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ANN HSING, PhD, MPH, is an internationally recognized epidemiologist with more than 37 years of experience in cancer epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, population sciences, and international studies. She has extensive expertise in the epidemiology and etiology of prostate and hepatobiliary cancers, hormonal carcinogenesis, and circadian rhythm. Recently, she has focused on the science of well-being and on cancer early detection and prevention.
Dr. Hsing is a professor of medicine and of epidemiology and population health in the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a faculty fellow in the Center for Population Health Sciences and the Center for Innovation in Global Health and chairs the Pacific Rim Alliances for Population Health (PRAPH). Dr. Hsing is principal investigator (PI) for the Stanford Well for Life (WELL) study, a longitudinal cohort of more than 32,000 participants across five countries that studies cross-cultural patterns and determinants of well-being. At Stanford, she leads MOSAAIC@Stanford, the Stanford site of the Multi-ethnic Observational Study of American Asian and Pacific Islander Communities (MOSAAIC), which focuses on health and prevention research in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Dr. Hsing also leads the International Consortium on Cancer Biomarkers for Early Detection and Prevention (INTERCEPT), an international collaboration to identify biomarkers for early cancer detection and prevention. Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Hsing worked for 22 years at the National Cancer Institute, where she was a tenured senior investigator, and, from 2012 to 2015, she served as the chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, an affiliated partner of the Stanford Cancer Institute. Dr. Hsing has conducted population-based epidemiological studies on four continents, including North and South America, Asia, and Africa. She has served on numerous committees, editorial boards, and advisory boards and is an elected fellow of the American Epidemiological Society and the American College of Epidemiology. At Stanford, she is the founding course director of CHPR242 (The Science of Well-being) and CHPR288 (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Asian Americans). She has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and mentored more than 87 postdoctoral fellows and junior investigators. She is passionate about research, music, gardening, and helping young people succeed.
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