Michelle Cotterchio
Senior Scientist, Cancer Control & Evidence Integration, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health
Senior Scientist
michelle.cotterchio@ontariohealth.ca
Research Interests
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer etiology, in particular breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer
- Cancer risk factors such as diet, lifestyle and infectious disease
- Genetic susceptibility and interaction with modifiable risk factors
- Epidemiologic methods
- Population health
Current Appointments
Senior Scientist, Prevention and Cancer Control, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health
- Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Education and Credentials
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Toronto
- MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University
- MSc, Biology, Boston College
- BSc, Microbiology, University of Toronto
Achievements
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Unit, Preventive Oncology Division, Cancer Care Ontario
- Steve Fonyo PhD Studentship, National Cancer Institute of Canada
- Tuition Scholarship, Biology Department, Boston College
Skills and Experience
- Cancer epidemiology
- Nutrition epidemiology
- Genetic and molecular epidemiology
- Population health
- Questionnaire design
- Research methodology and study design
- Case-control studies
- Record linkage cohort studies
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Manuscript and grant writing
Selected Publications
Bouras E, Kim AE, Lin Y, Morrison J, Du M, Albanes D, … Cotterchio M, et al. Genome-wide interaction analysis of folate for colorectal cancer risk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Aug 26:S0002-9165(23)66108-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.08.010. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37640106.
Christodoulakis N, Abdelkader W, Lokker C, Cotterchio M, Griffith LE, Vanderloo LM, Anderson LN. Public Health Surveillance of Behavioral Cancer Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Twitter Data. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Nov 2;7:e46874. doi: 10.2196/46874. PMID: 37917123.
Fatty Acids in Cancer Mendelian Randomization Collaboration; Haycock PC, Borges MC, Burrows K, Lemaitre RN, Burgess S, Khankari NK, … Cotterchio M, et al. The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer. EBioMedicine. 2023 Apr 20;91:104510. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104510. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37086649.
Laskar RS, Qu C, Huyghe JR, Harrison T, Hayes RB, Cao Y, … Cotterchio M, et al. Genome-wide association study and Mendelian randomization analyses provide insights into the causes of early-onset colorectal cancer. Ann Oncol. 2024 Feb 24:S0923-7534(24)00058-9. doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2024.02.008. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38408508.
Nicolau IA, Moineddin R, Antoniou T, Brooks JD, Gillis JL, Kendall CE, Cooper C, Cotterchio M, Salters K, Smieja M, Kroch AE, Lindsay JD, Price C, Mohamed A, Burchell AN. Trends in infection-related and infection-unrelated cancer incidence among people with and without HIV infection in Ontario, Canada, 1996-2020: a population-based matched cohort study using health administrative data. CMAJ Open. 2023 Oct 10;11(5):E894-E905. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20220230. PMID: 37816545.
Stern MC, Sanchez Mendez J, Kim AE, Obón-Santacana M, Moratalla-Navarro F, Martín V, ... Cotterchio M, et al. Genome-wide gene-environment interaction analyses to understand the relationship between red meat and processed meat intake and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 Dec 19. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0717. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38112776.
Rontogianni MO, Bouras E, Aglago EK, Freisling H, Murphy N, Cotterchio M, Hampe J, Lindblom A, Pai RK, Pharoah PDP, Phipps AI, van Duijnhoven FJB, Visvanathan K, van Guelpen B, Li CI, Brenner H, Pellatt AJ, Ogino S, Gunter MJ, Peters U, Christakoudi S, Tsilidis KK. Allometric versus traditional body-shape indices and risk of colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis. Int J Obes (Lond). 2024 Jan 31. doi: 10.1038/s41366-024-01479-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38297030.
For a full list of Michelle Cotterchio's journal articles, visit PubMed.