BIRCWH - Scholar, Beverly Rockhill, PhD

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My recent research has focused on evaluating the goodness of fit and discriminatory accuracy of breast cancer risk prediction models. I am currently extending this quantitative research into the area of breast cancer risk communication; specifically, into how to convey epidemiologic findings on risk and risk factors to individuals and policymakers. I have recently taught a course in chronic disearse screening at Harvard's School of Public Health, and am now developing a seminar course in chronic disease prevention and screening at UNC. My future research plans include examination of public attitudes toward, and understanding of, health risk messages, including information on the benefits and risks of disease screening, and examination of the positive and negative social consequences of a focus on individual risk and individual susceptibility for primary prevention strategies directed against common cancers.

BIRCWH MENTOR:

JoAnn Earp, Sc.D.
Professor and Chair
UNC, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
Rosenau Hall, CB#7440
Chapel Hill, NC
(919) 966-3903

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts:	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	1981-1985
Master of Arts:	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Demography	1986-1987
Doctor of Philosophy:	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC Epidemiology	1992-1997
Postdoctoral Training:	Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Research Fellow in Medicine	1997-1998

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS:

Last Updated: 10/10/02
*Original Articles:* Rockhill B, Byrne C, Rosner B, and Colditz GA. "Log-incidence model of breast cancer risk: evaluation of accuracy." (Submitted). Manson J, Rockhill B, Resnick M, Shore E, Nadelson C, Horner M, Tarbell N, and Carr P. "Gender differences in career progress and satisfaction in an academic medical center." (in press) Rockhill B, Willett WC, Manson JE, Leitzmann MF, Stampfer MJ, Hunter DJ, and Colditz GA. "Physical activity and mortality: a sixteen-year prospective analysis among women." Am J Public Health, 91:578-83 (2001). Rockhill B, Spiegelman D, Byrne C, Hunter DJ, and Colditz GA. "Validation of the Gail et al. model of breast cancer risk: Implications for primary prevention." JNatl Cancer Inst, 93:358-366 (2001). Rockhill B. "The privatization of risk." Am J Public Health, 91:365-68 (2001). Rockhill B, Kawachi I, and Colditz GA. "Individual risk prediction and population-wide disease prevention." Epidemiol Rev, 22:176-80 (2000). Rockhill B, Colditz GA, and Rosner B. "Bias in breast cancer analyses due to error in age at menopause." Am J Epidemiol, 151:404-08 (2000). Rockhill B, Willett WC, Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Hankinson SE, and Colditz GA. "A prospective study of recreational physical activity and breast cancer risk." Arch Intern Med, 159:2290-96 (1999). Rockhill B, Willett WC, Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Hankinson SE, Spiegelman D, and Colditz GA. "Physical activity and breast cancer risk in a cohort of young women." J Natl Cancer Inst, 90:1155-1160 (1998). Rockhill B, Moorman PG, and Newman B. "Age at menarche, time to regular cycling, and breast cancer." Cancer Causes Control, 9:447-453 (1999). Millikan RC, Pittman G, Newman B, Tse CK, Rockhill B, Savitz D, Moorman PG, and Bell D. "Cigarette smoking, N-acetyl transferase 1 (NAT1) and 2 (NAT2) and breast cancer risk." >i>Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 7:371-79 (1998). Rockhill B, Weinberg CR, and Newman B. "Population attributable fraction estimation for established breast cancer risk factors: considering the issues of high prevalence and unmodifiability. Am J Epidemiol, 147:826-33 (1998). Rockhill B, Weinberg CR, and Newman B. "Use and misuse of population attributable fraction." Am J Public Health, 88:15-19 (1997). Hertz-Picciotto I and Rockhill B. "Validity and efficiency of approximation methods for tied survival times in Cox regression." Biometrics, 53:1151-56 (1997). Taylor CB, Jatulis DE, Winkleby MA, Rockhill B, and Kraemer HC. "Effects of lifestyle on body mass index change." Epidemiology, 5:599-603 (1994). Frank E, Winkleby MA, Fortmann SP, Rockhill B, and Farquhar J. "Improved cholesterol-related knowledge, behavior and plasma cholesterol levels in 12-24 year olds during the 1980's." Am J Prev Med, 9:168-74 (1993). Winkleby M, Fortmann SP, and Rockhill B. "Cigarette smoking trends in adolescents and young adults: the Stanford Five-City Project." Prev Med, 22:325-34 (1993). Winkleby MA, Fortmann SP, and Rockhill B. "Health-related risk factors in a sample of hispanics and whites matched on sociodemographic characteristics." Am J Epidemiol, 137:1365-75 (1993). Winkleby MA, Fortmann SP, and Rockhill B. "Changes in cardiovascular risk factors by educational level: the Stanford Five-City Project." Prev Med, 21:592-601 (1992). Winkleby MA and Rockhill B. "Comparability of Hispanic self-identification and Spanish surname coding." Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 14:487-95 (1992). Winkleby MA, Rockhill B, Fortmann SP, and Jatulis D. "The medical origins of homelessness: risk factors preceding initial loss of shelter in 1437 homeless adults." Am J Public Health, 82:1394-8 (1992). Winkleby MA, Rockhill B, Fortmann SP, and Jatulis B, and Farquhar J. "Improved cholesterol- related knowledge, behavior and plasma cholesterol levels in adults during the 1980s." JAMA 268:1566-72 (1992). Frank E, Altman D, Winkleby MA, Rockhill B, Fortmann SP. "Predictors of physicians' smoking cessation advice." JAMA 266:31-29 (1991). *Reviews, Chapters, and Editorials:* Rockhill B. "Screening for ovarian cancer (letter)." Lancet (in press.) Colditz GA, Ryan CT, Dart CH III, Datta G, Fisher L, and Rockhill B. "Quantifying the contribution of risk factors to cancer incidence and the estimated reduction in cancer burden through selected risk factor modifications." A paper commissioned by the Institute of Medicine (in press). Rockhill B. "Smoking and breast cancer." 2001 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. Edited by J. Samet (in press). Colditz GA, Samplin-Salgado M, Ryan CT, Dart H, Fisher L, Tokuda A, and Rockhill B. "Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention, Volume 5: Fulfilling the potential for cancer prevention: policy approaches." Cancer Causes Control, 13:199-212 (2002). Kubzansky LD, Krieger N, Kawachi I, Rockhill B, Steel GK, and Berkman LF. "The burden of poor health: social inequality in the United States." In Evans T, Whitehead M, Diderichsen F, Bhuiya A, Wirth M, editors. Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action. New York: Oxford University Press (2001). Rockhill B and Colditz GA. Physical activity and cancer prevention. In: Cancer Prevention: The Causes and Prevention of Cancer, Volume I. Edited by Graham A. Colditz and David Hunter. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 219-234 (2000). Rockhill B and Colditz GA. "Smoking as a cause of cancer." In: Cancer Prevention: The Causes and Prevention of Cancer, Volume I. Edited by Graham A. Colditz and David Hunter. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 3-16 (2000). Rockhill B and Colditz GA. "Behavior and risk of chronic disease. Report prepared by invitation of Institute of Medicine for inclusion in their monograph Health and Behavior: Research, Practice, and Policy." National Academy of Sciences (2000). Rockhill B. "Population attributable proportion in familial occurrence of preeclampsia [letter]." Epidemiology, 11:482 (2000). Rockhill B, Colditz GA, and Kaye J. "Re: Risks and benefits of chemoprevention with tamoxifen [letter]." J Natl Cancer Inst, 92:657 (2000). Willett WC, Rockhill B, Hankinson SE, Hunter D, and Colditz GA. "Non-genetic factors in the causation of breast cancer." In: Harris JR, Lippman ME, Morrow M, Osborne CK, editors. Diseases of the Breast, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2000). Dart H, Austin B, Blum R, Rockhill B, and Colditz G, editors. "The Breast Cancer Compendium", a publication prepared for The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (1999). Rockhill B and Giovannucci EL. "Editorial for article by Soliman et al. Cancer mortality rates in Menofeia, Egypt: comparison with US mortality rates." Cancer Causes Control, 10:345-347 (1999). Tomeo CA, Colditz GA, Willett WC, Giovannucci E, Platz E, Rockhill B, and Dart H, Hunter DJ. "Prevention of colon cancer in the United States." Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention, Vol.3, 10:167-180 (1999). Rockhill B and Weinberg CR. "Error in population attributable risk calculation [letter]." Epidemiology, 7:453 (1996).