| SAMUEL EPSTEIN, M.D. was born and educated in England.
He received his Doctorate of Medicine with honors at Guy’s Hospital,
London in 1950, and he became a qualified Specialist in Pathology, Tropical
Medicine and Internal Medicine. He had a distinguished medical career
in England, including Specialist in Pathology, Royal Army Medical Corps,
where he was awarded 3 major military prizes, lecturer in Pathology
and Bacteriology, University of London, and British Empire Cancer Campaign
Research Fellow, in conjunction with the Chester Beatty Cancer Research
Institute, and Tumor Pathologist at The Hospital for Sick Children,
and Great Ormond Street, London.
In 1960, he was invited to the United States, where he founded the Laboratories
of Carcinogenesis and Toxicology, and The Children’s Cancer Research
Foundation in Boston. He was also appointed Senior Research Associate
in Pathology at Harvard Medical School.
Currently, Dr. Epstein is Professor of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical
Center, Chicago. He is an internationally recognized scientific authority
on cancer prevention and on the toxic and carcinogenic effects of environmental
pollutants in the air, water, food and the workplace. Dr. Epstein is
the author of some 280 scientific articles and 7 books, including the
prize-winning The Politics of Cancer, Hazardous Waste in America,
and is co-author, with David Steinman, of The Safe Shoppers Bible,
published in 1995. He has also authored numerous editorials in leading
national newspapers, warning the public of the unresponsiveness of government
to the cancer epidemic and the need for citizen information and initiatives.
Dr. Epstein’s activities bridging science and public policy include
former consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works, frequently
invited Congressional testimony, and member of Federal Agency Advisory
Committees including the Health Advisory Committee of EPA and the Department
of Labor Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Occupational Carcinogens.
He has been Chairman of the Air Pollution Control Association Committee
on Biological Effects of Air Pollutants, President of the Society of
Occupational and Environmental Health, Founder and Secretary of the
Environmental Mutagen Society and former President of the Rachel Carson
Council.
He is also the Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, formed in
1993 to focus public attention on the avoidable cancer epidemic and
to develop policies and strategies based on grass roots initiatives
to reverse the losing war against cancer. The Coalition has become a
leading group of independent experts on cancer prevention and public
health, together with citizen activists, organized labor, public interest
and women’s cancer groups. They may be contacted at (312) 996-2297,
fax: (312) 996-1374, website: www.preventcancer.com
or e-mail: epstein@uic.edu.
On October 7, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Epstein was awarded the Right
Livelihood Award, better known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”
for his contributions to cancer prevention.
He will speak on Stop Cancer Before It Starts
(Keynote Speaker).
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