Dr. Harvey Risch is professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from the University of California–San Diego and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington, Risch was a faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto before coming to Yale.