Biography

Dr. Patricia Hartge has conducted research as an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute since 1977. She has been the Deputy Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, since 1996. Dr. Hartge received her B.A. from Radcliffe College, her M.A. in economics from Yale University and her Sc.D. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has studied the etiology of lymphoma, melanoma and cancers of the bladder, ovary and breast, and has published extensively on these cancers and on epidemiologic methods. Recent work includes a case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the US focused on the interactions of environmental and genetic factors, and the co-founding in 2001 of the lymphoma consortium InterLymph. She has served as the Assistant Editor of the American Journal of Public Health and on the Board of Directors of the American College of Epidemiology. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Epidemiology, and as an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University.