About the Speaker
Robert Klesges, Ph.D., is a member of the St. Jude Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control faculty. His research focuses on cancer prevention and control in adults and children, particularly in high-risk populations, as well as health promotion in underserved populations such as women and minorities. Klesges’ work also explores health issues such obesity treatment and weight gain prevention in children and adults and smoking cessation.
He is the principal investigator for the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Studies (GEMs) and the Efficacy of a Tobacco Quit Line for Childhood Cancer Survivors, as well as co-director of the St. Jude Consortium for Interventional Research. Klesges’ research has been published in numerous scientific journals and reports, including the Surgeon General Report of Smoking and Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cancer and the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, Laramie, he joined St. Jude in 2006. Klesges also holds a professorship in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tenn.
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