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Stephen Popper, doctoral student in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, will present his thesis, "Viral Determinants of HIV-2 Pathogenesis," on May 11 at 8:30 a.m. in FXB 301.

Eric Mick, doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology, will present his thesis, "Depression in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Effect of Gender, Familiality and Multiple Informants," on May 12 at 10:00 a.m. in Kresge 203.

Carol Shepherd, doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, will present her thesis, "Hospital Financial Health: The Impact on Strategic Choices and Physician Practice Patterns in Maine," on May 12 at 11:30 a.m. in Kresge 439.

Mary Elizabeth Blackwell, doctoral candidate in the Department of Biostatistics, will present her thesis, "Random Effects Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Ordinal Bioassay," on May 12 at 2:00 p.m. in FXB G-10.

Duk-Hwan Kim will take his oral qualifying examination for a doctoral degree in the Department of Environmental Health on May 12 at 2:30 p.m. in SPH I-217. Major field: environmental molecular epidemiology; minor fields: cancer genetics and genetic toxicology. John Little will chair the examination committee.

Yvonne Louise Michael, doctoral candidate in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health and Social Behavior, will present her thesis, "Social Networks, Breast Cancer, and Functional Health Status," on May 13 at 12:00 p.m. in Kresge 904.

Scott Gazelle, doctoral student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, will present his thesis, "Cost-Effectiveness of Imaging and Surgery in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases," on May 13 at 1:00 p.m. in the Jonathan Mann Conference Room, FXB 7th floor.

Laura Linnan, doctoral candidate in the Department of Health and Social Behavior, will present her thesis, "Applied Worksite Health Promotion Research: Addressing Gaps in Knowledge, Theory's Practice," on May 14 at 10:00 a.m. in FXB G-13.

Kenji Shibuya, doctoral candidate in the Department of Population and International Health, will present his thesis, "Quantifying Economic Impact and Health Consequences of Smoking," on May 14 in SPH I-1112 at 1:00 p.m.

Miguel Herman, doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology, will present his thesis, "Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis," on May 14 at 2:30 p.m. in Kresge 904.



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