EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.D., New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1997

M.P.H., University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Seattle, WA, 2002

Fellowship, Biobehavioral Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program,
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine,
Seattle, 2002-2004

OFFICE ADDRESS

Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave.
Pat Steel Building, Rm 5122
Campus Box 359780
Seattle, WA 98104 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N., M3-B232
Seattle, WA 98109

E-mail: johnchoe@u.washington.edu

Clinic Appointments: (206) 744-5865
Adult Medicine Clinic at Harborview



HONORS

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Washington,
     2000-2002
Senior Fellow, Biobehavioral Cancer Prevention and Control
     Training Program, University of Washington, 2002-2004

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Health promotion and chronic disease management in
      vulnerable populations.
Disease prevention among Asians and other immigrant
      and refugee communities.
Community-based programs in cancer detection, prevention,
      and control.
Hepatitis B and cancer prevention in Asians

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Choe JH, Koepsell TD, Heagerty P, Taylor VM. Colorectal cancer among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S: Survival disadvantage for the foreign-born. Cancer Detection and Prevention. 2005 ; 29(4): 361-8 .

Choe JH, Chan NL, Do HH, Woodall ED, Lim E, Taylor VM. Hepatitis B and liver cancer among Korean Americans: results from a qualitative study. CANCER [in press].

Choe JH, Tu S, Lim J, Burke N, Acorda E, Taylor VM. “Heat in their intestine”: Colorectal cancer prevention beliefs among Older Chinese Americans. Ethnicity & Disease [in press].

Choe JH, Taylor VM, Yasui Y, Burke N, Nguyen T, Acorda E, Jackson JC. Health care access and sociodemographic factors associated with hepatitis B testing in Vietnamese American men. Journal of Immigrant Health [in press].

Tsai J, Tu S, Choe JH, Lim J, Acorda E, Taylor VM. Developing culturally competent knowledge: Issues of data analysis of cross-cultural, cross-language qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2004; 3(4).