Dr. Michael D. Wirth is an Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing and ASPH, University of South Carolina. Dr. Michael D. Wirth has been working in the field of epidemiology for over 10 years. He was also on the development team for the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) invented at the University of South Carolina. Within 8 years, he has had over 700 publications using the DII. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from Wingate University in 2007. He obtained his MSPH, PhD, and FACE from Arnold School of Public Health, USC, in 2012. He is a Fellow of ACE. Dr. Michael Wirth is interested in the effects of circadian rhythm disruption on the human body and various health outcomes. His primary focus is on circadian biology. He also pursues research about dietary sources of inflammation, physical activity, and stress on health.
Dr. Christopher A. Haiman is a Professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and AFLAC Chair in cancer research. He is a Director for the Center for Genetic Epidemiology and a Genetic Epidemiologist whose research is focused on exploring racial and ethnic disparities in cancer risk, with the goal of developing approaches to reduce these disparities. He is the co-principal investigator of the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC). In addition to these leadership and administrative research positions, he has vast experience in directing large consortia and is currently the Scientific Leader of the African Ancestry Prostate Cancer Consortium (AAPC). He has also served as a steering committee member for numerous NIH consortia, including the NCI GAME-ON Consortium, NHGRI Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology Consortium (PAGE), NHGRI Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA) Consortium, and the NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3). He is also the Principal Investigator of the RESPOND African American prostate cancer initiative. He has co-authored more than 450 peer-reviewed publications, with many in prominent journals, including Nature Genetics, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
