2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020
2018-2019
August 22, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
Yamile Molina, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: Social Networks and Cancer Disparities: Considerations in Theory and Measurement
September 19, 12:00 p.m.
Ana Baumann Walker, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Topic: Implementation Science and Health Disparities: Issues of Scientific Integrity and Social Justice
October 4, 12:00 p.m.
Simon Craddock Lee, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topic: Evaluating Scale-up of a De-centralized Regional Delivery Model for Cancer Screening among Rural Underserved
November 27, 12:00 p.m.
Alfreda Holloway-Beth, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: Assessing Legal Interventions in Illinois and Creating an Active Epidemiological Surveillance Program
December 12, 12:00 p.m.
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, ScD, Edward L. Schneider Assistant Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
Topic: Defining and Measuring Financial Well-Being in Cancer Prevention Research
January 16, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Karen Sfanos, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Urology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Interaction between Inflammatory Microenvironment and Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness in African American Men
February 20, 12:00 p.m.
Bethany Johnson-Javois, MSW, Chief Executive Officer, St. Louis Integrated Health Network
Topic: Leveraging Local Expertise to Accelerate Health Equity and Wellness in the St. Louis Region and Beyond
March 20, 12:00 p.m.
Ross Brownson, PhD, Bernard Becker Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Topic: Designing for Dissemination and Impact: In Search of the Holy Grail
April 17, 12:00 p.m.
Nupam Mahajan, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: ACK1/TNK2 Regulates Androgen Receptor Gene Expression and Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Growth
2017-2018
November 9, 2017
Jennifer Walker, PhD, MPH, University of Melbourne, Australia
Topic: A Novel Colorectal Cancer Risk Prediction Tool (CRISP): From Inception to Implementation, Tales from Down Under
January 25, 2018
Emily Finlayson, MD, Professor of Surgery and Health Policy; Director, Center for Surgery in Older Adults at University of California San Francisco
Topic: Surgery in Older Adults: From Evidence to Action
February 22, 2018
Thomas Maddox, MD, Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine; Director, Health Systems Innovation Lab, Washington University School of Medicine/BJC Healthcare
Topic: The Evolution from Health Services Research to the Health Systems Innovation Lab
March 23, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.
Sunmin Lee, ScD, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Topic: Reducing Colorectal Cancer Disparity among Asian Americans: A Culturally – Adapted RCT
June 28, 2018
Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD, Guy S. Parcel Chair in Public Health; Professor of Biostatistics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Topic: Challenges of a Large Pragmatic Trial: the ALLHAT Experience
2016-2017
August 25, 2016
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences, associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center
Topic: Body Fatness and Cancer: Viewpoint from the IARC Working Group
October 20, 2016
Benjamin Kozower, MD, MPH, Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Topic: Public Reporting of Surgical Outcomes
November 10, 2016
Philip Payne, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Institute for Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Topic: Applied Biomedical Informatics: Data-Driven Approaches to Discovery and Practice
January 19, 2017
Hilary Robbins, MSPH, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Topic: Precision Medicine for Cancer Screening: Applications in Lung and Cervical Cancers
February 23, 2017
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences, associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center
Topic: Precision Prevention: Let’s Avoid Exacerbating Cancer Disparities
March 30, 2017
E.A. Quinn, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Topic: Milk with Altitude: Early Life Exposures in Tibetan Human Milk
April 20, 2017
Ellen Velie, MPH, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Topic: Understanding Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Subtypes in Young Women: Preliminary Findings from the YWHHS
2015-2016
September 17, 2015
Ankur Pandya, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Topic: Statins, Value, and Values
October 8, 2015
Nancy Potischman, PhD, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Topic: Early Life Risk Factors for Adult Cancers
November 12, 2015
Natasha Stout, PhD, Assistant Professor in Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Topic: Filling Evidence Gaps in Breast Cancer Prevention and Control: Examples from Model-Based Analyses
December 10, 2015
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences, associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center, and Carolyn Stoll, MPH
Topic: Inclusion of Individuals with Multiple Chronic Conditions in Randomized Controlled Trials of Behavioral Interventions
January 21, 2016
Rebekka Lee, ScD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Topic: Advancing Implementation and Dissemination Science for Community Health
February 18, 2016
Rebecca Lobb, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: Strategies to Improve Colonoscopy – the STIC study
March 24, 2016
Kevin Hall, PhD, Integrative Physiology Section Chief, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Topic: The Calculus of Calories: Quantitative Physiology of Human Body Weight Regulation
April 21, 2016
Peter Ubel, MD, Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor in the Schools of Business, Public Policy and Medicine at Duke University
Topic: Discussing Healthcare Costs in the Doctor’s Office
May 26, 2016
Johan Hviid Andersen, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Department of Occupational Medicine, University Research Clinic at Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark
Topic: Socialized Medicine in Denmark: Facts and Myths, and Implications for Research in Public Health
2014-2015
September 11, 2014
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Topic: Can We Afford the New Era of Hepatitis C Treatment?
October 23, 2014
Shi-Yi Wang, MD, PhD, Yale School of Public Health
Topic: Decision Modeling for Breast Cancer Interventions
November 13, 2014
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center
Topic: Interventions that Address Social Determinants of Cancer Disparities
January 8, 2015
Amit Amin, MD, MSc, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: Reducing Complications in the Cardiac Cathlab: A Patient-Centered Approach
March 12, 2015
Jeffrey Peipert, MD, PhD, Robert J. Terry Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: The Contraceptive CHOICE Project: Reducing Unintended Pregnancies in St. Louis and Beyond
April 9, 2015
Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, UCSF School of Medicine
Topic: Twitter, Google and Tanning Beds: Are We Ready for Online Cancer Prevention?
May 21, 2015
Aaron Caughey, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Associate Dean for Women’s Health Research and Policy, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
Topic: Measuring Perinatal Outcomes: Methodologic Issues Related to Gestational Age
2013-2014
September 12, 2013
Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, Washington University School of Medicine
“Risk Prediction in Breast Cancer, Development, Validation and Implementation in Clinic: Methodologic Challenges and Lessons Learned”
October 10, 2013
Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
“Studying the Transgenerational and Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease”
November 14, 2013
M. Alan Brookhart, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Can Variation In Medical Practice Be Used To Estimate Treatment Effects?”
December 12, 2013
Mark A. Klebanoff, MD, MPH, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
“Directed Acyclic Graphs: Basic Principles, Diagramming Intent-to-Treat, and Explaining Paradoxes in Perinatal Epidemiology”
January 9, 2014
Germaine Louis, PhD, MS, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
“Impact of Environmental Chemicals on Gynecologic Health: Is There a Connection?”
February 13, 2014
Michael Avidan, MBBCh, Washington University School of Medicine
“My Travails in the Lands of Negative Trials”
March 13, 2014
Erica T. Warner, ScD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
“Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Incidence and Survival: The Role of Subtype”
April 10, 2014
Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Patient-Reported Outcomes and Adverse Event Reporting in Oncology”
May 8, 2014
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Virginia Commonwealth University
“The New Era of Stakeholder Engagement in Health Research, Policy, and Practice”