ASPH/APHA Reception

Reception for alumni and friends of the School during the annual ASPH/APHA meeting, held this year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For more information, please contact Tamara Burdic at 206-221-6343.

An Evening for Alumni

Lean Management Applications in Health Care

Keynote Speaker: David K. Wessner, President & CEO, Park Nicollet Health Services

Presentation followed by panel discussion, Q&A session, and reception.

For more information, please contact Shanon Radford at 206-616-2978.

Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Grace John-Stewart

On December 1, World AIDS Day, Dr. Grace John-Stewart will present the School of Public Health's Fall Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture / School of Medicine Science in Medicine Lecture. Her talk is titled, Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1: From Discovery to Delivery.

For more information, please contact Holly Weese.

Mexico Border Health Issues

Dr. Hugo Vilchis is the Director of the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center at New Mexico State University. He is Associate Professor at New Mexico State University with the Health Science Department (College of Health and Social Services) and with the Molecular Biology Graduate program. He is also a Professor at El Colegio de Chihuahua and the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, higher education and research institutions in Mexico.

He obtained his medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1982 and his MPH from the School of Public Health of Mexico in 1985. Dr. Vilchis studied Epidemiology and Surveillance in Brazil in 1986.

Dr. Vilchis' public health career started in Mexico City in 1980 working for the General Directorate of Epidemiology, Mexican Secretary of Health. He was Department Chief of the National Immunization Programs in Mexico and during his tenure, children immunization rates rose to 90%. In 1989, he was appointed to the Pan American Health Organization, first as the National Advisor for the Immunization Program in Mexico and in 1992 as the Medical Epidemiologist of the Field Office in El Paso, Texas. In 1996, Dr. Vilchis joined New Mexico State University and the NM Office of Border Health, where he developed the Border Epidemiology & Environmental Health Center.

He has been working on many different projects involving epidemiology, surveillance, community health, and international health. Dr. Vilchis obtained his expertise working in the United States and Latin American countries like Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala, among many others.

For more information, please contact Ann Vander Stoep .

PHG Seminar: "What Causes Cancer in our Germ Cells?"

Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular disease: design, conduct and findings from the CHARGE Consortium.

Nicole L. Glazer, PhD, Epidemiologist, UW, CHRU

Brief bio: Dr. Glazer received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She currently works as a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the UW Cardiovascular Health Research Unit. Her areas of interest include genetics, biomarkers and pharmacoepidemiology. In her post-graduate work she has mostly focused on genome-wide association studies.

Recommended reading:

1. Pearson TA, Manolio TA. How to interpret a genome-wide association study. JAMA. 2008;299:1335-44.
2. Newton-Cheh C, et al. Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study. Nat Genet. 2009;41:399-406.

For more information, please contact Ann Vander Stoep .