Fall 2018 Department Seminars
All seminars are open to the public
The Historical Epidemiology of Heart Disease in India:
A 50-Year Debate, and Why it Matters
September 5, 2018
1 :00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
David Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine
Harvard University
Genetic Basis for Heart Attack
September 12, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Sekar Kathiresan, MD
Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM)
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Ofer and Shelly Nemirovsky, MGH Research Scholar Director of Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Examining the Relationship Between Health Policy and
Cardiovascular Care Through the Lens of Data
September 19, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Robert W. Yeh, MD MsC MBA
Director, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes
Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Works-in-Progress Postdoc Seminar Session
September 26, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
An Asymptotic View of Confounder Selection 
Lin Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
and
Draft Guidelines for Estimating Per-Protocol Effects in
Pragmatic Randomized Trials
Eleanor Murray
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Breast Cancer Risk Prediction for Stratified Prevention and Screening
October 3, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Monserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, DrPH
Deputy Director and Acting Chief, Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer and Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Examples of Interdisciplinary Strategies in Cancer Epidemiology
October 10, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Lorelei Mucci, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School; Leader, Cancer Epidemiology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
There is a (time) and place for everything, including health
October 17, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Loni Philip Tabb, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
*Cosponsored by the Dean’s Office and Biostatistics Department *
Works-In-Progress Postdoc Seminar Session
October 24, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Probabilistic classification of Plasmodium vivax relapse using microsatellite data
Aimee Taylor, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
and
Quantifying population structure of malaria parasites using epidemiological and genomic data
Hsiao-Han Chang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Plasmode Simulation to Evaluate Bias in Two Studies of Occupational Exposure to Beryllium
November 7, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPh
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health; Distinguished Fellow, the Research Triangle Institute
Integration of Molecular and Radiologic Markers to Better 
Understand Breast Cancer Risk
November 14, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Rulla Tamimi, ScD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School
Medical Journals and the War against Smoking
December 5, 2018
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Physiology, Harvard Chan School
Spring 2018 Department Seminars
Jill Goldstein, PhD
Executive Director, Women, Heart and Brain Global Initiative
Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, HMS
May 9, 2018 – 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Impact of SeXX on Understanding Comorbidity of Depression and CVD
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Program Director for Gastroenterology Training, MGH; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
April 25, 2018 – 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Aspirin and Colorectal Cancer: The Promise of Precision Prevention
Henning Tiemeier, MD, PhD
Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Director of Maternal and Child Health Training Grant
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School
April 11, 2018 – 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Brain Imaging in Child Psychiatric Research: Novel Toy or Cool Toy?
Paul Avillach, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
April 4, 2018 – 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Data Network: Integrating Patient Reported Outcomes with Clinical Notes and Curated Genetic Reports
Graham A. Colditz, DrPH, MD, MPH
Deputy Director, Institute for Public Health; Chief of the Division of Public Health Sciences and Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine; Washington University in St. Louis
March 21, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Narrowing the gap: Addressing Disparities in Breast Cancer in St. Louis Region & Beyond
Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPH
Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
March 7, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
How do we Learn What Works? A two-step Algorithm for Causal Inference from Real World Data
David A. Bennett, MD
Robert C. Borwell Professor of Neurological Science
Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College
Director, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Wednesday February 14, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Deconstructing the Biologic Complexity of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Caroline Buckee, D. Phil
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday February 7, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Drivers of Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Biological Scales: Implications of Control
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD
Vice Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor in Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday January 31, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Healthcare Database Analyses of Medical Products for Regulatory Decision Making
Cartherine Marinac, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard H.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday January 24, 2018 1 P.M. Kresge 502
Elucidating the Association of Obesity With Multiple Myeloma Risk and Prognosis
Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology and the Director of the
Institute of Public Health at Charité -Universitätsmedizin 
Berlin, Germany;
Co-Director of the Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin
and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health
Wednesday January 17 1:00pm FXB G12
The Propensity Score in Practice: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right (but two rights do)
Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday January 10 1:00pm FXB G12
Decline in Prostate Cancer Rates- Good New or Bad
