
John Shepherd, PhD
Director
University of Hawai’i Cancer Center
701 Ilalo Street, Suite 522
Honolulu, HI 96813
Office: 808-440-5230
Omni: 415-891-7437
Email: johnshep@hawaii.edu
I am a Researcher/Professor at the UH Cancer Center, a Fulbright Scholar and an expert in mining biomarkers from medical imaging using advanced machine learning techniques; Co-I San Francisco Mammography Registry 1999-2018; PI of the NIH-funded 3-Component Breast Imaging Study. ; Director of the Artificial Intelligence Precision Health Institute; , the Body Composition Exercise Physiology and Energy Metabolism CORE lab, and the Shepherd Research Lab; 2017 President of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry; ISCD’s John Bilezikian Global Leadership and Oscar Gluck Humanitarian Awards for his IAEA contributions. I have chaired 10 international workshops on quantitative imaging and have over 200 peer-reviewed publications that have been referenced over 10,000 times.
Affiliations
Professor, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Intercollege PhD Program in Nutrition
Professor, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology)
Researcher, University of Hawai’i Cancer Center
Director, Artificial Intelligence Precision Health Institute