Anita Bahn | |
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Born | Anita Kaplan 1919/1920
New York City, US |
Died | July 19, 1980 (aged 60) [1] |
Education |
Hunter College Johns Hopkins University |
Alma mater | Medical College of Pennsylvania |
Spouse(s) | Ralph Bahn (his death) Milton A. Rothman (m. 1980; her death) |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Epidemiology Biostatistics |
Institutions | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | A Methodological Study of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic Population of Maryland, 1948-59 (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Jerome Cornfield |
Anita Kaplan Bahn (1919/1920 – July 19, 1980) was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher. [1] [2]
Bahn was originally from New York City. [1] She left high school at the age of 15, and earned a bachelor's degree in biology four years later from Hunter College, together with a certification allowing her to teach high school biology. She would also go on to study "physics at New York City College; botany and bacteriology at Cornell University; mathematics and statistics at American University and at George Washington University", but without completing those programs to a graduate degree. [2]
She became head of outpatient studies at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1951 to 1966. [1] [2] During this time, she earned a Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1960. Her dissertation, supervised by Jerome Cornfield, was A Methodological Study of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic Population of Maryland, 1948-59. [3] She then returned to academia as an associate professor of biostatistics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. While there, she worked towards an M.D., which she earned in 1972. [1] [2]
She became chief epidemiologist of Maryland for the following two years, [1] [2] and then became a professor of community medicine and epidemiology at the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] At Pennsylvania, she helped found a graduate program in epidemiology, and led a research center on the epidemiology of cancer. She was also affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Center and held an adjunct position at Temple University. [2]
In 1980, she was recruited to head a new epidemiology program in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University, [4] but she died at age 60 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the University of Pennsylvania hospital before she could take up her new position. [2] [1]
Bahn authored Basic Medical Statistics (Grune & Stratton, 1972). [5] and, with Judith S. Mausner, she co-wrote Epidemiology: An Introductory Text (Saunders, 1974). [6]
Bahn was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1970. [7] She was also a fellow of the American Public Health Association and the American College of Preventive Medicine. [2]
Her husband, Ralph Bahn, with whom she had two children, died in the early 1970s; [1] she married again, in 1980, the year of her death, to nuclear physicist and science fiction fan Milton A. Rothman. [1] [2]
Anita Bahn | |
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Born | Anita Kaplan 1919/1920
New York City, US |
Died | July 19, 1980 (aged 60) [1] |
Education |
Hunter College Johns Hopkins University |
Alma mater | Medical College of Pennsylvania |
Spouse(s) | Ralph Bahn (his death) Milton A. Rothman (m. 1980; her death) |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Epidemiology Biostatistics |
Institutions | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | A Methodological Study of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic Population of Maryland, 1948-59 (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Jerome Cornfield |
Anita Kaplan Bahn (1919/1920 – July 19, 1980) was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher. [1] [2]
Bahn was originally from New York City. [1] She left high school at the age of 15, and earned a bachelor's degree in biology four years later from Hunter College, together with a certification allowing her to teach high school biology. She would also go on to study "physics at New York City College; botany and bacteriology at Cornell University; mathematics and statistics at American University and at George Washington University", but without completing those programs to a graduate degree. [2]
She became head of outpatient studies at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1951 to 1966. [1] [2] During this time, she earned a Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1960. Her dissertation, supervised by Jerome Cornfield, was A Methodological Study of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic Population of Maryland, 1948-59. [3] She then returned to academia as an associate professor of biostatistics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. While there, she worked towards an M.D., which she earned in 1972. [1] [2]
She became chief epidemiologist of Maryland for the following two years, [1] [2] and then became a professor of community medicine and epidemiology at the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] At Pennsylvania, she helped found a graduate program in epidemiology, and led a research center on the epidemiology of cancer. She was also affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Center and held an adjunct position at Temple University. [2]
In 1980, she was recruited to head a new epidemiology program in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University, [4] but she died at age 60 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the University of Pennsylvania hospital before she could take up her new position. [2] [1]
Bahn authored Basic Medical Statistics (Grune & Stratton, 1972). [5] and, with Judith S. Mausner, she co-wrote Epidemiology: An Introductory Text (Saunders, 1974). [6]
Bahn was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1970. [7] She was also a fellow of the American Public Health Association and the American College of Preventive Medicine. [2]
Her husband, Ralph Bahn, with whom she had two children, died in the early 1970s; [1] she married again, in 1980, the year of her death, to nuclear physicist and science fiction fan Milton A. Rothman. [1] [2]