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Annual Meeting - Program Information
***The Preliminary Program is now available. Click Here***
The following symposia are being organized for the 40th Annual SER Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Titles and organizers are listed below:
- Instrumental variables in observational data: can we find them and will they improve causal inference? - M. Maria Glymour
- Are communities and investigators being served by Community-based participatory research (CBPR)? - David Goldsmith
- Maternal glucose intolerance and origins of offspring disease - Adolfo Correa
- Epidemiologists at the Heart of a Crisis: The Safety of Prescription Medicines - Michele Jara
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- Adult reproductive effects of exposure to environmental contaminants - Julia Wirth
- Benefits and Risks of GIS in Etiologic Research - Theodore R Holford
- Roles of Mathematical Modeling in Epidemiologic Study: Current Status and Future Direction - Ximin Lin
- 21 years of silent revolution: Robins's g-formula - Miguel Hernan
- Analysis of outcomes from multiple sources - Constantine Daskalakis
- Intermediate Markers in Breast Cancer: Surrogates or Subterfuge? - Amy Trentham-Dietz
- Overcoming methodological challenges in identifying causes of birth defects - Margaret (Peggy) Honein
- Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Studies in Epidemiologic Research - Donna Spiegelman
- The relationship between child and adult exposure to interpersonal violence and subsequent physical and psychological health - Lise Fried
- Recent Innovations in Biologic Sample Collection in Large Scale Studies - Eugenia Calle
- Neighborhood environment and older adults: Conceptual and methodological issues - Yvonne Michael & Irene Yen
- Race/Ethnicity, Social Context, and Schizophrenia - Ezra Susser
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. Complimentary tickets will be available at the registration desk on a first-come first-served basis beginning at 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 20th. A list of organizers, topics and assigned date and time will be posted here as the list becomes available. Locations of each roundtable will be on the tickets. Lunch is NOT included. Attendees are welcome to take lunch with them to the rouondtable.
Wednesday, June 20, 12:15 - 1:15 pm (by ticket only)
- Jamie Robins - Recent developments in causal inference
- Lisa Berkman - Researching the social determinants of health
- Sherman James - Social Epidemiology and Research on
Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities: Issues and Prospects
- Julie Buring - What do discrepant results between observational studies
and clinical trials teach us?
- David Altshuler - Genetics, Genomics and Epidemiology
Thursday, June 21, 12:15 - 1:15 pm (by ticket only)
- Louise Brinton - Are we making progess in understanding the etiology of breast
cancer?
- Allen Wilcox - Can we untangle the relationship between
birth weight and mortality?
- Donna Spiegelman - Moving beyond regression to innovative methods to
empirically adjust for bias due to confounding, information bias and selection bias
- Germaine Buck Louis - Is human fecundity declining and what are the
implications for early onset disease?
- David Savitz - Causes and Consequences of Gestational Diabetes
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Spotlight sessions continue at this year’s SER meeting. 27 sessions will highlight special aspects of epidemiologic research including social epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, biological effects of low level exposures and infectious agents in cancer etiology. These sessions are organized and moderated by senior members serving on this year’s SER Faculty.
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Information Bias, Selection Bias and Confounding - Donna Spiegelman
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Race and Class Inequalities and Health - Pat O'Campo/ and
Irene Yen
- Etiologic Heteregeneity of Breast Cancer - Louise Brinton
- Preeclampsia: Pinning Down the Risk Factors - Audrey Saftlas
- Infectious Diseases - Mark Lipsitch
- Health Services Epidemiology - Bonnie Yankaskas
- Nutrition and Health- Stephanie Smith-Warner
- Risk factors and interventions for cardiovascular disease - Mary Haan
- Planning Your Next Study: Things to Know - Elizabeth Claus
- Pregnancy & Chronic Diseases -David Savitz
- Beyond the Neighborhood: Upstream Determinants of Health - George Kaplan
- Gyres and Ignorance Plaque the Study of Drugs - Alec Walker
- Birth Defects - The Search for Preventable Causes - Allen Wilcox
- Investigating the Etiologies of Cancer Subtypes - Noel Weiss
- Social Determinants of Health - Lisa Berkman
- Environmental Epidemiology of Childhood Outcomes - Francine Laden
- Aging: methods and interventions - Mary Haan
- The causes and consequences of psychiatric illness - Sandro Galea
- Occupation and Cancer - Noel Weiss
- Childhood Asthma - Michael Bracken
- New Assessments of Melanoma Risk and Costs - Marianne Berwick
- Novel Statistical Analyses In Epidemiology - Heping Zhang
- Making Measures Mensurable - Charles Poole
- Assessing genetic susceptibility: how hard can it be? - Corinne Aragaki
- Novel Risk Factors for Breast Cancer - Julie Palmer
- Understanding the social causes of health and disease - Sherman James and Sandro Galea
- Mental Disorders: Social Determinants and Methods - Rebecca Fuhrer
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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:
Setup: Tuesday, June 19; after 5:00 pm
Judging: Wednesday, June 20; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Wednesday, June 20; by 1:00 pm
Setup: Wednesday, June 20; after 1:00 pm
Judging: Thursday, June 21; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Thursday, June 21; by 1:00 pm
Setup: Thursday, June 2; after 1:00 pm
Judging: Friday, June 22; 10:00 - 10:30 am
Takedown: Friday, June 22; by 1:00 pm
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Wednesday, June 20
Time: 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Location: Check your ticket for location
| Presenters: (click on the presenters name to view biographical information) |
Allison Aiello, University of Michigan School of Public Health |
Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health, Dept of Epidemiology |
Stephen Cole, Johns Hopkins University |
Sandro Galea, University of Michigan School of Public Health |
Mary Haan, University of Michigan School of Public Health |
Simin Liu, Harvard School of Public Health |
Thursday, June 21
Time: 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Location: Check your ticket for location
Breakfast round table sessions give students an opportunity to meet informally with various faculty members to discuss their interests, work, and to seek advice. These are small groups of ten students and one faculty member – so it is a great opportunity to meet and mingle. If you have questions about this session, please contact Karthik Ramakrishnan at ramakk@umich.edu. Registration is now available. Follow this link to register for a breakfast roundtable.
*Note: Registration is required for this session through May 23, 2007. All other individuals interested in attending these sessions will be placed on a waiting list and will be notified after May 31, 2007 if they received a spot in the session. Priority registration will be given to SER student members.
Wednesday, June 20
Time: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Meet in the Hancock Room
Presenters: (click on the name of the presenter to view biographical information) |
Allen Wilcox , National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
Moyses Szklo, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health |
Dale Sandler, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
Noel Weiss, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington |
The Guided Poster Tour will be an informal session that will address writing a poster and evaluating a poster. Some of the questions that will be addressed are: What makes a good poster? What to include/not include in a poster? How to set up a poster? How to keep a poster from getting too busy? How to put together a poster to draw attention? What to avoid in a poster? How to summarize your project into a poster? The Guided Poster Tour can accommodate six students per presenter and the slots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. If you have questions about this session, please contact Sara Simonsen at Sara.Simonsen@utah.edu. If you would like to register for this session, please follow this link to the registration form.
*Note: Registration is required for this session through May 23, 2007. All other individuals interested in attending these sessions will be placed on a waiting list and will be notified after May 31, 2007 if they received a spot in the session. Priority registration will be given to SER student members.
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