2009–2010 Colloquia Series

The Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program in the Center for Cancer Training presents a Colloquia Series on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, beginning in September and continuing through June. On occasion these lectures are offered on other days of the week.

All lectures are open to the public and are announced in the NCI calendar of events. Speakers and topics are posted below as information becomes available.

Lectures are held at the NIH's Executive Plaza complex, Rockville, MD; parking is available. Most will be in Building 6116, Room 405. Please refer to the schedule below for specific lecture locations.

If you are a person with a disability and require any assistive device, services or other reasonable accommodation to participate in this activity, please contact the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at 301-496-8640 at least one week in advance of the lecture date to discuss your accommodation needs.

Educational objectives:

To better comprehend current research in various aspects of cancer prevention and control, including current challenges and methods used by investigators to address gaps, advance the field, and promote application of successful strategies, and to better identify various bio-statistical methods and appropriate conditions for application in cancer prevention and control research.

Details about
the next
colloquium

September, 2009	February, 2010
October, 2009	March, 2010
November, 2009	April, 2010
December, 2009	May, 2010
January, 2010	June, 2010

September 2009

11:00 a.m.

Regina G. Ziegler, Ph.D., M.P.H.

National Cancer Institute

A New Approach to Measuring Estrogen Exposure and Estrogen Metabolism in Epidemiologic Studies

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October 2009

7	11:00 a.m.	No Meeting — NIH Research Festival
(Interviews) 21	11:00 a.m.	Krista A. Zanetti, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.	National Cancer Institute	3' UTR and Functional Secretor Haplotypes in Mannose-Binding Lectin 2 are Associated with Increased Colon Cancer Susceptibility in African Americans
(Interviews) 22*	11:00 a.m.	Ellen Beckjord, Ph.D., M.P.H.	RAND Corporation

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November 2009

4	11:00 a.m.		(Career Development Seminar)
18	11:00 a.m.		Gary Stoner, Ph.D.	The Ohio State University

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December 2009

2	11:00 a.m.		Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H.	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Poverty Has No Boundaries
16	11:00 a.m.		No Meeting — Holiday Party

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January 2010

6	11:00 a.m.		Carla Kim, Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	Lung Tumor Propagating Cells: Genotype Matters
20	11:00 a.m.		Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.	Harvard School of Public Health	To Adjust or Not to Adjust

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February 2010

3	11:00 a.m.		Jon Staudenmayer, Ph.D.	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Novel Analytic Methods to Estimate Physical Activity From an Acelerometer
17	11:00 a.m.		James Tulsky, M.D.	Duke University School of Medicine

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March 2010

3	11:00 a.m.	Barry Popkin, Ph.D.	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Nutrition Transition: Global Dynamics of Diet and Obesity and Options for Proceeding
17	11:00 a.m.	Mary (Nora) Disis, M.D.	University of Washington
31	11:00 a.m.	Theodore Cooper, Ph.D.	University of Texas at El Paso	Light and Intermittent Smoking Primarily in Hispanic Populations

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April 2010

7	11:00 a.m.		David J. Waters, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Purdue University	Defining the Optimal Selenium Dose for Prostate Cancer Risk Reduction
21	11:00 a.m.		No Meeting — AACR Annual Meeting in DC

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May 2010

5	11:00 a.m.		Dana Howard Bovbjerg, Ph.D.	University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
19	11:00 a.m.		Cheryl Walker, Ph.D.	University of Texas, Health Sciences Center

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June 2010

11:00 a.m.

Harry Lando, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota

* Thursday

All Colloquia will be held in building 6116, conference room 405.

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