Jane C. Schroeder, DVM, PhD

Jane C. Schroeder received her DVM from the University of California, Davis, in 1985 and worked several years as a small-animal veterinarian after completing a small-animal medicine and surgery internship at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1994 she received an MPH in environmental and occupational health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and in 1999 was awarded a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). After two years as a research fellow in epidemiology at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Dr. Schroeder returned to UNC-CH as an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She joined Environmental Health Perspectives as science editor in December 2008.

Dr. Schroeder has collaborated with investigators at the NIEHS, the National Cancer Institute, Emory University, UNC-CH, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and other facilities to conduct epidemiologic research on environmental, dietary, genetic, and microbial risk factors for lymphomas, uterine leiomyomata (fibroids), and prostate, bladder, colorectal, and nervous system cancers. She has worked to develop and disseminate methods relevant to the appropriate conduct and analysis of observational research.

In 2003 Dr. Schroeder became the North Carolina Epidemiology Core director of the North Carolina–Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP), a multidisciplinary population-based study of prostate cancer outcomes among 1,000 African-American and 2,000 Caucasian prostate cancer patients, and in 2008 was awarded funding to conduct a follow-up study of North Carolina PCaP participants. She has received funding from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the NIEHS/NIEHS-funded Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility at UNC-CH, the U.S. Army Medical Research Prostate Cancer Research Program, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Research Society.