All seminars held in Room 1309 Health
Sciences Learning Center unless otherwise indicated
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
To view the seminars approximately one
week after the presentation, please see the Innovations in Medical
Education Video Library at:
http://videos.med.wisc.edu/event.php?eventid=5
January 28 Robert Greenlee,
PhD, MPH, MESA Lead Scientist, Epidemiology
Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research
Foundation, “The
Marshfield Epidemiologic Study Area and the HMO Research
Network: Growing Collaborations in Health Care Research.”
February 4 Congresswoman
Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin’s 2nd
Congressional District, “Health Care Reform in 2009? The View
from
Washington, DC.” Co-sponsored
by the UW
Population Health Institute. NOTE: this seminar will be held in
Room
1335 Health Sciences Learning Center.
February 11 Ping Yang,
MD, PhD, Consultant, Department of Health Sciences
Research and Mayo Clinic Cancer
Center and Professor of
Epidemiology, “Lung Cancer: Quantity vs. Quality of Life.”
February 18 Mae Wang Baker,
Assistant Professor (CHS), Department of
Clinical Chemistry, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene,
“Universal Newborn Screening for Severe Combined
Immunodeficiency (SCID) by Quantitating T cell Receptor
Excision Circles (TRECs).”
February 25 Elliott S. Fisher,
MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Community
and
Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, “The NQF
Efficiency Measurement Framework: Can it Help Heal the
Schism
Between Public Health and Medicine?”
Co-sponsored
by the
Health Innovation Program.
March 3 Jack A. Taylor,
MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, Molecular &
Genetic Epidemiology Group, National Institute of Environmental
Health
Sciences, National Institutes of Health,
“Gene-
Environment Interactions: What DNA Can Say About Exposure
and
Cancer Risk.” Co-sponsored
by the UW Population Health
Institute.
March 10 David Van
Sickle, PhD, Robert Wood
Johnson Health & Society
Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, “Networked
Asthma
Inhalers for Clinical Care and Public Health
Surveillance.”
March 17 No seminar –
Spring Break
March 24 Haslyn Hunte,
PhD, MPH, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society
Scholar, Department of Population Health Sciences, “The Tale of
the
Tape: Race, Discrimination and Waist Circumference.”
March 31 Philip M.
Farrell Population Health Distinguished Alumni
Lecture – Kevin R. Hayden, MA,
Secretary, Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services, “Reforming Long-
Term
Care Through Family Care” – Room
1335 Health
Sciences Learning Center (please note room location).
April 7 Nelson
Sewandambo, Dean, Faculty of
Medicine, Makerere
University, Kampala, Uganda,”Adult Male
Circumcision as an Intervention
Measure for Control
of Heterosexual HIV Transmission--Lessons from
Rakai Health Sciences
Program” –
Room 1325
Health
Sciences Learning Center (please note room location).
Co-sponsored by the UW Population
Health Institute and the
European Union Center of Excellence.
April 14 Stephanie
Robert, PhD, Associate
Professor, School of Social
Work,
and Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society
Scholars Program, Department of Population Health Sciences,
“Causes of Poor Health and Health Disparities: Results from a
Survey
of Wisconsin Adults’ Opinions.”
April 21 Kirk R.
Smith, PhD, MPH, Brian and
Jennifer Maxwell Endowed
Chair
in Public Health, Professor of Global Environmental Health,
School
of Public Health, University of
California-Berkeley,
“Indoor Air
Pollution in Developing Countries: Does it Really Kill a Million Children
Every Year?”
April 28 Gwyn Bevan,
Professor of Management Science, Department of
Operational Research and LSE Health and Social Care,
London
School
of Economics and Political Science, “DALYs, QALYs,
QALYs,
DALYs, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?” Co-sponsored
by the
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE).
May 5 Philip M.
Farrell, MD, PhD,
Professor of Pediatrics and Population
Health
Sciences, “The Epidemiology and Paleoepidemiology of
Cystic
Fibrosis: Lessons Learned Through Newborn
Screening and History.”
Co-sponsored by the UW Population
Health
Institute.
