Voices - A Conversation With Warren Winkelstein, Jr.Epidemiology: May 2004 - Volume 15 - Issue 3 - pp 368-372 Voices Interview by Patricia A. Buffler Warren Winkelstein, Jr., was born in Syracuse, New York, on 1 July 1922. He received an MD from Syracuse University in 1947 and an MPH from Columbia University in 1950. He worked in Buffalo, New York, from 1950 to 1968, first at the Erie County Health Department and then at the State University of New York. In 1968, he joined the faculty at the School of Public Health of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor of Epidemiology. He served as Dean of the School from 1972 to 1981. His scientific work has ranged from the 1954 polio vaccine field trials to pioneering studies in the 1960s on health effects of air pollution. He was among the first to suggest that smoking causes cervical cancer. In the early 1980s, his research turned again to infectious diseases and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He maintains a keen interest in the history of science and has completed biographic studies of Abraham Lilienfeld, Edward Jenner, Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon, and John Snow. Dr. Winkelstein is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the Abraham Lilienfeld Award of the APHA. In 1991, he received the Berkeley Citation, the highest honor conferred by the campus on its faculty. This interview was conducted 12 May 2003 at the School of Public Health University of California Berkeley, California.