Principal Investigator for the ARCH Cohort
Associate Professor, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Hsu is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) with the expertise in environmental exposure and cancer health disparities. She was involved in the population studies including the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) study at Georgetown University, the Buckeye Teen Health Study at the Ohio State University, and now the PI for the Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) cohort of 26,375 women representing every county in Arkansas. She was a Project Leader for the P20 COBRE Center for Studies on Host Response to Cancer Therapy at UAMS, which aims to understand early prediction markers for chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients. She is currently a PI and a co-I for two Prostate Cancer Research Program Health Disparity Research Awards from the United States Department of Defense to address the racial disparity of lethal prostate cancer among African American men, and is extremely honored to be able to work with all the great people toward a healthier Arkansas!