Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities The goal of the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) is to promote and support research that comprehensively integrates social and biological factors within a multilevel framework in understanding the determinants of minority health and health disparities. Persistent and pronounced differences in health by race/ethnicity exist for multiple health outcomes. Despite repeated documentation of these disparities, there is still substantial debate on the driving forces behind them. Through research projects, pilot grants, and dissemination activities CIAHD aims to promote integrative approaches that lead to more complete understanding and more effective policies and interventions. CIAHD is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the Jackson Heart Study (through its two partners, Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi Medical Center). Visit our website at www.ciahd.org. For more information contact [email protected] or call 734-­‐763-­‐5974. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH: TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE – March 26, 2015 LOCATION: Drexel University, Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA TIME SESSION MODERATORS/SPEAKERS 8:00 – 8:45 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Nesbitt Hall, Main Lobby Area 8:45 – 9:00 AM Ruth Auditorium WELCOME / INTRODUCTIONS •
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9:00 – 12:00 PM Ruth Auditorium 8:50 – 9:00 AM 9:00 – 10:00 AM 10:00 – 10:30 AM MORNING SESSION SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES: PLENARY SESSION Keynote Address: Priorities for Cardiovascular Health Disparities Research Moderated Discussion Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Principal investigator CIAHD Research Project 1 10:30 – 11:00 AM 11:00 – 12:00 PM 12:00 – 12:30 PM Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean, Drexel School of Public Health Dorothy M. Castille, PhD, Program Director, Division of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities, NIH NETWORKING BREAK Translational Research for Cardiovascular Health Disparities: Where are the Gaps? Moderated Discussion Uchechukwu K. A. Sampson, MD, MPH, MBA, MSc(Oxon), MS, FACC, Chief, Translation Research Branch, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS), NIH/NHLBI James S. Jackson, PhD, Co-­‐Director CIAHD and Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 3 12:30 – 2:00 PM LUNCH nd
Paul Peck Alumni Center, 3141 Chestnut Street (Located on SE corner of 32 and Market St., follow walkway to entrance on the side of the building between Market St. and Chestnut St.) 2:00 – 4:30 PM Ruth Auditorium 2:00 – 2:05 PM AFTERNOON SESSION SESSION OVERVIEW Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS [SESSION I] 2:05 – 3:05 PM Presentation: The Social Patterning of Sleep: Associations of Individual Socioeconomic Status, Neighborhood Characteristics and Psychosocial Stressor with Sleep in the Jackson Heart Study Dayna Johnson, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program in Sleep Epidemiology, Program in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH: TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE – March 26, 2015 LOCATION: Drexel University, Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA 3:05 – 3:15 Presentation: Longitudinal Associations of Racial Residential Segregation with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Kiarri Kershaw, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University Presentation: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the Jackson Heart Study: Implications for Action Moderated Discussion Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Integrated Approaches to Health Disparities, Drexel University School of Public Health 3:15– 3:30 PM Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core NETWORKING BREAK EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS [SESSION II] Presentation: Neighborhood Maggie Hicken, MPH, PhD, Research Investigator, Survey Research Center, Context and Racial Inequalities Institute for Social Research, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal in Cardiovascular Disease: The Medicine, University of Michigan Role of Kidney Disease and APOL1 High Risk Variants 3:30 – 4:30 PM Presentation: Is there an Association between Goal-­‐
Striving Stress and Cardiovascular Disease? Milton Dawkins, MS, Daniel Hale Williams Scholar, Jackson State University Presentation: Working with Communities to Use Evidence-­‐
base Programs: The Getting People in Sync (G.P.S) PreDiabetes Prevention Project in African American Churches 4:30 – 4:40 Moderated Discussion Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health, Dorothy M. Castille, PhD, Program Director, Division of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities, NIH 4:40– 4:50 PM SESSION WRAP-­‐UP 5:00 – 6:00 PM City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Tour (Trolley) Assemble Nesbitt Hall, Lobby Area; Boarding at 5:00pm NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH: TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO – March 27, 2015 LOCATION: Drexel University, Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA TIME SESSION SPEAKERS/MODERATORS/FACILITATORS 8:00 – 8:45 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Nesbitt Hall, Main Lobby Area 8:45 – 9:00 AM 9:00 – 12:00 PM Ruth Auditorium 9:00 – 10:20 AM WELCOME / OVERVIEW OF SESSION Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and Education Core MORNING SESSION Multilevel Interventions in CVD Prevention 9:00 – 9:30 AM Keynote Address: Multilevel Interventions in CVD Prevention: Triumphs, Challenges, and Opportunities Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities 9:30 – 10:00 AM Presentation: Patient, Family, and Community Resources to Improve Hypertension Disparities: The ACT Study Moderated Discussion L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, General Internist, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD, Co-­‐Principal Investigator, CIAHD 10:00 – 10:20 AM 10:20 – 10:50 AM 10:50 – 11:30 AM 11:30 – 12:00 PM 12:00 – 2:00 PM Presentation: Get Healthy Philly: A Multi-­‐Pronged Strategy to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Philadelphia Moderated Discussion NETWORKING BREAK Giridhar Mallya, MD, MSHP, Director of Policy and Planning, Philadelphia Department of Public Health Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD, Co-­‐Principal Investigator, CIAHD AFTERNOON SESSION WORKING LUNCH AND CAREER ROUNDTABLES (Box lunches are located in Main Lobby Area, Nesbitt Hall) rd
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1:30 – 1:40 PM Round Table 1: Translational Research Facilitator(s): Giridhar Mallya, MD / Lisa A. Cooper, PhD WRAP-­‐UP / NEXT STEPS / EVALUATION BIOGRAPHIES -­‐ CIAHD Leadership BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Drexel University School of Public Health Director and Principal Investigator, CIAHD Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 1 Email: [email protected] Dr. Diez Roux is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Drexel University School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel she was Chair of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Diez Roux has been an international leader in the investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Recent areas of work include social environment-­‐gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America. She has been a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Factors and Health and is a Co-­‐Director of the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health. Diez Roux has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees including most recently the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) of the National Center for Health Statistics, the Committee on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment of the International Council for Science (ISCUS) and the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Public Health. She was awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Award for her contributions to public health by the American Public Health Association. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Diez Roux received an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ James S. Jackson, PhD James S. Jackson, PhD Director and Research Professor Institute for Social Research Professor of Psychology and Health Behavior and Health Education University of Michigan Co-­‐Director CIAHD, Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 3 Email: [email protected] Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Director of the Institute for Social Research, all at the University of Michigan. He is also the Co-­‐
Director of CIAHD. His research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life-­‐
course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora. He is past Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and past national president of the Black Students Psychological Association and Association of Black Psychologists. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association, and recently received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Jackson is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted, “The National Survey of American Life.” He is also directing the “The Family Survey across Generations and Nations” and the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation supported “National Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Politics.” He serves on several Boards for the National Research Council and the National Academies of Science and is a founding member of the new “Aging Society Research Network” of the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Jackson was recently appointed to the National Science Foundation National Science Board, a policymaking body which advises Congress and the President on science and engineering policy. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, Director Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-­‐Principal Investigator CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Mendes de Leon is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was first an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Internal Medicine (Epidemiology) and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. From 2008-­‐2010, he served as Director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. Before joining the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging in 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale University School of Public Health. Dr. Mendes de Leon is a social epidemiologist with a primary interest in the major health problems and health disparities in late life. His work focuses on a broad array of social and psychological determinants that affect the development and progression of disability, cognitive decline and other common, age-­‐related health outcomes. Specific areas of interest include the role of neighborhood-­‐level social processes and environments in late-­‐life health, and the complex interplay between life-­‐course social conditions and biological processes and their functional consequences in older age. His current studies focus on the role of neighborhood contexts and inflammatory processes in social disparities in late-­‐life disability and cognitive impairment. In other research, he is investigating the cumulative and interactive effects of racial background and life-­‐course socio-­‐economic disadvantage in subclinical disease and disability in older adults. He is an active member in professional organizations in the fields of gerontology, epidemiology, and behavioral medicine, and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals in these disciplines. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, AM, MA Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, AM, MA Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Director CIAHD Research Training and Education Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Caldwell is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE, SPH), a Faculty Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at The Institute for Social Research, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with the Prevention Research Center of Michigan (PRC), Youth Violence Center of Michigan and she is the current Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) at SPH. Dr. Caldwell has been the PI, Co-­‐PI or Co-­‐I on several NIH or CDC funded studies examining family and environmental factors influencing risky health behaviors and mental health among Black adolescents. She also conducts family-­‐centered, youth preventive intervention research using a CBPR approach. Recently, she has been examining environmental factors and fathers’ contributions to birth outcomes in Black families as part of a multidisciplinary research team to broaden the health disparities focus in birth outcomes research. Dr. Caldwell brings a wealth of research training and mentoring experiences to the CIAHD Director of Training position. She was Chair of the HBHE Doctoral Curriculum Committee, which oversees the matriculation of doctoral students. She has worked with the CRECH Doctoral Education Training Program since it began in 2000. She is the current Director of the Summer Health Disparities Research Immersion Program for the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) and Co-­‐Director of the Training and Education Core for the CDC funded University of Michigan Injury Center. She has received several research mentoring and diversity awards, including awards from the University’s Office of the Provost, the University Research Opportunity Program, and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award from the University of Michigan.
BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS Professor, Epidemiology Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 2 Email: [email protected] Dr. Aiello is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina -­‐ Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her PhD with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University-­‐Mailman School of Public Health and was the recipient of the Ana C. Gelman award for outstanding achievement and promise in the field of epidemiology. Her research investigates psychosocial, socioeconomic and race/ethnic disparities in health, the relationship between infection and chronic diseases, and prevention of infection in the community setting. She has identified relationships between psychosocial determinants and immune response to infection and helped uncover social disparities in the burden of infection and immune response to cytomegalovirus in the US population. Currently, Dr. Aiello is the PI of several NIH funded studies where she is examining social, behavioral, biological, and genetic determinants of health outcomes. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Belinda Needham, PhD Belinda Needham, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health School of Public Health University of Michigan UM-­‐Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 2 Email: [email protected] Dr. Needham serves as the local PI, for CIAHD Research Project 2, working in conjunction with Dr. Allison Aiello. Dr. Needham’s research focuses on health disparities. In general, members of socially disadvantaged groups have worse mental and physical health than those who have higher social status. Dr. Needham’s work seeks to identify, explain, and reduce gender, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation health disparities. Dr. Needham’s primary research goals are: (1) To use novel approaches to assess health disparities across the life course, (2) To identify the social structural, psychological, behavioral, and physiological mechanisms by which social disadvantage leads to health disparities, and (3) To develop and test interventions to reduce the effect of social disadvantage on morbidity and mortality. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Amy Schulz, PhD Amy Schulz, PhD Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Community Engagement and Outreach Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Schulz is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH). She has been engaged in ongoing etiologic and intervention research in Detroit, examining social and physical environmental determinants of health, and designing, implementing and evaluating interventions to address them, for over 15 years. She has contributed to the literature on social inequity and social determinants of health, including publications on conceptual frameworks for understanding social determinants of health in urban settings and multiple publications examining pathways and processes linking social inequalities to health inequities. Dr. Schulz has served as the Principal Investigator for the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership, a community-­‐based participatory research partnership focused on understanding and addressing the environmental factors that contribute to racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health inequities in Detroit, since 2000. In that capacity, she has conducted etiologic research on the social determinants of cardiovascular risk; and engaged in community based participatory planning processes to design, implement and evaluate interventions to reduce cardiovascular health inequities. Dr. Schulz has considerable experience working with and facilitating community-­‐based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, and is a leading contributor to the literature on engaging community, academic and public health practice partners in participatory research and intervention efforts. She currently serves as PI for the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership (NIMHD); Multi-­‐PI (with Dr. Stuart Batterman) for the Community Approaches to Promoting Healthy Environments (NIEHS), a research to action project focused on reducing exposure to air pollution in Detroit; Co-­‐
Lead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease (PI: Diez Roux), a Center of Excellence focused on social determinants of cardiovascular disease (NIMHD), and Co-­‐Lead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core for the Environmental Health Core Center (PI: Loch-­‐Caruso) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Israel is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She has published widely in the areas of: the social and physical environmental determinants of health and health inequities; the relationship among stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; and community-­‐based participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Israel has extensive experience conducting CBPR in collaboration with partners in diverse communities. Since 1995, she has worked together with academic and community partners to establish and maintain the Detroit Community-­‐Academic Urban Research Center. The Center involves multiple NIH and Foundation-­‐funded basic etiologic research and intervention research projects aimed at increasing knowledge and addressing factors associated with health inequities in Detroit. Dr. Israel is actively involved in several of these CBPR projects examining and addressing, for example, the environmental triggers of childhood asthma, the social and physical environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, access to food and physical activity spaces, and capacity building for and translating research findings into policy change. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Chris M. Coombe, PhD, MPH Chris M. Coombe, PhD, MPH Assistant Research Scientist Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health University of Michigan Acting-­‐Director, CIAHD Community Engagement and Outreach Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Coombe is Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan, and is affiliated with the Detroit Community-­‐Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC). She received her PhD from University of Michigan and her MPH from University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Coombe has extensive experience developing, implementing, and evaluating research and interventions using a community-­‐based participatory research (CBPR) approach. She designs and conducts training for community members and academics in policy advocacy, CBPR, health disparities research, and health impact assessment, and is principal investigator of the newly formed CBPR Partnership Academy. Dr. Coombe is carrying out a health impact assessment of proposed redevelopment plans in Detroit, and plays a lead role in the community engagement cores of two NIH funded centers -­‐ the UM Environmental Health Sciences Core Center and the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities. Her research focuses on understanding how urban social and physical environments contribute to racial and socioeconomic inequities, and translating that knowledge into policy to promote health and equity. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Donna Antoine-­‐LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD Donna Antoine-­‐LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD Principal Investigator, CEOC -­‐ JHS Jackson Heart Study Jackson State University Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core -­‐ JHS Email: [email protected] Dr. Donna Antoine-­‐LaVigne joined the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) as the Coordinator of Community Partnership/Outreach Office (CPO) in July 2000 and in 2010 she became the Associate Director (AD) of the CPO. Between the years 1999-­‐2013, the CPO was a unit within the Jackson State University JHS Coordinating Center. During the recruitment phase of the JHS, Dr. Antoine-­‐LaVigne contributed significantly to the development and implementation of novel strategies that ultimately resulted in the recruitment of 5,301 JHS participants. Additionally, linkages and partnerships were established with faith and community based organizations; business groups; government agencies; private non-­‐profit organizations; and for profit entities. Under the CPO, local volunteers and JHS outreach staff were trained and certified as community health advisors (CHAs) to provide education and training in cardiovascular health; chronic disease self-­‐ management; diet and nutrition; and physical activity. In August 2013, the CPO became the newly funded Jackson State University Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Outreach Center (CORC) of which she is the Principal Investigator. The successes realized by the CPO continue with the CORC, under Dr. Antoine-­‐LaVigne’ s leadership and the expertise of the knowledgeable and dedicated CORC staff. Dr. Antoine-­‐LaVigne continues to successfully collaborate with numerous community and faith partners; university partners including University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Alabama, Birmingham, as well as the Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities at Jackson State University and others. Collaborations have also included Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and Meharry Medical College. Over the past thirty years, Dr. Antoine-­‐LaVigne has developed and implemented local and statewide coalitions in Mississippi and provided leadership in the development of the Mississippi HIV Care and Services Plan and the Mississippi Health Disparities Elimination Plan and served on national committees to address health care disparities elimination. She has held faculty positions at Southern Illinois University Military Campus and Jackson State University and studied at the Jackson State University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Pittsburg; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Johns Hopkins University. She recently presented at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees' Conference National Harbor Maryland in December 2014. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Frances C. Henderson, EdD Frances C. Henderson, EdD Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at Alcorn State University Evaluation Consultant, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core -­‐ JHS Email: [email protected] Dr. Henderson serves as the Evaluation Consultant for the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD). Dr. Henderson engages with the project team in designing and implementing a participatory evaluation plan. Dr. Henderson has served as an Evaluation Consultant for a variety of projects over the last 20 years, including nursing workforce diversity projects. She has over 20 years of experience conducting focus groups and interpreting focus group interviews, individually and as a member of an interpretive team. She received her initial education and experience in interpretive phenomenology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She was a member of the interpretive team that interpreted the focus group and individual interviews of the Participant Recruitment and Retention Study that was conducted during the feasibility phase of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). Dr. Henderson was formerly Deputy Director for the JHS, and currently serves in a Consultant role. She is Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Nursing, Alcorn State University in Natchez, Mississippi. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Sharon LR Kardia, PhD Sharon LR Kardia, PhD Senior Associate Dean for Administration Professor, Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Kardia is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research interest is in the area of genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-­‐
environment and gene-­‐gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD Associate Professor, Biostatistics School of Public Health University of Michigan Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics in 2006 from Harvard University. She joined the University of Michigan in 2006 as an Assistant Research Professor, and became an Assistant Professor in 2008. Her research interests are in statistical methodology applicable to environmental epidemiology, and social epidemiology, and health disparities. Dr. Sánchez’s current methodological work involves developing robust fitting procedures and diagnostics for Structural Equation Models, and using these methods in applications to environmental health problems such as in-­‐utero lead exposure and its effect on child development. She also conducts research on study design for longitudinal studies, in particular the design of studies involving salivary cortisol as a measure of stress in health disparities research. Dr. Sanchez also investigates the applicability of various functional data methods to studies of salivary cortisol. Her collaborative research spans environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology, and health disparities in the areas of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and the distribution of body mass index. Within environmental epidemiology, her work focuses on the impact of lead and air pollution exposure on birth outcomes, and child development and behavior. Her work on health disparities and social epidemiology has included the analysis of the effectiveness of school level interventions to reduce child obesity, among others. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, MA Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, MA Assistant Research Scientist Epidemiology, School of Public Health University of Michigan Investigator, CIAHD Research Core Email: [email protected] Dr. Smith is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. She received a BS in Biology with a focus on genetics from Cornell University, master’s degrees in Statistics and Health Management/Policy from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Smith's research focuses on the genetic epidemiology of common chronic diseases and their risk factors in large multi-­‐
ethnic cohorts including the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA), the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and the Multi-­‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Her research investigates the relationships between genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic variation and traits including blood pressure, coronary artery calcification, kidney function, ischemic brain injury, and cognition. She is particularly interested in the way that gene-­‐by-­‐social and gene-­‐by-­‐psychosocial factor interactions are associated with chronic disease risk. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Mario Sims, PhD, MS, FAHA Mario Sims, PhD, MS, FAHA Associate Professor of Medicine Science Officer, Jackson Heart study University of Mississippi Medical Center JHS-­‐UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator, CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Sims, a Social Epidemiologist, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). He is a Science Officer and Co-­‐Investigator in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Dr. Sims completed his PhD in Medical Sociology and Demography at the University of Wisconsin in 1997, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Epidemiology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan-­‐Ann Arbor (1997-­‐1999), and completed postdoctoral training in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the American Heart Association. Dr. Sims’ current research focuses on understanding the social determinants of health disparities, with a specific interest in examining how racism, stress and psychosocial factors (as well as traditional biomedical risk factors) combine to influence cardiovascular disease disparities between racial and ethnic groups. He recently completed an NHLBI-­‐funded K01 award that examined the extent to which socioeconomic status (SES) and psychosocial factors (i.e., discrimination, stress and negative affect) were associated with CVD and related risk factors among African Americans in the JHS. Dr. Sims is a Sub-­‐Award Principal Investigator (PI) in the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD), funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), where he is exploring associations of psychosocial stressors with CVD-­‐related risk factors (hypertension and sub-­‐clinical disease) and social patterning of chronic diseases (type 2 diabetes, CKD, and CVD) among African Americans. Dr. Sims is also the Sub-­‐Award PI in the Mid-­‐South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research (Mid-­‐South TCC-­‐NIMHD), which seeks to reduce the disparities in chronic disease burden (e.g., obesity) experienced by African Americans. Dr. Sims has published over 35 papers in scientific peer-­‐reviewed journals and has given over 50 professional presentations at scientific conferences on the psychosocial impact of cardiovascular diseases among African Americans. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Michael Griswold, PhD Michael Griswold, PhD Professor and Director Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics University of MS Medical Center JHS-­‐UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator, CIAHD Email: [email protected] Dr. Michael E. Griswold is a Professor and Director of the Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He also has Adjunct Faculty appointments in the departments of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Dr. Griswold has experience in the design, execution, and analysis of both observational and experimental studies and consults regularly for academic institutions, medical-­‐journal editorial committees, government regulatory agencies, and industry research organizations on statistical issues. Dr. Griswold directs the Data Coordinating Center components of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND) Center (encompassing the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study Jackson site, the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA) studies, and the Adiposity, Inflammation and Neurocognitive Decline in African Americans (AINDAA) study and the adaptive Bayesian Rapid Administration of Carnitine in Sepsis trial. Dr. Griswold received his PhD in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health under the mentorship of Dr. Scott Zeger. Dr. Griswold’s substantive research areas include health care costs, hospital and physician profiling, neurocognitive imaging data, cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, health disparities research, lipid subfractionation, ‘omics and geriatrics research. Dr. Griswold’s methodological research focuses on translational biostatistics and multilevel/longitudinal models for complex data archetypes including accounting for informative missingness. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Dorothy M. Castille, PhD Dorothy M Castille, PhD Program Director National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Institutes of Health Email: [email protected] Dr. Dorothy Castille is Program Director at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Her research includes characterizing unmet medical needs, the natural history of target diseases, treatment and patient reported outcomes in academia, government, and private industry settings, in the US and Mexico. She has managed state and federal government funded grant programs. In her position as Program Director at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health, manages the Loan Repayment Programs, P60 Comprehensive Centers of Excellence, and serves as Project Scientist on U54 Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research. Dr. Castille received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and post-­‐doctoral training in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. MORNING SESSION – CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES: PLENARY SESSION SESSION MODERATORS: Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD/ James Jackson, PhD
BIOGRAPHY – Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD Keynote Address: Priorities for Cardiovascular Health Disparities Research
Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy Dr. LaVeist’ s research and writing has focused on three broad thematic research questions: 1) What are the social and behavioral factors that predict the timing of various related health outcomes (e.g. access and utilization of health services, mortality, entrance into nursing home? 2) What are the social and behavioral factors that explain race differences in health outcomes?; and 3) What has been the impact of social policy on the health and quality of life of African Americans? His work has included both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Dr. LaVeist seeks to develop an orienting framework in the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-­‐related outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include: U.S. health and social policy, the role of race in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services. BIOGRAPHY – George A. Mensah, MD, FACC Presentation: Translational Research for Cardiovascular Health Disparities: Where are the Gaps? Uchechukwu K. A. Sampson, MD, MPH, MBA, MSc(Oxon), MS, FACC Chief, Translation Research Branch, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS), NIH/NHLBI Dr. Sampson is an outstanding physician-­‐scientist with broad expertise, management skills, and leadership experience. He is part of the leadership of the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS), at the NIH/NHBLI where he serves as the Chief of the Translation Research Branch, and the Acting Chief of the Implementation Science Branch. His career development was supported by the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Scholars Award, the American College of Cardiology Foundation/General Electric Career Development Award, and the Future Leaders in Cardiovascular Medical Research Award from Merck/Schering-­‐
Plough administered by the Leadership Council for Improving Cardiovascular Care. He was a Bowen Brooks Post-­‐doctoral Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, which led to advanced studies in clinical trials and systematic reviews at the University of Oxford. Dr. Sampson trained in Internal Medicine at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, which was a component of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY. He then completed clinical and research fellowships in Noninvasive Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Positron Emission Tomography, and CT angiography at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. He joined the faculty pool at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College upon completion of his fellowship in 2008. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and holds Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Medicine and Dentistry–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a Master of Business Administration from Rutgers University, a Master of Evidence-­‐Based Health Care from the University of Oxford, UK, and a Master of Biostatistics from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Sampson served on the expert panel for Peripheral Arterial Disease and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Project. He continues to serve in various expert roles in the ongoing GBD 2013. He has a track record of developing and overseeing research projects, which have led to peer-­‐reviewed publications in high-­‐impact journals. He currently serves on the editorial board of Echocardiography Journal, The American Heart Journal, and Global Heart (the official journal of the World Heart Federation). He was an affiliate of the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health, and held faculty appointments in Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He served on the Interview and Admissions Committee for Vanderbilt Medical School, and on the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (VA TVHS) Institutional Review Board (IRB) in addition to his clinical responsibilities as an attending cardiologist at the VA Hospital in Nashville. In these settings, he developed a track record of mentoring and advising employees, students, residents, fellows, and other faculty and his peers. AFTERNOON SESSION -­‐ EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATORS: Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD / Dorothy M. Castille, PhD
BIOGRAPHY – Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS Presentation: The Social Patterning of Sleep; Associations of individual Socioeconomic Status, Neighborhood Characteristics and Psychosocial Stressors with Sleep in the Jackson Heart Study
Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program in Sleep Epidemiology Program in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Email: [email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Ana Diez Roux, Mario Sims Dayna Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow in Sleep Epidemiology in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received a BA in Psychology from Purdue University, and obtained her MPH (Health Behavior Health Education), MSW (Management of Human Services), MS and PhD (Epidemiologic Sciences) from the University of Michigan. Her research interest include social epidemiology, with an emphasis on social and environmental determinants of sleep in minority populations. During her doctorate, she investigated the contribution of individual socioeconomic status, psychosocial stressors and neighborhood characteristics to self-­‐reported sleep outcomes in Hispanic and African American populations. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Johnson is extending this work to examine (1) the contribution of individual-­‐level factors independently and interactively with household and neighborhood-­‐level factors to the prevalence of sleep disorders; and (2) whether self-­‐reported sleep outcomes represent manifestations of underlying sleep disorders or other comorbid conditions. BIOGRAPHY – Kiarri Kershaw, PhD Presentation: Longitudinal Associations of Racial Residential Segregation with Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Kiarri Kershaw, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Preventative Medicine Northwestern University Email: k-­‐[email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Ana Diez Roux, James Jackson Dr. Kershaw is a social epidemiologist, whose research focuses on understanding how contextual factors lead to disparities in cardiovascular outcomes. Specifically, Dr. Kershaw is interested in understanding the pathways through which racial and ethnic residential segregation lead to disparities in various cardiovascular disease risk factors. Dr. Kershaw is also interested in better characterizing the behavioral and biological factors linking chronic exposure to psychosocial stressors to cardiovascular-­‐related risk factors and outcomes. BIOGRAPHY – Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH Presentation: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the Jackson Heart Study: Implications for Action
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Center for Integrated Approaches to Health Disparities Drexel University School of Public Health Email: [email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Ana Diez Roux Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Center for Integrated Approaches to Health Disparities at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Dr. Barber’s current research interests involve examining the extent to which neighborhood economic and social factors contribute to cardiovascular disease risk and onset among African Americans with a particular focus on residential environments in the Southeastern United States. To that end, she has conducted both qualitative and quantitative research in a number of Southern communities including rural, Eastern North Carolina, Mobile, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Barber is currently working on a project that examines the extent to which economic, social, and resource environments influence cardiovascular disease incidence in the Jackson Heart Study. As one with a strong passion for social justice, Dr. Barber is committed to conducting research that broadens our understanding of the role residential environments play in shaping health and contributing to health inequities among African Americans and other minority groups in the United States. Ultimately, she hopes that her research will inform the development of social and economic policies necessary to eliminate these inequities. Dr. Barber holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Bennett College for Women, a Masters of Public Health degree in Health Behavior and Health Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Doctor of Science degree in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. BIOGRAPHY – Maggie Hicken, PhD Presentation: Neighborhood Context and Racial Inequalities in Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of Kidney Disease and APOL1 High Risk Variants
Maggie Hicken, MPH, PhD Research Investigator Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Email: [email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Ana Diez Roux, James Jackson Through her research, Dr. Hicken examines the social and environmental influences that result in racial inequalities in chronic diseases with a focus on both neighborhoods and psychosocial stress. For example, many hypothesize that stress is a major determinant of racial health inequalities but there is a dearth of empirical evidence, which may be due to challenges in the conceptualization of stress that is racially salient. Drawing from ethnographic and psychoneuroendocrinology work, Dr. Hicken examines the notion that the stress of chronic anticipation of discriminatory situations ("vigilance") is an important racially-­‐salient form of chronic stress for Black Americans. Evidence suggests that vigilance explains Black-­‐White inequalities in hypertension prevalence and sleep difficulty. In a second thread of her research program, Dr. Hicken examines the intersection of social science and molecular biology to clarify the causes and mechanisms of Black-­‐White inequalities in kidney disease. Specifically she examines racial residential segregation, and other geographically-­‐linked neighborhood information, in relation to both gene expression and in an interactive relation to the high risk variants of APOL1 gene. BIOGRAPHY – Milton Dawkins Jr., MS Presentation: Is there an Association between Goal-­‐Striving Stress and Cardiovascular Disease?
Milton Dawkins Jr., MS Daniel Hale Williams Scholar Jackson State University Email: [email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Mario Sims Milton is a Daniel Hale Williams Scholar and a third year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Jackson State University (JSU). He received his master’s degree in psychological science from the University of Central Missouri (UCM). He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology and African American studies from the Ohio State University (OSU). Milton’s research interests include suicide (suicidal behaviors, factors that influence one to attempt suicide, and attitudes toward suicidal individuals), trauma, health disparities among African Americans, and psychological and psychosocial issues that influence cardiovascular health (e.g., depression, social support, shame, stress, etc.). He hopes that through research he is able to implement interventions that will improve the quality of life for many. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD Presentation: Working with Communities to Use Evidence-­‐based Programs: The Getting People in Sync (G.P.S) PreDiabetes Prevention Project in African American Churches
Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD Assistant Professor Drexel University School of Public Health Department of Health Management and Policy Email: [email protected] Mentors/Collaborators: Ana Diez Roux Dr. Nicole Vaughn is a health psychologist who specializes community based participatory research approaches for reducing health disparities. She is an assistant professor of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health and her research focuses on understanding the best dissemination and implementation strategies for communities of color to employ evidence-­‐based programs within existing natural networks of support (i.e., churches; hair salons; after school settings). Dr. Vaughn has worked on funded community research projects with the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and AmeriHealth Caritas Partnership. Examples of her published work include working with youth on violence prevention disseminating evidence-­‐based violence prevention strategies, hair salon interventions for asthma and diabetes education and evaluating church-­‐initiatives focused on nutrition. Currently, Dr. Vaughn is the Principal Investigator of the United Healthcare and Comcast funded “Getting People in Sync-­‐
Prediabetes Prevention Program for African Americans. The purpose of this study is to implement a lay-­‐facilitator program that uses CDC’s evidence-­‐based Diabetes Prevention Program curriculum through a reality video series in African American churches in Philadelphia. Over the past decade, Dr. Vaughn’s research has demonstrated that communities are ready, willing and able to deliver the best evidence as well as programs with limited support from researchers and achieve positive health outcomes and improve health knowledge and behaviors. Further understanding issues of fidelity, implementation and sustainability within community settings will continue to be an area of research interest for her work in the future. MORNING SESSION: MULTILEVEL INTERVENTIONS IN CVD PREVENTION SESSION MODERATOR(S): Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH Keynote Address: Multilevel Interventions in CVD Prevention: Triumphs, Challenges, and Opportunities Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH James F. Fries Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Director, Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities Dr. Lisa Cooper is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities and a core faculty member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. She has joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Bloomberg School of Public Health. A board-­‐certified general internist, social epidemiologist, and health services researcher, Dr. Cooper is the author of over 150 research articles and several book chapters, She is an internationally recognized expert on the effectiveness of patient-­‐centered interventions (e.g., physician communication skills and cultural competence training, patient shared decision-­‐making and self-­‐management skills training) for improving health outcomes and overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Dr. Cooper has been the principal investigator of 15 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, including two randomized trials of interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for patients with hypertension and depression in primary care settings. She also has a Mid-­‐Career Investigator Award for Patient-­‐Oriented Research in Cardiovascular Health Disparities from the NHLBI and has been a devoted mentor to more than 50 junior faculty, post-­‐doctoral fellows, residents, public health, nursing, and medical students, undergraduates, and high school students seeking careers in medicine and public health. Dr. Cooper has received several awards for her work in health disparities, including election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Dr. Cooper was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Grant. As Director of the NHLBI-­‐funded Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities, Dr. Cooper leads a multidisciplinary team that is conducting three trials of multi-­‐level interventions to reduce disparities in hypertension care and control in the Baltimore community. The Center uses community-­‐based participatory principles to engage a broad group of stakeholders who are engaged in all aspects of the research, enhancing the likelihood of sustainability and dissemination of the interventions that are being tested. Dr. Cooper received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Emory University, her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland and General Internal Medicine Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH Presentation: Patient, Family, and Community Resources to Improve Hypertension Disparities: The ACT Study L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH General Internist Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Dr. Boulware received an AB degree in English from Vassar College, an MD from Duke University, and a MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Boulware studies interventions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes with chronic diseases such as chronic kidney disease and hypertension. She is particularly interested in identifying ways to eliminate ethnic and racial disparities in these diseases. She has investigated several related areas in her research, including determinants of deceased and live kidney donation, organ donation policies, patients’ preferences for kidney transplants, patient-­‐physician communication about kidney transplants, and the quality of primary care and nephrology care for patients with kidney disease. She has developed and studied educational, behavioral, and clinical practice interventions to improve patient, family, and physician communication and decision-­‐making regarding the treatment of kidney disease and kidney disease risk factors. Dr. Boulware’s research has been funded by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decisions, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. BIOGRAPHY -­‐ Giridhar Mallya, MD, MSHP Presentation: Get Healthy Philly: A Multi-­‐pronged Strategy to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Philadelphia Giridhar Mallya, MD, MSHP Director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health City of Philadelphia Dr. Mallya has been the Director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health since October 2008. In this position, Dr. Mallya helps to define public health priorities for the City, coordinates the Department’s research and data analysis activities, and works with key leadership—including the Board of Health—to set policies and develop regulations. He also leads the Department’s Get Healthy Philly tobacco control and obesity prevention initiatives. Dr. Mallya graduated from Brown University Medical School in Providence, RI, and completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Following residency, Dr. Mallya was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Master’s Degree in Health Policy Research. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH: TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION
PARTICIPANTS [alphabetical order]
NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Email Deja Abdul-­‐Haqq Environmental and Policy Change Manager JHS -­‐ My Brother's Keeper dabdulhaqq@mbk-­‐inc.org Sandra Albrecht Assistant Professor UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] Donna Antoine-­‐LaVigne Co-­‐Director, CIAHD COEC Principal Investigator -­‐ JHS Community Engagement Outreach Core JHS -­‐ Jackson State University donna.a.antoinelavigne@jsu
ms.edu Sharrelle Barber Presenter Postdoctoral Research Fellow Drexel University [email protected] L. Ebony Boulware Speaker Duke University [email protected] Christina Bowles General Internist Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Masters of Public Health Student Drexel University [email protected] Allison Brenner Senior Research Associate University of Michigan [email protected] Kristen Brown Doctoral Candidate University of Michigan [email protected] Cleopatra Caldwell Director, CIAHD TEC Director, CIAHD Research Training and Education Core University of Michigan [email protected] Carolyn Cannuscio Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Dorothy M Castille Moderator Program Officer NIMHD [email protected] Ben Chrisinger PhD Candidate, City & Regional Planning University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Alisa Clyne Associate Professor Drexel University [email protected] Chris Coombe Acting Director, CIAHD CEOC Acting Director, CIAHD Community Education Outreach Core University of Michigan [email protected] Lisa A Cooper Speaker James F. Fries Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Director, Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities Research Assistant Johns Hopkins [email protected] Drexel University [email protected] JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Alana Cordeiro Adolfo Correa Investigator, CIAHD Professor, Interim Director of Jackson Heart Study, Chief Science Officer Jackson Heart Study NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Email Natalie Crawford Assistant Professor Georgia State University [email protected] Mary Crump Graduate Student JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Milton Dawkins Presenter Graduate Student JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected]
u Marcia DeBoer Event Support Administrative Assistant University of Michigan [email protected] Ana Diez Roux PI, Director CIAHD Dean, Professor of Epidemiology Drexel University [email protected] Asha Dorsey Graduate Student Drexel University [email protected] Amanda Dudley Event Support Project Manager University of Michigan [email protected] Marty Fortenberry Community Outreach/Engagement Specialist JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Yan Gao Clinical Data Programmer JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Shamir Gates Regional Project Coordinator JHS -­‐ My Brother's Keeper slee@mbk-­‐inc.org Ishtar Govia Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan [email protected] Michael Griswold UMMC-­‐SubPI, CIAHD Professor & Director, Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Carina Gronlund Postdoctoral Fellow University of Michigan [email protected] Rebecca Hasson Assistant Professor University of Michigan [email protected] Theresa Hastert Postdoctoral Fellow Karmanos Cancer Institute [email protected] Frances Henderson Investigator, CIAHD Evaluation Consultant JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Margaret Hicken Presenter Research Investigator University of Michigan [email protected] DeMarc Hickson Investigator, CIAHD Chief Operating Officer JHS -­‐ My Brother's Keeper dhickson@mbk-­‐inc.org Mustafa Hussein Postdoctoral Research Fellow Drexel University [email protected] James Jackson Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Co-­‐Director, CIAHD University of Michigan [email protected] William Johnson Clinical/Behavioral Research & Evaluation Coordinator JHS -­‐ My Brother's Keeper wjohnson@mbk-­‐inc.org Dayna Johnson Presenter Social Epidemiologist Harvard University [email protected]
ard.edu Kimson Johnson Master of Social Work Candidate (MSWc) University of Michigan [email protected] James Kelley Graduate Assistant JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Kiarri Kershaw Presenter Assistant Professor Northwestern University k-­‐[email protected] NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Email Krim Lacey Research Investigator University of Michigan [email protected] Alicia Landry Assistant Professor JHS -­‐ My Brother's Keeper [email protected] Thomas LaVeist Speaker Johns Hopkins [email protected] Alana LeBron Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy Doctoral Candidate University of Michigan [email protected] Félice Lê -­‐Scherban Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Tené Lewis Associate Professor Emory University [email protected] Longjian Liu Postdoctoral Research Fellow Drexel University [email protected] Katie Livengood Event Support Project Manager Drexel University [email protected] Giridhar Mallya Speaker City of Philadelphia [email protected] Jessie Marshall Director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health Assistant Professor University of Michigan [email protected] Helen Meier Postdoctoral Research Fellow Univ North Carolina -­‐ NIEHS [email protected] Carlos Mendes de Leon Co-­‐PI, CIAHD Co-­‐Director, CIAHD University of Michigan [email protected] Uchechukwu K. A. Sampson Speaker (INVITED) Chief, Translation Research Branch, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS), NIH/NHLBI Assistant Professor NHLBI -­‐-­‐ Virginia Commonwealth University [email protected] Yvonne Michael Associate Professor Drexel University [email protected] Brandy-­‐Joe Milliron Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Karin Miyamoto Postdoctoral Research Fellow Drexel University [email protected] Kari Moore Statistician Sr. Drexel University [email protected] Mahasin Mujahid Assistant Professor of Epidemiology University of California Berkeley [email protected] Stanford Mwasongwe Epidemiologist JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Belinda Needham UM-­‐PI, CIAHD Project 2 Assistant Professor of Epidemiology University of Michigan [email protected] Arnita Norwood Project Manager JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Nicole Novak Doctoral Candidate University of Michigan [email protected] Briana Mezuk Investigator, CIAHD NAME TITLE INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION Email Darcel Odom Health Education Specialist JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Victoria Okhomina Clinical Data Programmer JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Amanda Onwuka Doctoral Candidate University of Michigan [email protected] Jacquelynn Orr Graduate Student Drexel University [email protected] Bhavika Patel Masters of Public Health Candidate Drexel University [email protected] Lindsay Pool PhD Candidate University of Michigan [email protected] Sarah Reeves Pilot Awardee, CIAHD Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Michigan [email protected] John Rich Professor Drexel University [email protected] Brisa Sánchez Co-­‐Director, CIAHD Research Core Amanda Simanek Associate Professor University of Michigan [email protected] Assistant Professor, Epidemiolgy University of Wisconsin Milwaukee [email protected] Mario Sims UMMC-­‐SubPI, CIAHD Associate Professor of Medicine JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] Jaime Slaughter Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Jennifer Smith Investigator, CIAHD Research Core Deeptha Sukumar Assistant Research Scientist University of Michigan [email protected] Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Loni Tabb Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Ekeoma Uzogara Graduate Student University of Michigan [email protected] Nicole Vaughn Presenter Assistant Professor Drexel University [email protected] Stella Volpe Professor and Chair Drexel University [email protected] Xu (Steven) Wang Data Analyst Drexel University [email protected] Yi Wang Assistant Professor Indiana University [email protected] Julia Ward Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email protected] Gregory Wilson Investigator, CIAHD Senior Programmer Analyst JHS -­‐ Jackson State University [email protected] Sharon Wyatt Investigator, CIAHD Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Harriet G. Williamson Professor of Nephrology Nursing JHS -­‐ University Mississippi Medical Center [email protected] STAFF TITLE INSTITUTION PHONE NUMBER EMAIL Marcia DeBoer CIAHD Admin Assistant University of Michigan 734 615 9209 [email protected] Amanda Dudley CIAHD Project Coordinator University of Michigan 734 763 5974 [email protected] Lynda Fuerstnau CIAHD TEC Assistant University of Michigan 734 647 6665 [email protected] Katie Livengood Drexel Project Manager Drexel University 264 359 6231 [email protected]