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Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Faculty

W. Lawrence Beeson BS, MSPH, DrPH

Academic and professional preparation:

Loma Linda University

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Courses currently teaching:

• EPDM 509 Principles of Epidemiology
• EPDM 588 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
• STAT 564 Survey & Advanced Research Methods

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Research interests:

Lifestyle & air pollution research, statistical programming, database management, cancer etiology, and aging processes.

• Summer 2003 SPHERE newsletter
• Adventist Health and Smog (AHSMOG) Study
• The Adventist Mortality Study/Adventist Health Study: selected
  scientific references

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Current research:

Adventist Health Study. Aging and survival in Adventists. Effects of air pollution in a non-smoking population (AHSMOG study).

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Recent publications:

Knutsen SF, Fraser GE, Lindsted KD, Beeson WL, Shavlik DJ. Comparing biological measurements of vitamin C, folate, alpha-tocopherol and carotene with 24-hour dietary recall information in non-Hispanic blacks and whites. Ann Epidemiol 2001; 11:406-416.

Missmer SA, Smith-Warner SA, Spiegelman D, Yaun SS, Adami HO, Beeson WL, van den Brandt P, Fraser GE, Freudenheim JL, Goldbohm RA, Graham S, Kushi LH, Miller AB, Potter JD, Rohan TE, Speizer FE, Toniolo P, Willett W, Wolk A, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Hunter DJ. Meat and dairy food consumption and breast cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies. Int J Epidemiol 2002;31: 78-85.

Smith-Warner SA, Ritz J, Hunter DJ, Albanes D, Beeson WL, van den Brandt PA, Colditz G, Folsom AR, Fraser GE, Freudenheim JL, Giovannucci E, Goldbohm RA, Graham S, Kushi LH, Miller AB, Rohan TE, Speizer FE, Virtama J, Willett WC. Dietary fat and risk of lung cancer in a pooled analysis of prospective studies. Cancer Epidemiol 2002; 11:987-992..

Beeson WL. The association of long-term concentrations of ambient air pollutants and the incidence of malignant neoplasms in nonsmoking adults. (Dissertation). 2002.

Hathout EH, Beeson WL, Nahab F, Rabadi A, Thomas W, Mace JW. Role of exposure to air pollutants in the development of type I diabetes before and after 5 yr of age. Pediatric Diabetes 2002; 3:184-188.

Smith-Warner SA, Spiegelman D, Yaun S-S, Albanes D, Beeson WL, van den Brandt PA, Feskanich D, Folsom AR, Fraser GE, Freudenheim JL, Giovannucci E, Goldbohm RA, Graham S, Kushi LH, Miller AB, Pietinen P, Rohan TE, Speizer FE, Willett WC, Hunter DJ. Fruits, vegetables and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies. Int J Cancer 2003; 107:1001-1011.

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