Professor and Program Head
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
.Marian L Neuhouser, PhD, RD, is a Professor and Program Head in the Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, WA. Dr. Neuhouser leads the Fred Hutch Cancer Prevention Program, which was the first National Cancer Institute research program in cancer prevention, initially funded in the 1980s. She is also Core Faculty in Nutritional Sciences and Affiliate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington. Dr. Neuhouser completed her undergraduate degree in Community Nutrition at the University of California, Davis. She obtained her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of WA followed by postdoctoral training at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center where she subsequently became faculty and has spent the past 27 years engaged in cancer-related nutrition research. Dr. Neuhouser has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of numerous NIH and USDA-funded grants focused on: (1) dietary modification interventions for reduction of risk of chronic disease or progression of existing disease; (2) short term intervention trials to delineate the role of foods, food components and dietary patterns on human metabolism and physiology, and for dietary biomarker discovery; and (3) methodologic research to improve dietary assessment. Research designs range from large observational cohorts to controlled feeding trials. She has authored over 425 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the biomedical literature. Dr. Neuhouser is member and chair of the NIH’s Lifestyle and Health Behaviors (LHB) Scientific Review Group. Dr. Neuhouser was a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, was President of the American Society for Nutrition 2016-2017, and is an Associate Editor for Journal of Nutrition.