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Gastric Cancer Prevention: From Epidemiology to the Community and the Clinic

Dr. Meira Epplien
Thursday, April 23, 2020
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Meira Epplein, PhD
Department of Population Health Sciences Research Seminar

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Dr. Epplein will present her work on two new studies:

1. A follow-on community-engaged project to DISH, the Durham Initiative for Stomach Health.

2. A basic/clinical study of racial differences in host immune response and gastric carcinogenesis: translating underlying biology to promote gastric cancer interception

Dr. Meira Epplein is a cancer epidemiologist interested in modifiable risk factors in under-served populations, with a focus on the association of infection and cancer. She became Co-Leader of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the Duke Cancer Institute and Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Duke University Medical Center in May of 2017. Previously, she was a tenured faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, after two years as a post-doctoral fellow with the Multiethnic Cohort Study at the University of Hawaii. Prior to earning her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Washington, she completed an MA in international studies, and spent five years as a program officer for The National Bureau of Asian Research think tank.

WEBEX INFORMATION

https://dukemed.webex.com/dukemed/j.php?MTID=m960ab08729a2f5d1f282809d039d68cd
Meeting number (access code): 474 380 619
Host key: 330886
Meeting password: duke
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