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182 MILLENNIUM-SECOND EDITION L isted among the 101 Most Influential Professors of Public Health in 2012, Dr. Theodore R. Holford has always held an interest in medicine and mathematics. Seeing biostatistics as the perfect combination between these two disciplines, Dr. Holford attended Andrews University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and chemistry, with honors, in 1969. From there, he completed a PhD in biometry through Yale University while working as a member of the research staff on the Committee for the Assessment of Biometric Aspects of Controlled Trials of Hypoglycemic Agents. Dr. Holford launched a career as an educator with the university shortly after completing formal studies in 1973, eventually rising to the role of head of the biostatistics division three decades later. Specializing in biometry, Dr. Holford is most concerned with the application of statistical analysis to biological data. As such, he has been credited with involvement in numerous collaborative works, totaling approximately 331 articles in professional journals and 15 editorials. His more recent publications include “Tobacco Control and the Reduction in Smoking-Related Premature Deaths in the United States” in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2014) and “Comparison of Smoking History Patterns Among African American and White Cohorts in the United States Born 1890 to 1990” in Nicotine and Tobacco Research (2016). A respected authority in the medical community, Dr. Holford has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology since the turn of the century. He also recently celebrated four decades as a lecturer for a variety of industry organizations and gatherings, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the New England Statistics Symposium at the University of Connecticut. Inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 2014, Dr. Holford also serves on the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. He has maintained involvement with the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the American Statistical Association and the International Biometric Society since the 1970s. THEODORE R. HOLFORD, PHD SUSAN DWIGHT BLISS PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH Yale University New Haven, CT