Epidemiology Seminar Series

Mike Saag, MD

Professor of Medicine, Disivion of Infectious Diseases, Director , UAB Center for AIDS Research

A tale of tewo epidemics: HIV and COVID

Ananda Dasanayake, BDS, MPH, PhD, FACE

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, NYU

Revisiting Oral Health and Pregnancy Outcomes

Jennifer A. Smith, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Epidemiology, University of Michigan

A social epigenomics approach to health disparities

Kerem Shuval, PhD

Executive Director of Epidemiology The Cooper Institute

Physical Activity & Health: Insights from Public Healsth and Behavioral Economics

Jeff Wickliffe, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB

Environmental Exposures and Impacts on Health: Opportunities for Collaboration

Aman Wadhwa, MD, MSPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, UAB

Body composition and adverse outcomes in childhood cance

Ferhat Zengul, PhD, MBA, Macc

Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, UAB

Accessing and Utilizing Research Databases Available through WRDS

Joel Palefsky, MD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease Specialist UCSF

Prevention of HPV related cancers in people living with HIV

Latesha Elorpe, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Medical Education, UAB

Missed Oportunties: Why are Young, Black MSM in Alabama not using PrEP?

Sarah Tartof, PhD, MPH

Research Scientist II, Department of Research and Evaluation, Division of Epidemiologic Research, Kaiser Permanente

Text-And Web-based Monitoring of Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination: The Kaiser Permanente Side Effect Monitor

Todd Edwards, PhD

Association Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Associate Director, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Director or Graduate Studies, Human Geneetics, Director, VUMC Tl1 Training Program, VUMC

Applying polygenic scores to association and prediction studies using electronic health records

Hemant Tiwari, PhD

Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UAB

Role of genetic, epigenetic, and immune response in Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) reinfction

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Steffanie Strathdee, PhD

Associate Dean and Professor of Epidemiology, University of San Diego

A Personal Perspective on the Next Pandemic: Antimicrobial Resistance

Merry-Lynn McDonald, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics, UAB

Genetic Epidemiology of Osteoarthritis in the Million Veteran Program (MVP)

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Kai Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health Yale School of Public Health

Climate change and health: Connecting the dots

Priya Palta, PhD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Preserving Cognitive Function and Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease through Cardiovascular Health

Meet the Alumni/ Homecoming

Courtney P. Williams, DrPH, Rachel Rice, MPH, and Ryan Buckman, MPH

Meet the Alumni

Emily Vogtmann, PhD, MPH

Earl Stadtman Investigator, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, NCI

The human microbiome and cancer: New opportunities for population-based research

Krishmita Siwakoti, MBBS

Assistant Professor, Heersink School of Medicine, UAB

Care for Transgender individuals

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Francesmary Modugno, MS, PhD, MPH

Professor, Obstetrics, Gyneoclogy, and Reproductive Sciences University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Harnessing the Power of Ovarian Cancer Consortia: New Insights Into Old Theories

D. Scott Batey, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, UAB

Road to Zero: Geographic Differences from HIV Diagnosis to Time to Viral Suppression in the Deep South

Byron Jaeger, PhD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Biostatistics

table.glue: An R Package to Hold Your Manuscript Together

George Howard, DrPH

Professor, UAB Department of Biostatistics

Where (and What to Do) to Target Interventions to Reduce Stroke Disparities…Prevention or Treatment

Gregory A. Roth, MD, MPH

Assoc. Professor, UW/Institiute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases

Amy R. Sapkota, PhD

Professor, University of Maryland

Reimagining Solutions to Address Microbiological Risks of Agricultural Water Reuse

Matthew Might, PhD

Professor, UAB Gim-Precision Medicine

Precision Medicine and Epidemiology

• Timothy Showalter, MD, PhD
• Gregory Calip, PharmD, MPH
• PhD Jess Tyus, MBA, MPH

• Medical Director
• Senior Quantitative Scientist
• Senior Manager Academic Partnerships

Flatiron Health Database

Nathan Erdmann, MD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Insights into Morbidity and Mortality Risk in COPD: The Pulmonary Vascular Phenotype

Pamela Scorza, PhD

Asst. Professor, Columbia University Medical Center

Mother's Childhoods and the Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health Risk: E pigenetic and Behavioral Pathways

Gargya Malla, MBBS, MPH

Student, UAB Department of Epidemiology

County-level Social Determinats of Health, County topologies and COVID-19

Despina Stavrinos, PhD

Assoc. Professor, Director of the Translational Research for Injkury Prevention (TRIP) Laboratory

Behavioral Science Approach to Understanding and Preventing Motor Vehicle Crashes

Paul Erwin, MD, DrPH

Dean, UAB School of Public Health

From John Snow to COVID-19: Epidemics and Pandemics

Dori Pekmezi, PhD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Health Behavior

Testing Scalable, IVR-supported Physical Activity Interventions in the Black Belt

Erica C. Bjornstad, MD, PhD, MPH

Assist. Professor, UAB Department of Pediatrics

Global Acute Kidney Injury

J. Michael Wells, MD, MSPH

Assist. Professor, UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Insights into Morbidity and Mortality Risk in COPD: The Pulmonary Vascular Phenotype

Shae Duerring, MD, NRP, FAAP, FACEP

Assist. Professor, UAB Pediatric Emergency Medicine

COVID-19 in Pediatrics

Bertha Hidalgo, PhD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

COVID-19: An Epidemiologic Perspective

Ms. Kimberly Kirklin

Director, UAB Institute for Arts in Medicine

Arts in Health: The Mounting Case for the Arts as a Global Tool for Health and Wellbeing

John Waterbor, MD, DrPH

Assoc. Professor (retired), UAB Department of Epidemiology

CaRES Summer Cancer Research Program, 2020

Wei Li, PhD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences

Risk Factors for AD: What We Know from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Intitiative

Christina Muzny, MD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

The Tricky Trichomonas: A Tale of a Neglected Sexually Tranmitted Infection

Steven N Austad, PhD

Professor and Chair, UAB Department of Biology

The First 150 Year Old (Wo)Man: How Soon? How Desirable?

Norrina Allen, PhD

Assoc. Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medcine, Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Pediatrics

Cardiovascular Health Across the Life Course

Bruce Korf, MD

Assoc. Dean for Genomic Medicine & Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine

Population Genomics at UAB: The Alabama Gebomic Health Initiative

James Wells, MD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonology

Insights into Morbidity and Mortality Risk in COPD: The Pulmonary Vascular Phenotype

Hemant Tiwari, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Biostatistics

Polygenic Risk Scores for Cardiovascular Diseases

Douglas Morgan, MD, MPH

Professor and Division Director, UAB Department of Medicine/Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Sin Fronteras: The Epidemiology of Gastric Cancer in the Americas

Nicole Davis Armstrong, PhD

Post-Doctoral Trainee, UAB Department of Epidemiology

Integrative multi-omic Analyses indentify novel Biomarkers for Recurrent Stroke in Participants from the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) Clinical Trial

Brittany Shelton, DrPH, MPH

Researcher IV, UAB Surgery - Transplantation

Explaining the Gender Disparity in Liver Transplantation

Henna Budwani, PhD, MPH

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Health Policy

Developiing a Research Agenda with High-Risk Stigmatized Populations

Edward E. Partridge, MD

Retired Professor and Center Director, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center

Non-Clinical Navigation to Manage Social Determinants of Health

Aadia Rana, MD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

A Path to Ending the HIV Epidemic in the Deep South: Improving Postpartum Retention in HIV Care

Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS

Asst. Professor, Emory University, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Sleep Epidemiology: Implications for Cardiovascular Health Disparities Research

Krystle A. Lang Kuhs, PhD, MPH

Asst. Professor, Vanderbilt University, Epidemiology, School of Medicine

Leveraging the Clinical Infrastructure for Biomarker Discovery in HPV Research

Jennifer Blakus, PhD, MPH

Asst. Professor, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Epidemiology

Improving Vaginal Health to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infectious: Promises, Pitfalls and Perils

Shubhavu Saha, PhD

US Centers for Disease Contorl and Prevention, Climate Section

Stitch in Time in a Changing Clime: Translation Science into Public Health Action

Donaldson F. Conserve, PhD, MS

Asst. Professor, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Health Promotion, Education and Behavior

Developing and Implementing the HIV Self-Testing Education and Promotion (STEP) Intervention for Networks of Men in Tanzasnia

Kevin Fontaine, PhD

Professor and Chair, UAB Department of Health Behavior

Moonshot for Type 3 Diabetes

John Waterbor, MD, DrPH

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

CaRES Summer Research Program, 2019

Ulrich Broeckel, M D

Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Using iPSCderived Cells for Disease Modeling and Molecular Epidemiology

Christina Muzny, MD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Microbial Interactions between Gardnerella vaginalis, Prevotella bivia, and Atopobium vaginae prior to Incident Bacterial Vaginosis

Erik Hess, MD

Professor, UAB Department of Emerency Medicine

Engagging Patients in Emergency Care Decisions: From Efficacy to Implementation

Nita Limdi, PharmD, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Neurology

The Role of Pharmacogenomics in Prediction of Drug Response: From Research to Practice Policy

Kelly Kenzik, PhD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Hematology and Oncology

Morbidity in Cancer Survivorship

Charles Rotimi, PhD

Senior Investigator, NHGRI Metabolic, Cardiovascualr and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch

The Interface of Our Genomes and Our Environments In Health and Disease

Julie Plasencia, PhD

Asst. Professor, University of Kentucky

Cultural Influences on Diet of Mexican-Americans: Implication for Health Interventions

Veronika (Nika) Fedirko, PhD

Asst. Professo, Emory University

Vitamin D, Calcium, Gut Barrier Function, and Colorectal Neoplasms

Devin Mann, MD

Professor, New York University

Signal and Noise: Can We Restore Balance to the Clinician Digital Experience?

Upender Manne, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Pathology

Molecular Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Translational Opportunities

Franco Ricardo, MD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectioius Diseases

The Evolving Hepatitis C Epidemiology in the United States

Paul Muntner, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

The Role of an Epidemiologist in Guideline Development: The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guideline

James Cimino, PhD

Director, UAB Informatics Institute

Informatics forTranslating Clinical Research Findings to Populations: Small and Big Data

Tamar Sofer, PhD

Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Havard Medical School

Generating and Using Polygenic Risk Scores for Complex Traits in Studies with Diverse Populations

Luz Padilla, MD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

The Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center of Alabama

• Matt Mefford
• Favel Mondesir

• PhD Student, UAB Department of Epidemiology
• PhD Student, UAB Department of Epidemiology

• The Association of Hypetension, Hypertensioin Duratioin and Control with Incident Heart Gailure
• A Research Potpourri: The Bearuty of Being Well Blended (rounded)

Akinyemi I Ojesina, MD, PhD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

Oncopathogenomics: Investigating the Interplay of Infection and Genomic Alterations in Cancer

Staci Sudenga, PhD, MPH

Asst. Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Division of Epidemiology

Malignancies in People with HIV

Stefan G. Kertesz, MD

Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Preventive Medicine

A Crisis of Opioids and the Limits of Prescription Control: Epidemiology, Clinical Policy and Personal Reflections

Greer Burkholder, MD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Cardiovascular Disease in People Living with HIV

Sabrina Noel, PhD, RD

Asst. Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

Genetic Admixture, Dietary Quality, and Bone Health among Caribbean Hispanic/Latino Adults

Rachel Lee, MD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Improvement of Bacterial Susceptibility to Fluoroquinolones After Implementation an Antimicrobial Stewardship Restriction Program: A Decade-Long Experience

Angelo Gaffo, MD, MSPH

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology

Epidemiology of Huperuricemia and Gout

Susan Davies, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Health Behavior

Using Musicians as Messengers and Change Agents to Prevent HIV among African-American Emerging Adults

John Waterbor, MD, DrPH

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

The UAB Cancer Research Experiences for Students (CaRES) Program

Craig Wilson, MD

Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology & Sparkman Center

Impacting the HIV Continuum of Care for Domestic Youth through Community Coalition-Driven Structural Change Objectives

Sibylle Krisatensen, DrPH

One Heart World-wide

The One Heart World-Wide Network of Safety Model

Richard Kennedy, MD. PhD

Gerontology/Geriatrics/Palliative Care, Heersink UAB School of Medicine

The Epidemiology of Delirium

Virginia Howard, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

What is it About Your Stroke Risk and Where You Live (and When You Lived There)

Shakira Sglia, ScD

Assoc. Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Sex Differences in the Association Between Child Adversity and Cardiometabolic Health

Jane R. Schwebke, MD

Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Pathogenesis of Bacterial Vaginosis - Reaffirming Gardnerella vaginalis as the Primary Pathogen

• A. Edward Khan, PhD
• German Henostroza, MD
• Eric Morgan, MPH DIPM

• Jefferson County Department of Health
• UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases
• Alabama Department of Public Health

Panel Discussion TB in Alabama's Correctional Settings

Allison Roebling, DVM, MPH

Alabama State Health Department

Infectious Disease Epidemiology in State Public Health

Russell Griffin, PhD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

Do Guns Kill? An Epidemiological Perspective

Daheia Barr-Anderson, PhD, MSPH

University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology

Stopping the Obesity Pipeline: Innovative Interventions for African American Females

Mauricio Maza, MD MPH

Basic Health

PREVENTABLE Model: A Multi-step Approach to Changing a Secondary Cervical Cancer Prevention Paradigm

E. Turner Overton, MD

Assoc. Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseses

HIB and Aging: A New Challenge

Edward Khan, MD

Medical Director, Jefferson County Department of Health

An Overview of Disease Control Activties at the Jefferson County Department of Health

Rubin Pillay, PhD

Professor and Asst Dean, Global Health Innovation, UAB Department of Medicine, Dean's Office

The Future of Health Care

Ashley I Naimi, PhD

Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public Health, Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)

G Computation to Adjust for Noncompliance in Randomized Trials: Estimating the Per Protocol Effect of Low-dose Aspirin on Pregnancy Outcomes

Jennifer Haven, PhD

Assoc. Professor, Kentucky University Department of Behavioral Science

Prescription Drug Abuse and the Emergence of Hepatitis C in Rural Appalachia

Robin Lanzi, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Health Behavior

Community Based Approaches to Social and Behavioral Sciences

John Booth, PhD

Postdoctoral Tainee, UAB Department of Epidemiology

Masked Hypertension: A Surprise that Can be Surmised?

Bertha Hidalgo, PhD

Asst. Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology

Genomics in Diverse Populations - Advantages, Limitations, and Future Directions

Margaret Nyaku, MPH

Health Scientist, Center for Disease Control

The Medical Monitoring Project

• Nalini Sathiakumar, MD, DrPH
• Meghan Tirpre, DRPH

• Professor, UAB Department of Epidemiology
• Scientist I, UAB Department of Epidemiolgy

Oil Spill Studies - Past and Present

S. Louis Bridges, MD, PhD

Professor, UAB Department of Medicine/Infectious Disease

Rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans: Lesson learned from the CLEAR Registry

Susan Gapsture, PhD, MPH

Vice President, American Cancer Society Epidemiology Research Program

Insights in Cancer Epidemiology from the Cancer Prevention Studies