Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR)


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Professor Lin Fritschi

Lin Fritschi

Phone: +61 8 9346 1061
Email: lin.fritschi@waimr.uwa.edu.au

Professor Lin Fritschi is a cancer epidemiologist with a particular interest in occupational causes of cancer. Over the past 17 years she has worked in Montreal, Melbourne and Brisbane and currently heads the Epidemiology Group at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research in Perth, Western Australia. Lin has been an investigator on a number of large case-control and cohort studies and has a total career funding of over $19 million. Lin is interested in improving the way we assess historical exposure to chemicals and has developed a new web-based application (OccIDEAS) to assist in this task (www.occideas.org). She has published over 140 peer-reviewed publications in national and international journals and holds an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship.

Qualifications

1985MBBS - The University of Queensland, Australia
1994PhD - The Australian National University, Australia
Thesis Title: "Assessment of sun exposure"
1994FAFPHM - Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine

Research Interests

  • Cancer epidemiology.
  • Occupational causes of cancer.
  • Exposure assessment in epidemiological studies.

Top 10 Publications

  1. Fritschi L, Glass DC, Heyworth JS, Aronson K, Girschik J, Boyle T, Grundy A, Erren TC. 2011. Hypotheses for mechanisms linking shiftwork and cancer. Medical Hypotheses Accepted.
  2. Fritschi L, Friesen MC, Glass D, Benke GP, Girschik J, Sadkowsky T. 2009. OccIDEAS: Retrospective occupational exposure assessment in community-based studies made easier. Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2009:957023. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  3. Fritschi L. 2009. Shiftwork and cancer. (Editorial) British Medical Journal 339:b2653.
  4. Fritschi L, Glass DC, Tabrizi J, Leavy JE, Ambrosini GL. 2007. Occupational risk factors for prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia: A case-control study in Western Australia. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64:60-65. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  5. Fritschi L, Driscoll TR. 2006. Cancer due to occupation in Australia. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 30(3):213-219. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  6. Fritschi L, Dye SA, Katris P. 2006. Validity of melanoma diagnosis in a community based screening program. American Journal of Epidemiology 164(4):385-390. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  7. Fritschi L, Benke G, Hughes AM, Kricker A, Turner J, Vajdic CM, Grulich A, Milliken S, Kaldor J, Armstrong BK. 2005. Occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. American Journal of Epidemiology 162(9):849-857. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  8. Fritschi L, Nadon L, Benke G, Lakhani R, Latreille B, Parent M-E, Siemiatycki J. 2003. Validation of expert assessment of occupational exposures. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 43:519-522. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  9. Siemiatycki J, Fritschi L, Nadon L, Gérin M. 1997. Reliability of an expert rating procedure for retrospective assessment of occupational exposures for community-based case-control studies. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 31:280-286. [NCBI PubMed Entry]
  10. Fritschi L, Siemiatycki J, Richardson L. 1996. Self-assessed versus expert-assessed occupational exposures. American Journal of Epidemiology 144:521-527. [NCBI PubMed Entry]