Past Seminars
Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule
September 10 2007 Rankin Lecture – Lu Ann Aday, PhD, Lorne D. Bain
Distinguished Professor Emerita in Public Health and Medicine,
University of Texas School of Public Health, “Reinventing Public
Health – Translating Research on the Fundamental
Determinants of Health into Population Health-Centered
Policy” – Room 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center
September 17 Myron S. Cohen, MD, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of
Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Public Health, and
Director, UNC Center for Infectious Diseases, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Global AIDS Epidemic: Where
Epidemiology Meets Biology and Public Health”
September 24 Marni Bekkedal, PhD, Supervisory Research Scientist, Bureau of
Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of
Health and Family Services, “Environmental Exposure Profiles:
Generating Hypotheses for Childhood Cancers”
October 1 Carolyn Thorpe, PhD, MPH, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow,
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, “Vasculitis Self-
Management: Measure Development and Spousal Influence in
a Complex Chronic Disease”
October 8 Enrique Vega, MD, Regional Advisor on Aging and Health, Pan
American Health Organization, “A New Face of Aging in Latin
American and the Caribbean”
October 15 Gary G. Schwartz, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Cancer
Biology and Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University
Health Sciences, “Vitamin D and the Natural History of Prostate
Cancer”
October 22 Peter Mugyenyi, MD, Director, Joint Clinical Research Center, Kampala,
Uganda, “Twenty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS in Africa.”
October 29 Jeffrey Niederdeppe, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health &
Society Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences,
“Beyond Knowledge Gaps: Media Campaigns and
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behavior”
November 5 Joseph C. Longenecker, MD, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of
Community Medicine, Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine,
“Lipoprotein(a) in End-Stage Renal Disease: Still Around, Still
Enigmatic”
November 12 Thomas Oliver, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of
Population Health Sciences and the UW Population Health
Institute, “Leverage and Limits of Foundations in Shaping
Health Policy”
November 19 Henry A. Anderson, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Wisconsin Division
of Public Health, “Characteristics Associated with PBDE Serum
Levels in a Cohort of Frequent and Infrequent Consumers of
Sport-Caught Fish”
November 26 Lori Severtson, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Is My Water Safe to Drink?
Evidence from Communication Research Among Private Well
Owners”
December 3 Patrick Remington, MD, MPH, Director, UW Population Health
Institute and Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences,
“Using Health Rankings to Improve Population Health”
December 10 David R. Riemer, JD, Director, Wisconsin Health Project, former
State Budget Director and originator of the Wisconsin Health Plan,
“Prospects for Health Reform in Wisconsin”
Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule
January 22 Mihaela Teodorescu, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of
Medicine, Section of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
The Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Clinic, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “To Sleep per Chance to Wheeze and
Obstruct: Association of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and
Asthma.”
January 29 Scott J. Strath, PhD, Director of Older Adult Fitness Programs and
the Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Human
Movement Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “A Mile a Day Keeps the Doctor Away.”
February 5 David Riemer, JD, Project Director of the Wisconsin Health Project
and Joanne Ricca, Legislative Representative of the Wisconsin
State AFL-CIO, “Fixing Wisconsin’s Broken Healthcare
System: Two Proposals” – co-sponsored by the UW Population
Health Institute – Room 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center
(please note room location)
February 12 A. Simon Pickard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice
and Pharmacy Administration and Assistant Director, Center for
Pharmacoeconomic Research, College of Pharmacy, University of
Illinois at Chicago, “Proxy Perspectives on HRQL: Applying a
Conceptual Framework to Prostate Cancer.”
February 19 Lawrence P. Hanrahan, PhD, MS, Director of Public Health
Informatics, Chief Epidemiologist, Wisconsin Department of Health
and Family Services and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department
of Population Health Sciences, “The Role of Informatics in
Transforming Public Health: Wisconsin’s Public Health
Information Network.”
February 26 Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Community
and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, “Spending
Quality and the Paradox of Plenty.”
March 5 Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor,
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New
York University, “What to Eat: Personal or Social
Responsibility?” – co-sponsored by the UW Population Health
Institute – Room 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center (please
note room location)
March 12 Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Professor of Environmental Health
Sciences and of Health Policy and Management, and Director,
Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, “The Public Health Effects of Industrialized
Agriculture” – Room 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center
(please note room location)
March 19 Bret Payseur, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics,
Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Comparing Molecular Markers for Population-Based
Association Mapping.”
March 26 Philip M. Farrell Population Health Distinguished Alumni
Lecture – Paula Lantz, PhD, MS, Professor and Chair,
Department of Health Management and Policy, and Director, RWJ
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, University of
Michigan, “Population Medicine: Bringing Public Health
Perspectives to Medical Care” – Room 1335 Health Sciences
Learning Center (please note room location)
April 2 Spring Break – no seminar
April 9 Robert A. Peterson Jr, JD, Founder and Executive Director, ABC
for Health, “A New Health Benefits Counseling Approach:
Developing an Electronic Health Care Coverage Plan and
Record”
April 16 Michel Coleman, BA, BM, BCh, MSc, MFPHM, Professor of
Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine, “Socio-Economic Status and Cancer Outcomes.”
April 23 David Cella, PhD, Director, Center on Outcomes, Research and
Education (CORE) and Professor, Department of Psychology and
Behavioral Science, Northwestern University, “Can PROMIS be
the Future of Patient-Reported Outcomes?”
April 30 Elizabeth Rigby, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society
Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, “Policy and
Place: A Contextual Account of Medicaid Participation in
Wisconsin.”
May 7 Michael Rothschild, PhD, Emeritus Professor, School of
Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "An Introduction to
Social Marketing: Considering its Philosophy and Process as
Input to Public Health Practice."
Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule
September 11 Henry Young, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Physicians’ Shared Decision
Making Behavior: Influences and Outcomes”
September 18 UW Population Health Institute: Patrick Remington, MD, MPH,
Director; David Kindig, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus; Bridget
Booske, PhD, Senior Scientist, “Making Wisconsin the
Healthiest State: Measuring Burden of Disease”
September 25 Alvaro Munoz, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “Cohorts
Studies in HIV/AIDS: From Etiology to Public Health”
October 2 Ellen Daley, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Community and
Family Health, University of South Florida College of Public Health
“Psycho-Social Impact of an HPV Diagnosis” – co-sponsored by
the UW Population Health Institute – Room 1335 Health Sciences
Learning Center (please note room location) video
October 9 James P. Burke, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mayo
Clinic College of Medicine, “Type 2 Diabetes, IFG and Sexual
Dysfunction in Men”
October 16 Betty Chewning, PhD, Associate Professor and Director,
Sonderegger Research Center, School of Pharmacy, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Developing the ‘Concordance in Patient-
Physician Encounters Coding Tool’ (CONNECT)”
October 23 Philip M. Farrell, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Population
Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Process
Improvement in Nationwide Newborn Screening”
October 30 Richard A. Goodman, MD, JD, MPH, Co-Director, CDC Public
Health Law Program, “Public Health and the Law: from Malaria
to Mens Rea” – co-sponsored by the UW Population Health
Institute – Room 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center (please
note room location)
November 6 Claire Wendland, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of
Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History of
Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Rethinking Risk:
What Can Qualitative Research Tell Us About Maternal
Health?”
November 13 Bruce Hermann, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Director of the
Charles Matthews Laboratory of Neuropsychology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “The Epilepsies and their Consequences in
Children and Adults”
November 20 Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine,
“Efficiency in Healthcare” – co-sponsored by the Health
Innovation Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Health and
Society Scholars Program – 1335 Health Sciences Learning
Center (please note room location) slides video
November 27 David Kindig, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Population
Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “What Was the Clinton Health Plan? What Was Wrong With It?”
December 4 David R. Williams, PhD, Norman Professor of Public
Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of African
and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University,
“Race, Racism and Health” – co-sponsored by the UW
Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Health
and Society Scholars Program – Room 1335 Health Sciences
Learning Center (please note room location) video
December 11 Rachel Kimbro, PhD, RWJ Health and Society Scholar,
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Together Forever? Fragile Families,
Relationship Dynamics, and Maternal Prenatal Health
Investments”
Spring 2006 Seminar Schedule
January 23 Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Industrial and
Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Optimal
Policies for the Acceptance of Living- and Cadaveric-Donor
Livers: A Markov Decision Processes (MDP) Approach” Audio broadcast
January 30 Hui-Ju Tsai, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lung Biology Center,
Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco,
“Design and Analysis of Asthma Genetic Association Studies in Admixed Populations”
February 6 Susan Linn, Ed.D, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School and Associate Director, Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center, “Commercial Calories: Food Marketing to Children” Web broadcast
February 13 Kristina D. Mena, MSPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of
Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, El Paso Campus, "Waterborne Disease: Are We At Risk?" Audio broadcast
February 20 Richard Kerber, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Cancer and Aging in the Utah Population: from Genealogy to Genome"
February 27 Miquel Porta, MD, MPH, PhD, “Role of Organochlorine
Compounds in the Etiology of Cancer: Developing
Methodological Standards” Web broadcast
March 6 Panel of Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future
Grantees, "Local Success Stories in Violence Prevention" Web broadcast
March 13 No Seminar – Spring Break
March 20 Robert Lemanske, MD, Division Head, Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, UW Department of Pediatrics, “Immune Dysregulation, Viral Infections, and the Origins of Childhood Asthma and Allergic Diseases” Web broadcast
March 27 Chrisopher W. Olsen, DVM, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, UW School of Veterinary Medicine, “Influenza: People, Pigs, and Public Health" Web broadcast
April 3 Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, Director, National Center for
Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Urban
Sprawl and Public Health”
April 10 Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Member, UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, “The Epidemiology of Carcinoma in situ of the Breast”
April 17 Margaret M. Weden, PhD, RWJ Health and Society Scholar,
Department of Population Health Sciences, "Social Stratification of Epidemiological Transitions: Studying Within and Between Population Heterogeneity." Web broadcast
April 24 Karin T. Kirchhoff, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Rodefer Chair of the UW School of Nursing. "Advance Care Planning--Getting it Right."
May 1 Curt Gielow, Wisconsin State Assembly Representative, “Is
Healthcare Reform Achievable? A View from the State Capitol” Web broadcast
Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule
September 12 David Kindig, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Population Health
Sciences and Pat Remington, MD, MPH, Director of the UW Population Health Institute and Professor of Population Health Sciences, “Making Wisconsin the Healthiest State” Audio broadcast
September 19 Linda Hogle, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medical
History and Bioethics, and Director of the Robert and Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, “Social Science, Ethics, and Population Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” Audio broadcast
September 26 Dennis Fryback, PhD, Professor of Population Health Sciences,
“Evidence for Limited Malignant Potential Breast Cancer: Results from the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Epidemiology Simulation Model” Audio broadcast PowerPoint Slides
October 3 Bevin Baker, Director, City of Milwaukee Health Department,
“Reducing Infant Mortality in Milwaukee” Audio broadcast Web broadcast
October 10 Elizabeth Burnside, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Breast Imaging Section, UW Medical School, "A Probabilistic Model to Aid Decision-Making in the Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer" Audio broadcast
October 17 Pascale Carayon, PhD, Procter and Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Director, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, "Human factors issues in the implementation of "Smart" infusion pump technology in a hospital" Audio broadcast
October 24 Halcyon G. Skinner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, “Dietary Vitamin D Intake and the Risk for Pancreatic Cancer in Two United States Cohorts” Audio broadcast
October 31 Monirul Islam, MD, MPH, PhD, Research Scientist, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, “Colorectal Cancer: Incidence and Mortality Among the Medicare Population” Audio broadcast
November 7 Robert J. McDermott, PhD, Professor and Co-Director, Florida Prevention Research Center, University of South Florida, “Community-Based Participatory Research to Identify Influences on Youth Alcohol Use: The Sarasota County Demonstration” - UW Population Health Institute Cosponsored. Web broadcast
November 14 Jeff Grossman, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, UW Medical School, and President and CEO, University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation, “Academic Health Centers: Learning How to ‘Do the Right Thing’”
November 21 Rich Carpiano, PhD, MA, MPH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health and Society Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, "Come Take a Walk with Me: Using Action Research to Build Theory and Inform Practice on Community Social Capital, Health and Well-Being" Audio broadcast
November 28 David Vanness, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Making Decisions When Treatment Effects and Preferences are Heterogeneous." Audio broadcast
December 5 Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH, Director of the Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, "To Be or Not to Be: Case Studies in Injury Research and Advocacy." Audio broadcast Web broadcast
December 12 Mark Sotir, PhD, MPH, Vectorborne Disease Epidemiologist, Wisconsin Division of Public Health and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, "West Nile Virus Surveillance in Wisconsin, 2005."
Spring 2005 Seminar Schedule
January 31 Catlainn K. Sionean, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health and
Society Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, former
Behavioral Scientist, Centers for Disease Control, “Inequalities
in Women’s Reproductive Health: Risk Behaviors and Social
Context.” Audio broadcasts
February 7 Note change in venue: Health Care Data Colloquium:
Models for Public-Private Partnerships, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm,
Fluno Center for Executive Education, convened by the Wisconsin
Public Health and Health Policy Institute in partnership with the
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.
February 14 Geoffrey R. Swain, MD, MPH, Associate Medical Director, City of
Milwaukee Health Department, Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Family Medicine, and Center Scientist, Center for
Urban Population Health, “Chlamydia Testing Strategies:
Laboratory vs. Point-of-Care Methods.” Audio broadcasts
February 21 Marilyn Essex, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
HealthEmotions Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry,
University of Wisconsin Medical School, “Early Child and Family
Risk Factors for the Emergence of Child Physical and
Mental Health Problems: Evidence from a Longitudinal
Study of Child Development.” Audio broadcasts
February 28 Dominick L. Frosch, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health and
Society Scholar and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, “Informed Cancer
Decision-Making: Clinical and Population Perspectives.”
March 7 Senator Judy Robson, RN, MS, Democratic Leader, Wisconsin State
1325 HSLC Senate, "Health Policy in Wisconsin 2005-06: Prospects and
Pitfalls." Note Room Number.
March 14 Elliot Friedman, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society
Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, "Of Rats and
Women: Psychological Influences on Interleukin-6 Regulation
and Implications for Health." Audio broadcasts
March 28 Y. Jim Li, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine, Cigarette Smoking, CYP1A1
Polymorphisms and Breast Cancer.” Audio broadcasts
April 4 Louise Trubek, JD, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Health Law
1335 HSLC Project, University of Wisconsin Law School, "New Governance and
Healthcare: Perspectives on Wisconsin Policy Choices." David
Riemer, Director of the Wisconsin Health Project, will serve as
commentator. Note Room Number.
April 11 Maureen Smith, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Population
Health Sciences, “Treatments and Outcomes for Stroke
Patients in Managed Care and Traditional Medicare Plans.”
April 18 Sharon Dunwoody, Sharon Dunwoody, PhD, Evjue Bascom Professor of
Journalism and Mass Communication and Associate Dean for Social
Studies in the UW Graduate School., “Counter-Intuition: The Mass
Media and Communicating Health Risks.” Audio broadcasts
April 25 Jim Anthony, MSc, PhD, Chairperson, Department of
Epidemiology, Michigan State University, “Five Main Rubrics for
Epidemiology Research, With Drug Dependence Examples.” Audio broadcasts
May 2 Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health, “An Epidemiologist’s View of
the Interface of Epidemiology and Health Policy.” Audio broadcasts
Fall 2004 Seminar Schedule
Sept 13 Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, Center for Sustainability and the Global
Environment (SAGE) and Department of Population Health Sciences,
“Malaria Resurgence in the Amazon: Links to Development and
Deforestation.” Audio broadcasts PowerPoint slides
Sept 20 Lorraine Meisner, PhD, Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, “What can Embryonic Stem Cells Teach us About Cancer?” Audio broadcasts
Sept 27 Michelle Frisco, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University, “Parental Involvement and Young Women’s Contraceptive Use.” Audio broadcasts PowerPoint slides
Oct 4 (location changed to 1335 HSLC) Bernard Turnock, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Heath, University of Illinois-Chicago, “Public Health Workforce Preparedness” Flyer Speaker Bio Audio broadcasts PowerPoint slides
Oct 11 Mari Palta, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences, "The Newborn Lung Project - A Statewide Cohort Study of Very Low Birth Weight Outcomes."
Oct 18 Loren Galvao, MD, MPH, Director, Community Health Promotion Core, Center for Urban Population Health, Associate Scientist, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Effectiveness of Female and Male Condoms in Preventing Exposure to Semen During Vaginal Intercourse: A Randomized Trial in Brazil.” Bio
Oct 25 David Kindig, MD