Biography:Anita K. Bahn
Anita K. Bahn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1920 |
| Died | July 19, 1980 (aged 59–60) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hunter College Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater | Medical College of Pennsylvania |
| 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 (1920 – July 19, 1980) was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher.[1][2]
Education and career
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 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before she could take up her new position.[2]
Books
Bahn is the author of Basic Medical Statistics (Grune & Stratton, 1972).[5] With Judith S. Mausner, she wrote Epidemiology: An Introductory Text (Saunders, 1974).[6]
Awards and honors
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]
Personal
Her husband, Ralph Bahn, died in the early 1970s;[1] she married again to nuclear physicist and science fiction fan Milton A. Rothman, who survived her.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Dr. Anita Bahn, Former Md. Epidemiologist", The Washington Post, July 23, 1980, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/07/23/dr-anita-bahn-former-md-epidemiologist/9905e972-b2cc-455e-9c77-6810a9a0da7a/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "Anita K. Bahn, Distinguished Epidemiologist 1920–1980", American Journal of Public Health 70 (12): 1311–1312, December 1, 1980, doi:10.2105/AJPH.70.12.1310
- ↑ Anita K. Bahn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ History, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, https://publichealth.sdsu.edu/overview/history/, retrieved 2017-11-01
- ↑ Reviews of Basic Medical Statistics: Thomas G. Mitchell (1973), Journal of Nuclear Medicine 14: 718, [1]; William R. Best (1974), Archives of Internal Medicine 133 (5): 874, doi:10.1001/archinte.1974.00320170150026.
- ↑ Reviews of Epidemiology: An Introductory Text: Carol J. Hogue (April 1975), American Journal of Public Health 65 (4): 415, doi:10.2105/AJPH.65.4.415-a; Thomas Mack (September 1975), JAMA 233 (9): 1006–1007, doi:10.1001/jama.1975.03260090072035; Jeremiah Stamler (May 1976), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 29 (5): 342, doi:10.1016/0021-9681(76)90096-5; J. S. McCormick (1976), British Journal of General Practice 26 (164): 210, [2].
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-01
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