Nutritional Epidemiologist
Larry Kushi is an epidemiologist with a primary research focus on nutrition and cancer. With over 340 publications in peer-reviewed journals and an H-index over 100, he is an internationally recognized leader in his field. He has received over $100 million in research grants from the National Cancer Institute as Principal Investigator. His current grants focus on multi-level factors influencing treatment, prognosis, and survival in people diagnosed with breast cancer; racial disparities in ovarian cancer treatment and outcomes; clinical care and late effects in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors; and the evolution and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccination, and COVID-19 outcomes. He has served on committees and advisory boards for numerous large research projects and organizations, such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, Food and Drug Administration, American Cancer Society, World Cancer Research Fund, Oldways, and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He has held research and faculty positions at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Minnesota, and Columbia University where he was the Vahlteich Professor of Human Nutrition. A graduate of Amherst College and the Harvard School of Public Health, he is Director of Scientific Policy in the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
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