Arthur Schatzkin
Chief
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch
Dr. Schatzkin received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.D. from the State
University of New York, and an M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Columbia University. He
is board certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine and public
health. He joined NCI in 1984 as a senior staff fellow in the Cancer Prevention
Studies Branch of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, becoming a
senior investigator in 1988. In 1997 he joined the Nutritional Epidemiology
Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. His research
focuses on the nutritional etiology and prevention of cancer. He received the
NIH Merit Award in 1996 for work on the Polyp Prevention Trial.
