Jack Siemiatycki PhD

Dr. Jack Siemiatycki has a PhD in epidemiology and is currently Professor of epidemiology atUniversity of Montreal. He has held a Canada Research Chair and is currently the Guzzo-SRC Chair in Environment and Cancer, and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He has served on over 100 national and international boards and expert advisory bodies for academic and government agencies in Canada, the US and Europe, such as the National Cancer Institute of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, National Cancer Institute (U.S.), Institut de recherche en santé publique (France), INSERM (France), American College of Epidemiology, IARC and WHO.

He has served on the editorial board of Amer J Epidemiology, and other journals, and he has chaired many grant review panels. Most of his research has been in the area of environmental and occupational etiology of cancer. He is known for having developed novel and influential design and exposure assessment methods in occupational etiology of cancer, and for results from a variety of case-control studies concerning a wide variety of possible environmental carcinogens.

Prof Siemiatycki has been an invited speaker at over 150 meetings or seminars throughout the world, including for President Clinton’s Cancer Panel, and as a Distinguished Lecturer at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 50 scientific reports, and 150 accepted presentations or posters. He was the principal expert witness in the largest ever successful class action lawsuit against the tobacco industry.