SPHHP Faculty Member Recognized
(May 9, 2005)
Dr. Jo L. Freudenheim, UB Distinguished Professor and interim chair, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (SPM), received a Research & Scholarship Award by the SUNY Research Foundation at a dinner last week in Albany in recognition of her research and scholarship.
Her research focuses on the epidemiology of diet in relation to cancer risk, with a particular focus on breast cancer. She also is examining residential history as an indicator of environmental exposures to elucidate a possible role of those exposures in breast cancer epidemiology.