Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Deputy Director and Director, Population Sciences, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Co-Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
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rhiatt@cc.ucsf.edu Box 0560, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0560 |
| EDUCATION | |
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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, B.A., 1964, Zoology
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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1972-1973 |
Research Associate, Institute of Pathobiology, Haile Sellassie I. University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA |
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1974 |
Clinical Instructor in Medicine & Director, Employee Health Service, San Francisco General Hospital and University of California Medical School, San Francisco CA |
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1974, 1976-81 |
Physician, Berkeley and Hayward Industrial Medical Groups, Berkeley and Hayward, CA |
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1974-1976 |
Chief, Parasitology Section, San Juan Laboratories, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Center for Disease Control, US Public Health Service |
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1977-1998 |
Epidemiologist, Medical Methods Research (77-84), Senior Epidemiologist (85-90), Assistant Director (91-98), Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA |
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1980-1987 |
Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and International Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA |
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1981-1997 |
Lecturer, Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
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1981-1986 |
Physician, Internal Medicine, Berkeley Family Practice Medical Group, Berkeley, CA |
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1988-1998 |
Associate Director for Detection, Prevention & Education (81-86), Director of Prevention Sciences (93-98), Northern California Cancer Center, CA |
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1998-2003 |
Deputy Director, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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2003-present |
Director of Population Sciences and Deputy Director, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine |
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2006-present |
Co-Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
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1967-68 |
Victor Vaughn Medical Historical Society, University of Michigan Medical School |
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1968 |
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Children's Bureau Fellowship, Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
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2001 |
National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Quality of Cancer Care Committee |
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2002 |
National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Cancer Progress Report |
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2002 |
National Institutes of Health Director's Award, Cancer Progress Report |
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Memberships |
American Public Health Association, Society for Epidemiologic Research, American Society of Preventive Oncology (President 2003-05), American Epidemiological Society, American College of Epidemiology (President 1998-99), American College of Preventive Medicine |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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(since 2001- from total of 134) | |
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Bloom J, Stewart SL, Koo J, Hiatt RA. Cancer screening in public health clinics: the importance of clinic utilization. Medical Care 2001; 39:1345-1351. | |
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Hiatt RA, Pasick RJ, Stewart S, Bloom J, Davis P, Gardiner P, Johnston M, Luce J, Schorr K, Brunner W, Stroud F. Community-based cancer screening for underserved women: design and baseline results from the Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study. Prev Med 2001;33:190-203. | |
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Engelstad LP, Stewart SL, Nguyen BH, Bedeian KL, Rubin MM, Pasick RJ, Hiatt RA. Abnormal Pap smear follow-up in a high-risk population. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2001; 10:1015-1020. | |
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Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer (collaborators included Hiatt RA). Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer-collaborative analysis of individual data from 53 epidemiologic studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. Br J. Cancer 2002;87:1234-45. | |
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Sawaya GF, Sung H-Y, Kearney K, Miller M, Kinney W, Hiatt RA, Mandelblatt, J. Advancing age and cervical cancer screening and prognosis. J Am Geriatrics Soc 2002;49:1499-1504. | |
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Anderson WF, Guyton KZ, Hiatt RA, Vernon S, Levin B, Hawk E. Colorectal cancer screening for persons at average risk. J Natl Cancer Inst 2002;94:1126-1133. | |
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Antman K, Abraido-Lanza AF, Blum D, Brownfield E, Cicatelli B, Debor MD, Emmons K, Fitzgibbon M, Gapstur SM, Gradishar W, Hiatt RA, Hubbell FA, Joe AK, Klassen AC, Lee NC, Linden HM, McMullin J, Mishra SI, Neuhaus C, Olopade FI, Walas K. Reducing disparities in breast cancer survival: a Columbia University and Avon Breast Cancer Research and Care Network Symposium. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2002;75:269-280. | |
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Hiatt RA, Klabunde C, Breen N, Swan J, Ballard-Barbash R. Cancer screening practices from the National Health Interview Surveys: Past, present, and future. J Natl Cancer Inst 2002;94:1837-1846. | |
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Miller M, Sung HY, Sawaya GF, Kearney KA, Kinney W, Hiatt RA. Screening interval and risk of invasive squamous-cell cervical cancer: a case-control study among long-term members of a large prepaid health plan. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2003;101:29-37. | |
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Allison JE, Hurley LB, Hiatt RA, Levin T R, Ackerson LM, Lieu TA. A randomized controlled trial of test-and-treat strategy for Helicobacter pylori. Clinical outcomes and health care costs in a managed care population receiving long-term acid suppression therapy for physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease. Arch Int Med 2003;163:1165-71. | |
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Wingo PA, Jamison PM, Hiatt RA, Weir HK, Gargiullo PM, Hutton M, Lee NC, Hall HI. Building the infrastructure for nationwide cancer surveillance and control Ð a comparison between The National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2003;14:175-93. | |
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Kinney WK, Sawaya GF, Sung H-Y, Kearney KA, Miller M, Hiatt RA. Stage at diagnosis and mortality in patients with adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the uterine cervix diagnosed as a consequence of cytologic screening. Acta Cytologica 2003; 47:167-71. | |
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Best A, Hiatt RA, Cameron R, Rimer BK, Abrams D. The evolution of cancer control research: an international perspective from Canada and the United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003;12:705-712. | |
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Hiatt RA. HIPAA: The end of epidemiology, or a new social contract? (Commentary) Epidemiology 2003;14:637-9. | |
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Briss P, Rimer B, Reilley B, et al (including Hiatt RA) and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Promoting informed decision making about cancer screening: What can communities and healthcare systems accomplish? Conceptual background and a systematic review. Am J Prev Med 2004;26(1):67-80. | |
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Pasick RJ, Hiatt RA, Paskett ED. Lessons learned from community-based cancer screening intervention research. Cancer 2004;101(5 Suppl):1146-64. | |
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Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer (collaborators included Hiatt RA). Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52705 women with breast cancer and 108411 women without breast cancer. Lancet 2004; 350:1047-59. | |
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Hiatt RA. Social determinants of cancer.(Commentary) Eur J Epidemiol 2004;19:821-822. | |
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Lipscomb J, Donaldson MS, Hiatt RA. Cancer outcomes research and the arenas of application. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2004;33:1-7. | |
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Saraiya M, Glanz K, Briss PA, Nichols P, White C, Das D, Smith SJ, Tannor B, Hutchinson AB, Wilson KM, Gandhi N, Lee NC, Rimer B, Coates RC, Kerner JF, Hiatt RA, Buffler P, Rochester P. Interventions to prevent skin cancer by reducing exposure to ultraviolet radiation: a systematic review. Am J Prev Med. 2004;27:422-66. | |
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Umar A, Boland C, Terdiman JP, Syngal S, de la Chapelle A, Ruschoff J, Fisher R, Lindor NM, Burgart LJ, Hamelin R, Hamilton SR, Hiatt RA, Jas JR, Lindblom A, Lynch HT, Peltomaki P, Ramsey SD, Rodriguez-Bigas Ma, Vasen H, Hawk E, Barrett J, Freedman AN, Srivstata S. Revised Bethesda guidelines for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch Syndrome) and micro satellite instability. J Natl Cancer Inst 2004;96:261-8. | |
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Hiatt RA. The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers. (Invited Paper) Environ Health Perspectives. Goehl TJ, ed. 2005. Essays on The Future of Environmental Health Research: A Tribute to Dr. Kenneth Olden. Research Triangle Park, NC: Environmental Health Perspectives/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. | |
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Sawaya GF, Sung HY, Kinney WK, Kearney KA, Hiatt RA. Cervical cancer following multiple negative cytologic tests in long-term members of a prepaid health plan. Acta Cytol. 2005;49:391-7. | |
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Hiatt RA. The future of cancer surveillance. Cancer Causes Control 2006; 5:639-46. | |
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Singh GK, Hiatt RA. Trends and disparities in socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics, life expectancy, and cause-specific mortality of native-born and foreign-born populations in the United States, 1979-2003. Int J Epidemiol 2006;35:903-919. | |
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Solberg LI, Taylor N, Conway WA, Hiatt RA. Large multi-speciality group practices and quality improvement: what is needed to transform care? J Ambul Care Management 2007;30:9-17. | |
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