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Rob McConnell: Vaping: Risks to Children and Youth

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Vaping: Risks to Children and Youth

Speaker:

Rob McConnell, MD

Keck School of Medicine

University of Southern California

 

 

Speaker Bio: Rob McConnell is a physician and environmental epidemiologist, and Professor of Preventive Medicine. He directs the NIH/Environmental Protection Agency-supported Southern California Children’s Environmental Health Center. He has studied the effects of air pollution on children’s health, including the development of asthma and lung function deficits, and early markers for cardiovascular disease. Dr. McConnell has investigated susceptibility to the effects of environmental exposures conferred by psychosocial stress and social factors, exercise, genetics and co-exposures associated with housing conditions.

Topic:  Vaping

Date: Wednesday, July 8, 1 to 2pm

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Jim Gern: An Integrated Approach to Identifying Early Life Causes of Childhood Asthma

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An Integrated Approach to Identifying Early Life Causes of Childhood Asthma

Speaker:

James Gern

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison

 

 

 

Speaker Bio: Dr. James (Jim) Gern’s research group is conducting several NIH-funded translational research studies to define the role of viral infections and other environmental factors in the initiation and disease activity of asthma, and to identify interactions between host, viral and environmental factors (e.g. bacteria) that determine the severity of respiratory illnesses.

Outcome Areas: Airways

Date: Monday, April 20, 1 to 2pm

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Paneth/Hirko: Identifying Opportunities for Implementation Science Approaches in the ECHO Program

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Identifying Opportunities for Implementation Science Approaches in the ECHO Program

Speaker:

Nigel Paneth, MD, MPH

Michigan State University

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Hirko, PhD, MPH

Michigan State University

 

 

 

About the Speakers:

Nigel Paneth is a pediatrician and perinatal and child health epidemiologist with a particular interest in the causes and prevention of childhood neurodevelopmental handicap, especially cerebral palsy. After training in pediatrics and epidemiology, Dr. Paneth began his academic career at Columbia University in 1978 in the newly established Sergievsky Center, a research unit created to examine the etiology of epilepsy and other brain disorders. There he conducted studies of the relationship of perinatal medical care to patterns of fetal and infant mortality, particularly in premature infants. Dr. Paneth’s NIH-supported case-control study of cerebral palsy (CP) from 2009-2012 showed that considerable amounts of mRNA are reliably preserved on newborn blood spots, and hat gene expression in the newborn period differs in children who will later develop CP. His continued interest in CP is reflected in serving on the international task force on the definition and classification of CP.

Kelly Hirko is an epidemiologist and community-based researcher focusing on the role of lifestyle and  behavioral factors on health disparities. Kelly recently completed the NCI’s Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer facilitated course and is interested in investigating the implementation of evidence-based interventions in tobacco cessation and interested in physical activity to address rural cancer disparities. Kelly earned her Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Michigan State University.

Outcome Areas: Airways

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 1 to 2pm

Presentation Overview:

Drs. Paneth and Hirko will use their cumulative epidemiology expertise to discuss opportunities with ECHO for implementation of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practives into routine practice, and to improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare.

 

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Roz Wright: Advancing Discovery in ECHO: Creating a Transdisciplinary Learning Culture Through Use of Life Course Models

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Advancing Discovery in ECHO: Creating a Transdisciplinary Learning Culture Through Use of Life Course Models

Speaker:

Rosalind (Roz) Wright, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Pediatrics

 

 

 

About the Speaker: Rosalind J Wright MD, MPH, is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Life Course Health Research in the Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine & Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York.  She is also Dean of Translational Biomedical Sciences for the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), a clinician scientist and Program Director and Principal Investigator of Conduits, the Institute for Translational Sciences for the Mount Sinai Health System (the NCATs-funded CTSA).

She is an internationally recognized clinician scientist and life course epidemiologist with transdisciplinary training in molecular biology, environmental health, social determinants, and stress mechanisms. Her background includes transdisciplinary training and expertise in environmental exposure assessment as well as genetics, epigenetics, and psychosocial stress measurement applied to environmental health studies across the life course.

Outcome Areas: Neurodevelopment; Pre-, peri, and postnatal; Airways

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 1 to 2pm

Presentation Overview:

Lessons learned from developing a transdisciplinary team science and making discoveries at the intersections of various research disciplines outside of any one individual field.

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