Strang
Cancer Prevention Institute
Dedicated to promoting cure by early detection and research to prevent cancer since 1933
Early detection is your best protection
James A. Talcott MD, SM.
Director of Research and Programs Strang Cancer Prevention Institute
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Dr. Talcott is an internationally recognized medical oncologist, outcomes researcher and clinical research teacher. After 10 years teaching at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University in Boston, he became Director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in 1997. In 2011, he joined Continuum Cancer Centers of New York as Director of the Center for Health Care Quality and Outcomes Research, later absorbed into the Mount Sinai Integrated Cancer Network Programs. He was Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Dr. Talcott graduated from Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, and, as a Rhodes Scholar, from the University of Oxford. He received his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals. He received an SM degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1991.