Frank E. Speizer

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Frank Erwin Speizer (* around 1934 in San Francisco ) is an American environmental physician and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health . He is best known for being one of the founders and longstanding scientific protagonists of the Nurses' Health Study .

Career

Speizer earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1957 and an MD from Stanford Medical School in 1960 as a medical degree. He completed his specialist training at the USPHS Hospital in Baltimore , the Boston City Hospital and the Stanford-Palo Alto Hospital , interrupted by research stays at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Medical Research Council in London . He received his first professorship (assistant professor) for internal medicine in 1970 at Harvard Medical School , and in 1976 he became an associate professor at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (from 1982 Brigham and Women's Hospital ). From 1979 to 1986 he took on an additional professorship for epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health . In 1986 he received a full professorship at Harvard Medical School . In 2010 he retired , but continued to work as a doctor.

Speizer researches the epidemiology of chronic diseases , especially respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and cancer in women. Further work deals with the health effects of air pollution .

In 2001, Speizer and Walter C. Willett received the Charles S. Mott Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HMS and HSPH Professors Win GM Cancer Award at harvard.edu ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Speizer, Frank E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speizer, Frank Erwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American environmental medicine doctor and epidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco