Each sponsoring organization has one or more principal investigators/representatives on the NLMS Steering Committee. The Steering Committee oversees the operation and coordinates the research efforts of the NLMS study.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Principal Investigator:  Sean Coady
Epidemiology Branch
Prevention and Population Sciences Program
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
II Rockledge Center, MSC 7936, Room 10200
6701 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 435-1289
Fax: (301) 480-1455
Email: coadys@nhlbi.nih.gov

Principal Investigator:  Sean Altekruse, DVM, MPH, PhD
Epidemiology Branch
Prevention and Population Sciences Program
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
II Rockledge Center, MSC 7936, Room 10192
6701 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 435-1290
Email: altekrusesf@mail.nih.gov

National Institute on Aging

Principal Investigator:  John Phillips, PhD
Population and Social Processes Branch
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
7201 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 827-4137
Email: John.Phillips@nih.gov

National Cancer Institute

Principal Investigator:  Carolyn Reyes Guzman, PhD, MPH
Tobacco Control Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 3E564, MSC 9761
Bethesda, MD  20892-9761
Phone: (240) 276-7244
Fax: (240) 276-7907
Email: carolyn.reyes-guzman@nih.gov

National Center for Health Statistics

Principal Investigator:  Elizabeth Arias
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3311 Toledo Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Phone: (301) 458-4727
Fax: (301) 458-4034
Email: efa3@cdc.gov

Food and Drug Administration

Principal Investigator:  Carol H. Christensen, PhD, MPH
Center for Tobacco Products
Office of Science
Food and Drug Administration
Document Control Center
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Building 71, Room G335
Silver Spring, MD  20993-0002
Phone: (240) 402-3292
email: carol.christensen@fda.hhs.gov

U.S. Census Bureau

Principal Investigator:  Norman J. Johnson, PhD
Mortality Research Group
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Room 5K127
Suitland, MD 20746
Phone: (301) 763-4270
Email: norman.j.johnson@census.gov

Committee approved projects may be assigned to an NLMS statistician within the U.S. Census Bureau who works directly with the researcher as a statistical consultant and as the interface to the NLMS database.

Norman J. Johnson, Ph.D. Statistics, Yale University
Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau
Principal Investigator to NLMS
38 years experience as Lead Developer, Statistician, and Database Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Bio-statistical analysis, Data analysis, Survival analysis

Jahn Hakes, Ph.D. Economics, Duke University
Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau
Research Statistician on NLMS
10 years of experience as Lead Research Statistician on health and mortality studies
Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling.  Experienced in a variety of statistical software packages including SAS, Stata, Mplus

Candace Cosgrove, M.P.H. Biostatistics, University of Oklahoma
Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau
Research Statistician on NLMS
8 years experience as research statistician on health and mortality studies
Areas of expertise: File management, SAS programming, Vital Statistics & Mortality, Data Analysis

Matthew Neiman, M.S. Applied Statistics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mathematical Statistician, IT Specialist, U.S. Census Bureau
Database Manager, Research Statistician on NLMS
4 year experience as data manager on health and mortality studies
Areas of expertise: SAS programming, Data Mining, Record Linkage, Database Coordination