During AAPI Heritage month, we honor and highlight the work of Dr. Lawrence Kushi.
Dr. Kushi is the director of Scientific Policy at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. He was the former Ella McCollum Vahlteich Professor of Human Nutrition in the Program in Nutrition at Teachers College. Some of his notable achievements include pioneering diet’s role and preventative power in cardiovascular disease, and cancer. He is the author of the American Cancer Association dietary and physical activity guidelines for cancer prevention and has been cited over 50,000 times from his nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles. These have all advanced the field of both nutrition and cancer research in many ways and he is still leading studies on Asian American Health Challenges. Thank you Dr. Kushi for all that you do to help shape the nutrition world! We appreciate your hard work, and dedication; it does not go unnoticed.