Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD, a professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a William H. Danforth Washington University Physician Scholar. He is the second physician-researcher named as part of the School of Medicine’s new Physician-Scientist Investigators Initiative, which supports pioneering physician-scientists whose work already has transformed their fields”.
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“’Dr. Toriola’s research fulfills a critical unmet need in premenopausal breast cancer prevention, given the limited number of chemoprevention options available,’” said Eberlein, also the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor. “’His research represents cutting-edge precision prevention research.’”