Calvin Zippin | |
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| Born | Calvin (Kalman) Zippin July 17, 1926 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | State University New York at Albany Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | Zippin estimator Cancer Registries Cancer epidemiology Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)[3] |
| Spouse | Patricia Jayne Schubert (1930 – 2015) m. February 9, 1964[4] |
| Children | David Benjamin Zippin Jennifer Dorothy (Zippin) Kontzer |
| Awards | 1969 Distinguished Alumnus Award, State University New York at Albany 1980 Fellow American Statistical Association 2003 National Cancer Institute Lifetime Achievement and Leadership Award[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics Epidemiology Cancer Registry |
| Institutions | UCSF School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | An Evaluation of the Removal Method of Estimating Animal Populations (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | William G. Cochran[2] |
Calvin Zippin (born July 17, 1926) is a cancer epidemiologist and biostatistician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco (UCSF). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American College of Epidemiology and the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain. His doctoral thesis was the basis for the Zippin Estimator, a procedure for estimating wildlife populations using data from trapping experiments.[5] He was a principal investigator in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) which assesses the magnitude and nature of the cancer problem in the United States.[6] In 1961, he created training programs for cancer registry personnel, which he conducted nationally and internationally. He carried out research on the epidemiology and rules for staging of various cancers. He received a Lifetime Achievement and Leadership Award from the NCI in 2003.
- ^ "Johns Hopkins Magazine (1953)". pages.jh.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "1952-1953 ScD Alumni". www.biostat.jhsph.edu. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Zippin, Calvin. "Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)". Grantome. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Patricia Zippin 1930 - 2015". SFGate Obituaries. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ White, Gary C.; Anderson, David R.; Burnham, Kenneth P.; Otis, David L. (1 August 1982). Capture-Recapture and Removal Methods for Sampling Closed Populations. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Shambaugh, Evelyn M.; Young, John L.; Zippin, Calvin; Lum, Diane; Ackers, Cheryl; Weiss, Mildred A. (1994). SEER Program - Self-Instructional Manual for Cancer Registrars. Book 7 - Statistics and Epidemiology for Cancer Registrars (PDF) (Volume 7 ed.). Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 26 July 2020.