Overview
The Cancer Prevention and Control Program capitalizes on being in a major research university with schools of medicine and nursing and a highly ranked school of public health from which to build a cancer center program that addresses a full spectrum of cancer prevention and control research.
Goals and Scientific Themes
The broad, long-term goals of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program are to reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and to improve the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors in Georgia and beyond.
These goals are addressed through the following four primary scientific themes:
- Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Chemoprevention: Describing and tracking cancer incidence and mortality trends of all cancers; conducting population-based etiologic research in humans; and conducting chemoprevention trials in Georgia and in national collaborations.
- Health Behavior Research: Conducting population-based research that applies social science research methods, including theories of human behavior and rigorous measurement, to preventing cancers and detecting them in an early, treatable stage.
- Symptom Management and Control: Conducting research that characterizes the scope, mechanisms, and consequences of behavioral co-morbidities in cancer patients, while also identifying patients at risk for these co-morbidities and developing novel pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic prevention and treatment strategies.
- Health Outcomes and Quality of Care: Conducting population-based research that describes, interprets, and predicts the impact of interventions and other factors on cancer outcomes important to decision makers.
In addition to these four primary scientific themes, research involving inflammation/oxidative balance, biomarkers, and health disparities represent inter-thematic common elements that are also serving to promote inter-programmatic collaborations.

The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program is led by Timothy Lash, DSc, MPH. and Andrew Miller, MD, whose primary responsibilies are to define, guide, and oversee the program's scientific productivity and development.
Publications
Cancer Prevention and Control program members are continuously publishing landmark research in high-impact scientific journals.
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Program Contact
To learn more about the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Winship Cancer Institute, please contact Dominique Claude Lavoisier at (404) 727-2658.
Visit the Emory University's Cancer Biology Graduate Program website to learn about outstanding training opportunities in every aspect of cancer research, from basic to translational.
Program Leaders

Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
- Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Dr. Lash leads the Cancer Prevention and Control program, which coordinates and promotes all of the cancer prevention and control-related research activities at Winship.

Andrew H. Miller, MD
- Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized leader in the area of brain-immune interactions as they relate to stress and depression.
All Program Members
- Kathleen E. Adams, PhD
- Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management , Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ana Antun, MD, MSc
- Cletus A. Arciero, MD, FACS
- Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Kimberly Jacob Arriola, PhD, MPH
- Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Turgay Ayer, PhD, MSc
- George Family Foundation Assistant Professor, Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech
- Wendy Baer, MD
- Medical Director of Psychiatric Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- George Richard Beck Jr., PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Robert A. Bednarczyk, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Carla J. Berg, PhD, MBA, LP
- Associate Director for Population Sciences, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Sarah C. Blake, PhD, MA
- Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management , Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
- Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
- Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
- Roberd Bostick, MD, MPH
- Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Otis Brawley, MD
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Beau B. Bruce, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Opthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine
- David T. Burke,
- Professor and Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Peter T. Campbell, PhD, MSc
- Strategic Director, Digestive System Cancer Research, American Cancer Society
- Sharon M. Castellino, MD, MSc
- Director, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Amy Y. Chen, MD, MPH, FACS
- Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Suephy Chen, MD, MS
- Director, Dermatology Clinical and Outcomes Research Unit, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Ewan K. Cobran, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy
- Jo Ann Dalton, EdD, MSN, BSN, FAAN
- Professor Emeritus , Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Bree Eaton, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Karen Effinger, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- J. William Eley, MD, MPH
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Carla L. Ellis, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES
- Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Natia Esiashvili, MD
- Associate Professor and Chief Quality Officer, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Alton Farris III, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Veronika Fedirko, PhD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Jennifer Felger, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Felix G. Fernandez, MD
- Chief, Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Christopher Filson, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine
- W. Dana Flanders, MD, DSc, MPH, MA
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Christopher R. Flowers , MD
- Director of the Emory Lymphoma Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Seth D. Force, MD
- Surgical Director, Thoracic Oncology Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Jonah Fox, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Sheryl Gabram-Mendola, MD, MBA, FACS
- Surgeon-in-Chief, Grady Memorial Hospital
- Susan M. Gapstur, PhD, MPH
- Vice President, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society
- Mia M. Gaudet, PhD, MSPH
- Strategic Director, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research, American Cancer Society
- Julie A. Gazmararian, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Theresa W. Gillespie, PhD, MA, BSN
- Professor, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Keerthi Gogineni, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Michael Goodman, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Victoria Green, MD, MHSA, JD, MBA
- Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Mary M. Gullatte, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, AOCN, FAAN
- Corporate Director of Nursing Innovation and Research, Emory Healthcare
- Ying Guo, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Jill Hamilton, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Associate Professor, Office of Academic Advancement, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University
- Xuesong Han, PhD
- Director, Surveillance and Health Services Research, The American Cancer Society
- Ebrahim Haroon, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine
- Terry Hartman, PhD, MPH, RD
- Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Madhuri Hegde, PhD, FACMG
- Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ira R. Horowitz, MD, SM, FACOG, FACS
- John D. Thompson Professor and Chair, Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- David H. Howard , PhD
- Professor, Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Penelope Howards, PhD, MS
- Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Yijian (Eugene) Huang, PhD
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Lisa Ingerski, PhD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Neuro-Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Kara Jacobson, MPH
- Senior Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Ashesh B. Jani, MD, MSEE
- Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Shannon Kahn, MD
- Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
- Michelle C. Kegler, DrPH, MPH
- Director, Intervention Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Namita Khanna, MD, MSPH
- Director, Pelvic Surgery Fellowship, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Tricia Z. King, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University
- Adam Klein, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Joan Kramer, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD
- Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Omer Kucuk, MD
- Chief, Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory
- Subra Kugathasan, MD
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Michael Kutner, PhD
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
- Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Leslie P. Lawley, MD
- Vice Chair of Pediatric Dermatology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston
- William Lewis, MD
- Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jolinta Lin, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Joseph Lipscomb, PhD
- Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Kelly Magliocca, DDS, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Amita Manatunga, PhD
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
- Jordan Gilleland Marchak, PhD, ABPP
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Carmen J. Marsit, PhD
- Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Viraj Master, MD, PhD, FACS
- Professor, Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Douglas E. Mattox, MD
- William Chester Warren, Jr., MD Chair and Professor, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Colleen McBride, PhD
- Rollins Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Marjorie McCullough, ScD, RD, MS
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Lauren McCullough, PhD, MSPH
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Mark McDonald, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Lillian R. Meacham, MD
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ann Mertens, PhD, MS
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Andrew H. Miller, MD
- Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Tamara Miller, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Kathleen Miner, PhD, MPH, MEd
- Associate Dean for Applied Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Charles E. Moore, MD
- Chief of Service, Otolaryngology, Grady Memorial Hospital
- Marina Mosunjac, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Rajini K. Murthy, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Minh Ly T. Nguyen, MD
- Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ajay K. Nooka, MD, MPH, FACP
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Gregg Orloff, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH, MS
- Director, Winship at Emory Cardio-Oncology Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Terrah Paul Olson, MD
- Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Limin Peng, PhD, MS
- Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Melissa D. Pinto, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Assistant Professor of Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
- Mark H. Rapaport, MD
- Reunette W. Harris Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Daniel Refai, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Michelle Reid, MD, MSc
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Carolyn Miller Reilly, PhD, RN, CHFN, FAHA
- Associate Professor, Office of Academic Advancement, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Maria Ribeiro, MD
- Chief, Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Monica Rizzo, MD, FACS
- Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Seth A. Rosen, MD
- Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- P. Barry Ryan, PhD, MS
- Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
- Jessica McDermott Sales, PhD, MA
- Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Manu S. Sancheti, MD, FACS
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Martin G. Sanda, MD
- Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Neil D. Saunders, MD
- Assistant Professor, Division of General and GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Merry E. Sebelik, MD, FACS
- Director, Head and Neck Oncology, Atlanta VA Medical Center
- Monica Serra, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Virginia O. Shaffer, MD
- Associate Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory School of Medicine
- Vinita Singh, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Mi-Kyung Song, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Professor, Office of Academic Advancement, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Kyle Steenland, PhD, MS
- Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Benjamin Stoff, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Patrick Sullivan, MD, FACS
- Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jeffrey Switchenko, PhD, MS
- Assistant Research Professor, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Winifred W. Thompson, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education , Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, MA
- Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Mylin A. Torres, MD
- Louisa and Rand Glenn Family Chair in Breast Cancer Research, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Michael T. Treadway, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Catherine Vena, PhD, RN, MS
- Associate Professor, Office of Academic Advancement, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Craig Villari, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University
- Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH
- Director, Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Karen Wasilewski-Masker, MD, MSc
- Medical Director, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN
- Associate Director for Mentorship, Education and Training, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Jessica Wells, PhD
- Research Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Janice Squires Withycombe, PhD, RN, MN, CCRP
- Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- William G. Woods, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Canhua Xiao, PhD, RN
- Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Kate Yeager, PhD, RN, MS
- Research Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Howa Yeung, MD
- Instructor, Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine