Weekly Seminar Series
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30pm
The Epidemiology Department’s seminar series has been restructured to cover broad and timely areas of relevance. These seminars will be held in Kresge 502 at 12:30pm every Wednesday.
Upcoming Events for Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
November 4 (Featured Seminar)
Henrik Grönberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology
Chairman, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Karolinska Institutet
"The clinical utility of genetic markers in prostate cancer today and tomorrow"
November 11
No seminar (Veterans Day)
November 18
Immaculata DeVivo, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
"Telomeres and Chronic Disease"
November 25
No seminar (Thanksgiving)
December 2 (Featured Seminar)
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
City University of New York and Mailman School of Public Health
"When triumphant epidemics finally met epidemiology"
December 9
JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH
Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine and the Elizabeth F. Brigham Professor of Women's Health, Harvard Medical School
"Vitamin D: Is it as good as it seems?"
December 16
James Meigs, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, MGH Clinical Research Program Disease Management Research Unit
Topic: TBA
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Past Seminars for Fall 2009
September 23
David Christiani, MD, MPH, MS
Professor, HSPH; Professor, HMS; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Genetic Predictors of Survival in Lung Cancer"
September 30
John Seeger, PharmD, DrPH
Chief Scientist, i3 Drug Safety
Adjunct Assistant Professor, HSPH
"A Post-marketing Surveillance Program for Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine"
October 7 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Kari Stefansson, MD, PhD (de CODE Genetics)
"Genetics of Common/Complex Traits"
October 14
Francine Laden, ScD
Mark & Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, HSPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital
"Health Effects of Air Pollution in the Nurses' Health Study"
October 21
Lorelei Mucci, ScD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
"Translocations and Aberrations: A Patho-Epidemiology Study of Prostate Cancer Risk and Progression"
November 4 (Featured Seminar)
Henrik Grönberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology
Chairman, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Karolinska Institutet
"The clinical utility of genetic markers in prostate cancer today and tomorrow"
Click above for VIDEO.
For more information contact Randall Chaput .
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Past Events for Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
September 17
Majid Ezzati, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Global Health and Population, Department of Environmental Health, HSPH
“Altitude, life expectancy, and mortality from ischemic heart disease and COPD in United States counties”
September 24
Eric Tchetgen, Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HSPH
“Exploiting Gene-Gene or Gene-Environment Independence under case-control sampling: A doubly robust semi-parametric locally-efficient approach”
October 1 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief, Division of Translational Research
Director, The Pancreas Center
Director, Clinical Research Affairs
"Harvard Catalyst: how can we help improve your research life?"
October 8
CANCELED
October 15
Farin Kamangar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH
“Investigating the etiology of esophageal cancer in a high-risk area of Iran: Old and new risk factors”
October 22
Kenneth Hill, Associate Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Professor, Department of Global Health and Population
“Child mortality in the late 20th century: Convergence or divergence?”
October 29
Mary Townsend, SD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology, HSPH
“Risk factors for urinary incontinence in older women”
November 5 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Olof Nyren, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
“Unplanned triumphs and elusive enigmas: On the remarkable epidemiology of gastric and esophageal cancer”
November 12
CANCELED
November19
Julie Palmer, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health; Senior Epidemiology, Slone Epidemiology Center
“Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Breast Cancer in African American Women"
December 3
David J. Hunter, MBBS, ScD
Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention
Director, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
“Genome-wide Association Studies - an Update”
December 10
in conjunction with the Colloquium of the Harvard Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Heather Corliss, MPH, PhD
Instructor of Pediatrics, HMS and Research Scientist, Children's Hospital Boston
“Sexual Orientation and Substance Use in Youth”
December 17
Caroline Fox, MD, MPH
Director of Metabolic Research, Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
“New Approaches to Assessing Cardio-Metabolic Health: The Use of Radiographic Imaging in Population-based Studies”
January 7 (special seminar)
Michael J. Thun MD
Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research
American Cancer Society
(click on title below to view video of lecture)
"Global Trends in Cancer and Priorities for Prevention"
January 14
Harold P. Freeman, MD
President and Founder, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention
Senior Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute
"Health Disparities: A Universal Marker for Social & Economic Inequity"
January 21
Eva Schernhammer, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
"Shedding Light on the Melatonin Hypothesis: Facts and Fiction"
January 28
Dr. Andrew Morgan
Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Bristol, UK)
"Prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against Epstein-Barr virus and its associated cancers"
February 4 - FEATURED SPEAKER
David Reich, AB, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
"Searching fo the Genes that Contribute to Health Disparities Among Populations in the United States"
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February 11
Thomas McElrath, MD, PhD
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal and Fetal Medicine Unit, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Preterm birth: Do we really know its causes?"
February 18
Malcolm Maclure, ScD
Professor and BC Chair in Patient Safety, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Director of Research and Evidence Development, Policy Outcomes, Evaluation and Research Branch, Pharmaceutical Services Division, BC Ministry of Health Services, Victoria, British Columbia
Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
"An Epidemiologic Approach to Patient Safety Incident Reporting"
February 25
Paul W. Franks, PhD
Associate Professor of Experimental Medicine
Genetic Epidemiology & Clinical Research Group
Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine
Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
"Context-Dependent Genetic Risk in Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes"
March 4 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Sander Greenland, DrPH, CStat, MA, MS
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, Los Angeles
"From Statistics to Uncertainty Analysis: A New Paradigm for Epidemiologic Inference"
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March 11
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Channing Laboratory
"Inflammation, COX-2, and Colorectal Cancer"
March 18
Marc Lipsitch, DPhil
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
"Negative Controls in Observational and Experimental Science: Should They be a Routine Part of Epidemiologic Studies?"
with special guest: Eric Tchetgen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
April 1 - FEATURED SPEAKER
John Ioannidis, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology
University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece
"Statistically Significant Findings: the False, the Inflated, and the Useless"
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April 8
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Chair, Department of Nutrition
Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
"Three Servings of Dairy/Day: Essential Nutrition or Udderly Ridiculous?"
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April 15
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, HMS
Department of Environmental Health, HSPH
"A Framework for Studying Genetic Susceptibility in Pediatric Environmental Health"
April 22
Shaun Purcell, PhD
Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad institute of MIT and Harvard
"Varieties of Genetic Variation in Neuropsychiatric Disease"
April 28 (Tuesday) - Special Seminar
Lone Simonsen, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
"Signature Features of Historic Influenza Pandemics"
April 29
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH
Fellow in Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Neurology, Genetics and Epidemiology, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
"Risk Factors and Genetic Risk Disclosure for Alzheimer's Disease"
May 6 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Jane Weeks, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
"The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Outcomes Project: The Vision and Some Lessons Learned"
May 13
Paul Ridker, MD, MPH
Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, HMS
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, BWH
"Statins for Primary Prevention? Controversies in the JUPITER Trial"
May 20
Robert Temple, MD
Associate Director for Medical Policy
Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, Food & Drug Administration
"FDA's Acceptance of Foreign Data and the Declaration of Helsinki"