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.”

                             Audio broadcasts

 

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