Philip H Kass
Population Health & Reproduction
Population Health & Reproduction
Phone Number
Office
225 Mrak Hall, Davis, CA 95616
Research Profile
Licenses
State of California license #8474 to practice veterinary medicine
Diplomate American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Specialty in Epidemiology, ACVPM
Education
1981, BS, University of California, Davis, CA
1983, DVM, University of California, Davis, CA
1984, MPVM, University of California, Davis, CA
1988, MS, University of California, Davis, CA
1990, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA
1990, Post-doc, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
Honors and Awards
1978 UC Regent's Scholar
1986 Outstanding Young Men of America citation
1987 Who's Who in Veterinary Medicine citation
1988 Student participant, Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Workshop
1992 Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award, Graduate Group in Epidemiology
1995 Who's Who in Medicine citation
1995 Who's Who in the West citation
1996 The Daniels Award, Daniels Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2002 European Veterinary Dental Society Research Award
2003-2004 Outstanding Faculty Award, Graduate Group in Epidemiology
2007-2009 Who's Who in America
2009-2010 Faculty Teaching Award, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
2009-2010 Who's Who in America. Marquis Publishing, 300 Connell Drive, Suite 2000, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
2009-2010 Who's Who in Health Sciences Higher Education
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2020 Kass PH: Using data for clinical decision making, Chapter 3, Bruyette D, (ed), Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine, Volume 1, Hoboken. 17-25.
2020 Kass PH: Statistical interpretation for practitioners, Chapter 2, Bruyette D, (ed), Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine, Volume 1, Hoboken. 7-16.
2017 Kass PH: Biomedical Statistics: Selected Topics, Ettinger SJ, Feldman EC, Côté E, (ed), Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 8th Edition, St. Louis. 34-37.
2014 Pezzi C, Kass PH: Case-control studies, Schenker MB, Castañeda X, Rodriguez-Lainz A, (ed), Migration and Health: A Research Methods Handbook, Berkeley. .
2014 Kass PH: Modern epidemiologic study designs, Ahrens W, Pigeot I, (ed), Handbook of Epidemiology, 2nd edition, Berlin. 325-363.
Research Focus
Quantitative epidemiology (companion animals). Non-experimental inference. Epidemiologic methodology and analysis. Epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans. Companion animal epidemiology. Hospital-based surveillance methodology. Cancer research.
Specialty Focus
Epidemiology, biostatistics.