Thursday, September 30, 2010
Breast cancer researcher to speak at IUSM-Evansville's 2010 Corcoran Lecture
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Snow Wolff's research interests center on the effects of environmental chemicals and their interactions with diet, lifestyle, and individual susceptibility on childhood development, reproductive function, and cancer risk. She has collaborated on several studies of breast cancer risk associated with environmental exposures and the genetic determinants of these risks. Her current research deals with interactions of environmental factors and hormones on fetal and child growth and development. From 1998 to 2009, Snow Wolff was director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research at Mount Sinai. She also was the principal investigator on a project to study environmental and genetic determinants of puberty from 2003-2010 and a project to examine the birth effects on women exposed to chemicals and traumatic events at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Her lecture for an invitation-only luncheon on the same day is "Environmental Exposures, Pubertal Development, and Breast Cancer" at 11:30 a.m. in Carter Hall of the USI University Center. Both lectures are at the University of Southern Indiana, the host campus of the IUSM-Evansville. The IU School of Medicine-Evansville sponsors the annual Patrick J.V. and Margaret B. Corcoran Lecture in memory of its founding director, Patrick J.V. Corcoran, M.D., and his wife, Margaret B. Corcoran, a nurse. Daughters of the late Dr. and Mrs. Corcoran, Val Corcoran Wenzler, M.D., Sheila Corcoran, Ellen Corcoran Hegeman, and Monica Corcoran, established an endowment to provide medical lectures to the Evansville community and scholarships to area medical students. Dr. Corcoran was a professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and assistant dean from 1971 to 1983. For questions about the presentations, contact IUSM-Evansville at 812-464-1831. |
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