Dr. Andrew T. Chan - Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Colorectal Cancer
DCEG Arthur Schatzkin Lecture Seminar
February 6, 2025 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Shady Grove and Zoom Seminar TE 406
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Title
Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Colorectal Cancer
Speaker
Andrew T. Chan, M.D., M.P.H.
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Director of Epidemiology at the MGH Cancer Center
Host
Rashmi Sinha, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB)
Details
Through work spanning population epidemiology to clinical trials, Dr. Chan’s research focuses on prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. An elected fellow of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians, he is the Team Lead for the Stand Up to Cancer Gastric Cancer Interception Team, co-Team Lead for the Cancer Grand Challenges Early-Onset Cancer Team (PROSPECT), an NCI Outstanding Investigator, and an American Cancer Society Research Professor. He has published over 600 papers in the field of gastrointestinal cancer in leading journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Science Translational Medicine, Gastroenterology and Gut. As a clinical gastroenterologist, Dr. Chan specializes in familial gastrointestinal cancer syndromes and cancer prevention.
Series
This annual Arthur Schatzkin Lecture Seminar, hosted by the MEB, honors the memory of Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., a visionary scientist, mentor, and leader in the field of nutritional epidemiology.