Eduardo Franco
Faculty
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Franco is James McGill Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, and Chairman, Department of Oncology, at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, in Montreal, Canada. Formerly, he was a faculty member at the Université du Québec (1989-94) and Senior Researcher and Head of the Epidemiology Unit at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1985-89). He holds BSc (1975) and Licentiate (1976) degrees in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and master's (MPH) and doctoral (DrPH) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-84). He was a Guest Researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta (1980-81 and 1983-84), and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology during 1984 at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University, in New Orleans.
Research Interest
Cancer Epidemiology Infectious Disease Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Publications
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Ogilvie GS(*), Krajden M, van Niekerk D, Smith LW, Cook DA, Ceballos K, Lee M, Gentile L, Gondara L, Martin RE, Peacock S, Stuart GCE, Franco EL, Coldman AJ. HPV for Cervical cancer screening (HPV FOCAL): Complete Round 1 results of a randomized trial comparing HPV-based primary screening to liquid based cytology for cervical cancer. International Journal of Cancer 140: 440-448, 2017.
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Leo PJ, Madeleine MM, Wang S, Schwartz SM, Newell F, Kymmer U, Hemminki K, Hallmans G, Tiews S, Steinberg W, Rader JS, Castro F, Safaeian M, Franco EL, Coutlée F, Ohlsson C, Cortes A, Marshall M, Mukhopadhyay P, Cremin K, Johnson LG, Garland S, Tarbrizi S, Wentzensen N, Sitas F, Little J, Cruickshank M, Frazer IH, Hildesheim A, Brown MA(*). Defining the genetic susceptibility to cervical neoplasia – a genome-wide association study. Public Library of Science-Genetics (in press)
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Franco EL(*), Tota JE, Bentley J, Blake J, Coutlée F, Duggan MA., Ferenczy A, Fung-Kee-Fung M, Gotlieb W, Mayrand MH, McLachlin M, Murphy J, Ogilvie G, Ratnam S. Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations for Canada: Credible, Valid, and not Conflicted. Canadian Journal of Pathology (in press).
