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Department of Epidemiology

PsychEpi Collquium

Colloquium in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Academic Year 2008-2009

Harvard School of Public Health

Afternoon refreshments at 3:50 p.m., presentations at 4:00 p.m.

Location: Kresge Room 110 Unless Noted Otherwise

 

 

October 15 

Henry David Abraham, MD

Former Chief of the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs at Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 

Author of "What's a Parent to Do? Straight Talk on Drugs and Alcohol" 

The Role of Parents in the Drug Epidemic 

 

November 19 

Naomi Breslau, PhD

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University 

Causes of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 

 

December 4 

Jerome C. Wakefield, PhD, DSW 

University Professor, Professor of Social Work, Harvard Medical School 

Affiliate Faculty in Bioethics, New York University 

The Age of Depression: Is Normal Sadness being Mislabeled as Depressive Disorder? 

 

December 12 - in conjunction with the Dept. of Epidemiology Lunchtime Seminar Series 

12:30-1:30pm -- Kresge Bldg., Room 502 

Heather Corliss, MPH, PhD 

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School 

Research Scientist, Children's Hospital Boston  Sexual Orientation and Substance Use in Youth 

 

February 11 

Eric Mick, ScD 

Pediatric Psychopharmacology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital 

The Genetic Epidemiology of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder 

 

March 11 

Marc Weisskopf, ScD 

Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology 

Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH 

Bood Lead Levels and Risk of Depression and Panic Disorder among US Adults 

 

April 15 

David Pauls, PhD 

Professor of Psychiatry (Genetics), Harvard Medical School

Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

The Genetics of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

 

May 7 

Anne Becker, MD, PhD 

Department of Social Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

AND:

Deborah Blacker, MD, ScD

Department of Epidemiology and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital

Develoopments in Psychiatric Nosology: Lessons from DSM-V in Progress

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Past Events for Fall 2007 - Spring 2008