 As a cancer epidemiologist, Dr. Rulla Tamimi has devoted her career to research, and the mentorship and training of the next generation of researchers. In 2020, she was appointed as the Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Associate Director of Population Science at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research seeks to better understand disparities in cancer risk and prognosis by incorporating biospecimens and questionnaires in epidemiologic studies. She has led research on cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) cohort for the last 14 years, including work on lifestyle risk factors, biomarkers, genetics and gene expression, and was the Director of the NHS Tissue and Mammogram Repository for nearly a decade. As PI of multiple NIH-funded grants to understand risk factors for breast cancer, she has identified a number of genetic, molecular and lifestyle predictors of breast cancer risk.
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