Faculty - Cancer Prevention PhD Track
Cancer Prevention
Distinguished Professor of Oncology
Department of Cancer Prevention and Control
Research Interests:
Ovarian cancer etiology and prognosis, immunosuppression, novel immune markers.
Graduate Studies, Cancer Prevention
Professor of Oncology
Department of Health Behavior
Research Interests:
Tobacco product regulation; tobacco harm reduction; development of unobtrusive and minimally invasive measures of tobacco exposure in humans.
Research Interests:
Molecular epidemiology of cancer risk; breast cancer in African-American women; cancer treatment outcomes.
Research Interests:
Chromosome abnormalities in B-cell lymphoproliferative; mitogenic stimulation of human B cells; fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
Research Interests:
The molecular/genetic epidemiology of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA), and the development of novel approaches for cancer risk assessment, early diagnosis, and prevention.
Research Interests:
Development and testing of community-based interventions to address social determinants of inequities in cancer detection, treatment and access among minority and medically underserved populations.
Research Interests:
The role of genetic/epigenetic, nutritional, and other lifestyle factors in the etiology and outcomes of several types of cancers.
Research Interests:
Clinical epidemiology, outcomes research, evidence-based medicine; blood and marrow transplantation; and infectious disease epidemiology.
Research Interests:
The role of lifestyle-related factors on hormonal exposures and immune function in breast cancer survivors, impact of type 2 diabetes on cancer prognosis, thermal dysregulation among breast cancer patients.
Department of Cancer Pathology and Prevention
Department of Psychosocial Oncology
Research Interests:
Adjustment to breast cancer, survivorship, evaluation of the efficacy of palliative care treatment in alleviating physical and psychosocial symptoms.
Research Interests:
Evaluating the impact of policies aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the use of tobacco products.
Research Interests:
New drug development, clinical trials, medical ethics, continuing medical education and immunology.
Research Interests:
Selenium for chemoprevention, biomarkers to measure chemoprevention and molecular epidemiology.
Research Interests:
Nutritional and molecular epidemiology including the impact of diet on cancers of the reproductive organs.
Chief
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Research Interests:
Health effects of radiation exposure, modulation of graft versus host disease and of chemotherapy toxicity, blood and marrow stem cell isolation, immune modulation after transplantation.
Department of Cancer Prevention and Control
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Research Interests:
Lung cancer lymph node metastasis, disparities in lung cancer care, cancer control in resource-limited environments.
Research Interests:
Early detection and chemoprevention of lung and head and neck cancers; Biomarkers of exposure and risk for aerodigestive cancer.
Research Interests:
Social determinants and behavioral factors that influence racial/ethnic minority health status and health outcomes related to chronic disease conditions, as well as cancer prevention and control efforts among medically underserved populations.
Research Interests:
Molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology and dietary intervention, chemoprevention, cancer survivorship.
Research Interests:
Risk perceptions of tobacco and nicotine products; tobacco marketing, point-of-sale advertising, and counter marketing; tobacco packaging characteristics and health warning labels.
Research Interests:
Cancer prevention, cancer therapy, biology of prostate cancer.
Research Interests:
Biological factors and related genetic variations in breast cancer etiology.
