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MERC Seminars 2008

3333 California Street . Laurel Heights
Room 474 from 3 - 5 PM
Unless otherwise noted


January 8

Judith Walsh MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center

Healthy Colon, Healthy Life: A successful intervention to increase rates of  colorectal cancer screening in Latinos and Vietnamese

February 5

Dr. Miriam Kuppermann
Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, MERC, UCSF

Informed Prenatal Genetic Testing Decision Making Among Women With Varying Literacy Levels

March 11

Alka Kanaya, MD
Asst Professor In Residence
Division of General Internal Medicine

Grace Lin, MD
Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine

The South Asian Paradox: High Risk Despite Favorable Lifestyle Factors

Decision Making for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

April 1

Kala Mehta DSc, MPH
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Division of Geriatrics

Stacey Jolly, MD
GIM Fellow
SFGH Division of General Internal Medicine

Epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease in the US: Race/Ethnic Differences

 

Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease among American Indian and Alaska Natives

May 6

Irene Yen Ph.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist
Division of General Internal Medicine


Childhood social and economic circumstances of older adults from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds: Preliminary results from a newly developed survey tool

June 3

Anita Stewart, PhD
Professor in Residence
Institute For Health & Aging

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable MD
Director, Medical Effectiveness Research Center (MERC)
Department of Medicine

Update on Academic-Community Partnership to Implement a Lifestyle Program to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes Risk

 

Use of Visual Aids in Communicating Cancer Risk: Does Understanding Vary by Race and Ethnicity?

July 8

Elad Ziv, MD
Assoc Professor In Residence
School of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
Institute for Human Genetics and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Laura Fejerman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
Institute for Human

Genetics and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Race/ethnicity, genetic ancestry and disease

 

 

 

Genetic admixture and breast cancer in US Latinas and African Americans

 

August
No Seminar
 
September 2


 Celia P. Kaplan, DrPH, MA

Breast Cancer Trials: Geographical Factors in Access to Care

October 7

Paula Braveman, MD MPH

Why has the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched a national commission on health that does not focus on health care?

November 4

Lawrence W. Green
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Co-Leader, Society, Diversity & Disparities Program
School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF

 

Karen Emmons, PhD
Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
Deputy Director, Center for Community-Based Research

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health

Research on Dissemination
and Implementation Issues
 in Cancer Control

December 9

Carmen A. Peralta, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor Division of Nephrology
University of California, San Francisco

 

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Co-Director, Center for Vulnerable Populations
UCSF

Self Reported Race and Genetic Admixture in the Study of Complex Diseases: AfricanAncestry and Chronic Kidney Disease

 

 

Heart Failure in Black and White Young Adults

 

 

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