Jonathan Samet

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Jonathan Michael Samet (born March 26, 1946 ) is a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and is considered a leading expert on health hazards resulting from tobacco smoking and secondhand smoke .

Samet graduated from Harvard in 1966 with a degree in chemistry and physics and a doctorate in medicine from the University of Rochester in 1970 . This was followed in 1970/1971 as a doctor at the clinic of the University of Kentucky in Lexington (Kentucky) . From 1971 to 1973 he served in the United States Army as an anesthetist in Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone . From 1973 to 1975 he then practiced at the UNM Affiliated Hospital in Albuquerque . From 1975 to 1978 Jonathan Samet was a Fellow of Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School , where he achieved a Master of Science degree in 1977 . From 1978 to 1994 Samet was Assistant Professor and Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), and since 1994 he has been Professor and Head of the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.

From 1989 to 1994 he was co-editor of the American Review of Respiratory Disease , since 1992 Samet has been editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and since 1994 of the Epidemiologic Reviews . From 1989 to 1990 he directed a report on the health benefits of a tobacco ban for the Surgeon General of the United States .

In 2004 Samet received the Prince Mahidol Prize .

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SURNAME Samet, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samet, Jonathan Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American epidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1946