Ross Prentice, Ph.D., Director, Public Health Sciences
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Dr. Ross Prentice is head of the Public Health Sciences Division. |
Dr. Ross Prentice, Ph.D., is currently director of the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and is a professor of biostatistics (1977-) at University of Washington. Prentice also served as PHS director from 1983 to 2002, leading the division's growth into a premier hub for research in biostatistics, cancer prevention and epidemiology.
Prentice is principal investigator of the NIH-sponsored Clinical Coordinating Center for the Women's Health Initiative, and principal investigator for a longstanding NIH program grant that focuses on statistical methods for biomedical research. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and served on its Food and Nutrition Board.
Prentice obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. From 1970 to 1974 he was an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Waterloo in Canada. In 1974 Prentice joined both the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division and University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics.
Prentice's recent honors include the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award from Harvard University, the initiation of the Prentice Endowed Professorship at UW, the Research Excellence in Epidemiology and Prevention Award from the American Association of Cancer Research and American Cancer Society, and the R.A. Fisher Lectureship Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
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