Robert B. Wallace
Professor
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL BSM 1964 Medicine
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL MD 1967 Medicine
State University of NY, Buffalo, NY MSc 1972 Epidemiology
EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE
1969-70 Instructor, Emory University, School of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine
1969-72 Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Center for Disease Control, US Public Health Office
1972-75 Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine
1975-79 Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine
1976-85 Head of Epidemiology Section, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa,
College of Medicine
1979- Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Iowa
1985-86 Acting Head, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa, College of
Medicine
1986-94 Head, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine
1994-98 Member, National Advisory Council, National Institute on Aging
1994-98 Director, Cancer Center, University of Iowa
1979-99 Professor, Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine
1999- Professor, Epidemiology, University of Iowa, College of Public Health
2001-03 Co-Director, The University of Iowa, Center on Aging
2004-14 Director, The University of Iowa, Center on Aging
HONORS
1997 Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Excellence in Teaching of Epidemiology, American
Public Health Association
1999 Irene Ensminger Stecher Professorship in Cancer Research, University of Iowa
2000 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence: State of Iowa Board of Regents
2001 Duncan Clark Award for Career Achievement in Preventive Medicine,
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
2001 Delivery of Distinguished Lectureship, University of Iowa College of Public Health
2001 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC
2004 College of Public Health Faculty Research Award
2011 IOM Distinguished Service Award, Walsh McDermott Medal
BIBLIOGRAPHY (2012-present, in chronological order)
1. Kroenke CH, Caan BJ, Stefanick ML, Anderson G, Brzyski R, Johnson KC, LeBlanc E, Lee C, LaCroix AZ, Park HL, Sims ST, Vitolins M, Wallace R. Effects of a Dietary Intervention and Weight Change on Vasomotor Symptoms in the Women’s Health Initiative. Menopause 19(9):980-8, 2012. PMID: 22781782; PMCID PMC3428489
2. Park ER, Japuntich SJ, Rigotti NA, Traeger L, He Y, Wallace RB, Malin JL, Zallen JP, Keating NL. A Snapshot of Smokers After Lung and Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis. Cancer 118(12):3153-64, 2012. PMID: 22271645; PMCID PMC3342424
3. Tom SE, Cooper R, Wallace RB, Guralnik JM. Type and Timing of Menopause and Later Life Mortality Among Women in the Iowa Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly Cohort. J Womens Health (1):10-6, 2012. PMID: 21970557; PMCID PMC3256559
4. LaRoche HH, Wallace RB, Snetselaar L, Hillis SL, Steffen LM. Changes in Diet Behavior When Adults Become Parents. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 112(6):832-9, 2012. PMID: 22551676; PMCID PMC3378760
5. Barbour KE, Boudreau R, Danielson ME, Youk AO, Wactawski-Wende J, Greep NC, Lacroix AZ, Jackson RD, Wallace RB, Bauer DC, Allison MA, Cauley JA. Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Hip Fracture: The Women’s Health Initiative. J Bone Miner Res, 27(5):1167-76, 2012. PMID: 22392817; PMCID PMC3361578
6. Sorensen MD, Kahn AJ, Reiner AP, Tseng TY, Shikany JM, Wallace RB, Chi T, Wactawski-Wende J, Jackson RD, O’Sullivan MJ, Sadetsky N, Stoller ML; WHI Working Group. Impact of Nutritional Factors on Incident Kidney Stone Formation: A Report From the WHI OS. J Urol 187(5):1645-9, 2012. PMID: 22425103; PMCID PMC4165387
7. Haan M, Espeland MA, Klein BE, Casanova R, Gaussoin SA, Jackson RD, Millen AE, Resnick SM, Rossouw JE, Shumaker SA, Wallace R, Yaffe K; For the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study and the Women’s Health Initiative Sight Exam. Cognitive Function and Retinal and Ischemic Brain Changes: The Women’s Health Initiative. Neurology 78(13):942-949, 2012. PMID: 22422889; PMCID PMC3310310
8. Chlebowski RT, McTiernan A, Wactawski-Wende J, Manson JE, Aragaki AK, Roban T, Ipp E, Kaklamani VG, Vitolins M, Wallace R, Gunter M, Phillips LS, Strickler H, Margolis K, Euhus DM. Diabetes, Metformin, and Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of Clinical Oncology 30(23):2844-52, 2012. PMID: 2268798
9. Cirillo DJ, Wallace RB. Restless Legs Syndrome and Functional Limitations Among American Elders in the Health and Retirement Study. BMC Geriatr 12(1):39, 2012. PMID: 22834914; PMCID PMC3433378
10. Saag KG, Mohr PE, Esmail L, Mudano AS, Wright N, Beukelman T, Curtis JR, Cutter G, Delzell E, Gary LC, Harrington TM, Karkare S, Kilgore ML, Lewis CE, Moloney R, Oliveira A, Singh JA, Warriner A, Zhang J, Berger M, Cummings SR, Pace W, Solomon DH, Wallace R, Tunis SR. Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Older Adults in the United States. Contemp Clin Trials 33(6):1211-6, 2012. PMID: 22796098; PMCID PMC3675785
11. Segal NA, Wallace R. Tolerance of an Aquatic Power Training Program by Older Adults with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis. Arthritis 2012:895495, 2012. PMID: 23008770. PMCID PMC3449099
12. Harris JR, Wallace RB. The Institute of Medicine’s New Report on Living Well with Chronic Illness. Prev Chronic Dis 9:E148, 2012. PMID: 22995102; PMCID PMC3475533
13. Charlton ME, Lin C, Jiang D, Stitzenberg KB, Halfdanarson TR, Pendergast JF, Chrischilles EA, Wallace RB. Factors Associated with Use of Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer in the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium. Am J Clin Oncol [Epub ahead of print], 2012. PMID: 22992624; PMCID PMC3556239
14. Birmann BM, Neuhouser ML, Rosner B, Albanes D, Buring JE, Giles GG, Lan Q, Lee IM, Purdue MP, Rothman N, Severi G, Yuan JM, Anderson KC, Pollak M, Rifai N, Hartge P, Landgren O, Lessin L, Virtamo J, Wallace RB, Manson JE, Colditz GA. Prediagnosis Biomarkers of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1, Insulin, and Interleukin-6 Dysregulation and Multiple Myeloma Risk in the Multiple Myeloma Cohort Consortium. Blood 120(25):4929-37, 2012. PMID: 23074271; PMCID PMC3525019
15. Auer PL, Johnsen JM, Johnson AD, Logsdon BA, Lange LA, Nalls MA, Zhang G, Franceschini N, Fox K, Lange EM, Rich SS, O’Donnell CJ, Jackson RD, Wallace RB, Chen Z, Graubert TA, Wilson JG, Tang H, Lettre G, Reiner AP, Ganesh SK, Li Y. Imputation of Exome Sequence Variants into Population-Based Samples and Blood-Cell-Trait-Associated Loci in African Americans: NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project. Am J Hum Genet 91(5):794-808, 2012. PMID: 23103231; PMCID PMC3487117
16. Smith JG, Avery CL, Evans DS, Nalls MA, Meng YA, Smith EN, Palmer C, Tanaka T, Mehra R, Butler AM, Young T, Buxbaum SG, Kerr KF, Berenson GS, Schnabel RB, Li G, Ellinor PT, Magnani JW, Chen W, Bis JC, Curb JD, Hsueh WC, Rotter JI, Liu Y, Newman AB, Limacher MC, North KE, Reiner AP, Quibrera PM, Schork NJ, Singleton AB, Psaty BM, Soliman EZ, Solomon AJ, Srinivasan SR, Alonso A, Wallace R, Redline S, Zhang ZM, Post WS, Zonderman AB, Taylor HA, Murray SS, Ferrucci L, Arking DE, Evans MK, Fox ER, Sotoodehnia N, Heckbert SR, Whitsel EA, Newton-Cheh C. Impact of Ancestry and Common Genetic Variants on QT Interval in African Americans. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 5(6):647-655, 2012. PMID: 23166209; PMCID PMC3568265
17. Adams K, Bayliss E, Permanente K, Blumenthal D, Boyd C, Guralnik J, Krist AH, LaCroix A, Naylor MD, Patrick DL, Reuben D, Tinetti M, Wallace RB, Ware JE Jr, Wolff JL, Hadley E, Salive ME. Universal Health Outcome Measures for Older Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions. J Am Geriatr Soc 60(12):2333-41, 2012. PMID: 23194184; PMCID PMC3521090
18. Engelman CD, Meyers KJ, Iyengar SK, Liu Z, Karki CK, Igo RP Jr., Truitt B, Robinson J, Sarto GE, Wallace R, Blodik BA, Klein ML, Tinker L, Leblanc ES, Jackson RD, Song Y, Manson JE, Mares JA, Millen AE. Vitamin D Intake and Season Modify the Effects of the GC and CYP2R1 Genes on 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations. J Nutr 143(1):17-26, 2013. PMID: 23190755; PMCID PMC3521459
19. Schwartz AV, Schafer AL, Grey A, Vittinghoff E, Palermo L, Lui LY, Wallace RB, Cummings SR, Black DM, Bauer DC, Reid IR. Effects of Antiresorptive Therapies on Glucose Metabolism: Results from the FIT, HORIZON-PFT and FREEDOM Trials. J Bone Miner Res 28(6):1348-54, 2013. PMID: 23322676
20. Goertz CM, Salsbury SA, Vining RD, Long CR, Andresen AA, Jones ME, Lyons KJ, Hondras MA, Killinger LZ, Wolinsky FD, Wallace RB. Collaborative Care for Older Adults with low back pain by family medicine physicians and doctors of chiropractic (COCOA): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 14:18, 2013. PMID: 23324133; PMCID PMC3557195
21. Segal NA, Boyer ER, Wallace R, Torner JC, Yack HJ. Association Between Chair Stand Strategy and Mobility Limitations in Older Adults With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 94:375-83, 2013. PMID: 23063791; PMCID PMC3847816
22. Meyers KJ, Johnson EJ, Bernstein PS, Iyengar SK, Engelman CD, Karki CK, Liu Z, Igo RP Jr, Truitt B, Klein ML, Snodderly DM, Blodi BA, Gehrs KM, Sarto GE, Wallace RB, Robinson J, Leblanc ES, Hageman G, Tinker L, Mares JA. Genetic determinants of macular pigments in women of the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 54(3):2333-45, 2013. PMID: 23404124; PMCID PMC3626525
23. Rosso AL, Eaton CB, Wallace R, Gold R, Stefanick ML, Ockene JK, Curb JD, Michael YL. Geriatric syndromes and incident disability in older women: results from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 61(3):371-9, 2013. PMID: 23452034; PMCID PMC3602348
24. Pendergrass SA, Brown-Gentry K, Dudek S, Frase A, Torstenson ES, Goodloe R, Ambite JL, Avery CL, Buyske S, Bůžková P, Deelman E, Fesinmeyer MD, Haiman CA, Heiss G, Hindorff LA, Hsu CN, Jackson RD, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Lin Y, Matise TC, Monroe KR, Moreland L, Park SL, Reiner A, Wallace R, Wilkens LR, Crawford DC, Ritchie MD. Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) for detection of pleiotropy within the population architecture using genemics and epidemiology (PAGE) Network. PLos Genet 9(1):e1003087, 2013. PMID: 23382687; PMCID PMC3561060
25. Segal NA, Glass NA, Shakoor N, Wallace R. Vibration Platform Training in Women at Risk for Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis. PM R 5(3):201-9. 2013. PMID: 22981005; PMCID PMC3838794
26. Dutta A, Henley W, Pilling LC, Wallace RB, Melzer D. Uric acid measurement improves prediction of cardiovascular mortality in later life. J Am Geriatr Soc 61(3): 319-26, 2013. PMID: 23496291
27. Schick UM, McDavid A, Crane PK, Weston N, Ehrlich K, Newton KM, Wallace R, Bookman E, Harrison T, Aragaki A, Crosslin DR, Wang SS, Reiner AP, Jackson RD, Peters U, Larson EB, Jarvik GP, Carlson CS. Confirmation of the reported association of clonal chromosomal mosaicism with an increased risk of incident hematologic cancer. PLoS One 8(3):e59823, 2013. PMID: 23533652; PMCID PMC3606281
28. Mawanda F, Wallace R. Can infections cause Alzheimer’s disease? Epidemiol Reviews 35(1), 161-180, 2013. PMID: 23349428
29. Haring B, Pettinger M, Bea JW, Wactawski-Wende J, Carnahan RM, Ockene JK, Wyler von Ballmoos M, Wallace RB, Wassertheil-Smoller SW. Laxative use and incident falls, fractures and change in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative. BMC Geriatrics 13(1):38, 2013. PMID: 23635086; PMCID PMC3645973
30. Sabater-Lleal M, Huang J, Chasman DI, Naitza S, Dehghan A, et al Wallace R. Multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in over 100,000 subjects identifies 23 fibrinogen-associated loci but no strong evidence of a causal association between circulating fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Circulation 128(12):1310-24, 2013. PMID: 23969696; PMCID PMC3842025
31. Moga DC, Carnahan RM, Lund BC, Pendergast JF, Wallace RB, Torner JC, Li Y, Chrischilles EA. Risks and benefits of bladder antimuscarinics among elderly residents of veterans affairs community living centers. J Am Med Dir Assoc 14(10):749-60, 2013. PMID: 23639715
32. Song Y, You NC, Kang MK, Hou L, Wallace R, Eaton CB, Tinker LF, Liu S. Intake of small-to-medium-chain saturated fatty acids is associated with peripheral leukocyte telomere length in postmenopausal women. J Nutr 143(6):907-14, 2013. PMID: 23616516; PMCID PMC3652887
33. Laroche HH, Wallace RB, Snetselaar L, Hillis SL, Cai X, Steffen LM. Weight gain among men and women who have a child enter their home. J Acad Nutr Diet 113(11):1504-10, 2013. PMID: 23876450; PMCID PMC3809034
34. Dutta A, Henley W, Robine JM, Langa KM, Wallace RB, Melzer D. Longer lived parents: Protective associations with cancer incidence and overall mortality. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 68(11):1409-18, 2013. PMID: 23685624; PMCID PMC3919622
35. Cossor FI, Adams-Campbell LL, Chlebowski RT, Gunter MJ, Johnson K, Martell RE, McTiernan A, Simon MS, Rohan T, Wallace RB, Paulus JK. Diabetes, metformin use, and colorectal cancer survival in postmenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol 37(5):742-9, 2013. PMID: 23773299; PMCID PMC3769471
36. Chlebowski RT, Pettinger M, Johnson KC, Wallace R, Womack C, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Stefanick M, Wactawski-Wende J, Carbone L, Lu B, Eaton C, Walitt B, Kooperberg CL. Calcium plus Vitamin D supplementation and joint symptoms in postmenopausal women in the Women’s Health Initiative randomized trial. J Acad Nutr Diet 113(10):1302-10, 2013. PMID: 23954097; PMCID PMC4108192
37. Hartz A, He T, Wallace R, Powers J. Comparing hormone therapy effects in two RCTs and two large observational studies that used similar methods for comprehensive data collection and outcome assessment. BMJ Open 3(7), 2013. PMID: 23861441; PMCID PMC3717474
38. Ammann EM, Pottala JV, Harris WS, Espeland MA, Wallace R, Denburg NL, Carnahan RM, Robinson JG. Omega-3 fatty acids and domain-specific cognitive aging: Secondary analyses of data from WHISCA. Neurology 81(17):1484-91, 2013. PMID: 24068783; PMCID PMC3888166
39. Manson JE, Chlebowski RT, Stefanick ML, Aragaki AK, Rossouw, JE, Prentice RL, Anderson G, Howard BV, Thomson CA, LaCroix AZ, Wactawski-Wende J, Jackson RD, Limacher M, Margolis KL, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Beresford SA, Cauley JA, Eaton CB, Gass M, Hsia J, Johnson KC, Kooperberg C, Kuller LH, Lewis CE, Liu S, Martin LW, Ockene JK, O’Sullivan MJ, Powell LH, Simon MS, Van Horn L, Vitolins MZ, Wallace RB. Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the Women’s Health Initiative randomized trials. JAMA 310(13):1353-68, 2013. PMID: 24084921; PMCID PMC3963523
40. Charlton ME, Lin C, Jiang D, Stitzenberg KB, Halfdanarson TR, Pendergast JF, Chrischilles EA, Wallace RB. Factors associated with use of preoperative chemoradiation therapy for rectal cancer in the Cancerr Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium. Am J Clin Oncol 36(6):572-9, 2013. PMID: 22992624; PMCID: PMC3556239
41. Dutta A, Henley W, Robine JM, Llewellyn D, Langa KM, Wallace RB, Melzer D. Aging children of long-lived parents experience slower cognitive decline. Alzheimers Dement 10(5 Suppl):S315-22, 2014. PMID: 24210527