Epidemiology Department Seminars, held 8 times annually, showcase the research and work being done by faculty and trainees in the department.
Past Department Seminars
2017
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| May 5 | Linda Gross Kahn, MA, MPH, PhD | A life course approach to potentially modifiable predictors of semen quality |
| March 24 | Stephen S. Morse, PhD | Lessons of Ebola and Zika for emerging infectious diseases |
| January 27 | Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Improving mental health: Four secrets in plain sight |
2016
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| December 9 | Guohua Li, MD, DrPH | The elements of scholarship |
| November 11 | Manuela Orjuela-Grimm, MD, ScM | From retinoblastoma to sweet bread: An examination of folate, folic acid, and migration |
| October 14 | Master's student day: Poster session and presentations | |
| September 9 | Silvia S. Martins, MD, PhD | Recent trends in nonmedical prescription opioid use, heroin use, and marijuana use in the U.S. |
| May 13 | Shakira Suglia, ScD, MS | Childhood adversity and cardiovascular health across the life course |
| April 22 | R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH | Rediscovering emphysema and the pulmonary microvasculature |
| March 25 | Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS, FAAN, FAHA | Epidemiology of stroke: The view from northern Manhattan |
| February 19 | Deborah S. Hasin, PhD | Marijuana and marijuana use disorders in the U.S.: Changing times |
| January 29 | Mary Beth Terry, PhD | Breast cancer prevention: A story of lifetime exposures, genetics and epigenetics |
2015
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| December 3 | Yuval Neria, PhD | Neural and behavioral mechanisms of fear in PTSD |
| November 6 | Deborah Hasin, PhD | Substance use disorders in the United States |
| October 9 | Master's student day: Poster session and presentations | |
| September 25 | Thomas Briese, PhD | SARS, MERS and what next? Emerging diseases and microbe hunting |
| April 24 | Grace Hillyer, EdD, MPH | Colorectal cancer screening from a pragmatic perspective |
| March 27 | Cande Ananth, PhD, MPH, MSc | Placental abruption and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children |
| January 23 | Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC | Interdisciplinary work to prevent infections |
2014
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| November 14 | Andrea A. Howard, MD, MS | Narrowing the ‘know-do gap’: Using implementation science to address TB/HIV co-infection in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| October 11 | Master's student day: Poster session and presentations | |
| September 12 | Dawn L. Hershman, MD, MS | Understanding and improving the quality of breast cancer treatment |
| May 9 | Pam Factor-Litvak, PhD | Early life exposures and later outcomes: What we don't know |
| April 11 | Alfred I. Neugut, PhD | Thoughts on new trends in management of colon cancer |
| February 14 | Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS | Investigating Celiac Disease with large data sets |
| January 24 | Katherine Keyes, PhD | Epidemiology matters: A new introduction to methodological foundations |
2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| December 6 | Henry Greenberg, MD | The emerging role of global cardiovascular disease in the public health curriculum |
| November 1 | David Lederer, MD, MS | Body composition and lung transplantation: A translational epidemiological approach |
| October 11 | Master's student day: Poster session and presentations | |
| September 13 | Elan D. Louis, MD, MS | Searching for the prime mover of the movers and shakers: Recounting a 15-year journey into the environmental epidemiology of essential tremor |
| June 7 | Ernest Drucker, PhD | A plague of prisons: The epidemiology of mass incarceration in America |
| May 10 | Jessica Justman, MD | Understanding HIV incidence |
| April 12 | Jeanine Genkinger, PhD | Investigating modifiable preventive factors for rare and fatal cancers |
| February 8 | L.H. Lumey, MD, PhD | Lifecourse epidemiology of disease: Can famine studies answer any questions? |
| January 8 | Katherine Keyes, PhD | Monitoring the future: Study design, measures, and important findings |
2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| December 7 | Thelma Mielenz, PhD | Person-centered wellness Home: An idea whose time has come |
| October 12 | Master's student day: Poster session and presentations | |
| September 7 | Lawrence Yang, PhD | Effects of urbanicity on employment for individuals with schizophrenia: A representative, population-based cohort study in China |
| June 8 | Stephen S. Morse, PhD, FAAM | Surveillance and forecasting of emerging infectious diseases |
| April 13 | Moïse Desvarieux, MD, DMM, PhD | Investigating the link between chronic infections and vascular disease: Are we nuts? |
| March 9 | Sharon Schwartz, PhD | What is the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) and should you care? |
| February 10 | Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD | Social/environmental determinants of diabetes and obesity |
2011
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| November 11 | Lisa Bates, PhD | Gendered social context, deviance, and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh |
| October 28 | Master's student practicum presentations | |
| September 9 | Ping Wu, PhD | Adolescent substance use, criminal justice system involvement, and unmet need for drug treatment services: An examination of racial disparities |
| June 10 | Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD | Do integrative therapies improve breast cancer outcomes? |
| May 13 | Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS | Inflammation and infection as risk factors for stroke |
| April 8 | Jeri Nieves, PhD | Insulin resistance, diabetes, and cognitive impairment: From observation to translation |
| March 11 | Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD | Political epidemiology of case-control studies: 1900-1950 |
| February 11 | Nicole Schupf, PhD, DrPH | Beta Amyloid as a risk biomarker for late onset Alzheimer's disease |
| January 7 | Graham Barr, MD, DrPH | An integrative approach to the endothelial hypothesis of emphysema |
2010
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| November 12 | Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH | Insulin resistance, diabetes, and cognitive impairment: from observation to translation |
| October 22 | Lucy Almers, Natalie Levy, Hae Young Kim | Master's students practicum presentations |
| September 24 | Richard Mayeux, MD | Genetic approaches to Alzheimer's Disease |
| June 18 | Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH | Using innovative methods to understand the social determinants of co-occurring mental health problems across the lifecourse |
| May 28 | Ryan Demmer, PhD | Periodontal infections and type 2 diabetes risk |
| May 7 | Daniel Barth-Jones, PhD | Workshop: Systems dynamics modeling |
| April 9 | Louise Kuhn, PhD | Treatment of HIV-infected children with antiretroviral drug resistance |
| February 26 | Wim Veling, MD, MSc, PhD | Us and Them: Epidemiological findings on migration and schizophrenia in the Netherlands |
