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Nancy Kreiger,
M.P.H., Ph.D., is the Senior Scientist and Director of Research in the
Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario,
and Professor of Epidemiology, Departments of Public Health Sciences and
Nutritional Sciences, University
of Toronto.
Background: Dr. Kreiger received her Ph.D.
from Yale University
and her commercial pilot’s license from Transport Canada. She has been a Fellow
of the American
College of
Epidemiology since 1994; has served on its Policy Committee and its
Committee on Ethics and Standards of Practice; and is currently the
Secretary of the College and Chair of the Admissions Committee. She was the
first President of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
(CSEB) (1991-1993), and remained on the CSEB Board of Directors until 1995.
More recently, she was on the Planning Committee of, and was the local host
for, the first North American Congress of Epidemiology, held in Toronto in June 2001.
Dr. Kreiger’s research encompasses both cancer epidemiology and the
epidemiology of osteoporosis: She has conducted studies of risk factors,
focusing on reproductive, hormonal, and pharmacological exposures, and
habits of nutrition and physical activity; as well as methodological
studies relating to response. She has offered courses in epidemiology and
epidemiological methods to Master’s and Ph.D. candidates, and to
professional students in chiropractic and medical programs.
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Faith Davis, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology in
the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School
of Public Health, University of Illinois
at Chicago.
Background: Dr. Davis received her B.Sc
degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton,
Canada. She
attended the Kennedy School of Government, the School
of Public Health at Harvard University, where she received
Masters Degrees in Public Administration and Public Health, and the Yale
University School of Public Health where she received her PhD in chronic
disease epidemiology. She has been a member of the faculty at UIC School of
Public Health since 1984. Her research interests focus on cancer
epidemiology, particularly brain tumors and radiation exposures. Dr. Davis
has over 25 years of experience in conducting epidemiology research and has
devoted administrative efforts towards developing an infrastructure to
conduct population based studies in the Chicago area. She has served on local,
regional and national review and advisory committees and is currently a
member of the National Council for Radiation Protection subcommittee on
biological effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and a co-chair
of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. She is on the editorial boards
for Neuro- Oncology and the Journal of Registry Management. Dr. Davis
conducted work with the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the U.S which
culminated in a recent change of legislation regarding how brain tumor data
will be collected in US surveillance systems in the future.
Michael C.R.
Alavanja, Dr.P.H. is a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute
and a Captain in the USPHS. Dr. Alavanja is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and has
served as a member of the Admissions Committee.
Background: Dr. Alavanja is the
author/co-author of over 125 peer reviewed articles in cancer,
environmental and occupational epidemiology and Dr. Alavanja is the author
of several book chapters. He has also served on the Expert Panel that wrote
the IARC Monograph on Smoking and Health ( volume
83, 2004) and on the review panel for the recent Surgeon Generals report on
Second-Hand Smoking and Health. He has received numerous professional
awards and honors including the Public Health Service Meritorious Service
Medal (1999) for his work as principal investigator of the Agricultural
Health Study, the Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal (1992)
for his work in the quantitative risk assessment of environmental
carcinogens, the Outstanding Unit Commendation Medal (1997) for his
leadership role in developing a mentoring program in the Public Health
Service, two Public Health Service Commendation Medals for highly
productive research into the environmental causes of cancer (1997, 1992),
the Unit Commendation Medal (1992) for his research on environmental causes
of lymphomas, and a Public Health Service Citation for Chairing the Surgeon
General’s, Scientist Professional Advisory Committee (1997). He has
also been awarded the Career Scientist of the Year Award (2000) by the
Surgeon General’s professional advisory committee for sustained
contribution to cancer research and public health and the Distinguished
Federal Employee Award (2000) for continuing volunteer service to the
Frederick County Volunteer Action Agency (Mission:out reach to the poor).
He has also received a certificate of appreciation for his four years of
service on the Committee of Scientists (1998), which is responsible for
improving the quality of work life in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology
and Genetics and an the Equal Opportunity Officer’s Recognition Award
(1990) for his efforts to further diversity in the workplace. Dr. Alavanja
is also on the Graduate Faculty of Environmental Biology at Hood College. Currently, Dr. Alavanja is
the Principal Investigator of the Agricultural Health Study and is also the
Principal Investigator of a series of case-controls studies which are
investigating the etiology of lung cancer. Additionally, he serves on
numerous inter-Departmental Committees to provide expertise in cancer
epidemiology and quantitative risk assessment. DR. Alavanja has also served
as the Chair, and Vice Chair of the Scientist Professional Advisory
Committee, for the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. Alavanja is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the
East and in American Men and Women of Science. Dr. Alavanja is active in
community service and in service to his church, he served as a volunteer
coordinator for the Frederick County, MD soup kitchen for the past 17 years
and serves as an advisor to the Frederick Community Action Agency which
sponsors Health Care for the Homeless of Frederick MD.
Jonine Bernstein,
Ph.D., M.S. is an Associate Attending Epidemiologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center
in New York City.
She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in both the Departments of
Community and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Oncologic Sciences
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Background: Dr. Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in
Epidemiology from Yale University, an M.S. in Applied Biometry from the University of Southern
California, and an A.B. from Brown University.
Her research has focused on understanding the joint roles of environmental
exposures and genetic susceptibility in the etiology of cancer. She is
currently involved in etiologic studies examining the roles of ATM,
BRCA1/2, CHEK2, and other DNA repair genes in breast cancer. In addition,
Dr. Bernstein is working on projects developing and validating biomarkers
of disease. The common goal of all of these projects is to identify women
at highest risk because of gene carrier status, environmental exposures, or
a combination of both. To help carry out these studies, Dr. Bernstein has
spear-headed an international multi-disciplinary consortium involving over
25 institutions in the US
and abroad. She serves as a standing member of the NIH review group EPIC
and has served as an ad hoc reviewer on over 20 reviews for the NIH, DOD,
and VA. In addition to her work as the Chair of the ACE Membership
Committee, she has served on numerous committees for the American
Association of Cancer Research (AACR), and has organized scientific
symposia for AACR, SER, and ISEE. Dr. Bernstein was co-founder and co-Chair
of the mentoring program at Mount
Sinai Hospital
in NYC and elected Board member of the Woman’s Faculty Group.
Sandra I. Sulsky,
MPH, Ph.D.
is a member of the Applied Epidemiology group of ENVIRON International
Corporation, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health
and Health Sciences at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. She earned
her MPH at Boston University, and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts.
Background: Dr. Sulsky has had experience
conducting research in academic, business and governmental settings. Prior
to joining ENVIRON, she worked at the USDA
Human Nutrition
Research Center
on Aging (Tufts
University), at
Epidemiology Resources, Inc., and at the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health. She was a Senior Epidemiologist and Vice President of Applied
Epidemiology, Inc., where she headed the injury epidemiology research
group. Over the course of her career, Dr. Sulsky has maintained a deep interest
in epidemiological methods and their application to diverse areas of
inquiry, with a current focus on occupational and non-occupational injury,
health intervention program evaluation and health surveillance. Dr. Sulsky
is currently a member of the ACE Policy Committee and the Planning
Committee. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Safety
Research and as a peer reviewer for several other journals.
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