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Date: February 3, 2010
Topic: "Ifs, Ands, or BUTTs: An update on Tobacco Prevention and Cessation in West Virginia"
Speaker: Bruce W. Adkins, MS, PA
Director, Division of Tobacco Prevention
West Virginia Bureau for Public Health
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: December 2 , 2009 (rescheduled from Oct. 7, 2009)
Topic: "Public Health, the Environment and the Primary Care Physician"
Speaker: James Becker, MD
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Services for Occupational Medicine, Family and Community Health, Marshall University
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: November 4, 2009
Topic: "The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster - History and Legacy"
Speaker: Dwight Harshbarger, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, WVU and
Senior Fellow, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: October 7, 2009
Topic: "Public Health, the Environment and the Primary Care Physician" CANCELED
Speaker: James Becker, MD
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Services for Occupational Medicine, Family and Community Health, Marshall University
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: May 6, 2009
Topic: "HPV and Cancer in West Virginia"
Speaker:

Barbars S. Ducatman, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology, WVU

  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: April 1, 2009
Topic: "Social Marketing: Community Wide Physical Activity Interventions"
Speaker:

Bill Reger-Nash, EdD
Professor, Department of Community Medicine, WVU

  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: March 4, 2009
Topic: “Lifestyle Interventions for Diabetes Prevention and Control”
Speaker: Cindy Fitch, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Human Nutrition and Foods, WVU
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: February 4, 2009
Topic: “Health Care Security and Sustainability in the Coming Era of Growing Energy Constraints”
Speaker: Melissa M. Ahern, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy, Washington State University and Director, Northwest Climate Change Center, Spokane Washington
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: December 3, 2008
Topic: "Public Health Goals for the Second 50 Years"
Speaker: Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSc
Professor, Associate Chair for Research and Science
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: Friday, November 14, 2008
Topic: "Insights into Global Health"
Speaker: Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS
Professor and Dean Emeritus
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: November 05, 2008
Topic: "Community Health in Appalachian Coal Mining Areas: A Social Disparitites Approach"
Speaker: Michael Hendryx, PhD
Director, WV Rural Health Research Center and
Associate Professor, WVU Community Medicine
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: October 22, 2008
Topic: "The Burden of Cancer in West Virginia: 2008"
Speaker: Patricia Colsher, PhD
Director/Epidemiologist, WV Cancer Registry, WV Bureau of Public Health
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: October 1, 2008
Topic: "Assessing the Validity of the Stages of Change: The Example of Smoking Cessation"
Speaker: Thaddeus A. Herzog, PhD
Associate Professor, WVU Community Medicine
  Webcast Handout Evaluation/CE credit

Date: September 2-5, 2008
Topic: Tobacco Research Intensive Lecture Series: TRILS
Speaker: various
Webcast: more information on the TRILS website
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