2011-2012 Seminar Series
March 7, 2012
Kathy Kelley, MPH, RPh
Research Pharmacist
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Identification of Phthalates in Medications and Dietary Supplement Formulation
February 29, 2012
Dr. Alison E. Field, ScD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Adolescent Medicine
Children’s Hospital Boston
Common Eating Disorders Predictive of Adverse Outcomes are Being Missed by the Diagnostic Criteria
February 15, 2012
New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Fellows
Daniela Lamas, MD
Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
Cardiology fellow at Weill-Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital
Paul Firth, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
From Morphine to the MICU:
The Growing Global Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases
February 8, 2012
Dr. Robert Wright, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Environmental Health
Director, Superfund Research Program
Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health
Epigenetics and Children’s Environmental Health
Special Seminar
February 2, 2012
Dr. María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza, Ph.D.
General Director, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz
Faculty, Schools of Psychology and Medicine,
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Researcher, National Institutes of Health
A Global Perspective of Mental Health and Addictions:
Contributions of Epidemiology to Public Policy
February 1, 2012
Dr. Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Imputation and Fine-mapping of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Rheumatoid Arthritis
January 11, 2012
Dr. Michelangelo Fiorentino, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH
Pathologist and Researcher, University of Bologna
The Pathoepidemiology of Genitourinary Cancers
January 4, 2012
Dr. Elizabeth Devore, ScD
Instructor in Medicine, Channing Lab,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Antioxidants and Brain Aging
December 14, 2011
Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology,
Harvard School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Infertility as a Public Health Concern
December 7, 2011
Dr. Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology,
Department of Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Society for Epidemiological Research
American Academy of Neurology
The Curious Case of Suicide: An Exploration of Pesticide Exposure and Depression
November 30, 2011
Dr. Nancy Padian, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley
Founding Faculty Member, Center of Evaluation for Global Action,
University of California, Berkeley
Senior Technical Advisor, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (PEPFAR)
Consultant, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program
Introduction to Impact Evaluation
November 16, 2011
Dr. David J. Hunter, MBBS, MPH, ScD
Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
What are the Lessons from Genome Wide Association Studies for Epidemiology?
November 9, 2011
Dr. Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD
Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Massachusetts Data Analysis Center
Vice Chair of Methodology Committee,
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Statistical Considerations in Assessing the Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Medical Devices
November 2, 2011
Dr. Karin B. Michels, ScD, PhD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Co-Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Epidemiolgy, Harvard School of Public Health
Epigenetic Epidemiology: Challenges and Opportunities of a New Field
September 21, 2011
Dr. David D. Dore, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice
Program in Public Health
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Exenatide Use and Risk of Acute Pancreatitis:
A Multi-study Drug Safety Assessment Program
2010-2011 Seminar Series
Charles A. Nelson III. PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Children's Hospital Boston
April 27, 2011
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Global Health
Professor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director International Programs, Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard and MIT
"International Perspectives on Adherence and Resistance to HIV Antiretroviral Therapy"
February 16, 2011
Nathan Eagle, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS
Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
"Big Data and Global Public Health: Use of Cell Phones for Patient-Level Data Collection
February 9, 2011
Harvey Fineberg, MD PhD
President, Institute of Medicine
Former Dean, HSPH
Former Provost, Harvard University
"The Under Appreciated Burden: Chronic Illness in the Developing World"
November 8, 2010
W.P. Hanage, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Harvard School of Public Health
"Ecological and Evolutionary Experiments with the Pneumococcus"
December 8, 2010
Alkes Price
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HSPH
Program in Medical Population Genetics
HSPH Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
December 1, 2010
A. Heather Eliassen, ScD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
"Carotenoids and Breast Cancer: Evidence to Date and Pooled Analysis of Plasma Markers"
November 17, 2010
Olaf Dammann, MD, DrMed, SM
Director of Clinical Research, Newborn Medicine
Tufts Medical Center
"Perinatal Infection, Inflammation, and Preterm Brain Damage: The Story and News from the Labs"
November 10, 2010
Allison Aiello, PhD, MS
Yerby Visiting Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
"Social Patterning of Infections Linked to Chronic Disease"
November 3, 2010
Robert Plenge, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Genetics and Genomics
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy
Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Genetic Architecture of Rheumatoid Arthritis: GWAS Explain Most of the Heritability"
October 27, 2010
Richard Platt, MD
Professor and Chair
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Harvard Medical School
"The FDA's Sentinel Initiative"
October 13, 2010
Conrad Keating
The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Biographer of Sir Richard Doll
"Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll"
October 6, 2010
Donna Spiegelman, ScD
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
"Measurement Error in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology"
September 22, 2010
Elio Riboli, MD, ScM, MPH, FFPH, FMedSci
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
Director, School of Public Health
Imperial College London
Allan Wilcox, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Environmental Toxins & Human Reproduction
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"'Genetic Susceptibility' as a Causal Tool: Hype, Hope, and Harsh Reality"
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
City University of New York and Mailman School of Public Health
