Health is primary

Li Li

Health is primary

Li Li

Family and community medicine provide primary and fundamental care for individuals and population. This issue of Family Medicine and Community Health has assembled reports addressing a mix of work encountered by primary care physicians in their daily practice,ranging from smoking cessation, mental health,violence, aging and obstructive sleep apnea to management of celiac disease. The articles by Dr. Sheng Liu and Dr. Geetah Mani are particularly enlightening and remind us of the critical role that social culture plays in the health of the general population and the delivery of primary care to our patients.

As we all now embrace it — Health is Primary.

Sincerely,

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University,11000 Cedar Avenue, Suite 402,Cleveland, OH 44106-7136,USA

E-mail： lxl62@case.edu

Accepted 20 September 2017

Guest Editor

Guest Editor Li Li, MD, PhD, is Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics,Mary Ann Swetland Endowed Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, and Director of Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,Ohio, USA.

He is also an attending physician in family medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He is an internationally known cancer epidemiologist with research focuses on gene-environment interaction,energy imbalance and colon carcinogenesis, screening and early detection of colon neoplasia, and risk prediction modeling in breast cancer. He is the principal investigator for multiple NIH research grants and has contributed significantly to a number of large multi-investigator efforts, such as the Case Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) program and the Case GI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE). He is also Associate Director for Prevention Research at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, overseeing population research that cuts across all aspects of translational cancer research, ranging from epidemiology psychosocial and behavioral sciences, genomics,and biomarker discovery and validation to the application of novel discoveries from both wet and dry laboratories to screening and early detection, prevention, and intervention. He is the founding director of the Clinical Translational Science PhD program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Li Li (), MD, PhD

2 September 2017;