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Schildkraut named leader of Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program
posted March 3rd, 2010
Nationally recognized epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, Ph.D., MPH, has been named leader of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, announced H. Kim Lyerly, M.D., director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. She assumed the position effective March 1, 2010.
The Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program comprises collaborating faculty with expertise in behavioral and epidemiological sciences whose work focuses on the areas of cancer prevention, genetic and molecular epidemiology, survivorship, quality of life and global health. Schildkraut has been a member of the program since 1993.
Schildkraut is a professor in Duke’s Department of Community and Family Medicine and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine. She serves as chief of the Division of Prevention Research in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. She currently is the principal investigator on three RO1 grants, a P50 grant, a DOD grant, and most recently a R25 training grant. Schildkraut currently serves on the Scientific Peer Review Committee of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and is a member of the steering committee of the Molecular Epidemiology Working Group of the American Association of Cancer Research. She has published more than 100 papers and is a contributing author on eight book chapters and invited papers. Schildkraut received her MPH degree in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University School of Medicine and her Ph.D. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University Graduate School.