Richard Peto / en Convocation 2015: meet honorary grad Sir Richard Peto /news/convocation-2015-meet-honorary-grad-sir-richard-peto <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Convocation 2015: meet honorary grad Sir Richard Peto</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2015-11-11T10:18:35-05:00" title="Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 10:18" class="datetime">Wed, 11/11/2015 - 10:18</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/more-news" hreflang="en">More News</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/richard-peto" hreflang="en">Richard Peto</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/medicine" hreflang="en">Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/honorary-degree" hreflang="en">Honorary Degree</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/health" hreflang="en">Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/convocation-2015" hreflang="en">Convocation 2015</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/global" hreflang="en">Global</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Sir <strong>Richard Peto</strong>, FRS is professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, and co-director (with Professor Sir Rory Collins) of the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU).</p> <p>He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1989 for introducing meta-analyses of randomised trials, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1999 for services to epidemiology, and received in 2010 and 2011 the Cancer Research UK and the BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award.</p> <p>On Nov.11, the University of Toronto recognized Peto's extraordinary accomplishments during fall Convocation ceremonies&nbsp;with the awarding of a Doctor of Science, <em>honoris causa</em>.</p> <p>Peto, Collins and others in the Oxford CTSU have, by their large randomised trials, significant prospective studies and worldwide meta-analyses, increased substantially the estimated importance of blood lipids, blood pressure and smoking as causes of premature death. Peto founded the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG), which has demonstrated many moderate effects on long-term survival. He has recently collaborated in major studies of alcohol in Russia and of malaria in Africa and India.</p> <p>His investigations into the worldwide health effects of smoking and benefits of stopping at particular ages have helped to communicate effectively the vast and growing burden of disease from tobacco use, have helped change national and international attitudes about smoking and public health, and have helped many smokers to stop.</p> <p>He was the first to describe clearly the future worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns, predicting one billion deaths from tobacco in the present century if current smoking patterns persist, as against “only” 100 million in the 20th century.</p> <p><em>Below, see Peto deliver an address at the London School of Hygiene &amp;&nbsp;Tropical Medicine on Interpreting Large-scale, randomised evidence</em>:</p> <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vybc0PsZ718?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2015-11-11-richard-peto-hon-deg.jpg</div> </div> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:18:35 +0000 sgupta 7433 at