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Paul-Andre Genest
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology and Population Health
BioDr. Paul-André Genest is a Senior Editor at Wiley where he is responsible for the management of a portfolio of journals in the Life and Social Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he co-teaches a yearly course on scholarly communication (HRP 271: Preparation and Practice: Scientific Communication & Media). Previously, he worked as a Publisher at Elsevier where he managed a portfolio of journals in Life Sciences. In that capacity, he co-organized in 2015 a conference on the Impact of Environmental Changes on Infectious Diseases (IECID 2015) in Sitges, Spain, and launched the journals Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications and Current Opinion in Systems Biology. He was also the project manager for the Elsevier Atlas award. Prior to this function, he held the position of Managing Editor at Elsevier for the International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance (IJP:DDR), the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife (IJP:PAW) and the Malaria Nexus web portal.
Dr. Genest has a BSc (Biology) degree and a MSc (Microbiology-Immunology) degree from the Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, and a PhD (Molecular Parasitology) from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He held two postdoc research positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. -
Lesley Park
Sr Res Scientist-Basic Life, Epidemiology and Population Health
BioStanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS)
Associate Director, Education (2019-present)
Director, PHS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-present)
Associate Director, Research and Data Strategy (2016-2019)
Stanford Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEaD)
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Founding Co-Director (2020-present)
Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS)
Cancer Core Co-Director (2016-present)
Dr. Lesley Park is one of the leaders of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS). PHS aims to improve the health of populations by bringing together diverse disciplines and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors. Dr. Park directs and oversees all of the educational and training initiatives at PHS, including the launching of our inaugural year of the AHEaD summer research experience for undergraduate students from underrepresented and historically excluded groups in the health sciences.
Within the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), Dr. Park oversees cancer and COVID-19 outcomes research in persons with HIV/AIDS (PWH). Her research experience has focused on the intersection of cancer and HIV, examining epidemiologic methods for cancer research, cancer incidence trends, and cancer (particularly hepatocellular carcinoma) prevention in PWH. Dr. Park is an experienced epidemiologist, skilled in "big data" observational research, survival analysis, and SAS programming. She teaches courses in computing, data management, and epidemiologic analysis methods. Her prior experience includes research at the Yale School of Medicine and at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR) at the Harvard School of Public Health.
