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Phone: (503) 494-1175
Fax: (503) 494-4981
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BA (1972) Ohio University, Psychology
MA (1976) University of New Mexico, Anthropology
MD (1981) Case Western Reserve University
PhD (1986) University of New Mexico, Anthropology
- Provide administrative oversight regarding budgets, FTE, faculty recruitments
- Generate grants and ensure their progress
- Teach and develop curricula in a variety of learner settings
Teach epidemiology methods and research study design to medical and graduate
students, and to more advanced learners in the University
- Assist with quality control in the MPH program as head of the MPH committee
- Run grants and provide FTE for colleagues on those grants
- Create internship and thesis opportunities with community contacts
- Liaison with other departments and with Indian communities locally and nationally
- Assist with curriculum development for several programs on campus
Dr. Becker is a
medical epidemiologist with interests in both infectious and chronic
disease epidemiology, with focused interests in viral carcinogenesis
as related to cancers in special populations. He has published extensively
on American Indian and Hispanic health issues, and is currently
funded to carry out etiologic studies of cervical neoplasia in American
Indian and Alaska Native populations. In addition to his training
in medicine and public health, Dr. Becker also has a PhD in Anthropology,
and his research has been designed to combine his experience in
all of these disciplines. At OHSU, he teaches courses in epidemiologic
methods and in infectious disease epidemiology.
(click below for a full list of publications)
Finley C, McPherson RS, Schiff MA, Masuk M, van Asselt King L, Montoya
G, Becker TM. Vitamin E and risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
in southwestern American Indian women. In Press, Cancer Epidemiology
and Biomarkers.
Filner J, Lapidus
J, Becker TM. Risk factors for osteoporosis
among Alaska Native women: A cross-sectional survey. Alaska Medicine
2002;44(1): 8-13.
Becker TM, Bettles James, Lapidus J, Campo J, Johnson
CJ, Shipley D, Robertson LD. Improving cancer incidence estimates
for American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the Pacific Northwest.
In press, American Journal of Public Health.
Becker
Publications
Course schedule,
PH512, 513, 514, 540, 568, 569
Course
descriptions, PH
512,
513, 514,
540, 568, 569,
571
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