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Karl Kelsey, M.D., is a distinguished professor at Brown University specializing in Community Health, Pathology Laboratory Medicine, and Epidemiology. He serves as the founding Director of the Center for Environmental Health and the Head of the Environmental Health Section in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Kelsey’s research focuses on the application of laboratory-based biomarkers in environmental diseases, with significant experience in chronic disease epidemiology and tumor biology. His work aims to mechanistically understand individual susceptibility to exposure-related cancers, including those related to head and neck cancers. Dr. Kelsey has been at the forefront of developing innovative methods for using DNA methylation biomarkers to probe immune profiles from archived blood samples, thereby advancing the evolving field of immuno-epidemiology. He has been a principal investigator on numerous NIH-funded projects investigating gene-environment interactions in oral and bladder cancers and examining the molecular alterations in mesothelioma associated with asbestos exposure. Dr. Kelsey is also involved in large-scale studies that analyze the medical and lifestyle histories of individuals diagnosed with cancer and compare them to healthy controls, striving to identify risk factors and biomarkers associated with cancer.
Department: Department of Economics