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Appendix F: Biographical Summaries
Appendix F: Biographical Summaries
Pages 198-202
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Earlier positions were with the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; the Harlem Hospital Prevention of Prematurity Project; and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, where she held successive positions leading to associate director of the New York City Emergency Medical Service.
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Research projects for which Dr. Checkoway has been principal investigator include epidemiologic studies of cancer mortality in nuclear workers, cancer mortality in phosphate industry workers, silicosis and lung cancer in silica-exposed diatomaceous earth industry workers, lung cancer among chromate-exposed aerospace workers, reproductive hazards among lead smelter workers, and environmental and genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease.
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He has served as president of both the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He received the 1980 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for Clinical Research of the American Association of Cancer Research; the Gold Medals of both the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology and the del Regato Foundation; the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Centennial Hartman Orator Medal; and the Claudius Regaud Medal of the European Society for Therapeautic Radiology and Oncology.
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degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976, worked as a staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in 1977 formed Radiological Assessments Corporation. Renamed the Risk Assessment Corporation in 1998, it conducts independent research concerning environmental risk analysis for radionuclides and chemicals, playing a key role in the evolution of methodologies for environmental risk analysis.
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202 THE FIVE SERIES STUDY tise are reproductive epidemiology, modeling of human fertility, and statistical methods in epidemiology. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an editor at the American Journal of Epidemiology, and serves on the editorial boards of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives.
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