Lindsay Morton

Lindsay McOmber Morton is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches genetic susceptibility to second cancers. She is the Director of the radiation epidemiology branch and head of its cancer survivorship research unit at the National Cancer Institute.

Life Morton received a B.A. from Dartmouth College. She earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health with a focus on cancer epidemiology.

In 2008, Morton joined the radiation epidemiology branch (REB) as a tenure-track investigator. She researches identify genetic variants associated with the development of second cancers.