Jorn Olsen
Jorn Olsen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, and Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the University of Aarhus, Denmark where he was awarded his MD in Medicine and his PhD in Epidemiology. He has published extensively in the field of Epidemiology and has served as a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Research on Cancer and as President elect of the International Epidemiological Association....See more
Jorn Olsen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, and Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the University of Aarhus, Denmark where he was awarded his MD in Medicine and his PhD in Epidemiology. He has published extensively in the field of Epidemiology and has served as a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Research on Cancer and as President elect of the International Epidemiological Association. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, MD, PhD has served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. He is the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Medical Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and a Regular Member of the Athens Academy. He has received various distinctions, including the Distinguished Physician, Hellenic Medical Society of New York (1999), Hygeia Award, New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society (2001), Julius Richmond Award for demonstrating the association of passive smoking with lung cancer (2004), Medal of Honour, International Agency for Research on Cancer - WHO (2007), Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK (2008). Rodolfo Saracci worked for thirty years (1976-2006) as Chief of Analytical Epidemiology and later as consultant at the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon. He is currently Adjunct Professor, University of Aarhus (Denmark), and has been director since 1988 of the summer didactic programme "European Educational Programme in Epidemiology" (Florence, Italy). He has authored some two hundred publications in Medline, most on cancer as related to environment and nutrition, and on empirical research on ethical issues in medicine & epidemiology. His qualifications/awards include Former President (1996-99) International Epidemiological Association; Founder and Emeritus Member, Italian Association of Epidemiology (AIE, Associazione Italiana Epidemiologia); currently Associate Editor, International Epidemiological Association; and Former Member of editorial boards 'American Journal of Epidemiology' and 'Epidemiology'. See less