Eric Tai, MD, MS
Eric Tai, MD, MS, is board certified in preventive medicine and is a Commander in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. He joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention from 2006 to 2008, and has served as a medical officer in CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control since 2008.
Dr. Tai attended the Georgia Institute of Technology for his undergraduate studies and the Medical College of Georgia for medical school. He completed residencies in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland. His work and research focus on children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer, evaluating quality of cancer care through linkage of cancer registry data to other data sources, and improving cancer patients’ knowledge of infection control.
Some of the most recent articles Dr. Tai has first-authored include—
- 2018 Geographic access to cancer care and mortality among adolescentsexternal icon
- 2018 Cost of tobacco-related cancer hospitalizations in the U.S., 2014external icon
- 2017 Survival among children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the United States, by race and age, 2001 to 2009: findings from the CONCORD-2 study.external icon
- 2014 Clinical trial enrollment among adolescents with cancer: supplement overview.external icon
- 2014 Treatment setting, clinical trial enrollment, and subsequent outcomes among adolescents with cancer: a literature review.external icon
- 2014 Understanding and addressing the lack of clinical trial enrollment among adolescents with cancer.external icon
- 2012 Health status of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.external icon
- 2011 Clostridium difficile infection among children with cancer.external icon
- 2010 Differences in non-Hodgkin lymphoma survival between young adults and children.external icon
- 2010 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma survival among adolescents.external icon