Biography

Dr. Emily Busch, PGY3 is an aspiring surgeon scientist in the field of colon and rectal surgery. She graduated from Temple University School of Medicine and completed her first three years of surgical residency at SUNY Downstate.

She elected to spend her research years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University. Emily’s primary research interest is colorectal cancer, particularly the recent increase in incidence of rectal cancer in young patients. To this end, she has developed a collaborate translational project between the department of pathology and the department of colorectal surgery to investigate the cause of this emerging disease as well as to develop representative and reproducible models for further in-vivo research.

Additionally, she is engaged in health outcomes research in colon and rectal surgery. Her work has been selected for funding through the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Resident Research Initiation Grant and an NIH funded training fellowship in precision medicine.

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