Laura Seeff

Dr. Laura Seeff is the Associate Director for the Office of Colorectal Cancer Programs in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, and leads CDC's efforts in organized colorectal cancer screening. She came to CDC in 1998 through the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program and has conducted colorectal cancer health services research, including measuring screening test prevalence, barriers to screening, and cost and availability of screening. She led a CDC study to estimate the national capacity to provide colorectal cancer screening to all eligible persons in the U.S, replicated in 15 states, soon to be updated nationally and in 12 additional states. She was appointed as the CDC ex-officio member of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases, and serves on the steering committee of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable and is co-chair of its Policy-Action Task Group. For the past 5 years, she has overseen CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Programs, and led a team at CDC to develop a funding announcement for a  larger screening program to begin in 2009. Prior to joining CDC in 1998, Dr. Seeff was an Internal Medicine faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine, where she mentored Internal Medicine residents, delivered primary care, and was responsible for establishing and directing a colorectal cancer screening clinic for patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. She attended medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency training at the Emory University School of Medicine. She and her husband have three children.

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