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Shelia Hoar Zahm

Shelia Hoar Zahm is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shelia Hoar Zahm rather than just read about it. In short: Shelia Hoar Zahm is an American cancer epidemiologist specialized in pesticides and cancer, the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and occupational cancer among women. She was deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics from 1998 to 2011.

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Reference excerpt

Shelia Hoar Zahm is an American cancer epidemiologist specialized in pesticides and cancer, the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and occupational cancer among women. She was deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics from 1998 to 2011.

Life Zahm completed a S.M. (1977) and Sc.D. (1980) in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 1980, she joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a Staff Fellow in 1980. During the mid-1980s into the 1990s, her supervisor, Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. allowed Zahm, and her colleagues Debra T. Silverman and Patricia Hartge to all work part-time so they could raise families. She was tenured in 1987 in the Occupational Studies Section, became Deputy Chief of the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch in 1996, and served as Deputy Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) from 1998 to 2011. Zahm has received the American Occupational Medical Association's Merit in Authorship Award for a paper on job-exposure matrices, the Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit, the U.S. DHHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service, the NIH Merit Award and the PHS Special Recognition Award for her work on the relationship between pesticides and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the NIH Director's Award for her program of research on cancer among migrant and seasonal farm workers, the NIH Director’s Award for developing NIH biospecimen storage and tracking guidelines, the NIH Merit Award for implementation of the NIH Reform Act of 2006, two NIH Quality of Work Life Awards, the DCEG Mentoring Award, and the DCEG Exemplary Service Award. Zahm was elected to the American Epidemiological Society in 1995 and is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University.

Research interests Her research interests include pesticides and cancer, the etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and occupational cancer among women. Zahm retired in 2012.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Shelia Hoar Zahm

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shelia Hoar Zahm ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shelia Hoar Zahm

In research: Shelia Hoar Zahm appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shelia Hoar Zahm in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shelia Hoar Zahm is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century American women scientists, 21st-century American women scientists, American epidemiologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shelia Hoar Zahm outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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