Health Research and Policy–

Epidemiology Research Seminar (HRP 236)

Fall Quarter 2015
Course Director: Victor Henderson
Sept 22 - Dec 1, 2015
(Tuesdays 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.)
CCSR, Room 4205

Date Speaker Topic
9/22
Victor Henderson, MD, MS
and Rita Popat, PhD
No seminar: Orientation for new Masters students (Faculty and other students welcome)
9/29
Bonnie Maldonado, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and of HRP (Epidemiology)
Global polio eradication: live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) transmissibility in communities after cessation of routine OPV immunization*
10/6
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (PCOR) and, by courtesy, HRP, Economics, and the Freeman Spogi Institute
Nudges in Exercise commitment contracts: a randomized controlled trial*
10/13
Julia Simard, ScD
Assistant Professor of HRP (Epidemiology) and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Immunololgy & Rheumatology)
Preeclampsia in SLE pregnancy: An example of misclassification in register-data*
10/20
Tim Assimes, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Genetic risk predictionfor coronary heart disease: will we ever get there or are we already there?
10/27
Arnold Milstein, MD
Professor of Medicine (General Medical Discipline); Director, Clinical Excellence Research Center
Searching for features of higher value healthcare providers
11/3
Lorene Nelson, PhD
Associate Professor of HRP (Epidemiology)
Data mining methods in epidemiologic research*
11/10
Julie Parsonnet, MD
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of HRP (Epidemiology)
Spirits in a microbial world
11/17
Stephen Luby, MD
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Senior Fellow, Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute
Lead intoxication in rural Bangladesh
11/24
No Seminar
Thanksgiving recess
12/1
Michelle O'Shaughnessy, MD
All kidney diseases are not treated equally: approaches to renal replacement therapy in glomerulonephritis
Lisa Wise-Faberowski, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Pediatric), Stanford
 Antibiotic use and risk of Hodgkin’s disease
12/8
No seminar
Final exams week

* Background readings for this seminar will be emailed to registrants. If not registered, please contact Toni Ali for a copy.

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.

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