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Arthur Gould Schatzkin (February 11, 1948 in New York City – January 20, 2011 in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who spent much of his career at the National Cancer Institute.

Education

Schatzkin earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1969. [1] As an undergraduate, Schatzkin was active in Students for a Democratic Society, and after graduation from Yale he went to work for the university as a grounds maintenance worker. He remained an active leftist, including taking part in an occupation on behalf on another worker and speaking at a rally of striking Winchester workers, and in 1969 he was fired, arrested, and tried for his activism. [2]

He earned an M.D. from the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in 1976, and an M.P.H. and doctorate in public health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. [3] [4] He completed residency training at Montefiore Medical Center (1979, internal medicine) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan) (1981, preventive medicine). [1]

Career

One of Schatzkin's first academic positions in his career was as an assistant professor of public health and medicine at Boston University. [5] In 1984, he began working at the National Cancer Institute, where he became the chair of the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch in 1999. [5]

Research

Schatzkin's early research focused on the link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. [5] Later, during the 1990s, he led the Polyp Prevention Trial, which found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, fiber intake was not associated with the development of precancerous polyps. [5] He was also the principal investigator for the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, which enrolled over 500,000 people and is one of the largest-ever diet and lifestyle studies. [6] The study began in the mid-1990s and was still ongoing at the time of his death in 2011. [5]

Death

Schatzkin died on January 20, 2011, at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, at the age of 62. He had previously been suffering from brain cancer. [4]

References

  1. ^ a b Stafford, Ned (2011-02-23). "Arthur Schatzkin". BMJ. 342: d1222. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d1222. ISSN  0959-8138. S2CID  220103195.
  2. ^ Schwartz-Weinstein, Zach (2015). Beneath the University: Service Workers and the University-Hospital city, 1964-1980. PhD dissertation, New York University. pp. 222–232.
  3. ^ "Arthur Schatzkin Remembrance". National Cancer Institute. January 1980. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b Maugh, Thomas H. (24 February 2011). "Arthur Schatzkin dies at 62; epidemiologist studied relationship between cancer and diet". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e Brown, Emma (1 February 2011). "Arthur Schatzkin, NIH expert on diet and cancer, dies at 62". Washington Post. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  6. ^ Snyder, Alison (2011-03-05). "Arthur Schatzkin". The Lancet. 377 (9768): 806. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60296-1. ISSN  0140-6736.
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