Sentences with phrase «epidemiology program»

In addition to his psychiatric residency training, Dr. Cohen was educated at the Psychiatric Epidemiology Program of the Columbia University Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.

In addition to his psychiatric residency training, Dr. Cohen was educated at the Psychiatric Epidemiology Program of the Columbia University Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health and completed the four - year post-graduate training program in Systemic Family Theory and Therapy at the Family Institute of Westchester, where he developed expertise in Bowen Family Systems Coaching.

I direct the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Harvard School of KimDental Medicine and am an instructor in the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Program.

Dr. Chu Chen, an investigator in the Epidemiology Program in PHS, works with Dr. Lue Ping Zhao in a study with Dr. Stephen Schwartz, also of PHS, and with scientists in the Otolaryngology, Oral Medicine and Pathology Departments at the University of Washington.

Affiliations Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliations Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Additional studies are needed to fully understand the health impact of sugar - sweetened beverages and diet sodas,» said lead study author Jiantao Ma, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis as part of his doctoral thesis as a student in the Nutrition Epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA and the Friedman School.

If lifestyle changes are not made, individuals with prediabetes are on the trajectory to developing diabetes,» said senior study author Nicola McKeown, Ph.D., scientist in the Nutritional Epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA.

Not exact matches

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

JY was funded in part by the NIH Training Program in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology (T32 - HD52468).

«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.

The researchers analyzed data on cervical cancer from 2000 to 2009 from 18 registries within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

«Because resource availability varies widely, both among and within countries, we need to adjust strategies to improve access to HPV vaccination everywhere,» said Silvia de Sanjosé, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Expert Panel that developed the guideline and head of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at Institut Català d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain.

Melanoma is now the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with an estimated 76,380 cases diagnosed in 2016, according to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

Many physician scientists involved in clinical trials, epidemiology, and health services research are trained through master's programs completed either during or (more frequently) after medical school, with degrees in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, or health services and outcomes research.

Using data from the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, which tracks cancer cases in the U.S., he estimated the number of people to whom the new treatments would apply.

When I started my Ph.D. program in epidemiology, I knew I wanted to work in science and public health.

«This study allowed us to systematically explore the circumstances of these law enforcement officer fatalities, which can help develop targeted policies and practices to keep officers safe in the line of duty,» said Keshia M. Pollack, PhD, MPH, author of the study, and associate professor of Health Policy and Management and director of the Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Training Program.

The UTMB study analyzed 64,507 cervical cancer cases collected from 1973 - 2009 by the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program.

«All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology at the Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research (PIPER) at the Colorado School of Public Health.

It depends on whom you ask: Herberman, Robert Hoover, director of NCI's Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, and other health officials recently clashed during a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy held to determine whether mobile phones are safe.

«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.

The guidance is featured in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and emphasizes best practices for implementing and optimizing hand hygiene programs to prevent the spread of healthcare - associated infections (HAIs).

Trinh and his colleagues used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) data to look at more than 2.5 million Asian American patients who were diagnosed with lung, breast, prostate or colorectal cancer (the three leading causes of cancer - related mortality within each gender) between 1991 and 2007.

These rates are calculated by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, which collects survival data from state registries covering about 26 percent of the U.S. population.

«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.

This study compared data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) of the National Cancer Institute, a population - based registry collecting cancer incidence and survival data from 18 geographic areas through the United States, with data from the USIDNET registry.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield», that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

Already, some 40 to 50 master's degree and Ph.D. - level medical informatics programs operate in the United States, says William Hersh, chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

To use hd - PS, a researcher downloads the program from the Harvard site, connects it to one of the data software packages widely used in epidemiology, and imports to the system a wide range of health information on each study subject, ranging from basics like blood pressure and age to smaller, more esoteric factors like whether the individual saw a doctor in the past six months.

«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.

To compare age - adjusted cancer incidence rates, Wilson and colleagues used data from the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program that were used to generate the U.S. Cancer Statistics Web - based Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program that were used to generate the U.S. Cancer Statistics Web - based program that were used to generate the U.S. Cancer Statistics Web - based report.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

«It's really taking my research interests in a whole new direction,» says Russell McBride, a graduate student with a cancer epidemiology background who is working toward his program certificate.

The study was co-led by Victor D. Puac - Polanco, MD, MSCE, of the Epidemiology Department at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, formerly of Penn's MSCE program in the department of Epidemiology, and senior author Charles C. Branas, PhD, of the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bellan and other founders of the program plan to continue creating different versions of MMF and expanding it to cover more aspects of epidemiology.

The 63,920 estimated new cases of kidney and renal pelvis cancer in 2014 made up 3.8 percent of all new cancer cases, according to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield» (www.leishield.org), that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

The aim of the Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research training program is to train young scientists to design and conduct research on significant problems in cancer by combining information and approaches from different scientific disciplines, including basic cellular and molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical trials and studies, and behavioral - social sciences.

«There's a great need in cancer patients to be able to quickly and easily assess if a particular treatment is working in order to switch to another if it's not, thus avoiding wasted time, potential side effects and cost,» says Kala Visvanathan, M.D., M.H.S., professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Research by Nicole Schupf, PhD, DrPH, Epidemiology, about older mothers and healthy cellular aging was the topic of 2017's most popular article in the Member Research and Reports section of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's «Friday Letter» newsletter.

Its comprehensive strategy includes funding for an epidemiology study; a well - characterized cohort recruitment; pathogenesis discovery research; and a Mechanism of Illness grant program that will fund additional research.

Estimates are between 20 and 30 percent, but no one knows for sure because the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program, or SEER Registry, only tallies people when they die of cancer; it doesn't track recurrence or progression.

Students can apply to either the interdisciplinary PhD program or a Masters program with a concentration in Health Data Science or Epidemiology.

The QBS program seeks to train highly qualified students in bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and health data science for careers in academia and industry.

The current phase of her research program, conducted in the division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology (CCE) at the Queen's Cancer Research Institute, involves extracting information from pathology reports in patients with biliary tract cancer and looking at the natural history, treatment outcomes, and mortality trends in this population.

But other scientists cautioned that other explanations beside spontaneous genetic mutation could also account for the study's results.For example, said Dr. Ann Pulver, director of the epidemiology and genetics program in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, «It may be that the fathers of schizophrenics have unusual characteristics that delay reproduction.»