Faculty Directory

W. Lawrence Beeson, DrPH
Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population Medicine School of Public Health
Member, Epidemiology & Biostats, SPH, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Presentations Research Presentations -- International

"Living Longer and Better: The Health Experience of Seventh-day Adventists". Presented at the 18th Annual National Congress of the Asociacion Medica Adventista de Colombia. Medellin, Colombia. (11/22-24/2012) ( 11/2012 )

"Living Longer and Better: The Health Experience of Seventh-day Adventists". Presented at a noon seminar to the faculty and students at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) on (10/17/12) ( 10/2012 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “Is Risk of Fatal Stroke Associated with Long-term Exposure to Particulate Ambient Air Pollutants? Results from the AHSMOG Study”. 15th Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Perth, Australia. (9/25/03)

( 9/2003 )

Knutsen SF, Beeson WL: “Is Risk of Fatal Stroke Associated with Long-term Exposure to Gaseous Ambient Air Pollutants? Results from the AHSMOG Study”. 15th Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Perth, Australia. (9/24/03)

( 9/2003 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “The Association of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) in Non-smokers. Results from the AHSMOG Study”. Annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Vancouver, Canada. (8/15/02)

( 8/2002 )

Knutsen SF, Beeson WL: “The Association Between Incident Breast Cancer and Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution. Results from the AHSMOG Study”. Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Vancouver, Canada (8/13/02)

( 8/2002 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: "Ozone and Respiratory Cancer in California Adults - the AHSMOG Study". The 8th Annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (8/18/96)

( 8/1996 )

Research Presentations -- National

"Living Longer and Better: The Health Experience of California Seventh-day Adventists". The 54th Annual Conference of the Western Society for Kinesiology and Wellness. Reno, NV (10/8/09) ( 10/2009 )

Beeson WL: “The Association of Diet and other Factors to Health Events: Results from the Adventist Health Study. Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association. Philadelphia, PA (9/28/07)

( 9/2007 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “Long-term mean concentration of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and incidence of smoking-related cancers and all nonskin malignant cancers in the AHSMOG study”. The Third Colloquium on Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health. Durham, North Carolina. (6/ 6-8 / 99)

( 6/1999 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “Long-term ambient concentrations of selected air pollutants and incident malignant neoplasms in California adults: Results from the AHSMOG study. Tenth Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Boston, MA. (8/17/98)

( 8/1998 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “The Adventist Health and Smog (AHSMOG) Study”. The Harvard Six-Cities Study Reanalysis Scoping Workshop (HEI). Boston, MA (6/23/97)

( 6/1997 )

"Chronic Disease and Long-Term Concentrations of Fine Particulates". 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Keysone, CO (6/17/93) ( 6/1993 )

"Validation of Record Linkage to two California Population-based Tumor Registries in a Chohort Study". 1989 Public Health conference on records and Statistics. Washington, DC (7/18/89) ( 7/1989 )

"Effects of Missing Value Estimation on the Power of the Exposure-Disease Effects in a Cohort Study." 1987 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Associatoin, San Francisco, CA (8/19/87) ( 8/1987 )

"The Relationship of Lifestyle Characteristics to Mortality Among California Seventh-day Adventists". 18th National Meeting of the Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics, Washington, DC (8/4/80) ( 8/1980 )

"Health and Heart Age Appraisal". National Midwest District Convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Educatoin, Recreation, and Dance. Detroit, MI (4/14/80) ( 4/1980 )

"Health and Heart Age Appraisal". Annual Meeting of Presidents of Independent Colleges. Scottsdale, AZ (12/1/78) ( 12/1978 )

Research Presentations -- Regional

"The Association of Between Incident Breast Cancer and Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution: Results from the AHSMOG Study". Annual Conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Palm Desert, CA (6/21/02) ( 6/2002 )

"The Association of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Risk of Non-Hodgkin''s Lymphoma (NHL) in Non-smokers: Results from the AHSMOG Study". Annual Conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Palm Desert, CA (6/19/02) ( 6/2002 )

Beeson WL: “Is Air Pollution Harmful to your Health? Results from the AHSMOG Study”. Children’s Air Quality - SMOG: Health Care Symposium. Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center, Riverside, CA. (4/20/99)

( 4/1999 )

Research Presentations -- Local/Campus

Beeson WL: “Adventist Health Studies I & II”. Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association 50th Anniversary Program. Loma Linda, CA (10/6/04)

( 10/2004 )

Beeson WL; “The Association of Lifestyle to Chronic Disease - Contribution of the Adventist Health Studies: Past, Present, and Future”. The 6th Annual Alumni Convention for the School of Allied Health Professions. Loma Linda, CA. (5/3/02)

( 5/2002 )

Beeson WL: “Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: Results from the AHSMOG study”. The 67th Annual Postgraduate Convention. Loma Linda, CA. (3/11/99)

( 3/1999 )

Beeson WL: “Disease Incidence Among California Seventh-day Adventists”. The Health Officers Association of California. Loma Linda, CA (10/31/97)

( 10/1997 )

"Health Hazard Appraisals as a Basic for Health Education". Loma Linda University Seminar. Loma Linda, CA (5/7/81) ( 5/1981 )

Poster Presentation

Lousuebsakul V, Beeson L, Knutsen SF. "Lifestyle factors associated with bone health in postmenopausal women: Results from the Adventist Health Study 2." Society for Epidemiologic Research. Seattle, WA

( 6/2006 )

Sabate J, Beeson L, Jaceldo K, Fraser G. "Demographic determinants of a vegetarian diet in a low risk populatoin: The Adventist health Study-2." Society for Epidemiologic Research. Seattle, WA

( 6/2006 )

Butler T, Beeson L, Jaceldo K, Fraser G. "Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2), a cohort study of diet and cancer: Methodology and participant description." Society for Epidemiologic Research. Seattle, WA

( 6/2006 )

Fakhrawi D, Beeson L, Cordero-MacIntyre Z, Lammi-Keefe C. "Effects of Dairy Calcium on Lipid Profile, LDL, Particle Size and Apolipoproteins in Overweight/Obese Postmenopausal Women." Experimental Biology. San Francisco, CA

( 4/2006 )

Rivera M, Fukuda D, Sanchez M, Balcazar H, Beeson L, Libanati C, Firek A, Cordero-MacIntyre Z. "Effect of Spanish Diabetes Education on Body Composition, HbA1c, Leptin, and glucose in Hispanic Diabetics." Experimental Biology. San Francisco, CA ( 4/2006 )

Beeson WL. "Assessing the Health Effects of Air Pollution: A New Large Cohort Study of 125,000 Non-smokers". 17th Annual Conference of the Health Effects Institute (HEI), Washington, DC (4/28/01 to 5/1/01) ( 4/2001 )

Beeson WL, Knutsen SF: “Assessing health effects of long term concentrations of ozone: Recent results and methods from the AHSMOG study. Poster. The 13th Health Effects Institute Conference. Annapolis, Maryland. (5/6/96)

( 5/1996 )