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Grand Rounds Archive

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2008 Grand Rounds

Date: May 7, 2008
Topic: "The C8 Health Project: How a Class Action Lawsuit Can Interact with Public Health - History and Events"
Speaker: Stephanie Frisbee, MSc
Research Instructor, Community Medicine, WVU
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: April 2, 2008
Topic: "Community-Based Research in Family Violence: The Challenges of Linking Policy with Evidence"
Speaker: Harriet MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, The Offord Centere for Child Studies, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: March 5, 2008
Topic: "Retooling the Skill Set of Public Health Nurses"
Speaker: Georgia Narsavage, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN
Dean, WVU School of Nursing
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Topic: "Integrating Medical and Public Health Research in Schools of Medicine"
Speaker: Eduardo Simoes, MD, MSc, MPH
Director, Prevention Research Centers Program, CDC
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: February 6, 2008
Topic: "Injuries in the US Army: Commonalities & Generalizability to Civilian Injury Research"
Speaker: Hope M. Tiesman, PhD, MSPH
Associate Research Fellow, NIOSH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

 

2007 Grand Rounds

Date: December 5, 2007
Topic: "Identifying and Investigating Potential Suicide Clusters"
Speaker: Robert Bossarte, PhD
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, WVU
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: November 7, 2007
Topic: "Premature Cancer Mortality in the Appalachian Region"
Speaker: Joel Halverson, PhD
Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: October 11, 2007
Topic: “Coming in 2008: The First National Credentialing Exam in Public Health”
Speaker: Charles Mahan , MD
Professor Emeritus, Univ. of South Florida
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: October 3, 2007
Topic: "US and WV Public Health Issues"
Speaker: Chris Curtis, MPH
Commissioner, WV Bureau for Public Health
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: September 5, 2007
Topic: “Reducing the Burden of Youth Smoking: 10 Years of Lessons Learned in Community-Driven Prevention Research”
Speaker: Geri A. Dino , Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Community Medicine, West Virginia University
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: handout

Date: May 2, 2007
Topic: "Public Policy and Public Health Implications of Mass Evacuations: The Terrorism Hazard"
Speaker: Brian J. Gerber, PhD
Webcast: Live classroom
Handout: handout

Date: March 21, 2007
Topic: "Suicide in Appalachia and Rural America"
Speaker: Robert Bossarte, PhD
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

Date: February 21, 2007
Topic: "Appalachian Health Disparities and Health Policy Implications"
Speaker: Michael Hendryx, PhD
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

Date: January 17, 2007
Topic: "Disaster Planning for Special Needs Population"
Speaker: Lori Risk
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

 


2006 Grand Rounds
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006
Topic: "Management of Domestic Violence in the Healthcare Setting "
Speaker: Jeffery H. Coben, MD
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Topic: "Asbestos in Buildings and Health Effects"
Speaker: Alan M. Ducatman, MD, MSc
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout, handout2

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Topic: "BREAKING NEWS: Research Discovers Head is Connected to the Body"
Speaker: Richard L. Meckstroth, DDS
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

Date: Monday, November 6 , 2006
Topic: "The Family Physician as a Rural Healcare Provider"
Speaker: Katrina N. Poe, MD
Webcast: webcast
Handout: handout

Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Topic: "Avian Influenza"
Speaker: David Henzler, DVM, PhD
Webcast: video (available soon)
Handout: Handout

Date: Friday, September 29 , 2006
Topic: "Our Future in Retrospect? Coal Miner Health in Appalachia"
Speaker: Jill Kriesky, PhD, Executive Director of the Clifford M. Lewis, S.J. Appalachian Institute, Wheeling Jesuit University
Earl Dotter, Photojournalist
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: August 23 , 2006
Topic: "Prescription Drug Abuse: Prevalence and Prevention "
Speaker: Robert Pack , PhD, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: May 17 , 2006
Topic: "Yoga as an Effective Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain"
Speaker: Kimberly Williams, PhD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: April 4, 2006
Topic: "Historical Overview of AIDS in the United States"
Speaker: James W. Curran, MD, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: February 15, 2006
Topic: "Suicide Misclassification: Evolution of a Skeptic "
Speaker: Ian Rockett, PhD, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: January 25, 2006
Topic: "West Virginia's Uninusred ”
Speaker: Sally K. Richardson
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

2005 Grand Rounds

Date: December 8, 2005
Topic: "Influenza: Preparing to Prevent a Pandemic Disaster"
Speaker: Alan M Ducatman, MD, MSc
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: November 17, 2005
Topic: "Oral Health and Pregnancy"
Speaker: Gina Sharps, RDH, BSHD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout:  

Date: November 9, 2005
Topic: "War and Public Health: War as a Public Health Crisis”
Speaker: Gino Strada, MD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: October 26, 2005
Topic: "Historical Overview of AIDS in the United States"
(CANCELED, do to inclement weather, rescheduling soon)
Speaker: James W. Curran, MD, MPH
Webcast:  
Handout:  

Date: October 20, 2005
Topic: "The Perio Systemic Connection"
Speaker:  
Webcast: Webcast
Handout:  

Date: October 5, 2005
Topic: "Substance Abuse and Workplace Drug Testing Policy in the United States"
Speaker: Sharon L. Larson, PhD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: September 21, 2005
Topic:

"Hospital Disaster Planning for the Real World"

Speaker: John E. Prescott, MD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: September 2, 2005
Topic: "Toward an Epidemiology of Elder Abuse"
Speaker: Robert B. Wallace, MD, MSc
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: August 16, 2005
Topic: "Occupational Stressors and Adverse Birth Outcomes"
Speaker: John D. Meyer, MD, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: June 15, 2005
Topic: "Bioterrorism and Vulnerable Populations"
Speaker: Melanie Fisher, MD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: May 4, 2005
Topic: "Broken Trust: Health Status and Care Needs of Older American Indians and Alaska Natives"
Speaker: R. Turner Goins, PhD
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: April 20, 2005
Topic: "The Role of a Community Practitioner in a Disease Outbreak"
Speaker: Charles L. Werntz III, D.O., MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: March 16, 2005
Topic: "A Public Health Service Officer's Role in Bioterrorism Prevention, Preparedness and Response"
Speaker: Robert J. Tosatto, RPh, MPH, MBA
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: February 16, 2005
Topic: "Epidemiologic Overview of Work-related Injury trends in West Virginia"
Speaker:

Syed Islam, MD, DrPH

Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: January 19, 2005
Topic: "Public Health Challenge: Obesity in West Virginia"
Speaker: Tom Sims, MA
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

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2004 Grand Rounds

Date: December 15, 2004
Topic: "Using Evidence-based Research on All-Terrain Vehicles to Influence Policy Formulation"
Speaker: James Helmkamp PhD, MS
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: December 1, 2004
Topic: "Terrorism, Recognition and Reporting"
Speaker: Alan Ducatman MD, MSc
Webcast: Webcast Part 1 & Webcast Part 2
Handout:  

Date: November 30, 2004
Topic: "Diabetes, International Research and the Internet"
Speaker: Ronald E. LaPorte
Webcast: Symposium
Handout:  

Date: November 17, 2004
Topic: "Influenza: From Routine Response to Pandemic Preparedness"
Speaker: Catherine Slemp MD, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: October 20, 2004
Topic: "Epidemiology and the Practice of Public Health"
Speaker: Robert W. White II RS, MPH
Webcast: Webcast
Handout: Handout

Date: September 9, 2004
Topic: "Public Health Workforce Development: Where We've Been and Where We're Going"
Speaker: Margaret A. Potter MD, MPH
Career Pathways in Public Health
Henry G. Taylor MD, MPH
Webcast: Video Part 1 & Video Part 2
Handout: Handout