Carol Kruchko, CBTRUS President and Administrator (1992- )
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 and serves as the development officer for CBTRUS. Ms. Kruchko has been the Secretary/Treasurer of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium since 2006. She has co-authored several articles on brain tumor registration and organized two consensus conferences on the cancer registration of brain tumors.

Jeri Dolan, R.N., Executive Administrator (2002- )
Mrs. Dolan joined CBTRUS in November 2002 replacing Ms. Marsha Rubin in the CBTRUS administrative office. She received her nursing degree from Harper College. She has worked in the Medicare Division of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, the 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 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.

Francine Kayes, Project Coordinator for CDC grant #1U58DP003831-01 (2011- )
Francine joined the Administrative Office of CBTRUS in November 2011. Francine’s experience is in auditing and financial accounting. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S., and Northeastern University in Boston with an M.S. in Accounting, she began her career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand in Detroit. She has since worked for several small entrepreneurial for-profit businesses, most recently, as operations manager for a small finance company.

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.

Therese A. Dolecek, Ph.D., Principal Investigator (2011- ), Senior Research Associate (2008-2011)
In 2011, Dr. Dolecek became the CBTRUS principal investigator. She joined CBTRUS in August 2008 bringing cancer surveillance expertise from more than 7 years of employment as the senior cancer epidemiologist with the population-based, Illinois State Cancer Registry. She received a Ph.D. in Public Health Science (1986) with emphasis in Chronic Disease and Nutrition Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Dolecek works collaboratively with CBTRUS staff to accomplish operations associated with coordinating data acquisition, developing and managing registry data sets, and programming and conducting data analyses. She contributes to the interpretation and dissemination of brain and central nervous system tumor data through the production of statistical reports and scholarly publications, presentations, responses to data requests, and grant applications for the scientific utilization of the registry data sets and funding purposes.

Bridget J. McCarthy, Ph.D., Co-Investigator (2011- ), Principal Investigator (2001-2011), 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 both laboratory experience and many years of experience with data collection and analysis in the field of epidemiology, and has authored or co-authored many papers and presentations in the field of cancer epidemiology. Dr. McCarthy contributes to the data analyses and preparation of statistical reports, manuscripts, presentations, and requests for data.

Jennifer Propp, M.S., Investigator/Analyst for CDC grant #1U58DP003831-01 (2011- ), Consulting Research Specialist (2007-2008), Research Specialist (2001-2007), Graduate Research Assistant (1995-1997)
Ms. Propp received her Master of Science degree with a concentration in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. Ms. Propp contributes to the preparation of analyses, reports, presentations, and publications.