Epidemiology Research Seminar (EPI 236)

Winter Quarter 2026
Course Director: Drs. Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa & Andres Cardenas
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 2:50 PM
Alway M106

Contact: LaToya Powell, lapowell@stanford.edu, 650-497-4364

Date

Speaker

Topic

Jan 6

 Marcela Radtke, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow		 “Utilizing Innovative Technology to Assess Physiological and Cognitive Outcomes of Food Insecurity in Food is Medicine Interventions”

Jan 13

 Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
Allison S. Carlson Endowed Professor for PRHE, UCSF		 "Fossil Fuels, Plastics, and Toxic Chemicals: The lifecycle of exposures and relationships to adverse health outcomes"

Jan 20

 Alyce Adams, Phd, MPP
Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Health Policy and by Courtesy, of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)		 “Translating Research into Practice and Policy Change: The case of diabetic polyneuropathy”

Jan 27

 Jonathan Litt, MD, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal and Developmental Medicine)		 “Aging at the Beginning of Life: Neonatal Multimorbidity, Neurobehavioral Dysfunction, and the Phenotype of Premature Aging among Very Preterm Infants”

Feb 3

 Joshua Salomon, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies		 "Policy Modeling for Public Health"
Feb 10 Nathan Lo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health		 “Measles re-emergence amid declining vaccination in the United States"

Feb 17

 Rachel Ramoni, DMD, ScD
Director of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research		 TBD

Feb 24

 Lindsay Morton, PhD
Director, Senior Investigator
Head, Cancer Survivorship Research Unit
National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute		 "Genomic Insights into the Underpinnings of Radiation-induced Cancer”

March 3

  1. Joseph Abel, MS student

  2. Samuel Castro, MD, MS student

  3. Asma Masad S Alhazmi, MS student

  4. Lauren Vuong, MS student

  5. Jin Huang, MS student (presenting on 3/10 if needed)

1) “Clinical Outcomes of D-Poem for Epiphrenic Diverticula: An: International Multi-Center Experience of Full-Thickness Septotomy vs. Submucosal Tunneling”

2) TBD

3) TBD

4) "Physiologic Aging and Longevity: The association of 6 biomarkers and their trajectories with age at death in the Cardiovascular Health Study."

5) TBD
March 10

Mike Baiocchi, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by Courtesy, of Statistics and of Medicine (Stanford  Prevention Research Center)

Reid Dale, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Baiocchi: TBD

Dale: “Data Gluttony: Large Scale Inferential Risk Management for Commonly Used Datasets”

Graduate Programs Manager: Rachel Pham, rcpham@stanford.edu, 650-723-5456