Carol Kruchko, CBTRUS President and Administrator
Ms. Kruchko is the founding President of the CBTRUS. She provides the direction, policy, and management services for the CBTRUS. She oversees the production of the CBTRUS Statistical Reports. Ms. Kruchko serves on the American College of Surgeons, Disease Site Team for Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors and the Program Committee of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. She has co-authored several articles on brain tumor registration and organized two consensus conferences on cancer registration of brain tumors.

Jeri Dolan, R.N., Executive Administrator (2003-)
Jeri Dolan joined CBTRUS in November 2003 replacing Ms. Marsha Rubin in the CBTRUS administratve office. She received her nursing degree from Harper College. She has worked in the Coronary Care Unit at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, in Medical/Surgical ICU at Columbus Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and the Cardiac Cath Lab/Pacemaker Program at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, also in Chicago before retiring to raise a family. Prior to joining CBTRUS, Mrs. Dolan had volunteered in the Media Resource Center of The Lane School in Hinsdale, Illinois for the past eleven years.

Mrs. Dolan is responsible for the daily administrative tasks of CBTRUS. She disseminates its data to individuals and institutions and is also responsible for its general accounting activities.

Nancy E. Stroup, Ph.D., Consulting Research Director (2000-)
Dr. Stroup received a Master of Science in Public Health degree in Epidemiology from Harvard University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University in 1983. From 1983-2000 she served as an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While at the CDC she worked in the Epidemic Intelligence Service and fielded assignments in the areas of cancer epidemiology, public heath surveillance, program development, and teaching. She was assigned to the Georgia Division of Public Health as the first state chronic disease epidemiologist in 1993-1998, where she was instrumental in the development of a Georgia statewide cancer registry. She has co-authored papers in a variety of areas including chronic disease epidemiology and cancer surveillance.

Bridget J. McCarthy, Ph.D., Principal Investigator (2001-), Project Coordinator (1997-2000)
Dr. McCarthy received a Master of Science degree in Genetics in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology in 1996 from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She has over ten years of laboratory experience with molecular genetic techniques, over ten years of experience with data collection and analysis in the field of epidemiology, and has co-authored several papers and presentations in the field of cancer epidemiology.

Jennifer Propp, M.S., Research Specialist (2001-)
Jennifer Propp received her Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Biology from Mount Mary College in 1990. Upon completion of her undergraduate studies, she worked in a neurotoxicology research laboratory. Ms. Propp received her Master of Science degree with a concentration in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. After her graduate studies, she utilized her training in study design, data analysis, and technical report writing while conducting disease management, preventive health, and service studies in the quality management division of a health care company. During her employment in the testing services department of a national dental organization, she was responsible for data management, database and software development, statistical programming, and data analysis within the research and development unit.

Ms. Propp is currently the Research Specialist for CBTRUS. She coordinates the data collection activities for the registry; maintains the data management and statistical programming systems; conducts data analyses for statistical reports, manuscripts, presentations, and requests for data; and assists in the writing of reports, manuscripts, and grants.