Dr. Marie-Elise Parent obtained her B.Sc. in nutrition (1984) from the University of Montreal, her M.Sc. in nutrition, option epidemiology (1988) from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in nutrition, option epidemiology (1994) from the University of Montreal. She then completed her postdoctoral training in environmental epidemiology at the Institut Armand-Frappier (1995-1998) under the direction of Dr. Jack Siemiatycki. She is now associate professor in epidemiology at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, as well as adjunct professor at the Department of social and preventive medicine at the Université de Montréal and researcher the CHUM research centre.

Dr. Parent carries out epidemiologic studies on the role of environmental and occupational factors, as well as lifestyle and genetic factors, in the etiology of various forms of cancer, including prostate, lung and brain cancers. She has developed a particular expertise in the area of occupational exposure assessment. Her research activities are funded by the National Cancer Institute of Canada (CCS/NCIC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the National Institutes of Health (US-NIH). She has received career awards from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec.

She has been Vice-Chair of the Management Committee of the Prostate Cancer Research Initiative at the NCIC and is now on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Students interested in pursuing M.Sc., Ph.D. or postdoctoral studies in the area of cancer epidemiology are invited to contact Dr. Parent at marie-elise.parent@iaf.inrs.ca.

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