| |  | | Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D.
| TREC Co-Director, Core Co-Director (A), Core Director (D)
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Dr. Leslie Bernstein, a professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine holds the AFLAC Chair in
Cancer Research at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center where she directs the Women's Cancers Program. Since 1988, Dr. Bernstein has been the Scientific
Director for the Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program, a population-based cancer registry that is one of the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End
Results (SEER) registries. Dr. Bernstein trained as a biostatistician and focuses her research studies on the etiology of breast cancer. Her major research
interests include how lifestyle factors, and particularly, physical activity, influence breast cancer risk, how risk factors interact with breast cancer treatment
to affect the subsequent risk of other chronic diseases, and how lifestyle practices impact breast cancer prognosis and the survivor's quality of life.
Dr. Bernstein also has a study of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in women ongoing and continues her research and interest in the etiology of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
Dr. Bernstein directs the California Teachers Study, a cohort of 133,479 women formed in 1995 to address ongoing questions in cancer etiology and survivorship.
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