Epidemiology Students Attend University Lecture

On Wednesday, November 30, epidemiology teacher Rachel Stone and five students traveled to New York City to attend the Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds (CUEGR) – Howe Memorial Lecture. A prominent program on the Columbia University Medical Center campus, this monthly series hosts global leaders in epidemiology who share their ground-breaking work with Columbia’s faculty and students, as well as with visitors. Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., spoke on the topic “Tackling breast cancer risk and prognosis: Can we improve our game?”

Mrs. Stone, a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health alumna, attended the lecture with seniors (pictured, left to right) Joe Frick, Ali Johnson, Victoria Small, Sam Beck and Elizabeth Fox. She noted, “This experience gave Blair's epidemiology students the opportunity to sit among members of the Columbia medical/public health community and hear firsthand about the connection between physical activity and a reduced risk of breast cancer. Dr. Bernstein highlighted results from case-control and cohort studies that have taken place over the past 30 years, and she addressed myriad epidemiological issues, including dose-response, biological plausibility, measures of association, recall/reporting bias, and the concepts of prevention vs. lowering one's risk.”

Posted 12/1/11

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