Dimitrios Trichopoulos, MD, PhD

Vincent L. Gregory Professor
of Cancer Prevention
and Professor of Epidemiology
Harvard University
Dept. of Epidemiology
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
USA

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email: dtrichop@hsph.harvard.edu

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Born in Volos, Greece, in 1938. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Public Healthx and Epidemiology at the Universities of Athens, London, Harvard, and Oxford. He has served as Professor and Director of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the University of Athens Medical School since 1972, as Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health (1989-96), and as Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention (1993-97). He is Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Athens Medical School and a Regular Member of the Athens Academy.

1982 Recipient of the “Eleanor Roosevelt” Fellowship “Cutter Lecturer at the Harvard
1987 “Ipsen Lecturer” at the Institute of Social Medicine of Aarhus University
Member Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society, USA
Officier de l’Ordere des Palmes Academiques, France, and Foreign Member of
the National Academy of Medicine of France
Royal Academy of Belgium
1988 Chairman of the European Health Group and the EU AIDS Group
1992 Distinguished Lecturer in the Japan Cancer Research Center
1994 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Uppsala
1996 Recipient of a Smoke-Free America Award (passive smoking and lung cancer)
1996 Commander of Honor of the Greek Republic
1997 Listing by the Editor of the Lancet of a paper by DT among the 23 papers
deserving the form a Canon for Reading Medicine from antiquity to now
1999 Distinguished Physician, Hellenic Medical Society of New York
2000 Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Research
2001 Hygeia Award for Contribution toMedicine, New England Hellenic Medical and
Dental Society
2002 Grande Covian Award for studies on the Mediterranean diet, Spain

Dimitrios Trichopoulos has authored or co-authored over 800 publications (mainly research articles but also books, monographs, editorials, perspective articles, reports, reviews, commentaries, etc.). He has done extensive original work concerning breast cancer etiology. Moreover, he has published the first papers implicating passive smoking in the causation of lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease. He has also contributed to the elucidation of the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma, the quantification of the association between psychological stress and coronary heart disease and the identification several dietary and other important risk factors in the etiology of a number of cancers and other diseases.