Background
Amos, Christopher Ian was born on August 25, 1957 in Buffalo. Son of Dennis Bernard and Solarge Marie Amos.
Amos, Christopher Ian was born on August 25, 1957 in Buffalo. Son of Dennis Bernard and Solarge Marie Amos.
Bachelor in Mathematics, Reed College, 1980. Master of Science in Biometry, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in Biometry, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1988.
Graduate assistant, department medicine Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1983—1988. Visiting scientist, division biostatics, research informatics International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, 1989. Assistant adjunct professor, biostatistics and epidemiology department, Howard University Cancer Center, Washington, 1989—1993.
Staff fellow, family studies section Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1988—1991. Senior staff fellow, genetics studies section Laboratory Skin Biology, National Institute Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin, National Institutes of Health, 1991—1993. Associate professor, epidemiology University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 1993—1996, professor, epidemiology and biomathematics, since 1996.
Adjunct professor University Texas School Public Health, Houston, since 1993. Adjunct professor, program in genetics University Texas Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences, Houston, since 1994. Adjunct professor, department statistics Rice University, Houston, since 2001.
Board directors International Genetic Epidemnology Society, since 1997, Genetic Analysis Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, since 1997.
Member of International Genetic Epidemiology Society (president 2002).
Married Julie E. McCarhin. Children: Ryan Benjamin, Brendan Patrick.