RWJF New Connections Second Annual Symposium

 Agenda


Saturday, June 7, 2008 — Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

8:30-10:30 New Connections grantees and alumni (closed meeting)
9:30-10:30 Registration for all other participants
10:30-10:45 Welcome (all participants from hereon in)

Welcome
Debra Joy Pérez, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.A.
Senior Program Officer
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Catherine West
National Urban Fellow

10:45-12:45 Conceptual Frameworks and Grant Writing:
Their Use, Misuse, Consequences, and Implications

Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.
Program Director
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Julia Lin, Ph.D.
Research Statistician
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Bernice Pescosolido, Ph.D.
Director
Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research

12:45-2:00 Networking Lunch
2:00-3:45 Grantee Presentations

Robert Dunigan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Brandeis University

Annjeanette Elise Belcourt-Dittloff,Ph.D.
Instructor
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Daphne Watkins, Ph.D.
Research Investigator
University of Michigan

Eunice Wong
Associate Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation

3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-6:00 Innovations in Disparities Research Methodology

Benjamin Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Research Associate
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Thomas McGuire, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Economics
Harvard Medical School

6:00-8:00 Reception & Speed Mentoring (Confirmed-More to come)

Dolores Acevedo Garcia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health

Janette Beals, Ph.D.
Director of Research
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Michael Cabana, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Director
of the General Pediatrics Fellowship Program
UCSF School of Medicine

Pinka Chatterji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
University at Albany

Benjamin Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H
Research Associate
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

José Escarce, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Thomas Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Faculty
University of Chicago

Glenn Flores, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
UT Southwestern and Children's Medical Center Dallas

Luisa Franzini, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
University of Texas

Thomas LaVeist, Ph.D.
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Julia Lin, Ph.D.
Research Statistician
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research

Thomas McGuire, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Economics
Harvard Medical School

Alex Ortega, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor & Director of Research Programs
UCLA School of Public Health

Bernice Pescosolido, Ph.D.
Director
Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research

Lisa Rubenstein, M.D., M.S.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Professor of Medicine
VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA

Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H.
Director, Child Policy Research Center
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

William Vega, Ph.D.
Professor of Family Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Norma Ware, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School

Catie Willging, Ph.D.
Program Director and Research Scientist
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest

Alan Zaslavsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy

Harvard Medical School


Sunday, June 8, 2008 — Jury's Washington Hotel

8:00-9:00 Breakfast with Mentors
8:50-9:00 Welcome

Debra Joy Pérez, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.A.
Senior Program Officer
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

9:00-11:00 Statistical Methods for Casual Inference in Observational Studies

Alan Zaslavsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-1:00 Qualitative Research

Norma Ware, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School

Cathleen Willging, Ph.D.
Program Director and Research Scientist
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest

1:00-2:15 Lunch

Luncheon Keynote: "Analytic Issues and Study Design:
Opportunities for Discussion" (1:15-2:00)
Thomas Sequist, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and
Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy
Brigham and Women's Hospital

2:15- 2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Conceptual Modeling Panel (3 concurrent sessions)

Pinka Chatterji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
University at Albany

José Escarce, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Luisa Franzini, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
University of Texas

4:00-5:30 Grantee Presentations

Melody Goodman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Stony Brook University Medical Center

Diana Romero, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Hunter College, City University of New York

Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dartmouth Medical School

Marah Curtis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Boston University

5:30-7:30 Awards Recognition and Dinner

Debra Joy Pérez, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.A.
Senior Program Officer
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Catherine West
National Urban Fellow


Save the date! — Monday, June 9

9:45-11:15

"Innovations in Research: Junior Investigator Forum"
New Connections alumni panel at AcademyHealth:

Rhonda BeLue M.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
"Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Location and Quality of Care for
Chronic Health Conditions"

Florence J. Dallo, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
University of Texas, School of Public Healt
"The Relationship between Nativity Status, Satisfaction with and
Confidence in Health Care: Results from the Commonwealth Fund
2001 Survey on Disparities in Quality of Health Care"

Cristiane S. Duarte, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
"Physical Environment and Overweight in Young Children and
their Mothers"

Juliette Roddy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan Dearborn
"Access and Consumption of Substance Abuse Treatment in
Primary and Specialty Care Settings"

 



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