Seminars in Public Health

You are invited to join us for a series of seminars that address contemporary issues in public health throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. A list of confirmed seminars is presented below. All seminars are scheduled from 12:00 PM . 1:00 PM on Mondays. Unless otherwise stated, seminars will be held in Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II). If necessary, alternative locations will be announced to accommodate large audiences. For updates, please contact Ms. Susan Rattigan at (949) 824-8214.


Oladele Ogunseitan
Professor and Chair

Schedule: 2010-2011

Date/Time/Location Speaker/Institution Topic/Abstract
Date: Monday, 4 October 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Dr. Hannah Aoyagi, PhD
State of Washington Department of Ecology
Community Outreach & Environmental Education Specialist

Public Health-Environmental Cleanup Partnerships in Washington State

Date: Monday, 18 October 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Dr. Dan M. Cooper, MD
Director of UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Grand Challenges and Opportunities for Clinical and Translational Science

Date: Monday, 1 November 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Dr. Kris Iyer, MD
Medical Director, Allen Diabetes Clinic, Hoag Hospital

Diabetes at Hoag: Collaborative and Integrative Management

Date: Monday, 15 November 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Wendy Altamirano, MPH
Program Manager
CUIDAR for Attention and Learning

The CUIDAR Program: A Community Based Early Intervention and Prevention Model for Children At Risk for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Date: Monday, 22 November 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Mark Q. Benedict, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta

Malaria Elimination: Right Goal; Right Direction; Wrong Road?

http://publichealth.uci.edu/docs/PHS_11_22_10.pdf

Date: Monday, 29 November 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: Lecture Hall 1304 (SE-II)

Dr. Sacha Satram, PhD
Director, Health Outcomes Consulting

Infused Therapy in Medicare Patients Diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Date: Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: A311 Student Center

UC Global Health Day


Join UC faculty, students, and staff at the first annual University of California Global Health Day to learn about the innovative global health work taking place on the ten UC campuses.

Date: Monday, 10 January 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: SSL 228

Dr. Veronica Vieira, DSc
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health

Breast Cancer Risk and Environmental Exposure to Contaminated Drinking Water

Date: Monday, 24 January 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: SSL 228

Dr. John Billimek, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Health Policy Research Center
University of California, Irvine

Addressing Socioeconomic Barriers to Effective Diabetes Management

Date: Monday, 7 February 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: SSL 228

Dr. David Cella, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Patient-reported outcomes for public health and clinical research: The PROMIS Initiative

Date: Monday, 28 February 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: SSL 228

Dr. David Eastmond, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
University of California, Riverside

A Perspective on Contemporary Issues in Risk Assessment

Date: Monday, 4 April 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: TBA

Bernardo Aguilar-González, JD
Executive Director, Fundacion Neotropica
Instructor, Universidad Interamericana de Costa Rica

Linking Social and Ecological Determinants to Public Health

Date: Monday, 18 April 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: PCB 1300

Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH.
Director, Center for Injury Control
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University

Intimate Partner Violence: Current Research in the ED Setting

Date: Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: AIRB 3030

Dr. Zhenyu (Arthur) JIA
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Irvine

Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer Using Differentially Expressed Genes in Stroma and Other Uses of Multi-gene Profiles

Date: Monday, 2 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: PCB 1300

Dr. Yi Tan, Ph.D.
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health

Influenza viral evolution

Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: AIRB 3030

Dr. Chu-Lin YU
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Etiology of Childhood Cancers: Risk Factors and Survivorship.

Date: Monday, 9 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: PCB 1300

Dr. Tineke Herremans
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, The Netherlands

The Dutch Q-Fever Experience

Date: Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: AIRB 3030

Dr. Sergei Grivennikov
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

Tale of Two Cytokines in Inflammation and Cancer

Date: Monday, 16 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: PCB 1300

Dr. Elisabeth Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Epidemiology & Assessment Program Manager
County of Orange Health Care Agency

The 2010 California pertussis epidemic

Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: AIRB 3030

Theodore Brasky, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Washington, Seattle

Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Specialty Supplements, and Cancer Risk

Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Start: 12:00PM
End: 1:00PM
Room: AIRB 3030

Dr. Veronica Vieira
School of Public Health, Boston University, Massachusetts

Evaluation of Generalized Additive Models for Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data