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Paolo Boffetta (born July 19, 1958) is an Italian epidemiologist. He is doing research on cancer and other chronic diseases, where he contributed to the understanding of the role of occupation, environment, alcohol, smoking and nutrition in disease development. ==Biography== Boffetta was born in Turin, Italy, went to the Vittorio Alfieri High School in Turin, and studied medicine at the University of Turin and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1982, after which he became a resident at the Second Division of Internal Medicine and Research Fellow and Research Assistant at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the University of Turin. After some years, he moved to New York and worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics and Epidemiology of the American Cancer Society (1986–88). He became an Research Assistant at the Division of Epidemiology of the American Health Foundation in New York, in 1988 and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Division of Environmental Sciences and Post-Doctoral Associate at the Division of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University, School of Public Health in New York (1988–89), where he was awarded a M.P.H.. In 1990, he moved to Lyon, France, to join the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, first as Medical Officer until 1994 and later as Chief of the Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology (1995–2003). During this time he was also Visiting Scientist at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, in Washington (1998/99), Foreign Adjunct Professor, at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (2000–2006).〔(Newsletter MEP, KI )〕 In 2003, he moved on to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, where he headed the Division of Clinical Epidemiology. He was awarded a Professorship for Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Heidelberg in the same year. Only a year later Boffetta moved back to IARC, Lyon to become Group Head and Coordinator of the Genetics and Epidemiology Cluster〔(Biographical sketch of Paolo Boffetta at IARC )〕 there. Since 2001 he is Visiting Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Turin, Italy and since 2002 Adjunct Professor, at the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University,〔(Press release about new appointments at Vanderbilt University )〕 Nashville, USA. In 2009 he became Affiliate of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA,〔(Contact details of Paolo Boffetta at the Harvard School of Public Health )〕 and in 2014 he became Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University in Rome. In 2009 he joined the faculty of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, as Professor,〔(Contact details of Paolo Boffetta at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine )〕 Associate Director for Population Sciences of the Tisch Cancer Institute and Division Chief, Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Oncological Sciences. During 2010-2015, he was Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology. He was Vice President of the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon during 2009-2013.〔(Paolo Boffettas' biography on the website of International Prevention Research Institute )〕 In 2013 Dr. Boffetta was offered and accepted the Directorship of the Center for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) in Villejuif, France. However, he rescinded his acceptance before he took office because he became the target of a series of unsubstantiated personal attacks in the lay press. He regularly serves as chair or members of a large number of national and international committees, including in particular review committees of the US National Institute of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences and the New York Academy of Medicine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paolo Boffetta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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