Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.

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Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Swan is also a Professor in Environmental Medicine. She received an M.S. in Biostatistics from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California-Berkeley. From 1981 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services.

Dr. Swan is known for her work on the impact of environmental exposures on male and female reproductive health and has served on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Hormone-Related Toxicants. Since 1998, she has been Principal Investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multi-center pregnancy cohort study

examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children.

Current Appointments

• Professor - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SMD)
• Professor - Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
• Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine (SMD)

Education
PhD Statistics	Univ of Cal Berkeley	1963
MS Statistics	Columbia University	1959
BS Mathematics	Cuny City College	1957

Awards and Honors
Chair | Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors	2008
JENIFER ALTMAN UPSTREAM FOR SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AWARD for outstanding dedication to scientific integrity in environmental health sciences and the pursuit of science in the public interest.	2005