Eric Durbin, DrPH, MS

Eric B. Durbin, DrPH, MS, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Kentucky Cancer Registry, a registry participant in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program of Cancer Registries. He also serves as Director of the Cancer Research Informatics Shared Resource at the Markey Cancer Center, designated as an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has over 35 years of experience in population-based cancer surveillance and informatics support for basic, clinical, population, and translational cancer research. His research interests include biomedical informatics methods in cancer surveillance, cancer epidemiology, research data sharing, and childhood cancer. Dr. Durbin’s current research is focused on the integration of multi–omics data to support decision-making in precision medicine and cancer prevention and control initiatives. His research team develops informatics methods to support population-based cancer research and collaborates in the development of machine learning methods to derive clinical biomarkers from narrative medical documents and pathology digital whole slide images. He also leads epidemiological studies exploring environmental, genetic, molecular, and other factors associated with the high incidence rates of childhood brain and central nervous system tumors in Kentucky and the Appalachian region.

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