PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Amy Trentham Dietz

HSLC - Room 1244
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Mammography screening for breast cancer: simulation modeling evidence to support guidelines Mammography screening for breast cancer has been widespread in the U.S. for 40 years. Continuous improvement in screening technology and advances in breast cancer …

PHS Monday Seminar Rankin-Skatrud Memorial Seminar Featuring Anirban Basu, Professor at the University of Washington

HSLC - Room 1244
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Clinical Algorithmic Discrimination Learning Goals: Define algorithmic discrimination Overview concerns regarding algorithmic discrimination Understand factors leading to algorithmic discrimination When should we include/exclude race as a predictor in algorithms Understanding pathways to minimize algorithmic discrimination …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Yoav Ben-Shlomo, University of Bristol

Virtual
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

How does life course epidemiology help us understand disease and aging? Life course epidemiology emerged in the 1990s as a response to the growing rift between differing theoretical models of disease etiology. As such it …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Luke Funk, UW Department of Surgery

HSLC - Room 1244
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Teaching Obesity Treatment Options to Adult Learners (TOTAL) – An ongoing multi-site behavioral RCT within the Veterans Health Administration Learning goals: Review obesity treatment options in the VA Discuss barriers to obesity care Discuss results …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Mary Ryan, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences & Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Virtual - Contact Tiffany (tdpence@wisc.edu) for Zoom link
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Sequential sampling in prospective observational studies Many factors must be taken into account when designing an observational study. Unlike randomized or experimental studies, observational studies cannot mitigate the effects of confounding through randomization, and such …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Sheryl Bedno, Chief Medical Officer, DHS

HSLC (Room 1244)
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Sheryl Bedno, MD, DrPH, CIP will be speaking about Challenges in Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance: Lessons from the US Military Dr. Sheryl Bedno is the Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist in the Bureau …