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These are the excellent presentations from the Children with Cancer UK sponsored childhood cancer session organised by Professor Denis Henshaw for the 8th Princess Chulabhorn International Scientific Congress held in Thailand in November 2016.

Dr Catherine Metayer MD, PhD

Dr Catherine Metayer

PhD - Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health, New Orleans, Louisiana
MD - University of Bordeaux II, France
BS - Mathematics, France

Member of the French National Society of Physicians (Ordre National des Médecins)
Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology

CC2018 Talk 1 Abstract

CC2018 Talk 2 Abstract

Dr. Metayer received her medical degree from the University of Bordeaux II in France, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Tulane University, School of Public Health. She is currently Professor at the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Metayer was a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

She is the Principal Investigator of the California Childhood Leukemia Study and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), a federally funded Children's Environmental Health Center. She is also the Chair of the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium. Her work focuses on environmental and genetic risk factors of leukemia and other cancers in children and adolescents in California.

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