Seminars

Departmental seminars meet once per week, generally Wednesdays at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., from the first to tenth weeks of the Fall, Winter and Spring quarters. There may be occasional seminars during the Summer quarter. Unless otherwise specified, presentations will be held in the medical center, Room W229 of the Albert Merritt Billings (AMB) building.

Topics mirror the breadth of the department: biostatistics, environmental statistics, survey methodology, epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, health services, health economics, and medical ethics and other public-health related areas. Presentations last 45 to 60 minutes, with additional time for discussion. Refreshments are provided.

The Department of Health Studies occasionally cosponsors seminars with the Cancer Research Center and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Statistics and also with the Graduate School of Business. Joint seminars with the Cancer Center/MacLean Center or the GSB may be in a different location, as noted in the table below. Seminars sponsored jointly with the Statistics Department are often held on Monday afternoons in Eckhart Hall, as noted below.

Information about building access for persons with disabilities may be obtained in advance by calling the department office at (773) 702-2453.

If you have any questions or need further information about our seminars, please contact Cheryl Martinez.

Upcoming Seminars

Date	Title/Speaker/Affiliation
Wednesday, May 23, 2012	Causes of Infertility and Associated Treatments and Subsequent Cancer Risk Louise Brinton, PhD, MPH National Cancer Institute
Wednesday, May 30, 2012	“Emergency Care, Depression & Cognition: A Signal for Older Adults’ Health Trajectories?” Manish N. Shah, M.D., M.P.H. University of Rochester Medical Center

Past Seminars

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Date	Title/Speaker/Affiliation
Wednesday, March 28, 2012	"Oral Infections and Cardiovascular Disease: Where do we stand?" Moise Desvarieux, PhD Columbia University
Wednesday, April 18, 2012	Race, Disparity, and Foster Care: New Insights from Multi-level Models Fred Wulczyn, PhD Chapin Hall-University of Chicago
Wednesday, April 25, 2012	HIV Transmission among Men who have Sex with Men in the United States and Peru: Insights from Dynamic Demographic Network Models Steven Goodreau, PhD University of Washington
Wednesday, May 02, 2012	Patient-centered translation of evidence into practice Nilay D. Shah, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Monday, May 07, 2012	Impact of Restrictive Distribution Risk Management Programs on Patient Access to Therapy: The Case of Isotretinoin Marta E. Wosinska, PhD Food & Drug Administration(FDA), Director, Analysis Staff
Wednesday, May 16, 2012	Some Topics on Multiple Testing Under Dependence Wenguang Sun, PhD USC-Marshall School of Business