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 | Graham A. Colditz M.D., DrPH
Cancer Prevention and Control
Niess-Gain Professor in the School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Prevention and Control
Siteman Cancer Center
Adjunct Professor, Community Health, Division of Epidemiology
Saint Louis University School of Public Health | Contact Information
Siteman Cancer Center
660 So. Euclid Avenue, Suite 2306
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 454-7940
colditzg@wustl.edu | Biography
Dr. Colditz is an epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington University School of Medicine. He served as principal investigator of the Nurses’ Health Study located at the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, from 1999 to 2006. This cohort follows 121,700 U.S. women with questionnaire assessment of lifestyle factors and the use of biomarkers to assess risk of chronic diseases among women (reference: www.nurseshealthstudy.org). He continues to collaborate on this study and on studies based on tissue samples from participants with prior biopsies for benign breast disease to evaluate changes that predict future risk of breast cancer.
He has a major interest in the etiology and prevention of cancer working with numerous state and national organizations to translate research findings from ongoing studies into public health strategies for prevention. For 15 years, he taught the Cancer Prevention course at Harvard School of Public Health. His additional public health practice activities include collaborations through the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) program to improve diet assessment and nutrition education in the service delivery setting.
Dr. Colditz served in leadership roles within the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention from its founding until the fall of 2006. He led the development of the Center’s website, an interactive risk assessment tool that provides tailored messages on the prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases.
In 2003, Dr. Colditz was the recipient of the American Cancer Society Sissy Hornung Clinical Research Professorship Award, and awarded the DeWitt S. Goodman Lectureship by the American Association of Cancer Research in 2003. Since 2004, he has been funded by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to further evaluate risk factors for breast cancer and the potential for prevention. He is a Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. | Medical Education
M.D., DrPH: Harvard School of Public Health
M.D.: University of Queensland
FAFPHM: Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, The Royal Australian College of Physicians | Research Interest
With a longstanding interest in the causes and prevention of chronic disease, particularly among women, he has evaluated numerous lifestyle factors including exogenous hormones and breast cancer risk and the development of statistical models to predict cancer risk for individuals. Other areas of his expertise include tobacco and obesity in relation to cancer and other chronic diseases. | Selected or Recent Publications
Colditz GA, Hankinson SE. The Nurses' Health Study: lifestyle and health among women. Nat Rev Cancer. 2005;5(5):388-396.
Colditz GA, Rosner BA. What can be learnt from models of incidence rates? Breast Cancer Res. 2006;8(3):2007.
Colditz GA, Sellers TA, Trapido E. Epidemiology - identifying the causes and preventability of cancer? Nat Rev Cancer. 2006;6(1):75-83. |
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