Sigrid V. Carlsson, MD, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Attending Epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA. She has 16 years of prostate cancer research experience and over 120 scientific publications. Her PhD thesis stemmed from the world’s largest study of prostate cancer screening, the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC). Dr. Carlsson’s research focuses on developing risk-stratified approaches to screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of prostate cancer patients as well as improving shared decision making as funded by a K22 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute.