Expertise
Clinical Areas: Heritable Cancer Syndromes of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Colorectal Cancer Screening, General Gastroenterology.
He is devoted to improving methods to identify and prevent CRC, including underused modalities like fecal immunochemical testing, attenuating disparities in access to screening, and improving strategies to identify families with heritable GI cancer syndromes. His public health degree has provided experience in public health, community-based research, statistical management, and bioinformatic investigations that have laid the foundation for his niche in understanding racial/ethnic disparities in CRC, its prevention through screening uptake, and the role of molecular markers of GI malignancy.
Dr. Sussman aims to: 1) improve strategies to identify families with heritable GI cancer syndromes; 2) improve methods to identify and prevent CRC, including underused modalities like fecal immunochemical testing; 3) identify and clarify the role of molecular markers of GI malignancy; and 4) to develop a repository for patients with GI tract neoplasia related to heritable cancer syndromes, early-onset cancer, or HIV.