CBTRUS Personnel

Carol Kruchko
President & Chief Mission Officer, CBTRUS

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 is on the Advisory Board of the International Brain Tumor Alliance (IBTA), as well as the Secretary of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC), and is a member of the Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO). She has co-authored several articles on brain tumor registration and collaborates with the CBTRUS Principal Investigator on CBTRUS scientific contributions. She has organized two consensus conferences on the cancer registration of brain tumors and serves on various cancer registry committees. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Brain Tumor Alliance. Ms. Kruchko currently oversees the CBTRUS contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program of Cancer Registries and is responsible for securing and managing grants and contracts for CBTRUS. She works to ensure that cancer collection practices for brain and other CNS tumors incorporate current clinical practices.

Mackenzie Price, MPH
Research Analyst and Policy Coordinator, CBTRUS

Ms. Price received a BA in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, followed by a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked in the medical field for more than 10 years including having served five years in the United States Army as a field medic. She currently works for CBTRUS as an independent contractor. She contributes to the preparation of analyses, manuscripts, reports, and publications, including the annual CBTRUS Statistical Report and works to support the CBTRUS mission. Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers.