Seminars

Departmental seminars meet once per week, generally Wednesdays at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., from the first to tenth weeks of the Fall, Winter and Spring quarters. There may be occasional seminars during the Summer quarter. Unless otherwise specified, presentations will be held in the medical center, Room W229 of the Albert Merritt Billings (AMB) building.

Topics mirror the breadth of the department: biostatistics, environmental statistics, survey methodology, epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, health services, health economics, and medical ethics and other public-health related areas. Presentations last 45 to 60 minutes, with additional time for discussion. Refreshments are provided.

The Department of Health Studies occasionally cosponsors seminars with the Cancer Research Center and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Statistics and also with the Graduate School of Business. Joint seminars with the Cancer Center/MacLean Center or the GSB may be in a different location, as noted in the table below. Seminars sponsored jointly with the Statistics Department are often held on Monday afternoons in Eckhart Hall, as noted below.

Information about building access for persons with disabilities may be obtained in advance by calling the department office at (773) 702-2453.

If you have any questions or need further information about our seminars, please contact Cheryl Martinez.

Upcoming Seminars

Date	Title/Speaker/Affiliation
Wednesday, May 29, 2013	"Etiologic heterogeneity of breast cancer and the use of molecular pathology to clarify risk associations" Jonine Figueroa, PHD, MPH National Cancer Institute
Wednesday, June 05, 2013	Health System Contributions to Public Health Activities Amid Policy and Economic Change: Estimating Complementarities, Substitutions, and Network Effects Glen P. Mays, PHD Univesity of Kentucky

Past Seminars

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Date	Title/Speaker/Affiliation
Wednesday, April 03, 2013	Set-based or gene-based association test for association and sequencing studies Lin Chen, PhD University of Chicago, Health Studies, Biostatistics
Wednesday, April 10, 2013	Some New Models for Predicting Health Care Costs of Individual Patients Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, Ph.D Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Wednesday, April 17, 2013	“Health Information Technology in U.S. Hospitals: Is There a Natural Sequence? ” Shoou-Yih D. Lee, MS, PhD The University of Michigan School of Public Health
Wednesday, May 01, 2013	"Race, Resources, and Mortality: A Report from the Southern Community Cohort Study” Lisa Signorello, Ph.D. Harvard University-School of Public Health
Wednesday, May 08, 2013	Economic Burden of Cancer in the United States Robin Yabroff, Ph.D., MBA National Cancer Institute
Wednesday, May 15, 2013	Long-Term Health Returns to Alternative School Systems: Evidence from UK Anirban Basu, PhD