Who's Who

Miriam Rosin

Visiting Scientist

Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group

Specialty:

Epidemiology

Academic Degrees

Year	Degree	Major	Institution	Town	Country
2005	Sabbatical	Genomics, Proteomics	Karolinska Hospital and Institute	Stockholm	Sweden
1995	Sabbatical	Head and neck cancer	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MA	USA
1978	Post-Doctorate	Cancer biology	University of British Columbia	Vancouver	Canada
1976	PhD	Cell biology	University of Toronto	Toronto	Canada
1972	Bachelor of Science	Cell biology	University of Saskatchewan	Regina	Canada

Selected Publications

Zhang L, Poh CF, Williams M, Laronde DM, Berean K, Gardner PJ, Jiang H, Wu L, Lee JJ, Rosin MP. (2012) Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) Profiles - Validated Risk Predictors for Progression to Oral Cancer. Cancer Prev Res 5(9) : 1081-1089

Poh CF, Durham JS, Brasher PM, Anderson DW, Berean KW, MacAulay CE, Lee JJ, Rosin MP. (2011) Canadian Optically-guided approach for Oral Lesions Surgical (COOLS) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Cancer 11 : 462

Poh CF, MacAulay CE, Laronde DM, Williams PM, Zhang L, Rosin MP. (2011) Squamous cell carcinoma and precursor lesions: diagnosis and screening in a technical era. Periodontol 2000 57 : 73-88

Auluck A, Hislop G, Bajdik C, Poh C, Zhang L, Rosin M. (2010) Trends in oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancer incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related and HPV-unrelated sites in a multicultural population: the British Columbia experience. Cancer 116 : 2635-2644

British Columbia Oral Cancer Prevention Program, BC Cancer Agency; College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia.(Rosin M). (2008) Guideline for the early detection of oral cancer in British Columbia 2008. J Can Dent Assoc 74: 245

Scientific Societies Membership

Member, Faculty of Medicine Oncology Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (since 1992)
Consulting Professional Scientific Staff Member, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada (since 1982)
Member, International Agency Dental Research (IADR) Oral Health Inequalities Network (since 2012)
Member, Canadian Centre for Applied Research In Cancer Control (ARCC) - Advancing Health Economics, Services Policy and Ethics (since 2011)
Member, Systems Analytic Approach to Living (SynAL) with Chronic Disease (since 2010)

Prizes, Honours

Oral Health Promotion Award, Canadian Dental Association (2010). National award in recognition of long-term, multi-faceted work in heightening awareness of oral cancer among dental health professionals, for promotion and facilitation of early detection in community practices and for development of outreach to underserved communities.
Award of Merit, College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia (2009). In recognition of contributions made to practice or profession of dentistry through active knowledge transfer. Guidelines for screening in BC. Publication nationally in special issue of the Journal of Canadian Dental Association devoted to BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program (BC OCPP; Rosin: Director) with guidelines and screening for dental health professionals.
Inaugural Award – Lance Connery Memorial Leadership (2007).
NIH/NIDCR. Research chosen as example of work generating key translational advances, to be presented as a « Path to Discovery » in the Director’s report to Congress (2005)
Distinction. ARCO Lectureship. University of Southern California. (1989)