Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, B.A., 1964, Zoology
Univ. of Michigan Med School, Ann Arbor, MI, M.D., 1968, Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Internship, 1969
U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Residency, 1971
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, MPH, PhD, 1972, 1980, Epidemiology

• 1972-1973
  Research Associate, Institute of Pathobiology, Haile Sellassie I. University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA
• 1974
  Clinical Instructor in Medicine & Director, Employee Health Service, San Francisco General Hospital and University of California Medical School, San Francisco CA
• 1974, 1976-81
  Physician, Berkeley and Hayward Industrial Medical Groups, Berkeley and Hayward, CA
• 1974-1976
  Chief, Parasitology Section, San Juan Laboratories, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Center for Disease Control, US Public Health Service
• 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
• 1980-1987
  Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and International Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
• 1981-1997
  Lecturer, Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• 1981-1986
  Physician, Internal Medicine, Berkeley Family Practice Medical Group, Berkeley, CA
• 1988-1998
  Associate Director for Detection, Prevention & Education (81-86), Director of Prevention Sciences (93-98), Northern California Cancer Center, CA
• 1998-2003
  Deputy Director, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• 2003-present
  Associate Director of Population Sciences, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
• 2006-2010
  Co-Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
• 2010-present
  Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine

• 1967-68
  Victor Vaughn Medical Historical Society, University of Michigan Medical School
• 1968
  Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Children's Bureau Fellowship, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 2001
  National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Quality of Cancer Care Committee
• 2002
  National Institutes of Health Merit Award, Cancer Progress Report
• 2002
  National Institutes of Health Director's Award, Cancer Progress Report
• 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, American Association of Cancer Research, Extramural Research Council, American Cancer Society

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• Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N, Gehlert S, Paskett E, Tucker K, Lurie N, Rebbeck T, Goodwin J, Flack J, Srinvasan S, Kerner J, Heurtin-Roberts S, Abeles R, Tyson FL, Patmios G, Hiatt RA. Approaching health disparities from a population perspective: The NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. Am J Pub Health 2008; 98:1608-15.
• Hiatt RA, Breen N. The social determinants of cancer: a challenge for transdisciplinary science. Am J Prev Med 2008;35:S141-S150.
• Braithwaite D, Moore DH, Lustig RH, Epel ES, Ong KK, Rehkopf D, Wang MC, Miller SM, Hiatt RA. Socioeconomic status in relation to early menarche among black and white girls. Cancer Causes Control 2008 Dec 25 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 19107561
• Hiatt RA, Haslam S, Osuch J for the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers. The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers: Transdisciplinary science for the role of the environment in breast cancer etiology. Env Health Perspectives 2009 Environ Health Perspect doi:10.1289/ehp. 0800120 http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 16 Jun 2009]
• Hiatt RA, Pasick RJ, Stewart S, Bloom J, Davis P, Luce J. Cancer screening in underserved women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study (BACCIS). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008;17:1945-9.
• Best A, Hiatt RA, Norman C; on behalf of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Joint Working Group on Translational Research and Knowledge Integration of the Advisory Committee for Research and the Joint Advisory Committee for Cancer Control. Knowledge integration: conceptualizing communications in cancer control systems. Patient Educ Counsel 2008; 71:319-327.
• Hiatt RA. Epidemiology: key to translational, team, and transdisciplinary science. Positioning epidemiology in a changing environment over the next 25 years. American College of Epidemiology. Ann Epidemiol 2008:18:859-61 PMID: 18823793
• Hiatt RA, Breen N. The social determinants of cancer: a challenge for transdisciplinary science. Am J Prev Med 2008;35:S141-S150.
• Chlebowski RT, Johnson KC, Kooperberg C, Pettinger M, Wactawski-Wende J, Rohan T, Rossouw J, Lane D, O’Sullivan M, Yasmen S, Hiatt RA, Shikany JM, Vitolins M, Khandekar J, Hubbell FA. Calcium plus vitamin D supplement and the risk of breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2008;100:1581-1591.
• Raz DJ, Gomez SL, Chang ET, Kim JY, Kim JY, Keegan TH, Pham J, Kukreja J, Hiatt RA, Jablons DM. Epidemiology of non-small cell lung cancer in Asian-Americans: incidence patterns among six subgroups by nativity. J Thoracic Oncol 2008;3:1391-7
• Hiatt RA. Epidemiology: key to translational, team, and transdisciplinary science. Positioning epidemiology in a changing environment over the next 25 years. American College of Epidemiology. Ann Epidemiol 2008:18:859-61 PMID: 18823793
• Hiatt RA, Haslam S, Osuch J for the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers. The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers: Transdisciplinary science for the role of the environment in breast cancer etiology. Env Health Perspectives 2009 Environ Health Perspect doi:10.1289/ehp. 0800120 http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 16 Jun 2009]
• Hiatt RA, Pasick RJ, Stewart S, Bloom J, Davis P, Luce J. Cancer screening in underserved women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study (BACCIS). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008;17:1945-9.
• Braithwaite D, Tammemagi M, Moore D, Ozanne E, Hiatt RA, Belkora J, Satariano W, West D, Liebman M, Esserman L. Hypertension is an independent predictor of survival disparity among African American and white breast cancer patients. International Journal of Cancer, 2009; 124(5):1213-19. PMID: 19058216
• Wideroff L, Phillips KA, Randhawa G, Ambs A, Armstrong K, Bennett CL, Brown ML, Donaldson MS, Follen M, Goldie SJ, Hiatt RA, Khoury MJ, Lewis G, McLeod HL, Piper M, Powell I, Schrag D, Schulman KA, Scott J. A Health Services Research Agenda for Cellular, Molecular and Genomic Technologies in Cancer Care. Public Health Genomics 2009;12:233-44 PMID: 19367091.
• Green LW, Ottoson JM, Garcia C, Hiatt RA. Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization and intregration in public health. Annu Rev Public Health 2009;30:151-174 PMID:19146396
• Baird MA, Berg AO, Botkin JR, Driscoll DA, Fishman PA, Guarino PD, Hiatt RA, Jarvik GP, Millon-Underwood S, Morgan TM, Mulvihill JJ, Pollin TI, Schimmel SR, Stefanek ME, Vollmer WM, Williams JK. NIH State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Family History and Improving Health. NIH Consens State Sci Statements. 2009 Aug 26; 26(1). [Epub ahead of print]
• Kranick JA, Schaefer C, Rowell S, Desai M, Petrek JA, Hiatt RA, Senie RT. Is pregnancy after breast cancer safe? The Breast Journal 2010; 16(4)404-411. PMID: 20522097.
• Windham GC, Pinney SM, Sjodin A, Lum R, Jones RS, Needham LL, Biro F, Hiatt RA, Kushi LH. Body burdens of brominated flame retardants and other persistent organo-halogenated compounds and their descriptors in U.S. girls. Environ Research 2010; 110:251-257. PMID 20129604.
• Hade EM, Murray DM, Pennell ML, Rhoda D, Paskett ED, Champion VL, Crabtree B, Dietrich A, Dignan MB, Framer M, Fenton JJ, Flocke S, Hiatt RA, Hudson S, Mitchell M, Monahan P, Strickland PO, Shariff-Marco S, Stange K, Stewart SL. Intraclass correlation estimates for cancer screening outcomes: estimates and applications in the design of group randomized cancer screening studies. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 2010; 40:97-103. PMID: 203386058.
• Widome R, Samet JM, Hiatt RA, Luke DA, Orleans T, Ponkshe P, Hyland A. Science, prudence and politics: The case of smoke-free indoor spaces. Ann Epidemiol 2010; 20:428-35. PMID 20470969.
• Wolff MS, Teitelbaum SL, Pinney SM, Windham G, Liao L, Biro F, Kushi LH, Erdman C, Hiatt RA, Rybak ME, Calafat AM and the Breast Cancer and Environment Research Centers. Investigation of relationships between urinary biomarkers of phytoestrogens, phthalates and phenols and pubertal stages in girls. Environ Health Perspectives 2010; 118(7):1039-1046. PMID 20308033.
• Singh GK, Siahpush M, Hiatt RA, Timsina LR. Dramatic increase in obesity and overweight prevalence and body mass index among ethnic-immigrant and social class groups in the United States, 1976-2008. J Comm Health (published on line 12 June 2010 - DOI 10.1007) PMID: 20549318
• Hiatt RA. The epicenter of translational science. Am J Epidemiol 2010;172(5):525-527. PMID: 20688901
• Braithwaite D, Satariano WA, Sternfeld, B, Hiatt RA, Ganz PA, Kerlikowske K, Moore DH, Slattery ML, Tammemagi M, Castillo A, Melisko M, Esserman L, Weltzien E, Caan BJ. Long-term prognostic role of functional limitations among women with breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst; 2010; 102:1468-77. PMID: 20861456
• Chlebowski RT, Johnson KC, Lane D, Pettinger M, Kooperberg CL, Wactawski-Wende J, Rohan T, O’Sullivan MJ, Yasmeen S, Hiatt RA, Shikany JM, Vitolins M, Khadekar J, Hubbell A. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D concentration, vitamin D intake and joint symptoms in postmenopausal women. Maturitas 2011;68:73-78. PMID 2109333181
• Deardorff J, Ekwaru MA, Kushi L, Ellis B, Greenspan LC, Mirabedi A, Landaverde EG, Hiatt RA. Father absence, BMI and pubertal timing in girls: differential effects by family income and ethnicity. J Adolesc Health 2011; 48:441-7. PMID 21501801
• Willet WC, Colditz GA, Hiatt RA. Combating environmental causes of cancer. Response to Christiani. N Engl J Med 2011;364:2266.