Cancer Prevention and Control
Leadership
Program Leader: Brandon Pierce, PhD
Assistant Program Leader: Loren Saulsberry, PhD
Community Research Advisor: Nichelle Stigger
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
Samuel Armato, PhD
Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, PhD, MPH, MA
Marc Bissonnette, MD
Christopher Daugherty, MD
Ian Foster, PhD
William Green, PhD
Robert Grossman, PhD
Donald Hedeker, PhD
Tara Henderson, MD
Nora Jaskowiak, MD
Yuan Ji, 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
Blase Polite, MD
Iris Romero, MD
Loren Saulsberry, PhD
Marcia Tan, PhD, MPH
Lucas Berens
Filip Boskovic
Jason Bugno
Kirk Cahill
Connor Centner
Jennifer H. Cooperrider
Kunal Desai
Asim Dhungana
Ava Ferguson Bryan
Waqas Haque
Frederick M. Howard
Hannah Johnston
Alec James Kacew
Diren Arda Karaoglu
Vishesh Kothary
Youyou Li
Jason P. Meier
Nabiel A. Mir
Swetha Nakshatri
Anh Nguyen
Daniela Olivera Velarde
Sagada Penano
Monica Pomaville
Geneva Schlafly
Anna Slezak
Divya Sood
Ethan Stolen
Yu Tian
Christopher L. Valdes