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Experts
PCRM communications staff can arrange interviews with a variety
of experts around the country, including physicians and dietitians
who promote dietary approaches to cancer prevention and survival.
To arrange interviews, contact:
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Neal D. Barnard, M.D.
Cancer Project president and founder. Nutrition researcher. Author of
six books and many scientific articles on nutrition and health.
Directs numerous innovative campaigns to promote healthy eating.
Full-length bio >
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Paulette Chandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Member of The Cancer Project’s Advisory Board. Associate physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Full-length bio >
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Joseph Gonzales, R.D.
Staff dietitian for The Cancer Project. His background includes developing and monitoring nutrition care plans for a variety of health organizations, including hospitals, a nursing home, and a retreat center for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Gonzales also volunteered with a diabetes lifestyle intervention program at the Diabetes Wellness Center in the Marshall Islands. In this program, he conducted cooking demonstrations, developed healthful standardized recipes, administered and evaluated blood glucose screenings, and helped people with diabetes understand the correlation between diet and diabetes. Gonzales earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition at Bastyr University and completed his supervised dietetic internships through the Coordinated Program of Dietetics at Washington State University.
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Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of the Washington Center for Clinical Research, a subsidiary of PCRM. Designs and conducts clinical research activities and provides general oversight for clinical research coordination. Active clinical research projects include a multi-center study examining the effect of a low-fat vegan diet on glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes and a study that examines the effect of a low-fat vegan diet on weight control and work site costs.
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Amy J. Lanou, Ph.D.
Nutrition consultant and spokesperson for The Cancer Project. Author of Healthy
Eating for Life for Children. Former instructor at Cornell
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Jennifer K. Reilly, R.D.
Jennifer K. Reilly, R.D., is a nutrition consultant for The Cancer
Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization
dedicated to advancing new approaches to cancer prevention
and survival through nutrition education and research. Full-length bio > |
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Gordon Saxe, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and a member of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Saxe received his M.P.H. in Nutrition at Tulane University, his Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, and his M.D. at Michigan State University. He completed residency training in preventive medicine at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Saxe’s research has focused on the role of diet and lifestyle factors in breast and prostate cancer. His current research focuses on whether adoption of a plant-based diet, reinforced by stress reduction, can slow the progression
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Brie Turner-McGrievy, Ph.D., R.D.
Nutrition consultant and spokesperson for The Cancer Project. Postdoctoral fellow at the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Adjunct faculty member in the department of nutrition and hospitality management at the University of Alabama, where she teaches two online nutrition courses. Full-length bio > |
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