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  • Dana Dabelea: Developmental Origins of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes- What We Know and Don’t Know

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    Developmental Origins of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes- What We Know and Don’t Know Speakers: Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, and Director of the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) University of Colorado at Denver     Speaker Bio: Dr. Dabelea, MD, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, and Director […]

  • Kannan/Buckley: Assessment of Exposure to Chemicals of Uncertain Body Burden and Multi-panel Chemical Assay for Analysis in ECHO

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    Assessment of Exposure to Chemicals of Uncertain Body Burden and Multi-panel Chemical Assay for Analysis in ECHO Speakers: Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan, PhD Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine       Speaker Bio: Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Environmental Pediatrics at New York University […]

  • Dr. Johnnye Lewis: Navajo Birth Cohort: Understanding Diversity, Disparity, and Resilience Through ECHO

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    Dr. Johnnye Lewis: Navajo Birth Cohort: Understanding Diversity, Disparity, and Resilience Through ECHO ECHO Discovery Summary Navajo Birth Cohort: Understanding Diversity, Disparity, and Resilience through ECHO Dr. Johnnye Lewis of the University of New Mexico gave a presentation where she discussed the ECHO Program’s Navajo Birth Cohort. In 2019, NIH facilitated a data-sharing and use agreement […]

  • Carmen M. Vélez Vega: Community Engagement and Report Back the Story of PROTECT-ECHO in Puerto Rico

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    ECHO Discovery Summary Community Engagement and Report Back: the Story of PROTECT-ECHO in Puerto Rico Carmen M. Vélez Vega, PhD, MSW of the University of Puerto Rico gave a presentation where she discussed the PROTECT-ECHO project in Puerto Rico. PROTECT (Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats) began in 2010 with the goal of understanding why Puerto Rico […]

  • Nathan Stinson, Jr.: Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

    Nathan Stinson, Jr.: Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You ECHO Discovery Summary Understanding Health Disparities: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Nathan Stinson, Jr., PhD, MD, MPH of the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) gave a presentation on understanding health disparities among minorities and underserved […]

  • Lyall/Zimmerman: Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Assessments in ECHO: Validating Measures and Capturing Critical Periods of Development

    Lyall/Zimmerman: Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Assessments in ECHO: Validating Measures and Capturing Critical Periods of Development ECHO Discovery Summary On September 8, Kristen Lyall, ScD of Drexel University and Emily Zimmerman, PhD of Northeastern University gave presentations on their ECHO Opportunities and Infrastructure Fund (OIF) Award Studies. The OIF is an NIH-funded grants mechanism for early investigators […]

  • Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables, Nearables, and Mobile Labs

    Sean Deoni: Decentralizing Pediatric Research: Bringing Science to our Families with Wearables, Nearables, and Mobile Labs ECHO Discovery Summary Sean Deoni, PhD of Brown University, shared his research on MRI techniques and the use of wearable devices to study brain maturation in infants and children. Dr. Deoni discussed how his study’s use of mobile devices […]

  • Christy Porucznik: Systematic Collection of Biospecimens in the Periconceptional Period

    Christy Porucznik: Systematic Collection of Biospecimens in the Periconceptional Period ECHO Discovery Summary Traditional studies investigating environmental exposures during pregnancy often recruit women during their first trimester, and as a result these studies exclude data from around the time of conception and create an incomplete and biased understanding of the exposure’s effect. Environmental exposures experienced […]

  • Bryan Lau: Dealing With Missing variables in Subset of Cohorts Within ECHO and Issues of Heterogeneity and Representativeness

    Bryan Lau: Dealing With Missing variables in Subset of Cohorts Within ECHO and Issues of Heterogeneity and Representativeness ECHO Discovery Summary Bryan Lau, PhD, MHS, ScM of Johns Hopkins University discussed issues of missing information within subsets of ECHO cohorts. Throughout the presentation, Dr. Lau explained how cohort consortia around specific diseases are more likely […]

  • Cella/Blackwell: Mutuality: What PROMIS Brought to ECHO and What ECHO Brought to PROMIS

    Cella/Blackwell: Mutuality: What PROMIS Brought to ECHO and What ECHO Brought to PROMIS ECHO Discovery Summary On January 12, David Cella, PhD (left) and Courtney Blackwell, PhD, EdM (right) of Northwestern University presented on the development of the Patient-reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). PROMIS is a unified and adaptable measurement system for evaluating and […]

 

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