Sentences with phrase «epidemiology at»

The experience inspired her to study public health and epidemiology at Boston University.

She received her doctoral degree in psychology and behavioral genetics from the Institute for Behavioral Genetics and the University of Colorado, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric genetics and genetic epidemiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prior to law school Lara obtained a Bachelor of Health Science from the University of Calgary and worked as a research assistant in the field of injury epidemiology at the Alberta Children's Hospital.

Still, Thomas Glass, PhD, of the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says that linking green space and obesity can be tricky.

Specifically, the attending epidemiologists voted against a motion proposed in an Oxford - style debate that «risk factor» epidemiology is placing the field of epidemiology at risk of losing its credibility.

It's filthy lucre Another reason to drop cash is that it's literally dirty money, with «lots of nooks and crannies for things to get stuck in,» warns Emily Martin, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.

Prior to joining the ASPCA in 2008, Dr. Slater taught epidemiology at Texas A & M's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and today her emphasis is on research, including assessing fee - waived cat programs and the impact of spay / neuter on shelter intake.

He obtained his PhD in epidemiology at Purdue University where he was one of the first scientists to study the problem of pet relinquishment to shelters and became a scientific advisor to the National Council for Pet Population Study and Policy.

«In general hunting type breeds had the most protective estimates, while mixed breeds and toy breeds the least,» said Tove Fall, senior author of the study and Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University.

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That was one of several elements of animal adoption decisions discussed at the 2014 NAVC Conference in Orlando, Fla., in a presentation by Margaret Slater, DVM, PhD, Senior Director of Veterinary Epidemiology at the ASPCA.

Tony Buffington, DVM, Ph.D., DACVN, clinical professor in the department of medicine and epidemiology at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine and emeritus professor of veterinary clinical sciences at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Tanaka has completed her PhD studies in Epidemiology at UC Davis.

Ten percent had more than a sip of alcohol in that time period, according to the study authored by John Donovan, an associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

She has been a research assistant in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a research analyst at Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Josephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice / CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

«There is a lot of hidden sugar in our food supply, and it's not just in sweets,» said Dr. Frank Hu, a member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard.

«Patients will, in many cases, insist that they be given an antibiotic,» says Frank Myers, the director of clinical epidemiology at Scripps Mercy Hospital, in San Diego.

«This should reassure women as well as their doctors,» said Charlton, an instructor in the department of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

Boffetta is also director of the Institute of Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

But they also pack plenty of glucose, which does boost blood sugar, cautions Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.

Drawing upon evidence from multiple studies, Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and author of The Diet Myth, Tim Spector said the restrictive nature of highly processed diets which use just a few ingredients is responsible for reducing our microbe diversity — and is making us ill.

«In addition to weight control, higher fiber diets can also help to prevent type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,» says Dr. Frank Hu, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

«The strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant role of [the diet's] constituents are the main protective mechanism,» said Dr. Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, an associate professor of biostatics and nutrition epidemiology at Harokopio University of Athens in Greece.

Dr. Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, notes the findings should not be taken as «a green light» to eat more bacon, butter and other foods rich in saturated fat.

«It's not really meaningful to say that saturated fats are good or bad,» said Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The largest clinical trials, involving thousands of volunteers, were directed by Dr. Terence Anderson, professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto [6 - 9].

Afterwards she completed a fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health where she continued her research on diet and cancer.

«A shift to a dietary pattern higher in healthful plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods, especially red and processed meats, can confer substantial health benefits in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes,» said Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

Karin Michels, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard University and leader of the study, said, «To see an increase of this magnitude was quite surprising.»

«Given that the diets are relatively equal, individuals should choose the diet that they think that they can best adhere to,» said study co-author Bradley Johnston, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

«Given our findings, the age you start indoor tanning may matter less than how much you do it,» says the lead author of the study, DeAnn Lazovich, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.

He is a professor of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.

Mills is an assistant professor of epidemiology at Tulane.

In a new review of the evidence on statins» effectiveness, researchers led by Rory Collins, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, report in the Lancet that concerns about the side effects of statins may be overblown, and that appreciation of the drugs» benefits are under recognized.

She completed post-doctoral training in eating disorders at McClean Hospital and in Behavioral Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Philip Polgreen, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, called the findings «promising and exciting.»

«Two - thirds of adults are overweight,» says Marc Jacobson, MD, a professor of adolescent medicine and epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Obesity.

«Most people assume, wrongly, that fruit juice is healthy and contains little free sugar,» says study author Dr. Simon Capewell, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Liverpool.

«Based on our analysis, [it's] probably 80 % or even 90 %,» says the study's lead author, Hsin - Chieh (Jessica) Yeh, PhD, an assistant professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Too few study participants reached old age during the study to provide reliable data on that score, but the researchers plan to continue following the same people in an attempt to answer that question, says Singh - Manoux, who is also a professor of epidemiology at University College London, in the U.K.

The germ, a type of parasite, can infect the prostate and may cause inflammation that spurs the growth of prostate cancer later in life, says senior author Lorelei Mucci, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

«I was surprised that even people who would be considered normal weight in terms of their [body mass index] have a higher risk of death if their waist circumference is increased,» says Tobias Pischon, MD, the study's lead author and a member of the department of epidemiology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE).

The lead author of the study, Rosebud Roberts, a professor of epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn, says that women with MCI may progress to dementia faster than men, causing them to be undercounted during the MCI phase.

He is an associate professor in the departments of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

In other words, a high BMI was more dangerous for white women, and carrying a spare tire was more dangerous for black women, says senior author Samar El Khoudary, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health.

He's a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

«The arsenic in their urine increased with the number of servings of rice or rice - containing food,» said lead researcher Margaret Karagas, chair of epidemiology at Dartmouth University's Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H.

«Any way we looked at it, we found no evidence for higher risk,» says Dr. Mozaffarian, who is also an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

We tapped expert Emily S. Barrett, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health, to answer these questions — and more — about phthalates.