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Frank Garland, PhD
Professor, Family & Preventive Medicine
Cancer Prevention & Control Program
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Diseases/Research Topics
Cancer, Cancer prevention and control, Epidemiology, Melanoma, Public Health, Vitamin D Deficiency
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Technical Director, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego
Member: United States Military Cancer Institute
Contact: (619) 553-8480
Dr. Frank C. Garland is the Technical Director of the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego, CA. NHRC is the primary Navy Military Operational Medicine Research Facility and the site of the Department of Defense Deployment Health Research Center. Dr. Garland also serves as the director of the NHRC Special Programs Office. In this capacity, he manages a large portfolio of Special Congressional Programs for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery directed toward medical research projects within and outside the Department of Defense. These include several major cancer research programs at the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, SC and the Hershey Cancer Center at Penn State, PA. Dr. Garland is a Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, and a member of the United States Military Cancer Institute and the John and Rebecca Moores Cancer Center at UCSD. Dr. Garland holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University, received in 1980 and is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.
As a member of the United States Military Cancer Institute, Dr. Garland chairs the Epidemiology and Surveillance Subcommittee of the Cancer Working Group (CWG). In this capacity, he had a major role in designing a Department of Defense Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan. The CWG was established by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to address the problem of cancer in military service members and their families, who comprise one of the largest defined populations in the world with standardized access to health care and centralized sources for routinely collected medical and demographic information.
Dr. Garland has been an invited speaker at a Director's Seminar at the National Cancer Institute, the President's Special Commission on Breast Cancer, and the Institute of Medicine on several occasions. Dr. Garland is a recipient of the Arnold-Rikli Prize for Advancement in the Field of Photobiology for his work in the area of vitamin D and cancer prevention. An international committee of distinguished scientists selects awardees for this prize every two years. In 2006, the International Journal of Epidemiology re-published in its original form, a 1980 article by Dr. Garland concerning vitamin D and cancer prevention, followed by a set of commentaries on the importance of this seminal paper.
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