USC Cancer Epidemiology Seminar Series

“Investigation of Host Factors and the Tumor Microenvironment in Multiethnic Hematologic Cancer Patients” – Dr. Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH (UC Irvine).

Dr. Wendy Cozen is a cancer epidemiologist with a focus on the etiology and outcomes of Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma. She received her DO degree from Western College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pomona, CA and completed an anatomic pathology residency at UCLA/West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a second residency in Preventive Medicine at UCLA before completing an NCI Cancer Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California where she built a 25-year research program focusing on the epidemiology and etiology of mature B-cell neoplasms. She relocated to the Division of Hematology-Oncology at UCI in 2020, where she is the Associate Director for Cancer Control and co-director of the Experimental Pathology Core for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is currently conducting studies on the tumor microenvironment and outcomes in a set of 912 multiethnic Hodgkin lymphoma patients, biological aging and microbiome in long-term AYA Hodgkin lymphoma survivors and their unaffected twins, and lifestyle, genetic and immune determinants of MGUS and multiple myeloma in a large multicenter study of over 4,000 multiethnic cases and controls.

Zoom link:

https://usc.zoom.us/j/95873416446?pwd=KKg9M4RHaMzeUOJba6L8yow63PNv4V.1