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About DCEG

D. Michal Freedman, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D

Epidemiologist

Location: Executive Plaza South, Room 7036
Phone: 301-594-7163
Fax: 301-402-0207
E-mail: freedmam@mail.nih.gov

Biography

Dr. Freedman received an M.P.H. in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1998 from Johns Hopkins Public Health School. She had previously been awarded a J.D. from Yale Law School and practiced law for several private and public organizations. Dr. Freedman joined the NCI Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program in 1995 and the Radiation Epidemiology Branch in 1999. She was awarded the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence in 1997.

Research Interests

  • cancer among medical radiation workers
  • effects of ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D
  • cutaneous melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer

Keywords

ionizing radiation, ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D, melanoma, nonmelanoma skin cancer

Selected Publications

  • Freedman DM, Doody MM, Sigurdson A., Linet MS. et al. "Risk of melanoma in relation to smoking, alcohol and other factors in a large occupational cohort." Cancer Causes and Control. 2003; 14: 847-57.
  • Freedman DM, Sigurdson A., Doody MM, Linet M et al. "Risk of basal cell carcinoma in relation to alcohol intake and smoking." Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2003; 12: 1540-3.
  • Freedman DM, Sigurdson A, Rao S, Hauptmann M, Alexander B, Mohan A, Doody MM, Linet MS. "Risk of melanoma among radiologic technologists in the United States." International Journal of Cancer 2003; 103: 556-62.
  • Sigurdson A, Doody MM, Rao RS, Freedman DM et al. "Cancer Incidence in the U.S. RadiologicTechnologists Health Study, 1984-1988." Cancer 2003; 97: 3080-9.
  • Mohan AK, Hauptmann M, Linet MS, Ron E, Lubin JH, Stewart PA, Freedman DM, Alexander BH, Boice JD, Doody MM, Matanoski GM. "Breast cancer mortality among radiologic technologists in the United States." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002; 94:943-8.
  • Freedman DM, Dosemeci M. "Sunlight and mortality from breast, ovarian, colon, prostate and nonmelanoma skin cancer: a composite death-certificate based case-control study." Occupational and Environmental Medicine Occupational Environmental Medicine 2002; 59; 257-62.
  • Freedman DM, Tarone RE, Doody MM, Mohan A, Ron E, Linet MS. "Trends in reproductive, smoking, and other chronic disease risk factors by birth cohort in a large occupational study population." Annals of Epidemiology 2002; 12:363-9.
  • Freedman DM, Kleinerman RA, Wacholder S, Stewart P, Hatch EE, Tarone RE, Robison LL, Linet MS. "Household chemical exposures and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children." American Journal of Public Health. 2001;9: 564-567.
  • Freedman DM, Dosemeci M, Alavanja MCR. "Multiple sclerosis mortality and exposure to residential and occupational solar radiation: a death certificate-based case-control study." Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2000;57:418-421.
  • Freedman DM, Albanes D, Virtamo J, Tangrea J. "The effect of beta carotene supplementation on vitamin serum vitamin D metabolite concentrations." Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 1999;8:1115-6.

Collaborators

DCEG Collaborators

  • Michael Alavanja, Dr. Ph., Demetrius Albanes, Linda Brown, Ph.D., Ken Cantor, Ph.D., Rochelle Curtis, M.S., Mustafa Dosemeci, Ph.D., Michele Doody, M.S., Barry Graubard, Ph.D., Michael Hauptmann, Ph.D., Ruth Kleinerman M.P.H., Martha Linet, MD, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, M.D, Katherine McGlynn, Ph.D., Sowyma Rao, Ph.D., Elaine Ron, Ph.D., Alice Sigurdson, Ph.D. Steve Simon, Ph.D., Patricia Stewart, Ph.D., Peggy Tucker, M.D., Lois Travis, M.D., Ph.D., Mary Ward, Ph.D., Shelia Zahm, Sc.D.

Other NCI Collaborators

  • Brenda Edwards, Ph.D., Barry Miller, Ph.D., Lynn Ries, M.S. Joseph Tangrea, Ph.D.

Other Scientific Collaborators

  • Bruce Alexander, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Elizabeth Hatch, Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Kathy Helzlsouer, M.D., Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Aparna Mohan, M.D., Ph.D., U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland
  • Leslie Robison, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Jarmo Virtamo, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
  • Shinji Yoshinaga, Ph.D., Research Center for Radiation Safety, National Institutes of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan