Robert Hiatt - F1000 Section Head (since 20 July 2009)
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Robert Hiatthttp://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/hiatt_robert.php
EDUCATION
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, B.A., 1964, Zoology
Univ. of Michigan Med School, Ann Arbor, MI, M.D., 1968, Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Internship, 1969
U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Residency, 1971
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, MPH, PhD, 1972, 1980, Epidemiology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1972-1973
Research Associate, Institute of Pathobiology, Haile Sellassie I. University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA
1974
Clinical Instructor in Medicine & Director, Employee Health Service, San Francisco General Hospital and University of California Medical School, San Francisco CA
1974, 1976-81
Physician, Berkeley and Hayward Industrial Medical Groups, Berkeley and Hayward, CA
1974-1976
Chief, Parasitology Section, San Juan Laboratories, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Center for Disease Control, US Public Health Service
1977-1998
Epidemiologist, Medical Methods Research (77-84), Senior Epidemiologist (85-90), Assistant Director (91-98), Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA
1980-1987
Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and International Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
1981-1997
Lecturer, Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1981-1986
Physician, Internal Medicine, Berkeley Family Practice Medical Group, Berkeley, CA
1988-1998
Associate Director for Detection, Prevention & Education (81-86), Director of Prevention Sciences (93-98), Northern California Cancer Center, CA
1998-2003
Deputy Director, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2003-present
Director of Population Sciences and Deputy Director, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
2006-present
Co-Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
HONORS & AWARDS
1967-68
Victor Vaughn Medical Historical Society, University of Michigan Medical School
1968
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Children's Bureau Fellowship, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2001
National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Quality of Cancer Care Committee
2002
National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Cancer Progress Report
2002
National Institutes of Health Director's Award, Cancer Progress Report
Memberships
American Public Health Association, Society for Epidemiologic Research, American Society of Preventive Oncology (President 2003-05), American Epidemiological Society, American College of Epidemiology (President 1998-99), American College of Preventive Medicine