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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
JOHN L. ZIEGLER, MD, MSC

Professor Emeritus, Medicine, UCSF
Director, Cancer Risk Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

CONTACT

ziegler@itsa.ucsf.edu

(415) 502-1883 (voice)
(415) 476-8218 (fax)

Box 0808, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0808

EDUCATION

Amherst College, Amherst, MA, B.A., 1956-1960, English
Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, M.D., 1960-1964, Medicine
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K., M.Sc., 1996-1997, Epidemiology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1964-66

Intern and Assistant Resident, Second (Cornell) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY (Fellow, Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College)

1966-67

Clinical Associate, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, and Admitting Officer, National Cancer Institute

1967-72

Director, Uganda Cancer Institute, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda; Senior Investigator, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute

1972-75

Chief, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute

1975-80

Deputy Clinical Director, National Cancer Institute and Associate Director, Clinical Oncology Program, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute

1980-81

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, National Cancer Institute

1981-96

Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Staff Physician, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Professor of Medicine in Residence [Emeritus], School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

1994-96

Senior Scientist (on detail from Department of Veterans Affairs), International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. On special assignment to Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Visiting Scientist, ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford University

1967-72

Honorary Lecturer in Medicine, Makerere University Medical School, and Honorary Senior Registrar, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda; Lecturer in Surgery, Harvard College; Clinical Associate Professor, Cornell University Medical College

1976-78

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, George Washington University Medical School

1979-81

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine

1980-81

Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

1990-91

Visiting Fulbright Professor of Medicine, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda (on Sabbatical leave from UCSF)

1992-93

Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge and Associate, Darwin College

1992-96

Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

1994-96

Visiting Fulbright Professor of Medicine, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda

1995

Visiting Scientist, ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford University

1996-present

Professor in Residence Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

1998-present

Director, Cancer Risk Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

HONORS & AWARDS

July 1969

United States Public Health Service Commendation Medal

November 1972

Albert and Mary Lasker Award

November 1983

Heath Award, M.D. Anderson Hospital

1990-91

Fulbright Research Scholar, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

1991

Howard Gilman Foundation Honors Program Lecturer, New York University

1992

Associate, Darwin College, University of Cambridge

1994-95

Fulbright Research Scholar, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

May 2002

Paul Carbone Memorial Award for International Oncology, Brussels

April 2003

Alumni Community Service Award, Hotchkiss School

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(from 280 publications, 1964-2006)

Ziegler JL, Katongole Mbidde E. Childhood Kaposi's sarcoma in Uganda. Analysis of 100 cases and relationship to HIV infection. Int J Cancer 65:200 203;1996

Ziegler JL, Katongole Mbidde E. Diminished delayed hypersensitivity in the legs and feet of patients with endemic Kaposi's sarcoma. J Roy Soc Trop Med & Hyg. 90:173 4;1996.

Chang Y. Ziegler JL, Wabinga H. et al. Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus and Kaposi's sarcoma in Africa. Arch Int Med 156:202 204;1996

Gao S. Kingsley L, Zheng W, Parravicini M, Ziegler JL, Newton R. et al. KSHV antibodies among Americans, Italians, and Ugandans with and without Kaposi's sarcoma. Nature Med 2:925Â928; 1996

Participant, IARC Monograph on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Vol 67: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Human T cell Lymphotropic Virus. IARC, 1997

Ziegler, JL. Editorial. Geophagy: a vestige of paleonutrition. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2:609 611;1997

Ziegler JL, Newton R. Katongole Mbidde E, et al. Risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV positive subjects in Uganda. AIDS 11:1619 26; 1997

Parkin DM and Ziegler JL: Malignant Diseases. In Strickland, G.T., (ed). Hunter's Tropical Medicine, 8th edition. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997, 96-106

Rutakingira M, Ziegler JL, Newton R. Freers J. Poverty and eosinophilia are risk factors for endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda. Trop Med Int Health 4:229-235; 1999

Parkin DM, Garcia-Gianoli H, Newton R, Raphael M, Martin A, Katongole-Mbidde E, Ziegler J, et al.. Non Hodgkin lymphomas in Uganda. A case control study. AIDS 14:2929-36;2000

International HIV Collaborative Group. The impact of highly active anti-retroviral therapy on the incidence of cancer in people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Collaborative re-analysis of individual data. JNCI 92:1823-30;2000

Newton R, Ziegler JL, Beral, V, et al. A case control study of HHV8 infection in adults and children in Uganda. Int J. Cancer 92:622-7, 2001

Ziegler JL, Simonart T, Snoeck R. KaposiÕs Sarcoma, Oncogenic Viruses, and Iron. J Clin Virology 20:127-30;2001

Ziegler JL, Katangole-Mbidde E. Cancer in Africa. In: Parry EHO, Godfrey RC, Mabey DMW, Gill GV, eds. Principals of Medicine in Africa. Third Edition, Cambridge University Press (2003)

Newton R, Sitas F, Dedicoat M, Ziegler JL. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and cancer in Africa. In: Essex M, ed. AIDS in Africa (2002)

Newton R, Ziegler JL, Attenyi-Agaba C, et al. The epidemiology of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Uganda. Brit J Cancer 2003;88;2002-3

Newton R , Ziegler JL, Bourbillia D, et al. The sero-epidemiology of KaposiÕs sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8) in adults with cancer in Uganda. Int J Cancer 2003;103:226-32

Newton R, Ziegler J, Bourboulia D et al. Infection with KSHV and HIV in relation to risk and clinical presentation of KaposiÕs sarcoma in Uganda. Brit J Cancer 2003;89:502-4

Ziegler J, Newton R, Bourbillia D et al. Risk factors for KaposiÕs sarcoma: a case control study of HIV Ðseronegative people in Uganda. Int J Cancer 2003;103:233-40

Newton R, Boursarghin L, Ziegler J, Casabonne D., Beral V, Mbidde E, et al. Human papillomavirus and cancer in Uganda. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2004;13:113-8

Powell C.B. Kenley E, Chen L-M, Crawford B, McLennan J, Komoromy M, Beattie M, Ziegler, JL. Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA mutation carriers. Role of serial sectioning in the detection of occult malignancy. J Clin Oncol 2005; 23:127-32

Lee R, Beattie R, Crawford B, Mak J, Stewart N, Komaromy M, Esserman L, Shaw L, McLennan J, Strakowski L, Luce J, Ziegler J. Recruitment, genetic counseling, and BRCA testing for underserved women at a public hospital. Genetic testing 2005;9:306-12

Fridlyand J, Snijders AM, Ylstra B et al. Deregulation of E2F and telomere maintenance with genomic instability in breast tumors. BMC Cancer, 2006;6:96

11/28/06

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