EPI-BIO Lecture Seires EPI-BIO Lecture Series

The University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health welcomes Dr. Thomas Tucker, Professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology & Environmental Health

In-person room 115 at College of Public Health or via Zoom at https://uky.zoom.us/j/87254036451?pwd=ei5AuzDuIvOCOLMQqYRXBJRjIM77P5.1 Password: 827984 Meeting ID: 872 5403 6451

“Reducing the cancer Burden in Kentucky and the Appalachian Area of the State”

Thomas C. Tucker, PhD, MPH, was the founding chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health and is currently a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health. He is also the Senior Director for Cancer Surveillance at the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center. For more than 20 years he served as the Markey Cancer Center's Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, Director of the Kentucky Cancer Registry, Principal Investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR), and Principal Investigator for the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program in Kentucky. He is an internationally recognized population scientist with more than 45 years of experience in cancer surveillance and cancer control research. Dr. Tucker was elected as one of two North American Representatives to serve on the International Association of Cancer Registries' Board of Directors and he is a member of the Steering Committee for the CONCORD project, an international study of cancer survival in 72 countries. He is a past President of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) and in 2002 he received NAACCR’s highest honor, the Calum Muir Award, for lifetime contributions to the science of cancer surveillance. His research is focused on disparities in the burden of lung, colorectal, breast and cervical cancer with an emphasis on rural and Appalachian populations. More recently he has been engaged in research using the population-based cancer registry as a Virtual Tissue Repository. A reception to honor

Dr. Tucker’s achievements and milestones as he approaches retirement will immediately follow the lecture at 12pm.