Jason L. Vassy, MD, MPH

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Publications

  • Published 5/13/2026

    Xu G, Karunamuni R, Dornisch AM, Brunette CA, Danowski ME, Desai H, Dochtermann D, Garraway IP, Hauger RL, Kibel AS, Lynch JA, Pyarajan S, Rose BS, Teerlink CC, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Donovan JL, Hamdy F, Kachuri L, Lane A, Martin RM, Mills IG, Neal DE, Turner EL, Witte JS, Schleutker J, Pashayan N, Batra J, Nordestgaard BG, Hamilton RJ, Wolk A, Albanes D, Atkins J, Blot WJ, Mucci LA, Nielsen SF, Cussenot O, Berndt SI, Koutros S, Sørensen KD, Cybulski C, Menegaux F, Park JY, MacInnis RJ, Rosenstein BS, Lu YJ, Watya S, Vega A, Kogevinas M, Wiklund F, Plym A, Teixeira MR, Multigner L, Leach RJ, Brenner H, John EM, Kaneva R, Logothetis CJ, Neuhausen SL, Ost P, Razack A, Fowke JH, Gamulin M, Usmani N, Claessens F, Castelao JE, Petrovics G, Parent MÉ, Hu JJ, Zheng W, Kote-Jarai Z, Eeles RA, Maxwell KN, Vassy JL, Seibert TM. Germline polygenic score for prostate cancer aggressiveness. medRxiv. 2026 May 13. PMID: 42145622.

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  • Published 1/26/2026

    Vassy JL, Dornisch AM, Karunamuni R, Gatzen M, Kachulis CJ, Lennon NJ, Brunette CA, Danowski ME, Hauger RL, Garraway IP, Kibel AS, Lee KM, Lynch JA, Maxwell KN, Ratner D, Rose BS, Teerlink CC, Xu GJ, Hofherr SE, Lafferty KA, Larkin K, Malolepsza E, Patterson CJ, Toledo DM, Donovan JL, Hamdy FC, Martin RM, Neal DE, Turner EL, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Mills IG, Abraham A, Batra J, Clements J, Cussenot O, Cybulski C, Eeles RA, Fowke JH, Grindedal EM, Grönberg H, Hamilton RJ, Lim J, Lu YJ, MacInnis RJ, Maier C, Mucci LA, Multigner L, Neuhausen SL, Nielsen SF, Parent MÉ, Park JY, Petrovics G, Plym A, Razack A, Rosenstein BS, Schleutker J, Sørensen KD, Townsend PA, Travis RC, Vega A, West CML, Wiklund F, Zheng W, Seibert TM. Genomic risk model to implement precision prostate cancer screening in clinical care: the ProGRESS study. Nat Cancer. 2026 Feb; 7(2):352-367. PMID: 41588240.

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  • Published 1/2/2026

    Vassy JL, Brunette CA, Yi T, Assimes TL, Christensen KD, Knowles JW, Sturm AC, Sun YV, Alexander N, Cardellino MP, Harrison A, Gerety HL, Pyatt M, Vered R, Wilson PWF, Natarajan P, Whitbourne SB, Gaziano JM, Muralidhar S, Danowski ME. Opportunistic Genomic Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia to Improve Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jan 02; 9(1):e2549664. PMID: 41511773.

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  • Published 10/13/2025

    Ratner D, Vassy JL. Clinical translation of polygenic scores for prostate cancer screening. Nat Rev Urol. 2026 Apr; 23(4):256-265. PMID: 41083778.

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  • Published 10/1/2025

    Harris WR, Hernandez MS, Ngo KNH, Fladger A, Brunette CA, Hamarneh SR, Knowles JW, Lebo MS, Vassy JL. Electronic health records-based algorithms to screen for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tier 1 genetic diseases: a scoping review. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2025 Oct 01; 32(10):1629-1637. PMID: 40857647.

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Education

  • Washington University School of Medicine, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, SM/ScM
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, MPH
  • Furman University, BS