Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH is a gastroenterologist, the Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Epidemiology at the MGH Cancer Center. Dr. Chan’s research focuses on prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. He is the Team Lead for the Stand Up to Cancer Gastric Cancer Interception Team, co-Team Lead for the Cancer Grand Challenges Early-Onset Cancer Team (PROSPECT).
In his lecture this year at EHTG, Prof. Chan will talk about hereditary colorectal cancer prevention by aspirin and discuss risks and benefits of this preventive approach.