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What you will find in this issue:
President's Corner
Student Caucus President's Corner
SER
Membership
SER Elections
43rd Annual SER Meeting :
SER
Membership
The newsletter has been sent either electronically or via US mail
to all SER members, even if they have not renewed their membership
for 2010. However, any future correspondence will be mailed only
to paid SER members. Please contact Jacqueline Brakey with any questions
(Telephone: 801-525-0231; email: membership@epiresearch.org)
SER
Elections
Ballots for this year's SER elections are available online by following
this link. You will need to login to the members only section of the website in order to vote. If you do not know your Member ID and password, email membership@epiresearch.org.
Bios for each candidate are available by clicking on their names.
Nominees for President-Elect:
Polly Marchbanks, PhD
Team Leader, Fertility Epidemiology Studies
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, GA andHal Morgenstern, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Environment Health Sciences
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ann Arbor, MI
Nominees for Member-at-Large
Bernard Harlow, PhD
Mayo Professor of Epidemiology Chair
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
University of Minnesota Public HealthAllison Aiello, PhD, MS
John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Please vote for one candidate for president and one candidate for member at large. Your ballots must be submitted by May 24th to be counted. The election results will be announced at the Meeting in Seattle. **Again this year, SER will randomly select 3 individuals who vote in the annual election to receive a FREE SER membership for 2011.***
43rd Annual SER Meeting -
Seattle, Washington
2010 Theme: Epidemiology in an Interconnected World
The 43rd Annual SER Meeting will be held June 23 (eve) - 26, 2010. The meeting and accommodations will be held at the Westin Seattle. The conference hotel is the front door to downtown shopping, attractions, dining, and vibrant theater district. The hotel is just steps away from Pike Place Market and the Space Needle.
Keynote Address
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Global Burden of Disease Studyâ€â€Methods and Empirical Challenges
Christopher JL Murray, MD, DPhil
Dr. Christopher Murray received his MD from Harvard and his DPhil in International Health Economics from Ox-ford. He is the Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and a world-renowned expert on measuring and making projections about the global burden of disease.
John C Cassel Memorial Lecture
Friday, June 25, 2010
To Observe or to Intervene: How do we know when the time is right to intervene?
Lisa Berkman, PhD Dr.
Lisa Berkman is the Director of Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is an interna-tionally-recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes.
SER President's Address
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Imperfect Studies in an Imperfect World: the View of an Autodidact
SER President, Art Reingold, MD Dr.
Arthur Reingold is professor of epidemiology and Associate Dean for Research of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He holds concurrent appointments in the departments of medicine and epide-miology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He has devoted the past 25-plus years to the study and prevention of infectious diseases in the United States, and in various countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, initially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for eight years and then at UC Berkeley since 1987.
We schedule sessions carefully to avoid conflicts to the extent possible and to balance the distribution of topics across the meeting, but we are unable to provide schedule preferences. Please make sure that you have an alternate presenter in case you are unable to participate in the session assigned to you..
Preliminary
Program
Again this year the preliminary program will be available online for
you to view. You can see the up-to-date preliminary
program anytime. If you do not have access to the web you
may call 801-587-9120 and request a copy. Follow this link to view the preliminary program (still subject to change). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.
Job
Placement Notebooks
If you have a position you are trying to fill or if you
are interested in a new position, the SER meeting is
the place to make a match. We are assembling a
notebook of available positions, and people in
search of new positions.
At SER, you can read the job ads or resumes, and speak to the people themselves. Email your resumes or positions by June 11th, 2010 to Sue Bevan, SER Administrative Manager, e-mail to sbevan@epiresearch.org.
Student Activites at the Meeting
Activities include Breakfast with the Experts roundtables, Poster Tours, a student welcome reception and several lunchtime sessions. Priority for student events is given to students who are members of SER.
Spotlight
Sessions & Symposia
A total of more than 20 Spotlight Sessions and 14 Symposia will be presented at the meeting
this year. These sessions are organized and moderated by experienced
epidemiologists. Follow this link to view the Spotlight and Symposia session titles and session chairs.
Led by members of the 2010 SER Faculty, the roundtable discussions have become a popular event. Although the tickets are complimentary, there are only ten available per table. Tickets will be available beginning Thursday, June 24th at 7:30 am. on a first-come, first-served basis. We will not be accepting pre-registration for roundtables this year. A list of roundtables will be available coming soon...
The meeting will begin with the first poster session on the evening of June 23rd. Posters are a primary venue for presentation of the meeting’s highest quality research findings. Posters are hung each night before the session and will be on display for almost 24 hours. A panel of judges will select the three best posters from each session. Winners will be publicly recognized during the morning break following the session and receive a gift certificate from Oxford University Press.
Pre- and Post- Meeting Workshops
Visit the SER Meeting website to view a list of workshops being offered. Follow this link.
SER's future meetings:
- 2011 - Montreal, QC (June 21-24) - CONGRESS
- 2012 - Minneapolis, MN (June 27-30)
- 2013 - Boston, MA (June 18-21)