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DCEG Seminar Series

2012 Date Time/Loc Speaker Topic
February 16 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Kevin Brown, Ph.D., Investigator, Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Topic: Genetics of Melanoma Susceptibility

 DCEG Seminar: Kevin Brown - Genomics of Melanoma Susceptibility
 
February 23 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Kiyohiko Mabuchi, M.D., Dr.P.H., Deputy Chief and Senior Scientist, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Topic: New leukemia data in the atomic bomb survivors.

 DCEG Seminar: Kiyohiko Mabuchi - Leukemia & Atomic Bomb Survivors
 
March 01 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Jacqueline Major, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Topic: Availability to health care resources, neighborhood deprivation and cancer.

 DCEG Seminar: Jacqueline Major - Health Care Resources & Cancer
 
March 08 10:30-11:30

Meredith Yeager, Ph.D., Scientific Director, and Kevin Jacobs, Director of Bioinformatics and Scientific Operations, Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute

Topic: Updates from the Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute

 DCEG Seminar: Updates from the Core Genotyping Facility
 
March 15 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Melissa J. Perry, Sc.D., M.H.S., Professor and Chair Department of Environmental and Occupational Health School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University

Topic: Organochlorines and Chromosomal Aneuploidy

 DCEG Seminar: Melissa Perry - Organochlorines
 
April 12 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Title: Fifteen Year Effects of H. Pylori Treatment and Garlic and Vitamin Supplements on Gastric Cancer Incidence and Mortality. 

 DCEG Seminar: Mitch Gail - H.Pylori Treatment
 
April 19 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Mark Schiffman, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Investigator, Clinical Genetics Branch,
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Topic: New Cervical Cancer Prevention Guidelines

 DCEG Seminar: Mark Schiffman - Cervical Cancer Prevention Guidelines
 
May 10 10:30-12:00
EPN C- F

David Schottenfeld, M.D., M.S., John G. Searle Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Topic: Presentation on the results of a collaborative project concerning the 30th Anniversary of the 1981 Doll/Peto publication on the avoidable causes of cancer mortality in the US. 

 DCEG Visiting Scholar: David Schottenfeld - Avoidable Causes of Cancer Mortality
 
June 07 10:30-11:30
EPN C-F

Paul Gustafson, Ph.D.,  Acting Head and Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia

Topic: TBA

 DCEG Seminar: Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
 
September 27 10:30-12:00
EPN C - F

David Hunter, Sc.D., Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Dean for Academic Affairs, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health

Topic: TBA

 DCEG Visiting Scholar: David Hunter - Harvard University School of Public Health
 
Seminar Director: Dr. Jackie Lavigne
Seminar Coordinator: Ms. Kristin Kiser