Dr. Robert Hiatt | CureTalks

Robert A. Hiatt is a Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF and the Associate Director of Population Sciences of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley and Adjunct Investigator at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland. He is a past president of the American College of Epidemiology and the American Society for Preventive Oncology. Currently, he leads the All of Us Precision Health Program at UCSF and directs the San Francisco Cancer Initiative (SF CAN). His research interests include cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention and screening, health services and outcomes research, the social determinants of cancer, and environmental exposures in early development related to cancer. His central focus at UCSF has been on building a strong transdisciplinary research and training program in epidemiology with a focus on cancer population sciences. He completed his PhD and MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley and MD from University of Michigan.