~~Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds:

     Douglas Corley, MD, PhD

~~Douglas A. Corley, MD, PhD, MPH, has been a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research since 2002. He is also a board-certified gastroenterologist who practices at the Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Medical Center. Dr. Corley’s research interests include outcomes and epidemiologic research in gastroenterology, with a particular emphasis on gastrointestinal cancer epidemiology, cancer surveillance, pharmacoepidemiology, and nutritional epidemiology. Current active research projects include evaluations of colorectal cancer, pre-cancerous colon polyps, Barrett’s esophagus, esophageal adenocarcinoma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, serologic markers for gastrointestinal neoplasia, the long-term effects of gastrointestinal medications (such as anti-acid medications), the intersection between nutrition and gastrointestinal disorders, and the carcinogenic effects of obesity. Dr. Corley is lead investigator for the colon cancer component of the National Cancer Institute's Population-based Research Optimizing Screening through Personalized Regimens (PROSPR) consortium, a multisite effort to evaluate and improve cancer-screening processes.  He also serves as the co-editor in chief of Gastroenterology.

After completing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Corley completed an internal medicine residency at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; and a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Corley subsequently obtained a master’s degree in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Division of Research, he was on the full-time gastroenterology faculty at UCSF, where he was the chief of the UCSF GI Faculty Practice

~~8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Department of Medicine
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1.  Understand the most effective methods for decreasing deaths from colorectal cancer
2.  Develop methods for systematically evaluating disease prevention and treatment processes
3.  Identify where improvements can be made in the colorectal cancer prevention and treatment processes.