Dr. Michael A. Preston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Policy in the School of Medicine and serves as the Assistant Director for the Office of Health Equity and Disparities Research at the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. His expertise includes the development of diversity initiatives that provide roadmaps for engaging communities that tend to be underrepresented, rural, and poor-resourced.Dr. Preston has been the principal or co-investigator of multiple funded grants focusing on the implementation of precision public health interventions, cancer health disparities, and health care reform. His scientific interests as a health services researcher are the development of strategies that reduce cancer health disparities. His research agenda includes examining components of health care reform and how provisions of the Affordable Care Act address cancer health disparities among poor, minorities, and underserved communities.