Health Research and Policy

Epidemiology Research Seminar (HRP 236)

Autumn Quarter 2009
Course Director: Victor W Henderson
September 22 - Dec 1, 2009
(Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.)
HRP Redwood Building, Room T138B

Date Speaker Topic
9/22
New Student Orientation and
Tara Chang, MD, MS
Clinical Instructor, Medicine (Nephrology)
Blood Pressure and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients
9/29
Tom Robinson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Gen. Ped.); the Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health
Solution-Oriented Research to Prevent Obesity
10/6
Bruce Fireman
Biostatistician, Dept of Research, Kaiser Permenente
Influenza Vaccination and Mortality: Differentiating Vaccine Effects from Bias
10/13
Gary Shaw, DrPh
Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Nutrients, genes, and birth defects: An overview
10/20
Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Assist Prof. Medicine (Medical Informatics) & Pediatrics and by courtesy Computer Science
Translational Bioinformatics and the role of environment in disease
10/27
Rachel Manber, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Non-pharmacological interventions for depression: the promise of symptom focused therapy
11/3
Robert Tibshirani, PhD
Professor of Health Research & Policy (Biostatistics) and of Statistics
Adaptive index models for marker-based risk stratification
11/10
Mark Cullen, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Work as a Cause of Chronic Disease: The Confounding Role of Social Disparities
11/17
Lisa Henriksen, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Reducing the Influences of Retail Marketing on Robacco Use
11/24
No seminar
Thanksgiving recess
12/1
Eva Balint, MD
Instructor, Med. (Endocrinology/Gerontology/Metabolism)
Hans Katzberg, MD
Fellow in Neuromuscular Disease
Vitamin D, Breast Cancer and Bone Health

Assessment of Nighttime Respiration and Sleep Quality in Patients with ALS
12/8
No seminar
Final exams week

If you need directions or would like to be on the e-mail list, please contact Erika French-Arnold (650-723-5456; ). Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar speakers and topics are welcome.

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