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 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 fall of 2006. He led the development of the Center’s website, and interactive risk assessment tool which provides tailored messages on the prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases (reference: www.yourdiseaserisk.siteman.wustl.edu).

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 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.

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MD, DrPH- Harvard School of Public Health
MD- University of Queensland
FAFPHM- Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, The Royal Australian College of Physicians

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