COPSS Fisher Lecture
Ross L. Prentice,
served on its Food and Nutrition Board.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Prentice earned his BSc from the University
Research Center and the
of Waterloo and his PhD from the University
University of Washington
of Toronto. From 1970–1974, he was assis-
“The Population Science
tant professor of statistics at the University
Research Agenda:
of Waterloo in Canada. In 1974, he joined
Multivariate Failure Time
both the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Data Analysis Methods”
Center’s Public Health Sciences Division
Wednesday, August 6, 4:00 p.m.
and the University of Washington’s
Department of Biostatistics.
Prentice
Prentice’s recent honors include the
Marvin Zelen Leadership Award from
R
oss Prentice is interim director of NIH-sponsored Clinical Coordinating Harvard University, the initiation of
the Public Health Sciences Division Center for the Women’s Health Initiative the Prentice Endowed Professorship at
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer and principal investigator for a longstand- the University of Washington, and the
Research Center, where he was director ing NIH program grant that focuses on Research Excellence in Epidemiology and
from 1983–2002, and professor of statistical methods for biomedical research. Prevention Award from the American
biostatistics at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine Association of Cancer Research and
He is also principal investigator of the of the National Academy of Sciences and American Cancer Society. ■
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