Faith G. Davis

Professor
Epidemiology

Contact Information

E-mail: fayed@uic.edu

Address:
877 SPHPI,, M/C 923
1603 W. Taylor St
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: 312-996-5019

Additional Websites / Affiliates

Community Affiliate: http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/btec/

Community Affiliate: http://acepidemiology.org/

Academic Background

PHD, Epidemiology, Yale Univ, 1984
MPH, Epidemiology, Harvard Univ, 1980
MPA, Government, Harvard Univ, 1978
BS, Home Economics, Alberta, Univ Of, 1970

Research Interests

Brain, radiation health effects, kidney and ovarian cancer, reproductive epidemiology

Teaching Interests

Principles of epidemiology, cancer epidemiology

Publications

Il'yasova D, McCarthy BJ, Erdal S, Shimek J, Goldstein J, Doerge DR, Myers SR, Vineis P, Wishnok JS, Swenberg JA, Bigner DD, Davis FG. Human Exposure to Selected Animal Neurocarcinogens: A Biomarker-Based Assessment and Implications for Brain Tumor Epidemiology. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev. Mar 2009;12(3):175-187

Ostroumova E, Preston DL, Ron E, Krestinina L, Davis FG, Kossenko M, Akleyev A: Breast cancer incidence following low-dose rate environmental exposure: Techa River cohort, 1956-2004. Brit J Cancer. 2008 Dec 2;99(11):1940-5.

Paskett E, Reeves K, Mclaughlin G, Katz M, McAlearney A, Ruffin M, Hughes-Halbert C, Merete C, Davis F. Participant Recruitment and Retention: The Centers for Population Health and health Disparities Experience. Contemp Clin Trials 29:847-861, 2008

Paskett E, Reeves K, Mclaughlin G, Katz M, McAlearney A, Ruffin M, Hughes-Halbert C, Merete C, Davis F. Participant Recruitment and Retention: The Centers for Population Health and health Disparities Experience. Contemp Clin Trials 29:847-861, 2008

Davis GF, Malmer BS, Aldape K, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Bondy ML, Brannstrom T, Bruner JM, Burger PC, Collins VP, Inskip PD, Kruchko C, McCarthy BJ, LcLendon RE, Sadetzki S, Tihan T, Wrensch MR, Buffler PA. Issues of Diagnostic Review in Brain Tumor Studies from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers 17(3):484-489. 2008

Davis F, Tavelin B, Grutsch J, Malmer B. Second Primary Tumors following a Diagnosis of Meningioma in Sweden, 1958-1997. Neuroepidemiology, 29:101-106, 2007

Krestinina LY, Davis F, Ostroumova EV, Epifanova SB, Degteva MO, Preston DL, Akleyev AV, Solid cancer incidence and low-dose-rate radiation exposures in the Techa River cohort: 1956-2002. Int J Epidemiol,36:1038-1046, 2007.

Malmer B, Adatto P, Armstrong G, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Bernstein JL, Claus E, Davis F, Houlston R, Il'yasova D, Jenkins R, Johansen C, Lai R, Lau C, McCarthy B, Nielsen H, Olson SH, Sadetzki S, Shete S, Wiklund F, Wrensch M, Yang P, Bondy M: GLIOGENE: an international Consortium to Understand Familial Glioma. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers 16(9):1730-1734, 2007

Hoffman S, Schellinger KA, Propp JM, McCarthy BJ, Campbell RT, Davis FG: Seasonal Variation in Incidence of Pediatric Medulloblatomas in the United States, 1995-2001. Neuroepidemiology 29:89-95. 2007

2006 Kim S, Ting A, Puisis M, Rodriguez S, Benson R, Mennella C, Davis F. Deaths in Cook Jail: 10-Year Report 1995-2004. J Urban Health. Nov 30

Lee E, Grutsch J, Persky V, Glick R, Mendes J, Davis F. Association of Meningioma with Reproductive Factors. International Journal of Cancer 119(5), Sept 1, 1152-7. 2006

Propp, J.M., McCarthy, B.J., Davis, F.G., and Preston-Martin, S. Descriptive epidemiology of vestibular schwannomas. Neuro-Oncology 8, 1-11, 2006. (Posted to Neuro-Oncology [serial online], Doc. 04-109, November 29, 2005. )

Colt, JS, Wacholder, S, Schwartz, K; Davis, F; Graubard, B; Chow W-H: Response rates in a case-control study: Effect of disclosure of biologic sample collection in the initial contact letter. Annals of Epidemiology, 15:9;October pages 700-704, 2005

Characterization of work exposures to a subset of known and suspected animal neurocarcinogens using the National Occupational Health Survey (1980-1983) Davis F1, Erdal S2, Williams L1, and Bigner D3.

 Davis F, McCarthy B and Propp J: Chapter One: The Epidemiology of Brain Tumors in Russell and Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System, Seventh Edition, (eds) Roger D. McLendon, Janet M. Bruner. Arnold Publishing.In press.

 Castillo M, Davis F, Bigner D, Brunner J, Brunner S, Consistency of primary brain tumor diagnosis and codes in cancer surveillance systerms. Neuroepidemiology. 23;85-93,2004.

 Davis F, Kupelian V, Freels S, McCarthy B and Surawicz T: Prevalence estimates for primary brain tumors in the US by behavior and major histology groups. Neuro-Oncology 3, 152-158, July 2001. URL Neuro-Oncology.mc.duke.edu.

 Davis F, Freels S, Grutsch J, Barlas S, Brem S: Survival of Patients with Primary Malignant Brain Tumors Stratified by Age and Tumor Histologic Type: An analysis based on Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Data (SEER 1973-1991). Journal of Neurosurgery, 88:1-10, 1998.