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Dr. Suresh Moolgavkar is a Corporate Vice President and the Director of the Health Sciences Center for Epidemiology Biostatistics and Computational Biology. Dr. Moolgavkar has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of epidemiology biostatistics and quantitative risk assessment. He is internationally known for his work in developing mechanistically based dose-response models for carcinogenesis and in particular for the two-mutation clonal expansion model also known as the Moolgavkar-Venzon-Knudson (MVK) model. For the past decade Dr. Moolgavkar has also been keenly interested in the analyses of the association between various indices of air pollution and human health effects. Since 1984 he has been a Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Washington. He has served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University Indiana University University of Pennsylvania and Fox Chase Cancer Center and has been a visiting scientist at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Dr. Moolgavkar is the author or co-author of over 150 papers in the areas of epidemiology biostatistics and quantitative risk assessment and has edited three books in these areas. He was given the Founders' Award by the CIIT Centers for Health Research in 1990 and the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Society for Risk Analysis in 2001. | 