Past Workshop Participants (2005-2009)
2005 Participants
- Jeffrey S. Chang, University of California, Berkeley
Parental smoking and the risk of childhood leukemia - Jessica Chubak, University of Washington
Antidepressant use and breast cancer recurrence and mortality - Dominic J. Cirillo, University of Iowa
Effects of statin use on the risk of immune-mediated conditions - Amy B. Dailey, Yale University
Neighborhood, perceived discrimination and the screening mammography process - Corinne Engelman, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center
Effects of vitamin D genes on measures of insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity and adiposity: An ancillary study to the IRAS Family Study - Alexis J. Handal, University of Michigan
Pesticide exposure and neurobehavioral development in Ecuadorian infants and children: A subcomponent of the Eco-Salud Project - Mike Jackson, University of Washington
Does influenza vaccine prevent serious complications of influenza in the elderly? - Christy McKinney, MPH, University of Washington
Identifying risk factors for deformational plagiocephaly - Jaymie R. Meliker, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Lifetime exposure to arsenic in drinking water in southeaster Michigan: Application to a bladder cancer case-control study - Nina Paynter, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Assessing the relationship of trends in population based CHD surveillance to changes in risk factors distributions: The ARIC Study - Whitney R. Robinson, University of North Carolina
Family factors influencing the male-female disparity in the prevalence of overweight among Black adolescents - Brian W. Whitcomb, University of Maryland
Cytokines, chemokines and spontaneous abortion
2006 Participants
- Melinda Aldrich, University of California, Berkeley
Genetic assessment of population structure among Hispanics participating in a California childhood leukemia study - Gabriella Andreotti, Geroge Washington University
Serum lipid levels and variants in lipid metabolism genes in relation to the risk of biliary tract cancer and stones - Cheryl Broussard, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
The effect of exposure to antibiotics for other infections on incidence and spontaneous clearance of helicobacter pylori infection in a US-Mexico birth cohort - Lauren E Cain, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Bridging observational and randomized evidence: Antiretroviral therapy and AIDS - Tapashi Dalvi, University of California, Berkeley
Insulin-related dietary factors, metabolic abnormalities, and risk of endometrial cancer - Kirstie Danielson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Epidemiology of bone mineral density in young women with type 1 diabetes: The Wisconsin Women and Diabetes Study - Margaret A Gates, Harvard School of Public Health
Talc use, variants of genes involved in detoxification and inflammation pathways, and epithelial ovarian cancer risk - Andrea Gruneir, Brown University
Special care units for nursing home residents with dementia: Do they affect resident outcomes? - Erika Hagen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hypercapnia and risk of intraventricular hemorrhage in a statewide cohort of very low birth weight infants - Kevin Urayama, University of California, Berkeley
Variation in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DPBI gene, early life exposures to infections, and risk of childhood leukemia - Fei Xue, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Analysis of parental characteristics as predictors of birth weight - Kelly Yu, Johns Hopkins School of Public Hlth
Defining biomarkers of susceptibility in high-risk families
2007 Participants
- Kathryn Adeney, University of Washington
Perinatal characteristics and adult ovarian function - Jeannette Beasley, Johns Hopkins University
Self-reported motivation for diet modification in young adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study - Mary Hearst, University of Minnesota
Effect of racial residential segregation on cause-specific infant mortality disparities - Tamarra James-Todd, Columbia University
Breast cancer risk - Sharon Kidd, University of California Berkeley
Daytime secretion of cortisol among children with autism and typically developing children - Christina Mair, University of Michigan
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of neighborhood characteristics and depressive symptoms - Dana March, Columbia University
Race, social context, and schizophrenia - Tuhina Neogi, Boston University
Gout: Evaluating risk factors for recurrent attacks using case-crossover methodology - Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, University of Washington
Long-term efficacy of a prophylactic human papillomavirus type 16 vaccine - Lauren Teras, Emory University
Candidate adipokine genes and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer - Elizabeth Torrone, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Risk behavior disclosure during HIV test counseling: A mixed methods study - Christine Walters, University of South Carolina
Cardiovascular disease risk prediction among whites and blacks
2008 Participants
- Karminder Gill, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Correcting for non-adherence when estimating the causal effect of hip pads on hip fractures\ - Susan Hutfless, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH
Extending causal modeling to account for non-uniform, informative time-varying covariates: An application to cancer risk factors - Rick Jansen, University of Minnesota
Evaluating screening bias in risk-factor studies of lung cancer nested in the PLCO Trial - Sheri Lippman, University of California, Berkeley
Evaluation of a social and clinical intervention to improve STI outcomes and condom use among sex workers in Brazil - Emily Martin, University of Washington
Viral illnesses in children: Bocavirus - Tamra Meyer, University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health
Diabetes genes and risk of prostate cancer in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study - Sarah Nechuta, Michigan State University
Perinatal factors and maternal premenopausal breast cancer risk: a population-based record-linkage case-control study - Zahinira Pietri, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Saharan dust and heart failure - Susan Puumala, University of Minnesota
Birth characteristics and childhood cancer in a large pooled data set - Matt Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Coverage bias in common sampling frames used in epidemiologic research - Nora Watson, University of Pittsburgh
Gait speed and cognitive decline in well-functioning older adults - Susan Wernimont, Cornell University
Genetic and nutritional variation within the folate metabolic network and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk
2009 Participants
- Kerry Keyes, Columbia University
Societal level disapproval of alcohol and smoking as predictors of future individual level use among high school seniors in the US from 1976-2007 - Christine Ekenga, New York University School of Medicine
Retrospective exposure assessment and epidemiologic analysis of respiratory health outcomes among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers - Dawn Mackey, California Pacific Medical Ctr
Effects of physical activity on hip fracture in older men: an application of marginal structural models - Elisabeth Beaber , University of Washington
Oral contraceptive use and risk of breast cancer by OC formulation and breast cancer subtype - Adina Hazzouri, University of Michigan SPH
Early life exposures and physical and mental health outcomes in older Mexicans and Mexican Americans: Effects of nativity, migration, and acculturation - Flojaune Griffin, University of Michigan SPH
Relationships between skin pigmentation, vitamin D and blood pressure - Laura Anderson, Cancer Care Ontario
Vitamin D, from both dietary intake and sunlight exposure, and breast cancer risk: A population-based case-control study - Erin Kent, University of California, Irvine
The influence of socioeconomic factors on cancer outcomes in adolescent and young adults - Todd Gibson, Yale University
Folate intake and risk of colorectal cancer in a large prospective cohort study - Hazel Nichols, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH
Hormonal effects of oophorectomy on breast cancer risk and mortality - Erin Meyer Baker, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
The impact of central adiposity on estrone, estradiol, leptin and sex hormone binding globulin in pre-pubertal females - Gray, Simone Gray, Duke University
Assessing exposure metrics for air pollution and birthweight models in North Carolina