Biography:

Andy Coldman is the Vice President of Population Oncology at the BC Cancer Agency. Population Oncology is responsible for cancer surveillance and epidemiology activities at the BCCA. He has worked as a statistician/epidemiologist with the BC Cancer Agency since 1980. He holds joint-appointments as Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia. He trained as a statistician receiving his MA from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D from the University of British Columbia. He received training in epidemiology from McGill University. His research has focused on two principal areas: 1) The measurement of the effectiveness of screening using population data modelling of screening processes and 2) The development and use of statistical indicators for use in cancer control measurement at the population level.In the last decade his research has concentrated on screening and he is currently a PI for the HPV FOCAL which is a randomized trial of HPV testing as a primary screening modality for cervical cancer. He continues to work in modeling cancer outcomes. He is Chair of the technical subcommittee for the CPAC Risk Management Project. He is principal for the Collaborative stage implementation in the BC Cancer registry.