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Screening Mammography: Science, Policy, and Politics - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Air date:	Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 512 (132 Live, 380 On-demand)
Category:	Special
Runtime:	01:03:49
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Description:	The 2013 Annual Advances in Cancer Prevention Lecture will be given by Dr. Diana B. Petitti, widely regarded as one of the world's leading epidemiologic experts on hormones and disease. Her recent work has focussed on the applications of systematic review, meta-analysis and decision analysis to the formulation os health policy. Dr. Petitti received her BA degree from Cornell University, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH from Berkeley School of Public Health. She has held positions with the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, as a faculty member at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and as Director of Research and Evaluation and Senior Advisor for Health Policy with Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Dr. Petitti served as Vice-Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) from 2003-2009. She contributed substantially to development of the methods used by the USPSTF to make its recommendations and is a co-author on the three publications of the USPSTF describing these methods. She participated in the review of evidence about mammography screening that led to 2009 USPSTF recommendations that received national and international attention and were the subject of a special hearing by the United States House of Representatives.

NLM Title:	Screening mammography : science, policy, and politics : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Diana B. Petitti.
Author:	Petitti, Diana B. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): The 2013 Annual Advances in Cancer Prevention Lecture will be given by Dr. Diana B. Petitti, widely regarded as one of the world's leading epidemiologic experts on hormones and disease. Her recent work has focussed on the applications of systematic review, meta-analysis and decision analysis to the formulation os health policy. Dr. Petitti received her BA degree from Cornell University, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH from Berkeley School of Public Health. She has held positions with the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, as a faculty member at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and as Director of Research and Evaluation and Senior Advisor for Health Policy with Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Dr. Petitti served as Vice-Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) from 2003-2009. She contributed substantially to development of the methods used by the USPSTF to make its recommendations and is a co-author on the three publications of the USPSTF describing these methods. She participated in the review of evidence about mammography screening that led to 2009 USPSTF recommendations that received national and international attention and were the subject of a special hearing by the United States House of Representatives.
Subjects:	Breast Neoplasms--prevention & control Contraindications Health Policy Mammography
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WP 815
NLM ID:	101616656
CIT Live ID:	12932
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=12932

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