Lectureship

April 26, 2019
Funmi Olopade, M.D., Professor, Medicine and Human Genetics; Associate Dean, Global Health; Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago
"Mainstreaming Genomic Testing to Improve Quality of Cancer Care"

March 8, 2019
Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D., Associate Director for Population Sciences; Professor, Epidemiology; Director, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
"A Multi-level Model to Address Cervical Cancer Disparities in Appalachia"

February 22, 2019
Robin Yabroff, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Director, Health Services Research, American Cancer Society
"Medical Financial Hardship Among Cancer Survivors in the United States"

December 14, 2018
Kevin C. Oeffinger, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine; Director, Duke Center for Onco-Primary Care; Director, Duke Supportive Care and Survivorship Center, Duke Cancer Institute and Duke University Medical Center
"Secondary Breast Cancer: A Paradigm for Survivorship Research"

April 20, 2018
Cristian Tomasetti, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"The Etiology of Cancer and Its Early Detection"

March 2, 2018
Julia H. Rowland, Ph.D., Senior Strategic Advisor, Smith Center for Health and the Arts; former Director, Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute
"Prevention in the Context of Cancer Survivorship"

January 12, 2018
Jeffrey N. Weitzel, M.D., Chief, Division of Clinical Cancer Genomics; Director, Cancer Screening and Prevention Programs Network; Professor, Oncology and Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Implementation of Genomic Cancer Risk Assessment in Latin America via Innovative Pairing of Clinical Training and Epidemiologically Informed Genomic Tools"

December 15, 2017
Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Ph.D., Peggy and Charles Stephenson Endowed Chair in Cancer; Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control; Director, Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center; Associate Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
"Community Partnerships to Enhance Tobacco Treatment Delivery Among Underserved Smokers"

September 22, 2017
Marie L. Miranda, Ph.D., Howard R. Hughes Provost, Professor of Statistics, Rice University
"Mapping What Matters: The Promise of Geospatial Health Informatics"

May 12, 2017
Hashem El-Serag, M.D., M.P.H., GI Section Chief at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center; Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Section; Professor, Medicine & Gastroenterology; Director, Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center; Leader, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program, Baylor College of Medicine
"Prevention of Hepatocellular Carcinoma"

April 28, 2017
Andrew Chan, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Aspirin and Cancer: The Promise of Precision Prevention"

January 27, 2017
Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc. Chief, Division of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Director, Translational Bioinformatics Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Director, Boston University - Boston Medical Center Cancer Center
"Translating Airway Gene-Expression into Biomarkers for Lung Cancer Detection and Prevention: The Road Less Traveled"

January 13, 2017
Sally Cowal, Senior Vice President, Global Cancer Control, American Cancer Society
"Scaling Up Cancer Prevention and Access to Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: The ACS Experience"

November 18, 2016
Muin J. Khoury, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"From Precision Medicine to Precision Public Health"

October 21, 2016
Vish Viswanath, Ph.D., Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI); Director, Center for Translational Health Communication Science, DFCI/HSPH; Director, Harvard Chan India Research Center; Co-director, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness
"Cancer Communications and the Underserved: Challenges and Openings"

May, 27, 2016
Jay M. Bernhardt, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dean, Founding Director, Center for Health Communication
Walter Cronkite Regents Chair
Everett D. Collier Centennial Chair, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin
"Health Communication for Cancer Prevention and Control: Missing Ingredient or Secret Sauce?"

February 26, 2016
Charles Perou, Ph.D.
The May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology
Professor of Genetics and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Lineberger Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Genomic Analysis of Breast Tumors and its Implications for the Human Population"

January 15, 2016
Scott Ramsey, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences Division
"Financial Toxicity: An Emerging Concept and Consequence of Cancer Care"

December 18, 2015
Otis W. Brawley, M.D.
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
American Cancer Society
"Cancer Control in the 21st Century"

December 4, 2015
Graham A. Colditz, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
"Implementing Cancer Prevention"

May 1, 2015
Kathleen Schmeler, M.D., Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
"Preventing & Treating Cervical Cancer Globally: Innovative Approaches & Partnerships"

April 17, 2015
Jennifer A. Ligibel, M.D., Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Lifestyle and Breast Cancer"

April 10, 2015
Belinda Reininger, Dr. P.H., Associate Professor, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville
"How a U.S. Mexico Border Town Won the 2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize"

February 27, 2015
Andrew Dannenberg, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College
"Obesity, White Adipose Inflammation and Breast Cancer"

January 16, 2015
Jack Henningfield, Ph.D., Vice President, Research Health Policy, Pinney Associates; Professor, Behavioral Biology, Adjunct, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
"Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: The Promise, the Peril and the Urgent Need for Regulation"

November 13, 2014
Leslie Robison, Ph.D. Member, St. Jude Faculty; Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control; Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Center; Co-leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 
"Long-term Outcomes Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer"

May 8, 2014
Greg Miller, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology; Faculty Fellow, Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health at The Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
"The Inflammatory Residue of Childhood Socioeconomic Adversity"

March 27, 2014
Jeffrey Levi, Ph.D., Executive Director, Trust for America's Health; Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services
"Obesity, Cancer Prevention and Health Reform: Opportunities for Change"

November 7, 2013
Andrew W Bergen, Ph.D. Senior Director of Molecular Genetics Program, Center for Health Sciences, SRI International
"Pharmacogenetics of smoking cessation: pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic candidate gene studies motivated by genome-wide association and linkage"

May 30, 2013
Gary Bennett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Global Health and Medicine, Duke University
"eHealth science: CTRL-ALT-DEL"

April 25, 2013
Martin A. Weinstock, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology, Brown University
“INFORMED melanoma early detection: Check It Out”

January 25, 2013
Brian Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Full Member, Divisions of Human Biology and Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington; PI, Seattle Barrett's Esophagus Center
"Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: Time for a New Synthesis"

December 7, 2012
Elmer Huerta, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Cancer Preventorium, Washington Cancer Institute, MedStar, Washington Hospital Center
"Cancer Prevention and Control Outreach with Hispanics"

October 19, 2012
Vic Strecher,Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor and Director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan School of Public Health
"Interactive Health Communications Interventions for Cancer Prevention"

October 5, 2012
Stephen Linder, Ph.D., UT School of Public Health, Institute for Health Policy and McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, The UT Health Science Center at Houston
"Highlights from the Health of Houston 2010 Survey"

April 20, 2012
Virginia Moyer M.D., M.P.H., Chair, United States Prevention Services Task Force; Professor, Pediatrics & Head, Academic General Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief Quality Officer for Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
"The US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on cancer screening: who are those people and what were they thinking?"

March 9, 2012
Michael Potter, M.D., Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
"FLU-FOBT and FLU-FIT Programs: Addressing Colorectal Cancer Screening Disparities in Diverse Clinical Settings"

February 17, 2012
Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies; Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies
"Prevention and Health Care Reform"

December 16, 2011
Allen Lichter, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology
"Why Aren't We Preventing More Cancers? A View From ASCO"

November 18, 2011
Roberta Ness, M.D., M.P.H., Dean, M. David Low Chair in Public Health, Vice President for Innovation, University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health
"30 Years into the War on Cancer: How to Innovate Our Way Out of this Box"

October 28, 2011
Brad W. Hesse, Ph.D., Chief of the National Cancer Institute's Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch
"Harnessing the power of an Intelligent Health Environment in Cancer Control" (audio only)