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Epidemiologist receives IARC award

Issue: November 25, 2012

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John Potter, MD, PhD, a cancer epidemiologist and senior adviser in the public health sciences division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, received a medal of honor from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer for his research contributions in nutrition, diet and cancer.

Potter, former director of the Hutchinson Center’s Public Health Sciences Division, was recognized for his research on environmental and genetic risk and intermediate biology in colorectal, breast and pancreatic cancers.

Potter chaired the international panel that produced “Food, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective,” the seminal 1997 report on the feasibility of reducing cancer through diet and other behaviors.

He co-leads the Asia Cohort Consortium, a multicenter consortium of cohort studies. He also is a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and a professorial fellow at the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University in New Zealand.