Friday, May 05, 2006

Ronald K. Ross, 57, Chair of Preventive Medicine at USC - Pasadena Independent
Ronald K. Ross, a respected pioneer in research on the relationship between hormones and cancer and chair of the renowned Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died of brain cancer Friday, April 21 . He was 57...

...Ross spent his entire career at USC, joining the faculty as an instructor in what was then known as the Department of Community and Family Medicine in 1976. In 1987 he became director of the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program, one of the leading groups in developing new ways to do population-based studies of disease and evaluating demographic patterns of cancer risk...

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