Yikyung Park, ScD

Medical School Department Surgery
Research Program Prevention and Control
Yikyung Park

Researcher Background

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, WashU Medicine

Training

  • 2005 - 2007: Fellow, Nutritional Epidemiology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD

Education

  • 2005: PhD, Nutritional Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Research & Selected Publications

Research Interest

Effects of diet, obesity, physical activity, smoking, and other lifestyles on cancer progression, recurrence and survival, and the development of second primary cancers.

Research Publications

Adherence to healthy dietary patterns and risk of premature aging in adult survivors of childhood cancer in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study.
Authors:

Lan T, Wang M, Williams AM, one or more additional authors omitted Park Y

Journal & Year:

Cancer • 2026

To Butter or Replace With Plant-Based Oils, That Is the Question.
Authors:

Park YM, Park Y

Journal & Year:

JAMA Intern Med • 2025

Plant-based, fast-food, Western-contemporary, and animal-based dietary patterns and risk of premature aging in adult survivors of childhood cancer: a cross-sectional study.
Authors:

Lan T, Wang M, Williams AM, one or more additional authors omitted Park Y

Journal & Year:

BMC Med • 2025

Sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages in relation to premature aging in adult survivors of childhood cancer.
Authors:

Lan T, Wang M, Williams AM, one or more additional authors omitted Park Y

Journal & Year:

Br J Cancer • 2024

Plant Foods Intake and Risk of Premature Aging in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer in the St Jude Lifetime Cohort (SJLIFE).
Authors:

Wang M, Lan T, Williams AM, one or more additional authors omitted Park Y

Journal & Year:

J Clin Oncol • 2024

Dietary patterns and their associations with sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in adult survivors of childhood cancer: a cross-sectional study.
Authors:

Lan T, Wang M, Ehrhardt MJ, one or more additional authors omitted Park Y

Journal & Year:

Am J Clin Nutr • 2024

Multivitamin use and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in cancer survivors.
Authors:

Park Y, Farhat Z, Liao LM, Inoue-Choi M , Loftfield E

Journal & Year:

Br J Cancer • 2024