Presented by:
The Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine

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Biographies: Norman E. Breslow Mitchell H. Gail
Donations: Breslow Lectureship

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	Conference on Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Observational Studies In Honor of Norman E. Breslow
August 4, 2006 Seattle, Washington, USA

Biography

Norman E. Breslow is Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association (1978), the Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1982-83), the 1995 George W. Snedecor Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), the 1995 R.A. Fisher Award of COPSS, the 1998 Statistician of the Year awarded by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Docteur Honoris Causa from Bordeaux (2001), the Nathan Mantel Award, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association (2002), was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1994) and was elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. Professor Breslow has made pioneering contributions to the advancement of biostatistical methodological developments in survival analysis, generalized linear mixed models and the design of case-control and cohort studies. He has made instrumental contributions in cancer epidemiology and is a founding member of the National Wilms' Tumor Study Committee. He is co-author of the influential textbooks, Statistical Methods in Cancer Research (vols. I & II), with Nicholas Day.