Division Chief & Head of Cancer Epidemiology & Prevention
Professor
Phone: 272-4369
Background & Expertise: Marianne Berwick became Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine in January 2004. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Attending Epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY where she developed the center's first Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory.
Research Interests & Activity: Over the past 17 years, Dr. Berwick's research has focused on the etiology and prevention of melanoma skin cancer. Her current research projects focus on gene-environment interaction and genetic predisposition to cancer. She is the PI on two large, NCI-funded research projects evaluating cancer susceptibility
Associate Professor, Dept of Internal Medicine
Principal Investigator, New Mexico Tumor Registry
Phone: (505) 272-5541
Background & Expertise: Charles L. Wiggins, PhD, became the Principal Investigator of the New Mexico Tumor Registry in August 2003. Dr. Wiggins earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and most recently, he served as the Medical Director of the Utah Cancer Registry in Salt Lake City, UT. \>Dr. Wiggins has previous experience with the NMTR; he was a research assistant and epidemiologist before becoming the Medical Director of the Utah Registry.
Research Interests & Activity: Dr. Wiggins has experience in cancer surveillance and epidemiology and has a strong interest in cancer among American Indian and Hispanic populations. Additionally, he is a member of the National Network for Cancer Control Research for American Indian and Alaska Native Populations.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (505) 272-5886
Background & Expertise: Deirdre Hill joined the Division in November 2004, and was recruited from NIH where she had been a senior research fellow in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, and prior to that had earned an MPH at UCLA.
Research Interests & Activity: Dr. Hill has focused on understanding the molecular and genetic basis of cancer precursors, as well as cancer etiology and survival, in the population-based setting of the New Mexico Tumor Registry. She is continuing to follow the New Mexico Mammography Project cohort to determine characteristics related to breast cancer development after benign biopsy, and is engaged in a study of genetic determinants of breast cancer survival, particularly with regards to the disparity in survival of NM Hispanic women. She is also involved in studies of inherited genetic variants and risk of lymphoma, including both NHL and childhood Hodgkin's disease.
Research Professor (UNM Adjunct)
Phone: (505) 272-9228
