NCI's Stine Retires
Kathleen Stine, program analyst in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), retired after 41 years of federal service. Her invaluable expertise in government contracting, acquisitions and federal budgeting were essential in managing REB’s many scientific contracts.
In addition to conducting the business of scientific management for the branch, she also mentored others as they built expertise in these mission-critical fields. Stine helped to establish the initial contracts for studies of health effects after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and second cancers after proton therapy in pediatric patients, as well as many other projects.
Stine started her NIH career in the Clinical Center as a medical laboratory technologist in 1984. She worked as an administrative officer for NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) and the Office of Administrative Management from 1987 until 1999. This experience allowed her to flourish as an exceptionally proactive program analyst when she moved to REB in 1999 as she understood how the science was executed from multiple perspectives.
Through these different positions, she developed deep institutional knowledge of REB and the workings of NCI and NIH. Branch leadership relied on Stine for her wise counsel as she always examined the larger picture in decision-making and anticipated—and therefore avoided—challenges. Her keen judgment on matters related to fiscal management and execution of research contracts honed from decades of experience have been a boon to the Division and will be sorely missed.