Brief
April 17, 2003
Dr. Ross Prentice, investigator in the Public Health Sciences Division and former division director, will deliver a talk at 4:30 p.m. today in Pelton Auditorium as part of the center-wide "Perspectives in Science" seminar series.
In his seminar, entitled "Chronic Disease Prevention: Public Health Potential and Research Needs," Prentice will speculate on the potential for preventing prominent cancers and other chronic diseases. Using studies of hormone therapy, nutrition and physical activity change as examples, he will address the complementary roles of various research strategies as well as the need for a greatly enhanced preventive-intervention development enterprise.
The seminar will be followed at 5:30 p.m. with a reception in the Double Helix Café.
Prentice, an internationally recognized biostatistician, serves as principal investigator of the Women's Health Initiative clinical coordinating center. He is the recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Award and is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Prentice was director of the PHS Division from 1983 to 2002.
