Distinguished Fellow, Epidemiology

Kenneth J. Rothman

Expertise

Epidemiologic Study Design and Data Analysis
Pharmacoepidemiology
Cancer
Birth Defects

Biography

Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPH, Distinguished Fellow in epidemiology, appointed July 2008, is vice president for Epidemiology Research in RTI Health Solutions. Dr. Rothman has focused his career on the development and teaching of the concepts and methods of epidemiologic research, and has authored or co-authored more than 250 scholarly publications. His research has spanned a wide range of health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurologic disease, birth defects, injuries, environmental exposures, and adverse effects of pharmaceutical agents. He was the founding editor of Epidemiology, assistant editor of the American Journal of Public Health, editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and the international advisory board of The Lancet. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, an honorary fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and fellow and member of the board of directors of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. He has written two widely read epidemiologic textbooks: Modern Epidemiology (now in its third edition) and Epidemiology, An Introduction.

Education

DrPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health; MPH, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; DMD, Dental Medicine, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; AB, Physical Sciences, Colgate University.

Selected Publications

Starke, J.R., Mucci, L., Rothman, K.J., & Adami, H.O. (2009 Oct 03). Screening for prostate cancer remains controversial. BMJ, 339 (7724):b3601.

Rothman, K.J. (Sep 2009). Health effects of mobile telephones. Epidemiology, 20 (5):653-655.

Rothman, K.J., & Suissa, S. (Oct 2008). Exclusion of immortal person-time. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 17 (10):1036.

Danese, M.D., Belozeroff, V., Smirnakis, K., & Rothman, K.J. (2008). Consistent control of mineral and bone disorder in incident hemodialysis patients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 3 (5):1423-1429.

Rothman, K.J. (2008 Aug). BMI-related errors in the measurement of obesity. International Journal of Obesity, 32 Suppl 3:S56-S59.

Rothman, K.J. (2008). Case-control studies. In E.L. Melnick, & B.S. Everitt (Ed.), Encyclopedia of quantitative risk analysis and assessment. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Rothman, K., Greenland, S., & Lash, T. (2008). Epidemiological study designs. In C.R. Rao, J. Miller, & D.C. Rao (Ed.), Handbook of Statistics, 27: Epdiemiology and Medical Statistics. New York, NY: Elsevier.

Bradbury, B.D., Wang, O., Critchlow, C.W., Rothman, K.J., Heagerty, P., Keen, M., & Acquavella, J.F. (Jan 2008). Exploring relative mortality and epoetin alfa dose among hemodialysis patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 51 (1):62-70.

Pedersen, L., Norgaard, M., Rothman, K.J., & Sorensen, H.T. (2008). Loratadine during pregnancy and hypospadias. Epidemiology, 19 (2):359-360.

Stuermer, T., Rothman, K.J., & Avorn, J. (2008). Pharmacoepidemiology and 'in silico' drug evaluation: is there common ground? Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 61 (3):205-206.

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