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Michelle Cotterchio

Senior Scientist, Acute and Hospital-Based Care, Ontario Health

Senior Scientist 
michelle.cotterchio@ontariohealth.ca

Research Interests

  • Cancer prevention
  • Cancer etiology, in particular breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer
  • Cancer risk factors such as diet, lifestyle and infectious disease
  • Genetic susceptibility and interaction with modifiable risk factors
  • Epidemiologic methods
  • Population health

 

Current Appointments

Senior Scientist, Prevention and Cancer Control, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health

  • Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 

Education and Credentials

  • PhD, Epidemiology, University of Toronto
  • MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University
  • MSc, Biology, Boston College
  • BSc, Microbiology, University of Toronto

 

Achievements

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Unit, Preventive Oncology Division, Cancer Care Ontario
  • Steve Fonyo PhD Studentship, National Cancer Institute of Canada
  • Tuition Scholarship, Biology Department, Boston College

 

Skills and Experience

  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Nutrition epidemiology
  • Genetic and molecular epidemiology
  • Population health
  • Questionnaire design
  • Research methodology and study design
  • Case-control studies
  • Record linkage cohort studies
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Manuscript and grant writing

 

Selected Publications

Nicolau IA, Moineddin R, Brooks JD, Antoniou T, Gillis JL, Kendall CE, Cooper C, Cotterchio M, Salters K, Smieja M, Kroch AE, Price C, Mohamed A, Burchell AN. Associations of CD4 Cell Count Measures With Infection-Related and Infection-Unrelated Cancer Risk Among People With HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024 Aug 15;96(5):447-456. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003452. PMID: 38985442.

Wesselink E, Gauderman W, Berndt SI, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Campbell PT, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Cotterchio M, Gunter MJ, Hoffmeister M, Joshi AD, Newton CC, Pai RK, Pellatt AJ, Phipps AI, Song M, Um CY, van Guelpen B, White E, Peters U, van Duijnhoven FJB. Calcium intake and genetic variants in the calcium sensing receptor in relation to colorectal cancer mortality: an international consortium study of 18,952 patients. BJC Rep. 2024;2(1):63. doi: 10.1038/s44276-024-00077-3. Epub 2024 Sep 2. PMID: 39233917.

For a full list of Michelle Cotterchio's journal articles, visit PubMed.