printer friendly pageHRP 28SI: Alternative Spring Break: Prevention, Treatment, and Policy Perspectives on Alzheimer's Disease
Examines four aspects of Alzheimer's disease. Goal is to give participants a clearer sense of the struggle that patients actually feel and experience during the progression of the disease. Also explores difficulties and issues that many relatives face in assuming the responsibility of full-time caregiver for an Alzheirmers patient. Addresses ethical considerations on genetic testing, should these advances be embraced or should we be wary of the knowledge they may bring? Finally, explores the notion of service through engaged scholarship by exposing oneself to cutting-edge discoveries as researchers attempt to unravel the puzzle.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 1
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
HRP 89Q: Introduction to Cross Cultural Issues in Medicine
Preference to sophomores. Introduction to social factors that impact health care delivery, such as ethnicity, immigration, language barriers, and patient service expectations. Focus is on developing a framework to understand culturally unique and non-English speaking populations in the health care system.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Corso, I. (PI)
HRP 198: Unite, Empower, Experience: Understanding the Universality of Women's Health
Directed reading course reading. Focus is on the impact of the unique challenges women face in the healthcare system on women and their communities. Examines the current state of women's health from global perspective, considering: community health, health policy, and the medical technology sector.
Terms: Win
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Units: 1
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
HRP 199: Undergraduate Research
Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-18
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Baker, L. (PI)
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Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Bundorf, M. (PI)
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Coram, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Baker, L. (PI)
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Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Bundorf, M. (PI)
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Coram, M. (PI)
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Corso, I. (PI)
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Efron, B. (PI)
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Friedman, G. (PI)
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Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. (PI)
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Hastie, T. (PI)
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Heidenreich, P. (PI)
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Henderson, V. (PI)
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Hlatky, M. (PI)
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Johnstone, I. (PI)
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King, A. (PI)
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Kurian, A. (PI)
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Lavori, P. (PI)
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Lu, Y. (PI)
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Maldonado, Y. (PI)
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Miller, N. (PI)
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Nelson, L. (PI)
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Olshen, R. (PI)
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Owens, D. (PI)
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Parsonnet, J. (PI)
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Popat, R. (PI)
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Sabatti, C. (PI)
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Sainani, K. (PI)
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Shih, M. (PI)
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Sieh, W. (PI)
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Simard, J. (PI)
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Tian, L. (PI)
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Tibshirani, R. (PI)
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Whittemore, A. (PI)
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Wong, W. (PI)
HRP 206: Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis (MED 206, STATS 211)
Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Examples from medicine, epidemiology, genomics, ecology, social/behavioral sciences, education. Collaborative analyses. Project involving generation of a meta-research project or reworking and evaluation of an existing published meta-analysis. Prerequisite: knowledge of basic statistics.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Medical Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Ioannidis, J. (PI)
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Olkin, I. (PI)
HRP 207: Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research I
Primarily for medical students in the Health Services and Policy Research scholarly concentration. Topics include health economics, statistics, decision analysis, study design, quality measurement, cost benefit and effectiveness analysis, and evidence based guidelines.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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Grading: Medical Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Haberland, C. (PI)
HRP 208: Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research II
Primarily for medical students in the Health Services and Policy Research scholarly concentration; continuation of 207. Topics include health economics, statistics, decision analysis, study design, quality measurement, cost benefit and effectiveness analysis, and evidence based guidelines. Recommended: 207.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Medical Option (Med-Ltr-CR/NC)
Instructors:
Haberland, C. (PI)
HRP 209: FDA's Regulation of Health Care
(Same as
LAW 458) Open to law and medical students; other graduate students by consent of instructor. The FDA's regulatory authority over drugs, biologics, medical devices, and dietary supplements. The nature of the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and nutritional supplement industries.
Terms: Win
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Units: 2-3
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Grading: Medical Option (Med-Ltr-CR/NC)
HRP 210: Health Law and Policy
(Same as
Law 313) Open to law , medicine, business, and graduate students. Focus this term is on the physician/patient relationship, medical ethics, and public health law.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Medical Option (Med-Ltr-CR/NC)
HRP 211: Law and the Biosciences: Neuroscience
(Same as
LAW 368) Legal, social, and ethical issues arising from advances in neuroscience, including effects upon law and society through improvements in predicting illnesses and behaviors, reading minds through neuroimaging, understanding responsibility and consciousness, treating criminal behavior, and cognitive enhancement.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Medical Option (Med-Ltr-CR/NC)
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