Contact information, projects, and COS profiles of Cancer Prevention faculty members can be accessed using the links below. General descriptions of Cancer Prevention projects are found on the Projects page.
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Garnet Anderson PhD
Member
Research focus: Methods for multicenter studies of women's health.
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Melissa A. Austin PhD
Member; Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington
Research focus: Genetics of pancreas cancer, genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, lipoprotein metabolism, public health genetics, bioethics.
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Shirley A. A. Beresford PhD
Member; Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington
Research focus: Nutritional epidemiology and chronic disease prevention, specifically designed to improve the scientific basis for public health policy and recommendations concerning dietary intake, physical activity and intake of folic acid.
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Jonathan Bricker PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: (1) Novel behavioral interventions (e.g. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for changing health behavior delivered at the public health level; (2) natural psychoscoial influences on health behavior over the course of the lifespan.
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Christopher S. Carlson PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: Identification and functional dissection of polymorphisms that correlate with common diseases and quantitative traits; assessing the functional impact of candidate SNPs on a variety of regulatory mechanisms, including promoter function and mRNA structure.
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Barbara Cochrane PhD, RN
Associate Member; Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Washington
Research Focus: Older women's health. Clinical and research expertise include gerontology and healthy aging, postmenopausal hormone therapy, symptoms and symptom management, psychosocial oncology, cardiovascular nursing.
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Gloria Coronado PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: Health disparities in underserved populations, pesticide exposure in farm workers.
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Robert W. Day MD, PhD
Member
Research focus: Health promotion and disease prevention; screening for cancer; epidemiology; radiation; DNA methylation.
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Gary E. Goodman MD, MS
Member; Senior Investigator, Swedish Medical Center Cancer Institute
Research focus: Lung cancer prevention, cancer prevention clinical trials, biomarkers of cancer risk.
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Kenneth Kopecky PhD
Member
Research focus: Southwest Oncology Group statistical center (leukemia and leukemia biology) and radiation epidemiology.
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Mario Kratz PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: The impact of dietary and genetic factors on energy balance, and the metabolic and molecular links between obesity and associated diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and certain types of cancer.
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Alan R. Kristal DrPH
Member and Associate Program Head
Research focus: Identifying dietary risk factors for cancer and promoting healthful dietary behavior change.
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Andrea Z. LaCroix PhD
Member
Research focus: The prevention of osteoporosis and fracture, coronary artery disease, and disability in older women.
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Johanna W. Lampe PhD
Member
Research focus: Controlled dietary studies, nutrition interventions and phytochemicals.
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Michael LeBlanc PhD
Member
Research focus: Statistical methods for clinical trials, adaptive and non-parametric regression models, survival analysis.
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Wendy M. Leisenring ScD
Associate Member
Research focus: Reproductive epidemiology, clinical research related to stem cell transplantation, and statistical methodology.
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Daniel W. Lin MD
Assistant Member; Assistant Professor of Urology, University of Washington
Research focus: Molecular mechanisms of prostate carcinogenesis.
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Margaret (Meg) Mandelson PhD
Associate Member; Associate Investigator Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies
Research focus: Cancer epidemiology with interests in the natural history and etiology of breast and gastrointestinal cancers.
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Bonnie McGregor PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: Psychological interventions; nervous, endocrine and immune system interactions.
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Anne McTiernan MD, PhD
Member
Research focus: Prevention of new and recurrent breast and other cancer through physical activity, diet and chemoprevention.
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Carol Moinpour PhD
Member
Research focus: Quality of life outcomes and symptom management interventions in cancer clinical trials; exercise interventions to prevent and/or manage symptoms and side effects of treatment for cancer.
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Polly A. Newcomb PhD
Member and Cancer Prevention Program Head
Research focus: Practical and targeted prevention of breast and colon cancer.
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Ulrike Peters PhD, MPH
Assistant Member
Research focus: Nutritional prevention of cancer, molecular and genetic epidemiology, gene-diet interactions.
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Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. PhD
Member
Research focus: Design, conduct, and analysis of group randomized trials; etiology, prevention and cessation of smoking.
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John D. Potter MD, PhD
Senior Adviser
Research focus: Etiology and the prevention of colon cancer; gene environmental interactions in the etiology of cancer; how plant foods lower the risk of cancer.
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Ross L. Prentice PhD
Member and Senior Vice President
Research focus: Research strategies and methods for disease prevention and epidemiology.
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Scott Ramsey MD, PhD
Member
Research focus: Cost effectiveness analysis, health economics, cancer outcomes research.
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Mary Redman PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: Statistical methodology for the estimation of causal effects from observational and experimental data.
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Cathy Tangen PhD
Associate Member
Research focus: Non-parametric methods for analysis of covariance in randomized clinical trials.
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Vicky Taylor MD
Member
Research focus: Cancer control in minority populations.
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Engelberta (Beti) Thompson PhD
Member
Research focus: Community approaches to smoking cessation, dietary change and screening behaviors for cancer prevention.
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Cornelia (Neli) Ulrich PhD
Associate Member
Research focus: Molecular and nutritional epidemiology, folate, pharmacogenetics.
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Pei Wang PhD
Assistant Member
Research focus: Bioinformatics, including modeling large-scale proteomics data in biomarker discovery studies, analyzing CGH array/microarray with statistical methods and studying biology pathway networks based on multiple types of data, and collaboration on epidemiologic studies.
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Emily White PhD
Member; Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean of Research, School of Public
Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Research focus: Cancer epidemiology and prevention.
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