Section Chief of Gastroenterology, Minneapolis VA; Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, is Section Chief of Gastroenterology at the Minneapolis VA and a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She is interested in epidemiology and the prevention of colorectal cancer. Her focus is on studying the effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer, developing and validating risk scores to optimize screening strategies, and developing and validating quality indicators for screening colonoscopy programs.