Cancer Prevention and Control
Leadership
Program Leaders: Tara Henderson, MD, MPH and Brandon Pierce, PhD
Assistant Program Leader: Loren Saulsberry, PhD
The overall goals of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program are to harness the intellectual capacity at UChicago to determine the environmental, genetic, psychological, biobehavioral, and economic factors underlying the etiology, risk, prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and survivorship of cancer. In addition, expertise in advanced imaging techniques allows for innovative cancer risk assessment, early detection/screening and survivorship research. The majority of the program’s members are focused on local and global health disparities research, which serves as a cross-cutting theme for all programmatic goals.
Key Research Themes
- Improve understanding of cancer risk and prevention by identifying the genomic, behavioral (including tobacco and alcohol use), socioeconomic, and environmental determinants
- Investigate the bio-behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of cancer-related health outcomes, including survivorship
- Determine cost-effectiveness and economic factors related to cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship
- Reduce local and global health disparities in cancer and other health outcomes and their modifiable determinants in the community through research and outreach efforts
Hiroyuki Abe, MD
Habibul Ahsan, MBBS, MMedSc
Samuel Armato, PhD
Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, PhD, MPH, MA
Marc Bissonnette, MD
Brian Chiu, PhD
Christopher Daugherty, MD
Ian Foster, PhD
Maryellen Giger, PhD
William Green, PhD
Robert Grossman, PhD
Donald Hedeker, PhD
Tara Henderson, MD
Dezheng Huo, MD, PhD
Nora Jaskowiak, MD
Yuan Ji, PhD
Gregory Karczmar, PhD
Andrea King, PhD
Sonia Kupfer, MD
Nita Lee, MD, MPH
Yan Chun Li, PhD
Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD
Daniel McGehee, PhD
David Meltzer, MD, PhD
Parth Modi, MD
Olufunmilayo Olopade, MBBS
Xiaochun Pan, PhD
Joel Pekow, MD
Brandon Pierce, PhD
Blase Polite, MD
Iris Romero, MD
Loren Saulsberry, PhD
Marcia Tan, PhD, MPH
Santiago Acero Bedoya, BS
Nicholas Asby, BS
Chufan Cai, BS
Kasturi Chakraborty, PhD
Madeleine Durkee, PhD
Katrina Maxcy Hawley, AB
Emily Higgs, BA
Yifei Hu, BS
Ruoxi Liao, BS
Margo MacDonald, BS, MS
Rosemary Morman, PhD
Adam Weiss, BS, MS
Jovian Yu, MD
Allen Zhu, BS