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.
May 28
Cancer Epidemiology Series
Peter Laird, PhD
Associate PRofessor, Director, USC Epigenome Center
Director of Basic Research for the Department of Surgery, University of Southern California
Co-Leader, Epigenetics and Regulation Program, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
"The Origin ofAberrant DNA Methylation Profiles inColorectal Cancer"
For more information contact Randall Chaput .
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Past Events for Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
September 5
David Halperin, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
Harvard University School of Public Health, Center for Population & Development Studies
“The Emerging Evidence Base for International HIV Prevention: What Works (and Doesn't)”
September 12
Canceled because Bob Croyle (from the NIH) will be giving a lecture at noon in Kresge G-2.
September 19
Richard Garfield, DrPH, RN, Professor of Clinical International Nursing, Columbia University
Public Health Office and Interim Director, Health and Nutrition Tracking Service, WHO Geneva
"Uses and Abuses of Data on Excess Deaths in Iraq: How We Got the President to Trash Our Research"
September 26
Fran Grodstein, ScD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
"Type 2 Diabetes and Cognitive Decline in Older Persons"
October 3
James Robins, MD; Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HSPH
“Estimating the Effect of Overweight on Mortality: Just What Do We Want to Know and How CAN WE GET TO KNOW IT”
October 10
Ajay K. Singh, MB, MRCP
Clinical Chief, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Epoetin at the Science-Public Policy Interface"
October 17 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Vilmundur Gudnason, MD, PhD
Director, Icelandic Heart Association
"Epidemiology in the New Millennium, the AGES Reykjavik Study"
October 24
Christina Wolfson, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Department of Medicine, McGill University
Director, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Epidemiologists Count! So What is so Difficult About Prevalence Studies?"
October 31
Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, PhD
Principal Investigator, E3N-EPIC Group, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
"The French E3N Cohort Study: Design and Main Results"
November 7 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Samy Suissa, PhD
James McGill Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director, McGill Pharmacoepidemiology Research Unit
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Immortal Time Bias in Pharmacoepidemiology"
November 14
Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD
Research Fellow, Department of Nutrition, HSPH
"Diet, Lifestyle and Infertility Due to Ovulation Disorders"
November 28
Lorelei Mucci, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HMS
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
"Incorporating Tumor Biomarkers into Cancer Epidemiology Studies: The Prostate Cancer Story”
December 5
Peter Kraft, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HSPH
"Recent Developments in Genome-wide Association Studies: A Quick Review of Some of the Methodological Challenges, State-of-the-art Methods, and Then Some Interesting Preliminary Results"
December 12
Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD
The Mark and Chaterine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Assistant Professor, Depts. of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH
"Bone Lead and Death from all Causes, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cancer: the Normative Aging Study"
January 9 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Health Care Policy, HMS
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
"The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks"
January 16
Eva Schernhammer, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine (HMS) and Epidemiology (HSPH)
"WHO Classifies Shift Work as Probably Carcinogenic to Humans"
January 23
(Cancer Epidemiology Seminar Series)
Jianfeng Xu, MD, DrPH
Professor of Public Health and Cancer Biology
Director, Program for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer, Wake Forest University School of medicine
"Genetic Assoication Studies of Prostate Cancer, What is the Next Step After Identifying True Associated Risk Variants?"
January 30
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD
Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology
"The Role of Vitamin D in Cancer"
February 6 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Dr. Klaus Stohr
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
Vice President and Director, Influenza Franchises
(former Head of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Program and Special Advisor on Influenza Pandemic Vaccines
"Pre-pandemic Influenza Vaccination: Ethical and Other Challenges"
February 13
Felton Earls, MD
Professor of Human Behavior and Development, Harvard School of Public Health
Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"The Promotion of Child Mental Health in the Context of a Generalized Epidemic of HIV/AIDS: Results for a Cluster Randomized Trial in Tanzania"
February 20
James Robins, MD
Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HSPH
"Methods for Extrapolation of Causal Effects and Optimal Treatment Strategies to Secondary Populations when Longtudinal Outcome Data Are Available Only from a Primary Population: The Case of When to Start HAART in HIV-infected subjects"
February 27
Elizabeth Clause, PhD, MD
(Cancer Epidemiology)
Professor of Biostatistics
Director of Medical Research
Yale University School of Public Health
"Meningioma and Hormones: Update and Future Directions"
March 5 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Michael Snyder
Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Director, Yale Center for Genomics & Proteiomics
"Probing Human Health and Disease using Omics Technologies"
March 12
Athanasios I. Zavras, DMD, MS, DrMS
Associate Professor of Oral Health Policy & Epidemiology, HSDM
"Genes and the Environment in the Epidemiology of Oral Cancer"
March 19
Walter A. Rocca, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
"Increased Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Parkinsonism Following Oophorectomy in Young Women"
April 2
H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
VA Outcomes Group
Department of Veterans Affairs, White River Junction, VT
"Friendly Fire in the War Against Cancer: The Downsides of Cancer Screening"
April 9 - FEATURED SPEAKER
David Altshuler, MD,PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
"Human Genome Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease"
April 16
M. Alan Brookhart,PhD
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
"The Effect of Altitude on Erythropoietin (EPO) Dosing and Outcomes: Premliminary Results from a Natural Crossover Experiment"
April 23
Rulla Tamimi, ScD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
"Molecular and Genetic Predictors of Mammographic Density: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Breast Cancer"
May 7 - FEATURED SPEAKER
Mark van der Laan
Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor in Biostatistics and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
"Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning: Application to Adjust for Confounding in Observational Studies, Discovery and Clinical Trials"
May 14
David Hunter, ScD, Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, HSPH
"GWAS and the Epidemiology of the Genome"
May 21 - FXB Room G13
Megan Murray, MD, DPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HMS
"A Multi-disciplinary Approach to MDR and XDR Tuberculosis"