Hemant K. Roy, MD

Adjunct Professor, Medicine

Hemant Roy
617.638.8345
650 Albany St Evans Biomed Research Ctr

Biography

Dr. Roy joined the faculty in 2013. He completed his medical degree from Northwestern University with distinction and completed internal medicine residency at Beth Isreal followed by GI Fellowship at University of Chicago.

Dr. Roy’s research interests center on GI cancer risk stratification using intermediate biomarkers of field carcinogenesis. He has been involved in the development and clinical implementation of a variety of biophotonic techniques for risk stratification encompassing both fiberoptic probes and cytological based techniques and these are complemented by a variety of molecular markers including microRNAs.

This has served as a platform for assessing risk modification via chemoprevention and applied to a number of non-GI malignancies including lung and ovarian cancer. Dr. Roy is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and member of the Early Detection Research Network and the Cancer Biomarkers Study Section of the NCI,

More clinically, his interests are in high risk colon cancer syndromes and role of gender in colorectal cancer screening. Throughout his career he has also been involved in teaching receiving numerous awards in this regard.

Other Positions

  • Section Chief, Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Member, BU-BMC Cancer Center, Boston University
  • Member, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
  • Full Member, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Boston University Medical Center
  • Member, Genome Science Institute, Boston University

Education

  • Northwestern University School of Medicine, MD
  • Vanderbilt University, BS

Publications

  • Published on 12/8/2023

    Daneshkhah A, Agrawal V, Eshein A, Subramanian H, Roy HK, Backman V. Correction: Evidence for possible association of vitamin D status with cytokine storm and unregulated inflammation in COVID-19 patients. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2023 Dec; 35(12):3263. PMID: 38064110.

    Read at: PubMed
  • Published on 7/5/2023

    Barber LE, VoPham T, White LF, Roy HK, Palmer JR, Bertrand KA. Circadian Disruption and Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Black Women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 Jul 05; 32(7):927-935. PMID: 36409509.

    Read at: PubMed
  • Published on 10/7/2021

    Barber LE, Bertrand KA, Petrick JL, Gerlovin H, White LF, Adams-Campbell LL, Rosenberg L, Roy HK, Palmer JR. Predicted Vitamin D Status and Colorectal Cancer Incidence in the Black Women's Health Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 12; 30(12):2334-2341. PMID: 34620630.

    Read at: PubMed
  • Published on 5/24/2021

    Mohanty A, Kapuria D, Canakis A, Lin H, Amat MJ, Rangel Paniz G, Placone NT, Thomasson R, Roy H, Chak E, Baffy G, Curry MP, Laine L, Rustagi T. Fresh frozen plasma transfusion in acute variceal haemorrhage: Results from a multicentre cohort study. Liver Int. 2021 08; 41(8):1901-1908. PMID: 33969607.

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  • Published on 5/2/2021

    Pandey S, Fish SS, Roy HK. Increasing colorectal cancer in the young population and tailoring of the colorectal cancer screening recommendations in subpopulation: a retrospective single-center study. Int J Colorectal Dis. 2021 Jul; 36(7):1515-1524. PMID: 33934174.

    Read at: PubMed
  • Published on 3/31/2021

    Rebello D, Rebello E, Custodio M, Xu X, Gandhi S, Roy HK. Field carcinogenesis for risk stratification of colorectal cancer. Adv Cancer Res. 2021; 151:305-344. PMID: 34148616.

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  • Published on 3/10/2021

    De La Cruz M, Nunes DP, Bhardwaj V, Subramanyan D, Zaworski C, Roy P, Roy HK. Colonic Epithelial Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Expression in Blacks and Whites: Potential Implications for Pathogenesis Covid-19 Racial Disparities. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 04; 9(2):691-697. PMID: 33694125.

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  • Published on 12/30/2020

    Mohanty A, Eshein A, Kamineni P, Avissar U, Bliss CM, Long MT, Lowe RC, Moore TC, Nunes DP, Backman V, Roy HK. Quantification of gastric mucosal microcirculation as a surrogate marker of portal hypertension by spatially resolved subdiffuse reflectance spectroscopy in diagnosis of cirrhosis: a proof-of-concept study. Gastrointest Endosc. 2021 07; 94(1):60-67.e1. PMID: 33385462.

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  • Published on 9/2/2020

    Daneshkhah A, Agrawal V, Eshein A, Subramanian H, Roy HK, Backman V. Evidence for possible association of vitamin D status with cytokine storm and unregulated inflammation in COVID-19 patients. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2020 Oct; 32(10):2141-2158. PMID: 32876941.

    Read at: PubMed
  • Published on 1/8/2020

    Virk RKA, Wu W, Almassalha LM, Bauer GM, Li Y, VanDerway D, Frederick J, Zhang D, Eshein A, Roy HK, Szleifer I, Backman V. Disordered chromatin packing regulates phenotypic plasticity. Sci Adv. 2020 01; 6(2):eaax6232. PMID: 31934628.

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