Rafael Meza

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University of British Columbia
Centre for Disease Control
Division of Mathematical Modeling
Postdoctoral FellowAppointed: 2008
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Public Health Sciences Division
Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics
Affiliate ScientistAppointed: 2008

Mailing Address

UBC Centre for Disease Control
2068-655 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4R4
Canada

Contact Information

Rafael.Meza@bccdc.ca

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, 2006.
B.Sc., ITAM, Applied Mathematics, 2000.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Applied Mathematics, Cancer or Carcinogenesis, Computational Biology, Infectious Diseases Or Agents, Mathematical Modeling (Medical), Probability, Public Health.

Additional Terms:

Applied Probability, Cancer Modeling, Mathematical Biology.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

Mathematical Association of America
NCI Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Mathematical Biology

Honors and Awards

Boeing Award of Excellence, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Previous Positions

2006-2008, Post-doctoral fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics
2002-2002, Research Assistant, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Radiology
2002-2006, Research Assistant, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Biostatistics, Public Health Sciences
2001-2001, Summer Intern, Algorithmics Inc Mexico
2000-2002, Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics
1998-2000, Risk Analyst, CONSAR (Mexican Pension Funds Regulation Agency)

Publications

  • Meza R, Jeon J, Renehan AG, Luebeck EG (2009) Colorectal cancer incidence trends: right- to left-sided biological gradients with implications for screening, Submitted
  • Meza R, Pourbohloul B, Brunham RC (2009) Birth cohort patterns suggest that infant survival predicts adult mortality rates, ., Submitted
  • Miller JC, Davoudi B, Meza R, Slim AC, Pourbohloul B (Jan 2010) Epidemics with general generation interval distributions., Journal of theoretical biology, 262 (1), 107-15 Abstract
  • Pourbohloul B, Ahued A, Davoudi B, Meza R, Meyers LA, Skowronski DM, Villaseńor I, Galván F, Cravioto P, Earn DJ, Dushoff J, Fisman D, Edmunds WJ, Hupert N, Scarpino SV, Trujillo J, Lutzow M, Morales J, Contreras A, Chávez C, Patrick DM, Brunham RC (Sep 2009) Initial human transmission dynamics of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in North America., Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 3 (5), 215-22 Abstract
  • Moolgavkar SH, Meza R, Turim J (Aug 2009) Pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas in SEER: age effects and temporal trends, 1973-2005., Cancer causes & control : CCC, 20 (6), 935-44 Abstract
  • Meza R, Jeon J, Moolgavkar SH, Luebeck EG (Oct 2008) Age-specific incidence of cancer: Phases, transitions, and biological implications., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (42), 16284-9 Abstract
  • Jeon J, Meza R, Moolgavkar SH, Luebeck EG (May 2008) Evaluation of screening strategies for pre-malignant lesions using a biomathematical approach., Mathematical biosciences, 213 (1), 56-70 Abstract
  • Meza R, Hazelton WD, Colditz GA, Moolgavkar SH (Apr 2008) Analysis of lung cancer incidence in the nurses' health and the health professionals' follow-up studies using a multistage carcinogenesis model., Cancer causes & control : CCC, 19 (3), 317-28 Abstract
  • Reluga T, Meza R, Walton DB, Galvani AP (Nov 2007) Reservoir interactions and disease emergence., Theoretical population biology, 72 (3), 400-8 Abstract
  • Meza R, Luebeck EG, Moolgavkar SH (Oct 2005) Gestational mutations and carcinogenesis., Mathematical Biosciences, 197 (2), 188-210 Abstract
  • Meza R, Some extensions and applications of multistage carcinogenesis models [Ph.D. Dissertation], United States -- Washington: University of Washington, 2006
  • Meza R, Jeon J, Moolgavkar SH, Quantitative Cancer Risk Assessment of Nongenotoxic Carcinogens, , Cancer Risk Assessment: Carcinogenesis from Biology to Standards Quantification, In Press (bookchapter)

Profile Details

Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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