joan Edwards, Linda Sims, Jane Westfall, Janet Muckley, Tara Barker, Kimberly Mayle, Brooks Bolyard, Ferdinando Cortese, Khatib Jafri, Hanspreet Kaur, Scott McGee, Nagaprasad Nagajothi, Francisco Paras, Noman Rafique, Russell Ramey, Aida Safar, Mazin Shackour, Kirby Sweitzer, Steven Albertson, Steven Kelly, David Linz, Nicholas Roberts, Carol Baker, Munir Ahmad, Farouq Ahmed, Mohamad Ayoubi, Gregory Boone, Greg Manson)

  • MetroHealth (Joanna M. Brell, Deborah Strater. Amy Shaper, Taryn Ferber, Edward Crum, Natalie Joseph, Jeremy Lipman, Timothy O’Brien, Diane Wolf, Larisa Schwartzman, Melissa Times, Michelle Treasure, Joan Trey)

  • Miami Valley Hospital (Mark Marinella, M.Jane Boerger, Darinda Reis, Jenny Dillon, Ellen Cato, Minia Hallan, John Haluschak, Satheesh Kathula, Jhansi Koduri, James Ouellette, Mridula Reddy, Steve Rudich Manish Sheth, Laszlo Toth)

  • Mount Carmel Health System - East, West, St. Ann’s (Karamjit Khanduja, Mark Knapp, Mark Segal, Mark Thompson, Jenna Knoble, Taral Patel, Rosemary Zacks, Sue DeVictor, Grace Glace, Peggy Lyons, Jeffrey Zangmeister, Ellen Bailey, Glen Borchers, Tarek Chidiac, Mark Devanzo, Richard Edgin, Patrick Elwood, William Emlich, Kim Hammelberg, Jodi Lee, Seth Hoffman, Bruce Kerner, Mark Lindsey, Jaswant Madhavan, Neil Makadia, Marcus Miller, Jerry Mitchell, Timothy Moore, Ananthan Padmanabhan, Phillip Price, Jeffrey Sams, P. Kothai Sundaram, Charles Taylor, Joshua Braveman, Mark Stechschult, Mary Dillhoff, Samer Eldika, Adewale Fawole, Melinda Jack, Tasos Madhaven)

  • Myriad Genetics Inc. (Brian Allen, Shelly Cummings)

  • OSUMC – Colorectal (Electra Paskett, Peter Shields, Rachel Pearlman, Wendy Frankel, Wei Chen, Benjamin Swanson, Weiqiang Zhao, Ahmet Yilmaz, Kristin Miller, Jason Bacher, Christopher Bigley, Lori Nelsen, Michael Bigley, Thomas Prior, Daniel Jones, Debbie Knight. Cheryl Reeder, Amy Glaze, Peter Stanich, Ilene Lattimer, Thelma Asare, Mark Arnold, Sandya Liyanarachchi, Christina Wu, Anne Noonan, Tony Saab, Sigurdis Haraldsdottir, Sherif Abdel-Misih, Mark Bloomston, Kristen Ciombor, William Cirocco, Cassandra Grenade, Alan Harzman, John Hays, John Howard, Syed Husain, Sameh Mikhail, Kate Shane-Carson, Anterpreet Neki, Timothy Pawlik, Sameek Roychowdhury, Robert Rupert, Carl Schmidt, Jennifer Sipos, Judith Westman)

  • OSUMC – Endometrial (Paul Goodfellow, Elizabeth Solinger, Molly Myers, David Cohn, David O’Malley, Adrian Suarez, Floor Backes, Larry Copeland, Casey Cosgrove)

  • ProMedica Health System - Flower and Toledo Hospital (Terry Gibbs, Carissa Jock, Kelly Morse Joyce Vernier, Julie Moon, Sarah Adelsperger, Sue Mayer, Abed Alo, Sanjiv Bais, Paul Bosio, Stephanie Cole, Mark Gretsinger, Douglas Hess, Peter Klein, Michael Mcphee, Jose Parodi, Brad Sachs, Joseph Sferra, Eilynn Sipe, John Stengle, Truman Wigand)

  • *St. Luke's Hospital (Ginger Schwyn, Abed Alo, Peter Klein, Douglas Lindsey, Asish Mukherjee, Raju Shah, Eilynn Sipe, Beth White)

  • Riverside Methodist Hospital (J. Philip Kuebler, Kelly Reynolds, Megan Sisson, Kristen Johnson, Amanda Adams, Portia Schiming, Patti Dunn, Sonia Abuzakhm, Jeffrey Archer, Brent Behrens, Scott Blair, Stephanie Dunkle-Blatter, Christopher George, Andrew Grainger, Joseph Hofmeister, Peter Kourlas, Peter Lee, John Leff, Erin Macrae, Nse Ntukidem, Kwang Suh, Thomas Sweeney, Robert Toscano, William Wise)

  • Southern Ohio Medical Center (Thomas Summers, Yinong Liu, Jamie Arnett, Murielle Brohez, Bruce Kerner, Thomas Khourg)

  • Springfield Regional Medical Center (Ravi Khanna, Daljeet Singh, Linda Blosser, Chaundra Foss, Zaw Bo, Filix Kencana, Sandra Victor)

  • St. Rita’s Medical Center (Chris Rhoades, Clarissa Alford, Lois Gerding, Charles Brunelle, Richard Capone, Henry Gerad, Todd Hixenbaugh, Paul Kalogerou, Chethana Kanapathi, Ewa Mrozek, Robert Neidich, David Powell, Tariq Sheikh, Abdulla Taja)

  • Summa Health System – Akron City & St. Thomas, Barberton, Robinson Memorial, Western Reserve (Sameer Mahesh, Nicole Buie, Annie Papik, Debbie Neal, Ally Kovach, Sarah Stanaszek, John Gusz, Lynn Wojtasik, Mark Arrendondo, Elizabeth Bender, Leo Claecilla, Bradley Clifford, Michael Cullado, Arthur Dalton, Adrian Dan, Anad Desai, Edward Esber, Rachel Jenkins, Ann Stone, John Fondran, Susan Hong, John Jakob, Joseph Koenig, Erica Laipply, Melanie Lynch, Fredrick Seefeldlt, Dean Mayors, Leon Miller, Mehool Matel, Jennifer Payne, Joel Porter, Mark Pozsgay, Warren Rose, Frederick Slezak P Torowski, Douglas Trochelman, Arjun Venkat, Darrell Widmer, Gary Williams, John Zografakis, Bradley Clifford, Andrew Haas, Dean Mayors)

  • The Christ Hospital (Ian Paquette, Janice Rafferty, Bradley Davis, Marla Prues, Pam Manfresca, Robert Cody, William Crafton, Randy Drokick, Jon Snider, Slobodon Stanisic)

  • Toledo Clinic Cancer Center (Pam Shoup, Jennifer Martinez, Jessica Ciesler, Sameh Almadani, Michael Bielefeld, Timothy Kasunic, Richard Phinney, Todd Tamlyn)

  • TriHealth – Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Cincinnati (David Draper, Scott Kelley, Carolyn Lindeman, Kathleen Bieniek, Antoinette Dean, Courtney Rice, Karen Huelsman, Megan Shearouse, Meghan Caldwell, Alex Sympson, Marc Alexander, Susan Alcasid, Mark Andolina, Kevin Bundy, Robert Bennett, Arcot Bhaskar, Ranga Brahmamdam, Catherine Brown, Kevin Budke, Elena Caoili, Jessica Cassady, Michael Caudy, Suhail Chaudhry, Cynthia Chua, Stephen Cleves, Francis Collins, Richard Dammel, Erik Dunki-Jacobs, James Fidelholtz, Steven Grendel, Michael Handleton, Lynn Gronbach, Douglas Hawley, Jason Hoke, Jacon Jones, David Kirkpatrick, Robert Kindle, Gennaro Labella, Steven Langdon, Jay Logeman, Michelle louis, Steven Lunz, Anjuli Mahajan, James Maher, Arturo Maldonado, Jennfier Marklay, Gina Matacia, Apurua Mehta, John Merling, Huxley Miller, Thomas Mueller, Gerald Palermo, Andrew Parchman, Alan Putrus, Janice Rafferty, Robert Rechtin, Raymond Reuss, Antonio Rojas, Mark Rudemiller, Paul Rupp, Alex Saba, Ronald Smith, Melanie Spaedy, Alan Tarshis, Kirubel Tefera, Christine Wallace, Cheryl Skinner, Christopher South, Fredrick Weber)

  • University at Buffalo (Jo Freudenheim)

  • University of Washington (Colin Pritchard, Brian Shirts, Angela Jacobson)

  • Upper Valley Medical Center (Rajeev Kulkarni, Heather Penwell, Minia Hellan, L. Lowry, Mohan Nuthakki)

  • Wayne Healthcare (Manish Sheth, Catherine Jill Brown, John Haluschak, Daniel Mckellar)

  • Wright-Patterson Medical Center (Roger Wood, Joyce Russo, Susannah Cooper, Brandon Cutler, Alyssa Mcmanamon, Gary Peitzmeier

*Participation ended 12/31/2015