A Conversation with Ross Prentice

Ross L. Prentice received his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and Ph.D. Toronto. He joined Washington (UW) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (the Hutch) in 1974, is currently Professor Biostatistics at these institutions. was Senior Vice President Hutch, Director its Public Health Sciences Division, for more than 25 years. Dr. Prentice’s expertise research interests are fields biostatistics, epidemiology, disease prevention. played a central role conception, design, implementation Women’s Initiative. In statistical medical literature he has over 500 scientific papers, including 40 with or citations. His substantial contributions to theory population clinical include use surrogate endpoints case-cohort designs other areas such as survival analysis, nutritional genetic biomarkers, measurement error. recognized mentoring students junior colleagues, generous collaborations. numerous awards work, an honorary doctorate mathematics Waterloo, Mantel Award Lifetime Contributions Statistics Epidemiology American Statistical Association, Mortimer Spiegelman Committee Presidents Societies Presidents’ RA Fisher Award, Marvin Zelen Leadership Outstanding Achievement Science Harvard University, Association Research/American Society Excellence Prevention, Team Award. elected Institute Medicine/National Academy Medicine 1990. The Endowed Professorship Biostatistical Collaboration created UW 2005 been awarded every year since inception. interior space building Hutch named Atrium. spare time, enjoys sports water skiing, golf, running, spending time wife, Didi, daughters, sons-in-law, grandchildren. ran daily when 20s until knees objected about 10 years ago. This interview took place Li Hsu Charles Kooperberg via Zoom December 2020.