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Shirley A. A. Beresford, PhD, MSc, MA |
Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Dr. Beresford is also a member of the core faculty of the Nutritional Sciences Program, affiliate investigator with the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and Full Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Contact Information
Box 357236
Department of Epidemiology
F-363C Health Sciences Building
Seattle, WA 98195-7236
Tel: 206-543-9512
Fax: 206-695-9651
beresfrd@u.washington.edu
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Box 358080
Cancer Prevention, Arnold Building
1100 Fairview Ave N.,
PO Box 19024, Mailstop: M3-B232
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
Tel: 206-667-4793
http://www.fhcrc.org/science/phs/cprp/
Research Interests
Dr. Beresford's research interests are in the areas of nutritional epidemiology and chronic disease prevention. Her work is specifically designed to improve the scientific basis for public health policy and recommendations concerning dietary intake, physical activity and intake of folic acid. Her randomized dose-response study of supplementary folic acid and its effect on homocysteine levels in this post-fortification era is one such example. She has been Principal Investigator on numerous individual and group randomized trials of dietary behavior intervention. Dr. Beresford has been an investigator with the Women's Health Initiative since its inception, contributing to the intervention design in the Dietary Modification trial, and is lead author of one of the primary results papers of the randomized trial, namely the low fat dietary pattern and risk of colorectal cancer. Dr. Beresford was a member of the Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, National Academy of Sciences, 2002 - 2004, and an invited speaker at the Institute of Medicine's workshop on Managing Food-related Risks in 2005.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Beresford founded and teaches the course EPI 538/NUTR 538, "Nutritional Epidemiology" currently offered in Autumn quarter. She co-authored the book chapter entitled Nutritional Epidemiology in the recent series in Public Health Nutrition. Offered in Winter quarter, she co-teachesEPI 548/HSERV 548, "Social Determinants of Health: Research Methods."
Education
PhD, Epidemiology, University of London (UK) 1981
MSc, Statistics, University of Sussex (Uk) 1971
MA, Mathematics, University of Cambridge 1974
Selected Publications
Beresford SA, Klesges LM, Rockett HR. „The examination of two short dietary assessment methods, within the context of multiple behavioral change interventions in adult populations. Introduction". J Nutr. 2008 Jan;138(1):183S-184S
Neuhouser ML, Tinker L, Shaw PA, Schoeller D, Bingham SA, Horn LV, Beresford SA, Caan B, Thomson C, Satterfield S, Kuller L, Heiss G, Smit E, Sarto G, Ockene J, Stefanick ML, Assaf A, Runswick S, Prentice RL." Use of Recovery Biomarkers to Calibrate Nutrient Consumption Self-Reports in the Women's Health Initiative". Am J Epidemiol. 2008; 167(10):1247-59
Prentice RL, Thomson CA, Caan B, Hubbell FA, Anderson GL, Beresford SA, Pettinger M, Lane DS, Lessin L, Yasmeen S, Singh B, Khandekar J, Shikany JM, Satterfield S, Chlebowski RT. "Low-fat dietary pattern and cancer incidence in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Randomized Controlled Trial". J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007; 99(20):1534-1543
Beresford SAA, Johnson KC, Ritenbaugh C, Lasser NL, Snetselaar LG, Black HR, Anderson GL et al. "Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial". JAMA 2006; 295: 643-654
Howard B, Manson JE, Stefanick ML, Beresford SAA, Frank G, Jones B, Rodabough RJ, Snetselaar L, Thomson C, Tinker L, Vitolins M, Prentice R. "Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Weight Change Over 7 Years - the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial". JAMA 2006; 295:39-49
Anderson GL, Limacher M, Assaf AR, Bassford T, Beresford SA, Black H, et al. Women's Health Initiative Steering Committee. "Effects of conjugated equine estrogens in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial." JAMA 2004; 291 (14): 1701-1712
The Homocysteine Studies collaboration (2002) "Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis." JAMA 288 (16) 2015-2022.
Diehr, P, Beresford, SAA. "The relation of dietary patterns to future survival, health, and cardiovascular events in older adults." J Clin Epidem 2003; 56 1224-1235
The Homocysteine Studies collaboration "Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis." JAMA 2002; 288 (16) 2015-2022
Rossouw JE, Anderson GL, Prentice RL, LaCroix AZ, Kooperberg C, Stefanick ML, Jackson RD, Beresford SA, Howard BV, Johnson KC, Kotchen JM, Ockene J; Writing Group for the women's Health Initiative Investigators. "Risks and Benefits of Estrogen plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: Principal results from the women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial." JAMA 2002; 288 (3): 321-333
Feinleib, M., Beresford, S.A.A., Bowman, B.A., Mills, J.A., Rader, J.I., Selhub, J., Yetley, E.A. (2002) "Case Study: Folate Fortification for the Prevention of Birth Defects". Am J Epidem 154 (12): S60-S69
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