Sentences with phrase «epidemiology center»

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of South Florida, Tampa • FL 2008 — Present Clinical Research Administrator / Project Manager Manage and coordinate all aspects of clinical trials and network committees at the Data Coordinating Center (TNCC) within the Pediatrics Epidemiology Center (PEC) under a federally awarded grant TrialNet for Type 1 Diabetes.

«It was a U-shaped relationship, and that was a new and unexpected finding,» says Dr. Ziyad Al - Aly, assistant professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine and co-director of the VA Saint Louis Health Care System's Clinical Epidemiology Center.

Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine Director, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center Chief, Division of Epidemiology

In undergrad she gained experience working at BU Slone Epidemiology Center on the Pregnancy Health Interview Study doing follow - up of participants vaccination records.

Dr. Lenzy partnered with the Black Women's Health Study at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center to survey African - American women about their experiences with hair loss.

The study, published in PLOS Medicine, was led by Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and John Potter, M.D., Ph.D., a member and scientific advisor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.

Understanding the long - term impact of modifiable lifestyle factors such as exercise in adolescence is of critical importance and can have substantial public health implications for disease prevention over the course of life, explained author Sarah J. Nechuta, MPH, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nechuta and colleagues used data from the Shanghai Women's Health Study, a large, population - based prospective cohort study of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center.

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From the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health — all in Boston (D.M., A.A., M.J.S., W.C.W.); and the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, and Wageningen Center for Food Sciences — both in Wageningen, the Netherlands (M.B.K.).

The percentage of adults with IQs below 90 dropped from 28 percent for those who were nursed for less than 1 month to 9 percent for those breastfed for 7 to 9 months, reported co-author Erik Lykke Mortensen of the Danish Epidemiology Science Center at Copenhagen University Hospital.

Based on the research questions at hand, the Center draws from CHOP and University of Pennsylvania - based expertise in emergency medicine; pediatric trauma; surgery; nursing; social work; pediatric and adolescent medicine; epidemiology and biostatistics; bioengineering; computational engineering; psychology; behavioral science; communications; and health education.

From the * Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology; † Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‡ Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; § Departments of Public Health; ‖ Pediatrics; ¶ Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Corresponding Author: Anne G. Hoen, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756 ([email protected]).

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

To re-examine cervical cancer mortality rates from 2002 to 2012 in the United States, Anne Rositch, PhD, MSPH, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her colleagues obtained estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics and the NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Mortality Database.

Barry Popkin is a professor of nutrition epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity.

He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service.

«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

Opportunities exist for people with expertise including infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, immunology, and biostatistics,» says Eileen Barry, with the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

The Institutes of Epidemiology I and II (EPI I, EPI II), the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology (IGE) and the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at the HMGU were involved.

Our results suggest, in specific circumstances, there may be a potential benefit to eating more soy foods as part of an overall healthy diet and lifestyle,» said Zhang, who is also the 2016 - 2017 Miriam E. Nelson Tisch Faculty Fellow at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and an adjunct scientist in nutritional epidemiology at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts.

The report is released by the USRDS coordinating center based at the University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, in partnership with Arbor Research Collaborative for Hcenter based at the University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, in partnership with Arbor Research Collaborative for HCenter, in partnership with Arbor Research Collaborative for Health.

«Regardless if cognitive impairments precede substance use or vice versa, poorer cognitive functioning negatively impacts daily life and may cause lack of insight into one's substance use as a source of problems, impeding treatment utilization or decreasing the likelihood of effective treatment,» said senior author Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professor of Epidemiology and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

After he finished his anthropology Ph.D. in the early 1980s, he decided to shore up his quantitative research skills by doing a postdoc in epidemiology at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California.

notes G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, associate professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

Carmel Medical Center Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Clalit National Personalized Medicine Program, Haifa 34362, Israel.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical purposes.

Grais is scientist at Epicentre, a nonprofit health and epidemiology research center in Paris set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to guide its health - care interventions in developing countries.

Marc Lipsitch is a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Data from this study were obtained from the Compressed Mortality File (CMF) administered by the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Internet - based CDC WONDER, a wide - ranging online data epidemiologic research system.

«The prevalence of comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger,» said K.M. Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

A cross-campus group of faculty and staff from the University of Michigan's Department of Human Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Institute for Social Research contributed to the papers.

«Although earlier research showed that drug use is associated with impaired driving performance and increased crash risk, trends in narcotic involvement in driver fatalities have been understudied,» said Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology and director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention.

Shanna Swan, director of the University of Rochester's Center for Reproductive Epidemiology, conducted studies that found an association between pregnant women's exposure to phthalates and altered genital development in their baby boys.

Researchers from the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), a seven - hospital system in southeastern Michigan, conducted a large study to understand the epidemiology of CDI readmissions, analyzing 51,353 all - cause discharges between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

«When we looked at data for the people who had never smoked, we also found evidence that having severe periodontal disease was related to an increased risk of lung cancer and colorectal cancer,» said Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Pinto - Martin, who is executive director of Penn's Center for Public Health Initiatives, as well as the Viola MacInnes / Independence Professor of Nursing and a professor of epidemiology in Penn Medicine, sees strong potential for the implications of this research.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

«We know quite a lot about the natural history of the HPV infection of the cervix,» says Maura Gillison, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at The Ohio State University Medical Center.

«I would recommend consuming folate - rich foods such as green leafy vegetables, grains, and fruits, and zinc - rich products such as oysters and meat,» says Régine Steegers - Theunissen, associate professor of epidemiology and obstetrics at the University Medical Center in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

The health - care initiatives deployed by MSF in developing countries are informed by the Paris - based, nonprofit health and epidemiology research center Epicentre.

«Gestational weight gain greater than the IOM recommendations has long - term implications for weight - related health,» said Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, postdoctoral fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center in the Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, and Institute of Human Nutrition.

To study the epidemiology of the disease, Lee Riley and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, examined bacteria in urine samples of 228 women who sought treatment at Berkeley's health center.

«These findings clearly point to the very important role that health care providers can play in increasing coverage with this safe and effective vaccine,» said lead author Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D., associate professor in the school's Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Yale Cancer Center.

«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

The results showed little difference between high and low glycemic index foods, says study co-director Lawrence J. Appel, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of medicine and director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

«The high protein diet that has been used increasingly in recent years to control weight gain and obesity may have deleterious impacts on kidney health in the long term,» said Kalantar - Zadeh, director of the Harold Simmons Center of Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, and chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, UC Irvine School of Medicine.