Dr. Playdon is an assistant professor affiliated with the Ulrich team and a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist. She received her PhD in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the metabolic epidemiology branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute. The overall goal of her research is to understand the role of diet and obesity in the development and prognosis of cancer. In particular, Dr. Playdon is interested in unraveling the metabolic factors underlying dietary relationships with cancer using metabolomics, and developing dietary biomarkers to better measure diet.
Research Interests: Diet, nutrition, obesity, metabolic health, metabolism, metabolomics, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, malnutrition, molecular epidemiology, ‘omics and machine learning, population studies, diet intervention, meal timing