Ross Prentice, Ph.D.
Director (Interim), Public Health Sciences

Dr. Ross Prentice is interim head of the Public Health Sciences division.

Ross Prentice, Ph.D., is currently Interim Director (Director 1983-2002) of the Public Health Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and is Professor of Biostatistics (1977-) at the University of Washington. He is also Principal Investigator of the NIH-sponsored Clinical Coordinating Center for the Women's Health Initiative, and Principal Investigator for a long-standing NIH program grant that focuses on statistical methods for biomedical research. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and served on its Food and Nutrition Board.

Dr. Prentice obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. From1970 to 1974 he was Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Waterloo in Canada. In 1974 Dr. Prentice joined both the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Public Health Sciences Division and the University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics.

Dr. Prentice's recent honors include the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award from Harvard University, the initiation of the Prentice Endowed Professorship at the University of Washington, and the Research Excellence in Epidemiology and Prevention Award from the American Association of Cancer Research and American Cancer Society.