Department of Epidemiology Mary Beth B. Terry Ph.D. Professor [email protected] SPH/ EPI PH-18 02 Telephone: 305-4915 Fax: 305-9413 Research interests Background: Dr. Terry is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health. She graduated in May of 1999 with a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health and received a Masters Degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Terry is a cancer epidemiologist and has been involved in case-control studies of breast and colorectal cancer for over seven years. She is currently working on a New York cohort study to examine early life factors for breast cancer risk. Her research focuses on the study of intermediate markers in cancer including mammographic density and colorectal adenomas, gene-environmental interactions and cancer, and early life factors and breast cancer. She is an National Cancer Institute K07 recipient of a 5-year career development award studying early life factors and breast cancer risk and an American Cancer Society recipient of a 3-year grant to study alcohol metabolism, intake and breast cancer risk. Dr. Terry has taught both introductory and advanced epidemiologic methods at Columbia. She is currently teaching Epidemiology III. Dr. Terry is also part of the CURE program at the Columbia Presbyterian Cancer Center to help mentor minority students in cancer research. While completing her doctoral degree, she also taught epidemiology and health economics for 3 years at New York University's Wagner School. Dr. Terry has a Masters degree in economics and previously worked as an econometrician and program evaluator for a number of government-sponsored programs.