Research Steering Committee
The Research Steering Committee serves to coordinate activities across the consortium. Through monthly conference calls and in-person meetings, its main functions are to establish guidelines for timely participation, overall analytic approach, selection of phenotypes, publication strategies, and approaches to authorship.
The RSC assists in the establishment of working groups for each phenotype of joint interest. It sets goals to aims for transparency, timely communication, effective coordination, and sharing of responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities among cohort members. The RSC encourages collaboration among members of the consortium and valuable non-consortium partners and may recruit other population-based cohort studies to join the consortium, may encourage joint ancillary-study grant applications to accomplish new scientific aims, and may form additional committees as needed.
Research Steering Committee Members:
Cohort Representatives
AGES: Villi Gudnason, Valborg Guðmundsdóttir, Lenore Launer
ARIC: Eric Boerwinkle, Alanna Morrison
CARDIA: Myriam Fornage, Lifang Hou
CHS: Josh Bis, Jen Brody, Susan Heckbert, Bruce Psaty, Ken Rice
FHS: Dan Levy, Chunyu Liu, Kathy Lunetta, Vasan Ramachandran
JHS: Leslie Lange, Hao Mei
MESA: Steve Rich, Jerry Rotter
MVP: Jennifer Huffman, Scott Damrauer
Rotterdam: M. Arfan Ikram, André Uitterlinden
SOL: Robert Kaplan, Tamar Sofer
Committee Representatives
Analysis Committee: Ken Rice
Genetics Committee: Jerome Rotter
Mendelian Randomization: Carolina Borges, George Davey-Smith
At Large
Stéphanie Debette, Abbas Dehghan, James Floyd, Kari North, Sudha Seshadri, Nick Smith, Helen Warren
Emeritus
Christopher O'Donnell, Cornelia van Duijn, James Wilson