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Karen Glanz: Abramson Cancer Center Appointment

caption: Karen GlanzKaren Glanz has been named associate director for community engaged research and leader for the cancer control program at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center effective the beginning of December.

Dr. Glanz is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Nursing, and director of the University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center. She is a behavioral scientist with public health expertise. Her basic and translational research in community and health-care settings focuses on obesity, nutrition and the built environment; reduction of health disparities; and novel health communication technologies.

Dr. Glanz has made important and sustained contributions to cancer prevention and control.  With more than 480 publications and designation as a Most Highly-Cited Author over the past 20 years (top 0.5% of authors in the field) by www.ISIHighlyCited.com, her scholarship has been consistently interdisciplinary and highly influential in advancing the science of understanding, predicting, and changing health-related behavior. Dr. Glanz is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, served on the Community Preventive Services Task Force for 10 years, and is a current member of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council. She has been a member of the Cancer Control Program at the Abramson Cancer Center since 2009.

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