Arthur Gould Schatzkin (February 11, 1948 in New York City – January 20, 2011 in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who spent much of his career at the National Cancer Institute.
[1] As an undergraduate, Schatzkin was active in Students for a Democratic Society, and after graduation from Yale he went to work for the university as a grounds maintenance worker.
[1] One of Schatzkin's first academic positions in his career was as an assistant professor of public health and medicine at Boston University.
[5] In 1984, he began working at the National Cancer Institute, where he became the chair of the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch in 1999.
[5] Schatzkin's early research focused on the link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer.