Garth H. Rauscher

Assistant Professor
Epidemiology

Contact Information

E-mail: garthr@uic.edu

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

Phone: 312-413-4317

Academic Background

PHD, Epidemiology, Univ N Carolina Chapel Hill, 2001
MPH, Epidemiology, Yale Univ, 1997
BS, Physics, Suny at Albany, 1988

Research Interests

Determnants of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer progression and prognosis, with a focus on health care system factors; limitations of estimating cancer screening behavior from survey self-reports. Family history of cancer as a risk factor, and measurement issues in assessing family history.

Teaching Interests

Epidemiologic methods

Publications

 Rauscher GH, Sandler DP, Poole C, Pankow J, Shore D, Bloomfield CD, Olshan AF. Is Family History of Breast Cancer a Marker of Susceptibility to Adult Acute Leukemia Exposures? Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2003;12(4):289-94.

 Rauscher GH, Earp JA, O’Malley MS. Relation between intervention exposures, changes in attitudes, and mammography use in the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2004;13(5):741-7.

Rauscher GH, Johnson TP, Cho YI, Schlichting J. Accuracy of self-reported cancer screening histories: a meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2008;17:748-757.

Terry P, Shore DL, Rauscher GH, Sandler DP. Occupation, hobbies, and acute leukemia in adults. Leukemia Research 2005 (in press).

Rauscher GH, Shore D, Sandler DP. Hair dye use and incidence of adult acute leukemia. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 159(12).

Rauscher GH, Tropman Hawley S, Earp JL. Baseline predictors of initiation vs. maintenance of regular mammography use among rural women. Preventive Medicine 2005; 40(6):822-30.

Rauscher GH, Poole C. Common referent versus shifting referent methods when using case-control data to examine patterns of incidence across multiple exposure variables. Annals of Epidemiology 2006 (In Press).