Primary Faculty
Paige Bracci, PhD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
June Chan, DSc
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- How diet, exercise, other lifestyle factors are associated with better outcomes in men with prostate cancer; testing if changes in behavior after diagnosis improve cancer survivorship; disseminating evidence-based recommendations and tools to help people with cancer adopt healthier lifestyle practices and improve survivorship
Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- The role of genetics, health behaviors, environmental exposures, and neighborhood factors on cancer incidence and prognosis
Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- The role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes
Rebecca Graff, ScD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- prostate cancer, kidney cancer, cancer risk factors, cancer survivorship, genetics, pleiotropy, metabolomics, molecular subtyping
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Social Epidemiology
- Robert Hiatt is Associate Director for Population Science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include: cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention & screening, health inequities, health services & outcomes research, social determinants of cancer, environmental health research, environmental exposures in early development related to cancer, mathematical modeling of cancer, global health science
Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer
Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, HIV infection, cervical cancer, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, International research, education in clinical and epidemiological research, mentoring junior faculty or trainees, public health, global health, Africa
Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.
Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities, how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Understanding the impact of diagnostic testing on important patient outcomes and understanding the difference in access to different tests and variance in accuracy of these tests, the risk of cancer associated with incidental findings identified on ultrasound and CT imaging, and assessing patterns of radiation from diagnostic imaging
Erin Van Blarigan, ScD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Innovative study designs to optimize remotely delivered behavioral interventions (e.g., MOST framework, adaptive trials); digital health; cancer survivorship; nutrition; physical activity; nutritional epidemiology
Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
Secondary Faculty
Rebecca Jackson, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
Karla Kerlikowske, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Breast cancer
Eleni Linos, MD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Cancer prevention, melanoma, basal and squamous cell skin cancer, geriatric dermatology
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology
George Sawaya, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- cancer screening with particular interest in patient-centered and economic effects of various screening strategies
Judith Walsh-Cassidy, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
Li Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Trial for Cancer Research, Dose-Volume Histogram Analysis, T-cell Receptor Sequencing
Emeritus Faculty
Paul Volberding, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS, HIV-related malignancies, antiretroviral therapy, oncology, global health, health disparities, health policy
John Wiencke, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology