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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 that began in 2008

All Seminars are 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. 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.

WINTER/SPRING 2009

DATE	TITLE	PRESENTER
1/16/09 12p - 1p K207	Phthalates: Evidence for Adverse Effects in Humans	Shanna Swan, PhD; Professor & Associate Chair for Research; OB/GYN; University of Rochester
1/30/09 12p - 1p Class of "62	"GINA – Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act"	Representative Louise Slaughter, MPH U.S. Congress
2/20/09 12p - 1p K307	Meaningful Measurement of Practice Efficiency	Howard B. Beckman, MD, FACP, FAACH; Clinical Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine; University of Rochester
3/6/09 12p - 1p K307	Health Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: What Does it Mean - and Why Does it Matter Now?	Laura P. Shone, DrPH, MSW Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Nursing University of Rochester
3/20/09 12p - 1p K307	Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Reward for Weight Loss	John Cawley, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management; Cornell University
4/3/09 12p - 1p K307	Canceled
4/17/09 12p - 1p K307	Will an Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease Emerge in Low Income Countries? - The Grenada Heart Survey	Thomas A. Pearson, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, URMC & Ann Dozier, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, URMC
4/23/09 "Class of '62"	"Saward-Berg Lecture": Global is Local - New Challenges in Global Public Health	Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH; Assistant Professor, Health Management & Policy; University of Michigan School of Public Heatlh
5/1/09 12p - 1p K307	How are Low-Income Families Coping? A Longitudinal, Qualitative Study of Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity	Diana Fernandez, MD, MPH, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, URMC & Nancy P. Chin, MPH, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, URMC
5/8/09 12p-1p K307	Community Structure, Violence and Its Prevention	Dr. John Klofas; Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology

Previous Public Health Grand Rounds

"Addressing Health Disparities"; 12/5/08: Presented by Wade Norwood and Leadership of the African American and Latino Health Coalitions

"How To Improve the Influenza Vaccination Rates"; 11/21/08: Presented by Byung-Kwang Yoo, MD, MSc, PhD; University of Rochester

"Health Action Report Cards"; 11/7/08: Presented by Andrew Doniger, MD, MPH; Nana Bennett, MD, MPH; Monroe County Department of Health; University of Rochester

"URMC's Fourth Mission: Recommendations for Engagement in Community Partnerships "; 10/17/08: Presented by Katrina Smith Korfmacher, PhD; Kimberly Schmitt; University of Rochester

"TBA": 9/26/08: Presented by TBA; University of Rochester

"Talk on Lipitor (atorvastatin)"; 9/19/08: Presented by Theodore Eisenberg; Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law; Cornell University

"2005-2015 is the WHO ‘Water for Life’ decade"; 9/12/08: Presented by Salva Dut; Director, Water for the Sudan

"“Blueprints for Change” Setting Priorities and Strategies to Address Community Issues"; 9/5/08: Presented by Patricia Davis; United Way Director of Community Investment

Preventing Blindness in India" 5-16-2008: Presented by Anna Cooper, MPH, SMD Class of 2011, University of Rochester

"Breaking the Cycle of Youth Violence: A Hospital/Community Partnership" 5-2-2008: Presented by Mark Gestring, MD, Associate Professor - Trauma/Burn/Emerg Surgery, University of Rochester

"Integration of Primary Care and Community Health in Rural Hait" 4-18-2008: Presented by Thony Voltaire, MD

"Making Lead History: How Community Organizing Changed Local Policies to Save Kids from Lead Poisoning" 4-4-2008: Presented by Katrina Korfmacher, PhD and Community Partners

"Crossing the Boarder Into Translational Research: Tobacco Use in the Dominican Republic" 3-21-2008: Presented by Deborah Ossip-Klein, PhD, Associate Professor, CPM & Essie Sierra-Torres, MPH, Senior Health Project Coordinator, University of Rochester

"Building a Community Coalition for Children’s Safety" 3-7-2008: Presented by Anne Brayer, MD & Lynn Cimpello, MD, Community Partners

"A Showing of Clips from the Acclaimed Documentary: 'A Closer Walk' with moderated discussion" 2-15-2008: Presented by Dean Brenda Lee and Rose Marie Chierici, PhD, Director of Haiti Outreach-Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.)

"Communing with the Community: Partnering to Improve Health" 2-1-2008: Presented by Nancy Bennett, MD, Professor, Medicine - Administration, University of Rochester

“One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Merck Preventive HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trial" 1-18-2008: Presented by Michael Keefer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, University of Rochester

2007

:"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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

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