Springfield College Welcomes Epidemiologist to Campus for May 4 Lecture

SPRINGFIELD — Cancer epidemiologist and exercise physiologist Melinda Irwin will present her lecture titled “Cancer Prevention and Control with Exercise: Should the Treadmill Replace Chemotherapy?” on Monday, May 4 at 7:15 p.m. in the Fuller Arts Center. The Springfield College Exercise Science and Sport Studies Department and the Applied Exercise Science Club are sponsoring the evening, which is free and open to the public.

Irwin specializes in the design and conduct of randomized controlled trials and population-based prospective cohort studies in men and women with cancer. Her studies analyze the effects of exercise and weight loss on a number of biological markers associated with cancer prognosis and quality of life.

Irwin directs training and education activities of the National Cancer Institute’s Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Program. The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Institute for Cancer Research, and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation have funded her studies.

An associate professor of Epidemiology for the Yale University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Irwin completed her academic and research training at the College of William and Mary, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of South Carolina in Columbia, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.