Noel S. Weiss

Appointments and Affiliations
 
 
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Public Health Sciences Division
Epidemiology
Member
University of Washington
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Epidemiology
Professor
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Mailing Address

Box 357236
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
United States

Contact

Phone: (206) 685-1788
Fax: (206) 543-8525
nweiss@u.washington.edu

Degrees

DrPH, Harvard University, 1971.
MD, Stanford University, 1967.

Research Interests

Cancer epidemiology
Clinical epidemiology
Epidemiologic methods

Previous Positions

1984-1993, Chairman, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Epidemiology
1976-1982, Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences
1976-1979, Associate Professor, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Epidemiology
1974-1976, Assistant Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences
1973-1975, Head, Cancer Surveillance System, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
1973-1976, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Epidemiology
1971-1973, Epidemiologist, National Center for Health Statistics, Office of Health Statistics Anslysis

Recent Publications

2013
Doubeni, CA, Weinmann S, Adams K, Kamineni A, Buist DSM, Ash AS, Rutter CM, Doria-Rose PV, Corley DA, Greenlee RT et al..  2013.  Screening colonoscopy and risk for incident late-stage colorectal cancer diagnosis in average-risk adults: a nested case-control study.. Annals of internal medicine. 158(5 Pt 1):312-20. Abstract
Yamamoto, KT, Robinson-Cohen C, de Oliveira MC, Kostina A, Nettleton JA, Ix JH, Nguyen H, Eng J, Lima JAC, Siscovick DS et al..  2013.  Dietary phosphorus is associated with greater left ventricular mass.. Kidney international. Abstract
Saltzman, BS, Weiss NS, Sieh W, Fitzpatrick AL, McTiernan A, Daling JR, Li CI.  2013.  Use of antihypertensive medications and breast cancer risk.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 24(2):365-71. Abstract
Etzioni, R, Gulati R, Cooperberg MR, Penson DM, Weiss NS, Thompson IM.  2013.  Limitations of basing screening policies on screening trials: The US Preventive Services Task Force and Prostate Cancer Screening.. Medical care. 51(4):295-300. Abstract
2012
Mannino, S, Villa M, Apolone G, Weiss NS, Groth N, Aquino I, Boldori L, Caramaschi F, Gattinoni A, Malchiodi G et al..  2012.  Effectiveness of adjuvanted influenza vaccination in elderly subjects in northern Italy.. American journal of epidemiology. 176(6):527-33. Abstract
Weiss, NS.  2012.  The withholding of test results as a means of assessing the effectiveness of treatment in test-positive persons.. Journal of clinical epidemiology. Abstract
Dublin, S, Walker RL, Jackson ML, Nelson JC, Weiss NS, Jackson LA.  2012.  Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor use and pneumonia risk in community-dwelling older adults: results from a population-based case-control study.. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. 21(11):1173-82. Abstract
Guo, F, Liu Y, Wang X, He Z, Weiss NS, Madeleine MM, Liu F, Tian X, Song Y, Pan Y et al..  2012.  Human Papillomavirus Infection and Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Case-Control Study.. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. Abstract
Chubak, J, Pocobelli G, Weiss NS.  2012.  Tradeoffs between accuracy measures for electronic health care data algorithms.. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 65(3):343-349.e2. Abstract
Dirac, AM, Horan KL, Doody DR, Meschke SJ, Park DR, Jackson LA, Weiss NS, Winthrop KL, Cangelosi GA.  2012.  Environment or Host?: A Case-control Study of Risk Factors for Mycobacterium Avium Complex Lung Disease. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. Abstract
Setiawan, VW, Pike MC, Karageorgi S, Deming SL, Anderson K, Bernstein L, Brinton LA, Cai H, Cerhan JR, Cozen W et al..  2012.  Age at Last Birth in Relation to Risk of Endometrial Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium.. American journal of epidemiology. 176(4):269-278. Abstract
Sakoda, LC, Loomis MM, Doherty JA, Julianto L, Barnett MJ, Neuhouser ML, Thornquist MD, Weiss NS, Goodman GE, Chen C.  2012.  Germ line variation in nucleotide excision repair genes and lung cancer risk in smokers.. International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics. 3(1):1-17. Abstract
2011
Doherty, JA, Weiss NS, Fish S, Fan W, Loomis MM, Sakoda LC, Rossing MA, Zhao LP, Chen C.  2011.  Polymorphisms in Nucleotide Excision Repair Genes and Endometrial Cancer Risk.. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 20(9):1873-1882. Abstract
Pocobelli, G, Doherty JA, Voigt LF, Beresford SAA, Hill DA, Chen C, Rossing MA, Holmes RS, Noor ZS, Weiss NS.  2011.  Pregnancy history and risk of endometrial cancer.. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 22(5):638-45. Abstract
Simpkins, JW, Swenberg JS, Weiss NS, Brusick D, Eldridge CJ, Stevens JT, Handa RJ, Hovey RC, Plant TM, Pastoor TP et al..  2011.  Atrazine and breast cancer: A framework assessment of the toxicological and epidemiological evidence.. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 123(2):441-59. Abstract
Rosenblatt, KA, Weiss NS, Cushing-Haugen KL, Wicklund KG, Rossing MA.  2011.  Genital powder exposure and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 22(5):737-42. Abstract
Weiss, NS.  2011.  The new world of data linkages in clinical epidemiology: are we being brave or foolhardy? Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 22(3):292-4.
Trabert, B, Weiss NS, Rudra CB, Scholes D, Holt VL.  2011.  A case-control investigation of adenomyosis: impact of control group selection on risk factor strength.. Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 21(2):160-4. Abstract
Sakoda, LC, Loomis MM, Doherty JA, Neuhouser ML, Barnett MJ, Thornquist MD, Weiss NS, Goodman GE, Chen C.  2011.  Chromosome 15q24-25.1 variants, diet, and lung cancer susceptibility in cigarette smokers.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 22(3):449-61. Abstract
Misono, S, Sie KCY, Weiss NS, Huang M-L, Boeckh MJ, Norton SJ, Yueh B.  2011.  Congenital cytomegalovirus infection in pediatric hearing loss.. Archives of otolaryngology--head & neck surgery. 137(1):47-53. Abstract
Phipps, AI, Doherty JA, Voigt LF, Hill DA, Beresford SAA, Rossing MA, Chen C, Weiss NS.  2011.  Long-term use of continuous-combined estrogen-progestin hormone therapy and risk of endometrial cancer.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 22(12):1639-46. Abstract
Weiss, NS, Hutter CM.  2011.  Re: comparative effectiveness of prostate cancer treatments: evaluating statistical adjustments for confounding in observational data.. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 103(16):1277.
Adami, H-O, Berry SCL, Breckenridge CB, Smith LL, Swenberg JA, Trichopoulos D, Weiss NS, Pastoor TP.  2011.  Toxicology and epidemiology: improving the science with a framework for combining toxicological and epidemiological evidence to establish causal inference.. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 122(2):223-34. Abstract
Lurie, G, Gaudet MM, Spurdle AB, Carney ME, Wilkens LR, Yang HP, Weiss NS, Webb PM, Thompson PJ, Terada K et al..  2011.  The obesity-associated polymorphisms FTO rs9939609 and MC4R rs17782313 and endometrial cancer risk in non-Hispanic white women.. PloS one. 6(2):e16756. Abstract
2010
Walter, RB, Appelbaum FR, Tallman MS, Weiss NS, Larson RA, Estey EH.  2010.  Shortcomings in the clinical evaluation of new drugs: acute myeloid leukemia as paradigm.. Blood. 116(14):2420-8. Abstract