April 8, 2008
12:15-1:30pm, Buttrick 162
Are Public Health Practice and Academia in the Same Business? Emerging Issues in the Field of Public Health
Susan M. Allan, MD, JD, MPH
Most people who work in public health agencies do not have formal public health training. Does it matter? Is academia relevant to the current or future practice of public health in the US? When a problem is described as "a public health problem," who is responsible for addressing that problem? There are a number of national trends and activities that could significantly change the field of public health.
Dr. Allan recently accepted the position of Public Health Director for the Oregon Department of Human Services in Portland, Oregon. For twenty years, she served as the Director for the Arlington County Department of Human Services in Arlington, Virginia. Her responsibilities there included serving as the medical supervisor of public health clinics, and as a public health physician.
Dr. Allan earned her medical and law doctoral degrees from Harvard University; and she received her Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She was appointed to the governing board of the Council on Education for Public Health in 2004 by the American Public Health Association.
April 2, 2008
12:15-1:30pm, Buttrick 222
Families and Children: a Pediatrician’s Perspective
Casual Conversation with Joe Lentz, M.D.
As managing partner of Green Hills Pediatric Associates, Dr. Joe Lentz practiced pediatrics in the Nashville community for 40 years. He received his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt and later attended Vanderbilt University Medical School. He has been active in the American Academy of Pediatrics for the past 20 years, including a term as president of the Tennessee Chaper of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
March 12, 2008
12:30-1:30pm, Buttrick 162
Improving Patient Outcomes in the Current Healthcare Environment: Reducing the Risk of Surgical Site Infections
Casual Conversation with Charles E. Edmiston, Jr., PhD, SM (ASCP), CIC (CBIC). Dr. Edmiston is Professor of Surgery, Pathology and Otolaryngology & Hospital Epidemiologist at Froedtert Hospital/Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also the Director of the Surgical Microbiology Research Laboratory in the Department of Surgery. He is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of American, Surgical Infection Society, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Edmiston completed his doctorate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, joining the surgical faculty in Milwaukee in 1984 to develop a surgical infectious disease research program. For the past 12 years, Dr. Edmiston has served as a consultant to the Food & Drug Administration as an expert on the infection control implications of implantable biomedical devices. In 2006 Dr. Edmiston received the FDA Advisory Committee Service Award for distinguished governmental service.
February 15, 2008
12:00-1:00pm, Buttrick 222
MHS and Medical School: Applications, Interviews, and the First Year
Casual Conversation with Sarah Deery, Daniel Israel and Disha Kumar. Sarah and Daniel have both been admitted to several medical schools and Disha is in her first year of Medical School at Vanderbilt. Topics will include how MHS contributed to their applications, what MHS-related questions were fielded during interviews, and what the first-year of Medical School is like for an MHS graduate.
January 14, 2008
4:10pm, Buttrick 202
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Antidepressant Drug Use
Jie Chen, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ms. Chen is a candidate for a position in Health Policy and Health Economics in the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.
December 5, 2007
12:00-1:15pm, Buttrick 162
Mining for GEMS: Results from the Girl's Health Enrichment Multi-site Clinical Trial
Bettina Beech, Associate Professor; Associate Director of Health Disparities Research, VICC Director, Public Health Research and Evaluation, DRTC Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health
November 6, 2007
4:00-5:30pm, Wilson 126A
Local Innovation in Public Health: Barriers and Opportunities from a Governance Perspective
Scott Burris, J.D., James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Associate Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health; Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
November 6, 2007
12:10-1:15pm, Buttrick 222
Law for Public Health
Casual Conversation with Scott Burris, J.D., James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Associate Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health; Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
October 16, 2007 [co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Health]
4:00-5:30pm, Buttrick 316
The State of the Health of Children in the Arab Countries
Visiting Professor Dr. Najwa Khuri-Bulos, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Jordan University, is working together with VU Dr. Natasha Halasa, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Dr. Sten Vermund, Institute for Global Health, to establish a partnership between Jordan University and Vanderbilt University. The primary mission of this collaboration is to facilitate a formal exchange and interaction in Teaching, Service and Research between the faculty and students at both institutions.
October 10, 2007
12:10-1:15pm, Buttrick 222
Pathways to Careers in Public Health
Casual Conversation with Darcy Freedman, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Community Research and Action Program, Department of Human and Organizational Development
September 18, 2007
12:00-1:30, Buttrick 162
Housing Niches, Poverty, and Health: Exploring the Connections
Susan Saegert, Director of the Center for Human Environments and Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Seagert is a Visiting Professor this semester in the Community Research and Action Program, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
March 30, 2007 [co-sponsored by VUMC Center for Biomedical Society & Ethics]
Noon-1:00pm, Light Hall, Room 202, VUMC
Richard M. Zaner Lectureship
Hearts of Darkness: Heart Transplantation and Race in the 1960s
Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
March 29, 2007 [co-sponsored by Department of History]
3:30-5:00pm with reception following, Johnson Black Cultural Center Auditorium
Banking on the Body: Money, Metaphor, and Meaning in Transfusion and Transplantation
Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Section of the History of Medicine, YaleUniversitySchool of Medicine
March 26, 2007
Casual Conversation with Jorn Heldrup, MD
Dr. Heldrup, Senior Health Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark, has worked in Africa for more than 10 years as a member of the Danish foreign service. He has also worked with the World Health Organization in Geneva, and with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for health care delivery in the developing world.
February 26, 2007 [co-sponsored by Film Studies and W&GS]
4:00 showing followed by discussion, Sarratt Cinema
The Real Helen Keller (2001) Directed by Liz Crow
Discussion led by Paul Young, Director of Film Studies, Vanderbilt University and Heather Laine Talley, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
January 24, 2007
12:15-1:30, Buttrick 222
Place Matters: Multi-level modeling of Health Disparities in Diabetes
David Schlundt, Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
November 15, 2006
12:15-1:30, Johnson Black Cultural Center
Race, Hispanic Ethnicity, and Immigrant Differences in Asthma during Childhood
Katharine Donato, Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
(Podcast of this lecture available at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2006/11/17/lecture-race-hispanic-ethnicity-and-immigrant-differences-in-asthma-during-childhood)
October 28, 2006 [co-sponsored by MHS]
Southeastern College Art Conference/ Mid-America College Art Association
10:00-11:45, Student Life Center: The Affecting Role of Visual Arts in Healthcare Settings
2:15-4:00, Student Life Center: Disability and Visual Culture
October 25, 2006
12:15-1:30, Johnson Black Cultural Center
Defining Disability: Historical Perspectives
Lisa Pruitt, Director of the Gore Center and Associate Professor of History, MTSU
October 10, 2006 [co-sponsored by the Dean’s Office, College of A&S]
5:00-6:30, Buttrick Atrium
Reception in honor of Matthew Ramsey, Founding Director of MHS
September 29, 2006 [sponsored by Women’s & Gender Studies]
4:00-5:30, Stevenson 4327
Can Disability be Chic?: High Fashion Images of Disability in Late Capitalism
Rosemary Garland Thomson, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University, will present a paper from her project on staring.
September 29, 2006 [co-sponsored by Women’s & Gender Studies]
12:00-2:00 Buttrick 222
Disability Studies: A Conversation
Rosemary Garland Thomson, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University.
At this lunch, we will be discussing Prof. Thomson’s paper “Feminist Disability Studies,” Signs: Winter 2005, 30,2: 1557-87.
September 12, 2006
4:00-5:30, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Public Health Literacy in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Conversation
Ernest Drucker, Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC; and Pyser Edlesack, Director of Field Education at City College Medical School, NYC.
Wednesday, March 12
