Richard Gallagher
Principal Investigator
BC Generations Project
Head, Cancer Control Research Program
BC Cancer Agency
Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Richard Gallagher’s research focuses on three areas of cancer: prostate cancer, skin cancers, and finding correlations between different types of jobs and cancer. He has a proven track record in cancer prevention research, with more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications in related subjects.
Dr. Marilyn Borugian, Ph.D.
Director
BC Generations Project
Senior Scientist, Cancer Control Research
BC Cancer Agency
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Dr. Borugian has been a senior scientist with the Cancer Control Research Program of the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre since 2004. She is a Clinical Associate Professor with the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Trained in epidemiology, computer systems development, and psychology, she has published on the associations of diet, body shape, insulin resistance and socioeconomic status with cancer risk and prognosis, including breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and childhood cancers. Her research focuses on mammographic breast density: how it relates to breast cancer, and how it might be modified to reduce risk and improve cancer detection. She is currently the Director of the BC Generations Project, responsible for managing this provincial prospective cohort.
Wendy Lam
Administrative Coordinator
Dr. Tim Lee
IT Manager
Laurentiu Nitu
Senior Programmer
Treena McDonald
Project Manager, Biosamples
Treena McDonald, Project Manager, Biosamples, comes to the BC Generations Project with a depth of experience gathered from many years of work on both pulmonary and cardiovascular cohort studies. Ms. McDonald earned a Master’s of Science from the University of British Columbia in 2000 studying cardiomyocyte dysfunction in sepsis. She subsequently went on to manage a genetic study for a Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome cohort followed by the addition of four more cohorts (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aortic stenosis and atherosclerosis). Ms. McDonald was also the national coordinator for the Genes and Environment program within Canada’s AllerGen NCE from 2006-2009. Ms. McDonald is excited to bring what she’s learned from these other studies to the BC Generations Project.
Eunice Rousseau
Project Coordinator
Eunice Rousseau has been a Research Project Coordinator with the BC Cancer Agency since 1994. Ms. Rousseau has a Diploma in Environmental Health Technology from BCIT and a Master’s Degree in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University where she studied dietary antioxidant protection in human tissues. She has worked as a Project Coordinator on several studies, including the Diet and Breast Cancer Prevention Study and the BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program, before joining the BC Generations Project in 2008. Ms. Rousseau looks forward to contributing her knowledge and background to help the BC Generations Project reach participants across BC.
