Associate Professor
Dr. Hélène Choquet is a Research Scientist II with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. She is currently a valued mentor for General Surgery residents at the UCSF-East Bay General Surgery program and for resident physicians outside of Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Choquet tries to transmit her passion for human genetics to the KPSOM community, and teach and/or mentor medical students interested in her research. She has a broad background in human genetics and genomics, with research interests in the identification of genetic factors contributing to complex traits and diseases, including the genetics of obesity, alcohol and tobacco use disorders, brain disorders, nonmelanoma skin cancers, and vision disorders. Dr. Choquet is currently the Principal Investigator on two R01s from two NIH institutions, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Eye Institute (NEI), investigating the genetic etiology of nonmelanoma skin cancers and cataract, respectively. She received doctoral training in Human Genetics from the Lille 2 University of Health and Law in France. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Dr. Choquet received training in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics and received an American Heart Association award.