Overview:
Our overall long-term goal is to determine risk factors for the complex (multifactorial) disease, venous thromboembolism (VTE), that will allow physicians to stratify individual patient risk and target VTE prophylaxis to those who would benefit most. In this ge...

Over 85% of all patients diagnosed with lung cancer report a history of tobacco use, though only 10% of tobacco smokers eventually develop lung cancer. Epidemiologic studies have shown that family members of patients with lung cancer have a higher risk of developing lung cancer than controls. In ...