Yikyung Park, ScD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Public Health Sciences
Specialties
- Nutritional epidemiology
- Lifestyle factors in cancer
- Dietary patterns
Call for patient appointments: 314-362-5298
Meet Dr. Park
Dr. Yikyung Park is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research focus is on nutrition, obesity, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors in relation to cancer development and survival.
She is an associate professor of surgery. Dr. Park earned a doctor of science degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also completed fellowship training in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, as a NIH-AARP fellow before becoming a staff scientist in 2007. She served as co-principal investigator for the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, a prospective cohort study with over half a million men and women participants.
Degrees
Doctor of Science in Nutritional Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2005
Postdoctoral Training
Staff Scientist
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
2007-2014
NIH-AARP Fellowship
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
2005-2007
Research interests
Cancer etiology, prevention, and control with particular emphasis on modifiable lifestyle factors such as diet, physical activity, and obesity
Nutritional epidemiology methods including dietary assessment and dietary patterns
Risk prediction