Professor Honored for Career in Epidemiology.

In a unanimous vote, the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) selected Kenneth Rothman, professor of epidemiology, as the 2017 recipient of the Society’s Career Accomplishment Award.

Rothman will receive a plaque in honor of the award on June 22 during the Society’s 50th annual meeting in Seattle. He will also give a talk during the meeting’s plenary session on June 23. The award carries a $1,000 travel allowance and waiver of meeting registration, and recognizes scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field, and/or whose work has shifted the practice of epidemiology.

“The unanimous vote of the Awards Committee underscores your notable and scholarly contributions to the field of epidemiology, including many that impacted the health and well-being of populations,” wrote Bernard Harlow, president of SER and a professor of epidemiology at SPH, in a letter to Rothman announcing the award.

Rothman’s research has included work on the epidemiology of cancer; cardiovascular disease; birth defects; environmental epidemiology; fertility; and methodological, conceptual, and ethical issues in epidemiology. He is also the author of two widely used textbooks of epidemiologic methods, Modern Epidemiology and Epidemiology: An Introduction, and the founding editor of the journal Epidemiology.

“I cannot imagine a more gratifying recognition than this award, to be acknowledged in this way by my colleagues from the Society for Epidemiologic Research,” Rothman says. “I am grateful, and appreciative of the collaborations and contacts that I have had over the decades through my various projects—the textbooks, the courses, the journal, and others. I am not done yet being an epidemiologist, but now I truly have something to live up to.”

Established in 1968 to foster epidemiologic research, the Society for Epidemiologic Research is the oldest and largest general epidemiology society in North America.

—Michelle Samuels