This Colloquium, sponsored by the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Society, Human Development and Health, presents an expanded version of the Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics Colloquium, and will offer presentations on a wide variety of substantive and methodologic issues relevant to Psychiatry, Neurology, and other areas of mental health research and practice. This more formal Colloquium series is paired with the less formal Brain Health Working Group--itself an expansion of the former Neuroepidemiology Working Group, and the two will share the same slot on 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons, each taking place approximately once per month during the academic year. We are in the process of merging our mailing lists. In the meantime, please bear with us if you receive multiple announcements about these series.

This consolidation of our formal and informal seminars is part of a larger effort to develop a cross-departmental program in brain health across these three departments. The concentrations in psychiatric and neurologic epidemiology have already been joined, and we hope to announce additional developments in the coming months.

Shaun Purcell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

"Genetic Studies of Neuropsychiatric Disease"

Kassandra Munger, Sc.D.
Research Associate, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

"Measures of Vitamin D Nutrition and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis"

Christoph Lange, Ph.D., Sebastien Haneuse, Ph.D., Rebecca Betensky, Ph.D.
Faculty, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Symposium: "Issues in the Design and Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Studies"

Michelle Albert, M.D., MPH
Director of Behavioral and Neurocardiovascular Cardiology; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"Chronic Psychological Stress and Cardiovascular Disease"

Jill Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant in Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Senior Scientist, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center

"Fetal Programming of Sex Differences in the Brain: Implications for Understanding Sex Differences in Depression and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease"

Marc Weisskopf, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

"Environmental Etiology of ALS and Parkinson’s Disease"

Philip Lavori, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Research and Policy and Statistics, Stanford University

2011-2012 Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology & Biostatistics

"To Be Announced"

Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
Director of the Psychiatric Genetics Program in Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

"Boundary Violations: From DSM to DNA"