Kenneth Rothman Wins 2014 Lilienfeld Award from American College of Epidemiology.

Kenneth Rothman, a professor of epidemiology at SPH with more than 40 years of research experience, has been named the 2014 winner of the Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Leadership.

The award is the highest conferred by the American College of Epidemiology and is given in honor of Abraham Lilienfeld, an outstanding teacher, scholar, and founder of the American College of Epidemiology. Rothman received the award last week at the organization’s annual meeting. He was also recognized as a lifetime Honorary Fellow of the College.

Dr. Rothman’s research has included work on the teratogenicity of vitamin A, the health effects of cellular telephone use, and potential environmental risk factors for cancer. He has also conducted epidemiologic research and written on the epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease, birth defects, environmental epidemiology, and methodological, conceptual and ethical issues in epidemiology.

Dr. Rothman authored two widely used textbook of epidemiologic methods, Modern Epidemiology and Epidemiology: an Introduction, and is the founding editor of Epidemiology, a leading public health journal. He received the American Public Health Association’s Abraham Lilienfeld Award for 2002, recognizing excellence in the teaching of epidemiology during the course of a career, is a Fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.