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hancock tower - small41st Annual SER Meeting
Chicago, IL, June 24-27, 2008

Program Information

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The preliminary program is now available by following this link!

Symposia (tentative)

  • Choosing appropriate counterfactuals for research on the health effects of socioeconomic position and neighborhoods, David Rehkopf and Irene Yen
  • Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses, Kristie L Ebi
  • Epidemiology responds to its media critics, Noel Weiss
  • Integration of Biological Pathways in Epidemiologic Research of the Social Gradient in Health, Carlos Mendes de Leon
  • Intent-to-treat analyses of 2-armed randomized controlled trials: can we improve on the gold standard?, M Maria Glymour
  • Limitations of neighborhoods research for understanding racial health disparities, Theresa Osypuk
  • Making lemonade from lemons:  Implications of marginal structural model analysis for public health planning and policy, Sheryl Magzamen
  • Methodological Issues in the Analysis of new Biomarkers, Enrique Schisterman
  • Risks and benefits of the use of the STROBE checklist by scientific journals, Noel Weiss
  • Social and Environmental Determinants of Diabetes: What we can learn from national to community level data, Sharon Saydah
  • Social Epidemiology and Behavioral Health: Methodologic approaches, problems, and promise, Sandro Galea
  • The "Hispanic Paradox": What's Real and What's Not, David A Shoham
  • Threats to epidemiologic science from organized interests, Carl V Phillips
  • Unequal Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Breast Cancer Subtypes: Identifying Mechanisms by Which Adverse Social Environments May Modulate Genetic Vulnerabilities, Robert Hiatt and Dejana Braithwaite
  • "Whose data are they?" -- Opportunities and pitfalls of publicly accessible data, Allen Wilcox

Roundtables

The roundtable discussions have become one of SER’s most popular events.  Roundtables are led by members of the SER Faculty and cover a wide range of topics.  Click on the faculty member's name to view a brief bio. Complimentary tickets will be available at the registration desk on a first-come first-served basis beginning at 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 25th. Locations of each roundtable will be on the tickets. Lunch is NOT included. Attendees are welcome to take lunch with them to the roundtable.

Wednesday, June 25, 12:15 - 1:15 pm (by ticket only)
  • Carlos Mendes de Leon, Rush Center on Aging - Health Disparities
  • Leslie Stayner, University of Michigan- What is the future for research in occupational and environmental epidemiology?
  • Martha Clare Morris, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging- Conducting Community Studies of Immigrant Populations
  • Vicky Persky, University of Illinois- Community Based Intervention in Asthma with Epidemiology
  • Glen T Schumock, University of Illinois Chicago and Todd Lee, Northwestern University- Pharmacoepidemiology, Comparative Effectiveness, and the Chicago-Area DEcIDE Center

Thursday, June 26, 12:15 - 1:15 pm (by ticket only)

  • Allison Aiello, University of Michigan- Social determinants of infectious diseases. Measurement of stress-related biomarkers underlying social disparities in health outcomes in the US.
  • George Kaplan, University of Michigan- Challenges in social epidemiology and population health
  • Lynda Powell, Rush University Medical Center- Clinical trials of behavioral interventions
  • David Bennett, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center- Neuroepidemiology

Spotlight Sessions

Spotlight sessions continue at this year’s SER meeting. 24 sessions will highlight special aspects of epidemiologic research including social epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, reproductive health and cancer research. These sessions are organized and moderated by senior members serving on this year’s SER Faculty.

  • Cardiovascular Epidemiology: What More do we Want to Know? - Richard Cooper and Mercedes Carnethon
  • Causal Methods for Cardiovascular Epidemiology - Jay Kaufman
  • Current Topics in Breast Cancer Research - Maureen Hatch and Gretchen Gierach
  • Environmental Epidemiology - Marie O'Neill
  • Epidemiology of Cancers of the Reproductive Tract - Noel Weiss
  • Fetal Growth and Prematurity - Nigel Paneth and Cande Ananth
  • Genes and the Environment New Findings, Current Issues - Michael Bracken
  • Health Services Epidemiology - Bonnie Yankaskas and Julie Kapp
  • Hypermodern Methods - Charlie Poole and Steve Cole
  • Macrosocial Forces and Population Health - George Kaplan
  • Measurement Error: Causation, Calibration, Correction - Malcolm Maclure
  • Novel Statistical Analysis - Heping Zhang
  • Obesity and Weight Gain in Women - June Stevens
  • Pancreatic Cancer - New Findings - Julie Palmer
  • Poverty, Ethnicity, Social Class and the Life Course in Aging - Mary Haan
  • Psychiatric Epidemiology: a Focus on Common Mood-Anxiety Disorders - Sandro Galea
  • Race/Class Inequalities - Pat O'Campo and Irene Yen
  • Reproduction and its Connections to other Outcomes - Allen Wilcox
  • Smoking & Pregnancy: Trends, Methods, and Consequences - David Savitz and Stephanie M Engel
  • Social Epidemiology and Mental Disorders - Rebecca Fuhrer
  • Social Epidemiology: Contextual and Lifecourse Approaches - Lisa Berkman and Maria Glymour
  • Trends in the United States HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Ronald Hershow
  • Understanding the Social Causes of Health and Disease - Sherman James
  • Understanding the Social Causes of Population Health - Sandro Galea

Poster Sessions

Posters will be the primary venue for presentation of the annual meeting’s highest quality research findings and methods.  Posters will be hung the night before each session and will be on display for almost 24 hours. A panel of judges will select the four best posters from each of the three sessions.  One of the prizes is specifically for a student presenter. Poster winners will be recognized publicly at the end of each session, and prizes will be awarded.  Judges may comment on each of the winning posters at the awards presentations.

Poster Schedule:

Poster Session 1: Tuesday, June 24, 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Setup: Tuesday, June 24; after 5:00 pm
Judging: Wednesday, June 25; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Wednesday, June 25; by 1:00 pm

Poster Session 2: Wednesday, June 25, 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Setup: Wednesday, June 25; after 1:00 pm
Judging: Thursday, June 26; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Thursday, June 26; by 1:00 pm

Poster Session 3: Thursday, June 26, 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Setup: Thursday, June 26; after 1:00 pm
Judging: Friday, June 27; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Friday, June 27; by 1:00 pm