Epidemiology Research Seminar (HRP 236)
Spring Quarter 2010
Course Director: Alice Whittemore
March 30-June 8, 2010
(Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.)
HRP Redwood Building, Room T138B
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 3/30 | Damini Jawaheer, PhD
Children's Hospital, Oakland |
The Genetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| 4/6 | Mark Hlatky
Professor of Health Research and Policy, Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) |
Criteria for Evaluation of Novel Risk Markers |
| 4/13 | Scarlett Gomez, PhD
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont |
Cancer Disparities: Can They be Addressed by Studying Contextual Factors? |
| 4/20 | Marilyn Winkleby, PhD
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention |
Partnerships with Local Health Departments to Further Community-based Research and Knowledge of Health Disparities |
| 4/27 | Ravi Sharaf, MD
MS Student, Health Services Research,
Dept of Health Research and Policy
Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Jim Murphy, MD
Dept of Radiation Oncology |
Novel Biomarkers in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Cost Effectiveness of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer |
| 5/4 | Shannon Salvador, MD
Interdepartmental Program, Epidemiology
School of Medicine Dipanjan Banerjee, MD
Interdepartmental Program, Epidemiology School of Medicine |
Validating Tubal Ligation and Its Association with Ovarian Cancer
Through the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium Problem Lists: Not All Diagnoses Are Coded Equally |
| 5/11 | Wei Wang, PhD
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont |
Androgens and Androgen Receptor in Breast Cancer |
| 5/18 | Alexis Davis, MD
Instructor, Dept of Pediatrics,
Division of Neonatology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Fritz Bech, MD, FACS
Asst Prof of Surgery, School of Medicine Staff Surgeon, Palo Alto VA Health Care System Director, Core Clerkship in Surgery, School of Medicine |
Seizures in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants:
Association with Morbidities and Neurodevelopmental Outcome Determinants of Dialysis Access Function in the "Fistula First" Era |
| 5/25 | Allison Kurian, MD
Asst Prof of Medicine (Oncology)
and Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University Medical Center |
Clinical Cancer Genetics: A Targeted Approach to Risk Reduction |
| 6/1 | Kameelah Abdullah
Mofiz Haque
|
Viral Tropism and Genetic Diversity of HCV within PBMC's and Serum: A re-analysis Effect of MRI in the Acute Management of Stroke. A National Inpatient Survey |
| 6/8 | No seminar |
Final exams week |
If you need directions or would like to be on the e-mail list, please contact Toni Ali (650-723-5456; ). Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar speakers and topics are welcome.

