First person profile: Leslie Bernstein, PhD: An epidemiologist known for her groundbreaking discoveries about breast cancer, Dr. Bernstein continues to push the field forward
When Leslie Bernstein, PhD, joined the faculty of City of Hope at the age of 67, she told the institution's leaders that she would stay for no more than a decade. After all, she had just spent 25 years at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, serving as a professor in the department of preventive medicine, the medical school dean for faculty affairs, and the university vice provost for medical affairs. However, some 13 years after her pronouncement—with a move across the country to be closer to her daughter in New Jersey thrown in—Dr. Bernstein continues to work with the center remotely, publishing research and mentoring younger colleagues. “I'm hoping to retire soon, but so far the answer has been, ‘We'd rather you stay on,’” she says.
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