Paolo Boffetta MD, MPH

Dr. Boffetta moved to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2010. He is Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology and Associate Director for Population Sciences of The Tisch Cancer Institute. He is also the Bluhdorn Professor of International Community Medicine.

Dr. Boffetta's previous employments include Columbia University (New York, NY), the American Cancer Society (New York, NY), the American Cancer Society (New York, NY), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon, France), and the German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, Germany).

Dr. Boffetta is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA), Visiting Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Turin (Turin, Italy), an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), Affiliate Member of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada), Senior Fellow of the Hellenic Health Foundation (Athens, Greece), Honorary Professor at the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Dundee (Dundee, United Kingdom), Adjunct Professor at Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), and Vice-President of the International Prevention Research Institute (Lyon, France).

Dr. Boffetta is the author of over 700 peer-reviewed publications, mainly in the field of epidemiology of chronic diseases. He has edited 15 books and authored over 80 book chapters. He is the associate editor of Lung Cancer, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Frontiers in Cancer Epidemiology, and is a member of more than 10 editorial boards of scientific journals. He is the founding member of several international cancer epidemiology consortia and networks.