Seminar Archives

2009 Department Seminars

• November 6, 2009
  Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, MPA Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF
  Translating Personalized Medicine: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• October 2, 2009
  Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD Morris Herzstein Endowed Chair in Biology and Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
  Telomeres & Telomerase in Human Health & Disease
• September 11, 2009
  Jim McKerrow, MD, PhD Robert E. Smith Professor of Experimental Pathology; Director, Sandler Center at Mission Bay, UCSF
  Discovery and development of new drugs for neglected tropical diseases
• June 19, 2009
  Michael A. Kelsh, PhD, MPH, MA Principal Scientist, Epidemiology;Health Sciences, Exponent, Inc.
  Study Design Considerations for EMF Exposure & Breast Cancer/Evolving Environmental Epidemiology of Perchlorate Exposure & Thyroid Function
• June 5, 2009
  Eran Bendavid, MD Fellow in Health Policy and Infectious Diseases Center for Health Policy / Primary Care Outcomes Research Division of Infectious Diseases; Stanford University
  What Has Been Accomplished with $15 Billion? An Evaluation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa
• May 8, 2009
  Mary N. Haan, DrPH, MPH Professor, Epidemiology, University of Michigan; Senior Adjunct Investigator, Kaiser Division of Research
  Some new insights about type 2 diabetes, hypertension and the brain in aging populations
• May 1, 2009
  Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD, MPH Doctoral Candidate in Epidemiology, Research Associate at the HPV Research Group, University of Washington School of Public Health
  Long-term Efficacy of a Prophylactic Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Vaccine
• March 6, 2009
  John M. Inadomi, MD Professor of Medicine, Chief, Clinical Gastroenterology SFGH, UCSF
  Colorectal Cancer Screening: Costs, Compliance and Couric
• February 6, 2009
  Rachel Whitmer, PhD Research Scientist Division of Research Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
  Population Based Evidence of Adipose and Glycemic Influences on Dementia
• January 9, 2009
  Raymond Richard Neutra MD, DrPH Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control,
  California Department of Health Services
  Science in service of a precautionary health policy

2008 Department Seminars

• December 5, 2008
  Lindsey Criswell MD, MPH Medicine/Rheumatology, UCSF
  Refining the Genetic Contribution to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• November 7, 2008
  Gavin Yamey MD Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor to PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Library of Science
  Open Access to the Biomedical Literature: A Public Health and Human Rights Imperative
• October 17, 2008
  Andrea Marmor MD, MSE Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF
  Evidence-based Teaching of Evidence-based Medicine
• October 10, 2008
  Sheldon Greenfield MD Donald Bren Professor of Medicine and Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy Research, UC Irvine
  Tailoring Treatment by Risk Groups: Where Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine Meet
• September 12, 2008
  Jessica Haberer MD, MS Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, UCSF
  Pediatric HAART in China and Uganda
• September 5, 2008
  Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo PhD, MD, MAS Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF
  Epidemiology of Heart Failure in Young Adults
• August 29, 2008
  Christian Apfel MD, PhD Anethesiology Medicine, SFGH, UCSF
  Methodological Challenges in Studying Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
• August 1, 2008
  Judy Hahn PhD Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, SFGH
  Alcohol and HIV in Uganda
• August 1, 2008
  Judy Hahn, PhD Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, SFGH
  
• June 20, 2008
  Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, PhD Editor in Chief, JAMA; Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research: Facts and Friction
• June 6, 2008
  David Rehkopf, ScD Center for Health and Community, UCSF
  Methodological Considerations for Understanding the Relationships between Socioeconomic Position and Chronic Disease
• May 2, 2008
  Sir Richard Feachem PhD, DSc(Med) Professor of Global Health, UCSF and UC Berkeley
  Launching an Action Tank in Global Health at UCSF: Why, What and How?
• April 18, 2008
  Andy Choi MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
  Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease: Unraveling the Mystery of the Dialysis Paradox
• April 4, 2008
  Kirk R. Smith MPH, PhD, Professor of Global Environmental Health, UC Berkeley
  Climate Change and Health: Adapting, Mitigating, and Suffering: How Much of Each?
• March 21, 2008
  Wen-Chi Hsueh, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine/Medical Genetics, UCSF
  Genetic Epidemiological Studies of Lifespan and Biological Aging in the Old Order Amish
• February 15, 2008
  Helen Kim, PhD, MPH , Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, UCSF
  Epidemiologic Challenges in Studying Rare Brain Vascular Malformations
• March 7, 2008
  Alan Go MD, Assistant Director for Clinical Research, Division of Research (DOR), Kaiser Permanente, and Associate Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF
• February 1, 2008
  Art Reingold MD, Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology, UCB
  Influenza Vaccine: Does It Work and Is Our Current Strategy for Using It Effective?
• January 4, 2008
  Ed Murphy MD, MPH, Professor of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF
  Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Insights from Epidemiological Studies of Blood Donors

2007 Department Seminars

• December 14, 2007
  Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, MD, MPH , Assistant Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences & Medicine, UCSF
  The Importance of Race/Ethnicity and Genetics in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice
• December 7, 2007
  Susan Desmond-Hellmann MD, MPH, President of Product Development, Genentech, Inc., and Associate Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF
• November 2, 2007
  Dejana Braithwaite PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UCSF
  Adverse Social Environment and Early Puberty as a Marker of Breast Cancer Risk: A Global Perspective
• October 26, 2007
  Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Family & Community Medicine, UCSF, and Co-Director of UCSF Collaborative Research Network
  Globalization, Binational Communities and Changing Epidemiology: Results from an Outbreak Investigation in California and Mexico
• October 19, 2007
  Hilary K. Seligman, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor of Medicine/DGIM, SFGH
  Health Consequences of Hunger in America
• October 5, 2007
  Kimberly Page-Shafer PhD, MPH, Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF
  Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Epidemiology and Clinical Research in Young Injectors
• September 7, 2007
  Robert Wachter MD, Professor and Associate Chair of Medicine, UCSF
  Consequences (Intentional and Otherwise) of the Quality and IT Revolutions
• June 1, 2007
  Joseph (Mike) McCune MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, UCSF
  The UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute: Bridging the Gulf Between Scientific Discovery and Health Care Delivery
• May 4, 2007
  Mitchell Gail MD, PhD, Chief of Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
  Absolute Risk: Clinical Applications and Controversies
• May 3, 2007
  Betsy Foxman, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the
  Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases,
  University of Michigan School of Public Health
  Molecular Epidemiology of Group B Streptococcus
  
• April 6, 2007
  Mary Haan PhD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
  Does Type 2 Diabetes Cause Alzheimer's?
• March 23, 2007
  Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH, Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
  Is There an "Epidemic" of Autism?
• March 2, 2007
  Hal Barron MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology, UCSF
  Drug Development in the 21st Century — the Role of "Targeted Therapy"
• January 18, 2007
  Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, Associate Professor of Cardiology, Department of Preventive Medicine and Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University, and Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
  Lifetime Risk and Competing Risk for CVD: How Does It All Play Out?
• January 12, 2007
  Lee Zane, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology, UCSF
  Accutane and Suicide

2006 Department Seminars

• December 1, 2006
  John Ziegler MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UCSF, and
  Vinona Bhatia MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Hematology and Oncology, UCSF
  Breast Cancer in Women of African Origin
• November 17, 2006
  Dave Glidden, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF
  How Many Civilians Have Died in the Iraq War?
• October 7, 2006
  Badrinath Konety MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Urology, UCSF
  The Impact of the Volume Outcome Relationship in Urologic Cancer Surgery
• September 8, 2006
  Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH, UCSF Division of Clinical Epidemiology
  Is There a Serum Proteomic Pattern Associated with Atherosclerosis?
• June 9, 2006
  John Hsu, MD, MBA, MSCE, Physician Scientist, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute; Fellow, UCSF Institute for Health Policy
  Medicare Drug Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences
• June 2, 2006
  Peter Carroll MD, Professor of Urology, UCSF
  Prostate Cancer 2006: Are We Being Too Aggressive or Not Aggressive Enough?
• May 5, 2006
  Roberta Ballard MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Multicenter RCTs to Improve Outcome of Preterm Infants - Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Booster Surfactant
• April 7, 2006
  Ninez Ponce MPP, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, and Senior Researcher, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
  Do Ethnic Enclaves Contribute to Disparities in Cancer Screening?
• March 24, 2006
  Heather Keenan, MD, PhD, UCSF Faculty Candidate, Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
  Outcomes After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
• March 3, 2006
  Kevin Grumbach MD, Professor and Chair of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
  The Roadmap Less Travelled: A Case Study of Community Engagement in Research
• February 3, 2006
  Michael Cabana MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF
  Trial of Infant Probiotic Supplementation
• January 27, 2006
  Mary Beattie MD, Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Women\222s Health, UCSF, and Roadmap K12 Scholar
  Breast Cancer Risk: Do Genetics Trump Hormones?
• January 6, 2006
  Neil Risch PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Human Genetics, UCSF
  Genetic Structure, Race/Ethnicity, Admixture and Confounding