Department of Epidemiology Lambert H. Lumey M.D., Ph.D. Professor [email protected] SPH/ EPI PH-18 Telephone: 305-9222 Fax: 305-9412 Research interests Background: Dr. Lumey completed grammar school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Ignatiuscollege, Gymnasium-beta) and studied political science and medicine in Amsterdam and Leiden and philosophy of science in Cambridge (England). After MD graduation in Amsterdam, he came to Columbia University on a Fulbright fellowship to study epidemiology. After taking the PhD, Dr. Lumey returned to the Netherlands and worked on HIV/AIDS surveillance at the National Institute for Environmental Protection RIVM and in perinatal epidemiology at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, with appointments in the Departments of Neonatology, Obstetrics, and Epidemiology. At that time, he started the long-term follow-up of several birth cohorts exposed to the Dutch Famine of 1944-1945. After again moving to New York, Dr. Lumey worked on cancer epidemiology at the American Health Foundation and on perinatal HIV-transmission in a NYC birth cohort before joining the faculty at Columbia in 2000.