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MARION M. LEE, PHD

Professor of Epidemiology, UCSF

CONTACT

mmlee@itsa.ucsf.edu
(415) 514-8117, 476-3366 (lab)
(415) 476-2528 (asst)
(415) 514-8109 (fax)

Box 0981, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0981

EDUCATION

Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, B.S., 1968, Food and Nutrition
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.S., 1970, Nutrition
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Course Work, 1970-1972, Food and Nutrition
Yale University, New Haven, CT, M.P.H., 1975, Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D., 1986, Epidemiology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1986-1988

Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

1987-present

Epidemiologic Consultant, Northern California Cancer Center, Union City, CA

1988-1989

Visiting Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

1989-1993

Nutritionist Consultant, Stanford University Stanford, CA

1988-1994

Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California San Francisco, CA

1993-1994

Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1994-2000

Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1994-2000

Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2000-present

Professor, University of California, San Francisco

2000-present

Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2001-present

Visiting Professor, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

HONORS & AWARDS

1987

Northern California Cancer Center, New Investigator Award

1988

University of California Pacific Basin Research Award

1991

NCI Program Project in Epidemiology (Reviewer)

1992

California Department of Health Services, Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (Reviewer)

1992

NCI Small Grants in Epidemiology (Reviewer)

1993

NIH Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Studies (Committee)

1994-1998

U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, Breast Cancer Research Program (Reviewer)

1994

NCI Program Project Special Review Subcommittee (Reviewer)

1994

President Cancer Panel (Committee)

1995

California Department of Health Services, Breast Cancer Early Detection Program (Committee)

1995

NCI RFA for Cooperation Family Registry for Epidemiological Studies of Breast Cancer (Reviewer)

1996-97

California Department of Health Services, Asian Pacific Islander's Breast Cancer Early Detection Program (Committee)

1997

Correspondent Reviewer, National Cancer Institute of Health, Review Panel on Native American Cancer Control Project

1998

National Health Research Institute, Taiwan, Study Section (Reviewer)

1997-1999

American Cancer Society Clinical Post Doctoral Fellowships Peer Review Committee (Reviewer)

2000-2001

NIH (NCCAM) R21 Mechanism Special Emphasis Panel (Reviewer)

2000-2001

U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, Breast Cancer Research Program (Reviewer)

2000-2001

NIH Small Grants Program for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (Reviewer)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(since 1994)

Lee MM, Lee F, Ladenla SW, Miike R. A semi-quantitative dietary history questionnaire for Chinese Americans. Ann Epidemiol 1994;4:188-97.

Lee MM, Wu-Williams A, Whittemore AS, Shu Z, Gallagher R, Teh CZ, Lun Z, Xianghui W, Kung C, Chengde L, Deng-Ao J, Jung D, Paffenbarger RS. Comparison of dietary habits, physical activity and body size among Chinese in North America and China. Intl J Epidemiol 1994;23:984-90.

Lee MM. Diet, physical activity and body size in Chinese. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1994;3:145-48.

Wang MC, Ho TF, Block G, Lee M, Anderson J, Sabry ZI. Adiposity, dietary and physical activity patterns in ethnic Chinese youths A cross-country comparison of Singaporean Chinese and Chinese Americans. Asia Pacific J Clin Nutrition 1994;3:69-82.

Lee MM, Lee F, Stewart S. Pathways to early breast and cervical detection for Chinese American Women. Health Education Quarterly 1996;23:S76-S88.

Wang MC, Block G, Lee M, Sabry ZI. Development of a list based dictary questionnaire for Chinese American adults. Abstract. Second International Dietary Assessment Methods Conference, Boston, MA, January 1995. Am J Clin Nutr 1997;65(suppl):1347S.

Lee MM, Wrensch M, Miike R. Dietary and tobacco risk factors for adult onset giloma in the San Francisco Bay Area (California USA). Cancer Causes and Control 1997;8:13-24.

Wrensch M, Lee MM, Miike R, Newman B, Barger G, Davis R, Wiencke J, Neuhaus J. Familial and personal medical history of cancer and nervous system conditions among adults with glioma and controls. Am J Epidemiol 1997;145:581-93.

Petrakis NL, Lee MM, Wrensch MR, Ernster VL, Miike R, Koo LC, Ho JC. Birthplace and yield of nipple aspirate fluid in Chinese women. Cancer Epidemiol, Biomarkers & Prev 1998;7:835-39.

Lee MM, Wang RT, Hsing AW, Gu F-L, Wang T, Spitz M. Case-control study of diet and prostate cancer in China. Cancer Causes and Control 1998;9:545-52.

Shibata A, Lee MM, Meyer PB. Laboratory assay reproducibility of serum estrogens in umbilical cord blood samples. Cancer Epidemiol, Biomarkers & Prev 1999;8:147-51.

Lee MM, Lee F, Stewart S, McPhee SJ. Cancer screening practices among primary care physicians serving Chinese Americans in San Francisco. West J Med 1999;170:148-55.

Lee MM, Lin SS, Wrensch MR, Adler SR, Eisenberg D. Alternative therapies used by women with breast cancer in four ethnic populations. JNCI 2000;92:42-7.

Horn-Ross PL, Barnes S, Lee MM, Coward L, Mandel JE, Koo J, John EM, Smith M. Assessing phytoestrogen exposure in epidemiological studies, development of a database. Cancer Causes and Control 2000;11:289-98.

Horn-Ross PL, Lee M, John EM, Koo J. Sources of phytoestrogen exposures among non-Asian women in California, USA. Cancer Causes and Control 2000;11:299-02.

Lee MM, Lin S. Dietary fat and breast cancer. Annual Review of Nutrition 2000; 20:221-48.

Wrensch M, Lee MM, Miike R, Neuhaus J. Are prior head injuries or diagnotic x-rays associated with Glioma in Adults? The effects of control selection bias. Neuroepidemiology 2000:19:234-44.

Sternfeld B, Cauley J, Harlow S, Liu G, Lee M. Assessment of physical activity with a single global question in a large multiethnic sample of midlife women. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000;152:678-87.

Lee MM, Huang S. Immigrant women's health: Nutritional assessment and dietary intervention. Western Journal of Medicine 2001;175:133-37.

Horn-Ross, PL, John EM, Lee M, Stewart SL, Koo J, Sakoda LC, Shiau AC, Goldstein J, Davis P, Perez-Stable EJ. Phytoestrogen consumption and breast cancer risk in a multiethnic population: The Bay Area Breast Cancer Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2001;154:434-41.

Horn-Ross PL, Morris JS, Lee M, West DW, Whittemore AS, McDougall, et al. Iodine and thyroid cancer risk among women in multiethnic population: The Bay Area Thyroid Cancer Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prev 2001;10:979-85.

Wrensch MR, Petrakis NL, Miike R, King EB, Chew K, Neuhaus J, Lee MM, Rhys M. Breast cancer risk in women with abnormal cytology in nipple aspirates of breast fluid. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001;93:1791-98.

Tedeschi-Blok N, Schwartzbaum J, Lee M, Miike R, Wrensch M. Dietary calcium consumption and astrocytic glioma: The San Francisco Bay Area Adult Glioma Study, 1991-1995. Nutrition Cancer 2001;39:196-203.

Horn-Ross PL, Hoggatt KJ, Lee MM. Phytoestrogens and thyroid cancer risk: The San Francisco Bay Area Thyroid Cancer Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, Prevention 2002;11:43-49.

Lee MM, Breast cancer in Asian women. Western Journal of Medicine 2002;176:91-92.

Lee MM, Chang JS, Jacobs B, Wrensch MR. CAM medicine use among men with prostate cancer in 4 ethnic populations. AJPH 2002;92:1606-1609.

5/8/03

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