Friday Forums: 2016-2017
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Date: Nov 4, 2016
Speaker: Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Title: Director, Institute of Health Equity, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, England
Topic: “The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World”
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Date: Jan 13, 2017
Speaker: Sarah de Ferranti, MD MPH
Title: Director, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Topic: “Cholesterol screening in youth: Benefits, harms, and unknowns”
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Date: Feb 17, 2017
Speaker: Christine M. Albert, M.D.,M.P.H.
Title: Director, Center for Arrhythmia Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Preventive Medicine Division, Boston, Massachusetts
Topic: “Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Atrial Fibrillation through Prevention: Lessons learned from Epidemiology”
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Date: Apr 14, 2017, Fellows and Trainees Forum
Speakers:
Chen Yao, PhD
Research Fellow, Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
“Genome-wide Association Study of Plasma Proteins Identifies Putatively Causal Genes, Proteins, and Pathways for Cardiovascular Disease”
Lauren J. Tanz, ScD candidate
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Preterm Delivery and Maternal Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors”
Sara E. Raposo, PhD
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Diet Quality in Relation to Coronary Heart Disease among US Men with Hypertension”
Sylvia Ley, RD, PhD
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Reproductive Lifespan and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women with either Natural or Surgically Induced Menopause”
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Date: May 19, 2017
Speaker: Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM
Title: Director, Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
Topic: “Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes(ECHO): A new nationwide NIH research program”
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Date: Jun 9, 2017
Speaker: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Title: Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Topic: “Lead Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease”
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