Community and Preventive Medicine

Public Health Grand Rounds

Presenting real-world case studies on public health issues ranging from school violence to the avian flu

A new seminar series beginning in 2008

All Seminars will be held in Room K-307 from 12:00-1:00, unless otherwise noted. For parking , enter at the Kornberg entrance by the clock tower on Elmwood Avenue.  Parking tokens available for any non-UR attendees. A lite lunch will be served.

Audience

Public health leaders and professionals from local and state government agencies, hospitals, clinics, boards of health, community-based health organizations, academic institutions, federal agencies, and others who seek to learn more about community health and population-based medicine.

Goal

To enable the exchange of best practices, to encourage the interchange between community and academic Public Healthprofessionals and to provide a regular forum for discussion and communication of topics of current interest and local relevance.

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This seminar series is funded in part by Cooperative Agreement #U36/CCU319276CFDA93.283 which is shared by the American Association for Medical Colleges and the Centers for Disease Control.

Previous Public Health Grand Rounds

"Preventing Another Virginia Tech Tragedy" 9- 21-2007: Presented by Ariane Marie-Mitchell, MD, PhD, Resident, Preventive Medicine , University of Rochester

"Quality Report Cards" 10-5-2007: Presented by Robert Panzer, MD, Associate VP for Patient Quality & Safety, University of Rochester

"Should Smoking be Banned in Foster Care Homes" 10-19-2007: Presented by Hemant Kelia, MD, MPH, Resident, Preventive Medicine , University of Rochester

"Challenges in Refugee Health" 11-2-2007: Presented by Kate Eisenberg, MD - PhD student, University of Rochester

"Global MCH: A Case Study from Tibet" 11-16-2007" ": Presented by Ann Dozier, RN, PhD; Lin Fan, HSR PhD student; Rebekah Loy, PhD; Nancy Chin, PhD, MPH, University of Rochester

:"The Finger Lakes Health Agency" 12-7-2007: Presented by Sally Trafton, JD, Professor Emeritus
Division of Health Services Research, Community & Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester

"Smoke-Free Hospitals: Impact on Smoking Prevalence and Cessation Services" 1-19-2007: Presented by Scott McIntosh, PhD, Associate Professor, Community & Preventive Medicine University of Rochester

"Childhood Lead Poisoning" 3-23-2007: Presented by Jill Abramson, MD, MPH, University of Rochester

"Using Neighborhood Outreach Workers (NOW) in Southwest Rochester to Promote Health and Build Community" 4-20-2007: Presented by Rick Stalhaut, MD, University of Rochester; including David Pihl and Eleanor Coleman from the SouthWest Area Neighborhood Association

"Community-based Participatory Research" 5-11-2007: Presented by Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine

"Deaf Health" 5-18-2007: Presented by Carolyn Stern, MD, Medical Director, Rochester School for the Deaf

CTSI Seminar Webcasts

Translational Technologies and Resources 10-31-2006: Presented by Stephen Welle and Howard Federoff

Regulatory Knowledge and Support 11-14-2006: Presented by Gunta Liders

Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies 11-21-2006: Presented by John Treanor, Eddie Schwarz and Marjorie Hunter

Design, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Ethics - 11-28-2006: Presented by David Oakes and Susan Fisher

Biomedical Informatics - 12-5-2006: Presented by Dongwen Wang and Hulin Wu.

Pilot and Collaborative Clinical and Translational Studies 12-12-2006: Presented by Richard Moxley III and Randy Rosier