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SUMMER 2013VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 3

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5 PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS

7 IN THE NEWS

8 PROFILES

12 AWARDS

13 SER 2013

15 PET PROGRAM

64 FACULTY ARTICLE BIBLIOGRAPHY

NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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SUMMER 2013 WELCOMING STUDENTS

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the summer 2013 issue of Two by Two, the Department of Epidemiology newsletter. Looking ahead to September and the new academic year, we provide in this issue a special end-of-summer supplement entitled, “For students, a guide to everything.” Our goal is to help all of our students and trainees, both those arriving for the first time

and those continuing their studies, make the very most of their academic experience. To that end we provide a compendium of resources that will smooth your transition into the school and to which you can continue to turn over the course of the year.

First and foremost, we provide a lay of the land. An orientation to our department’s cluster structure provides a sense of the kind of research happening within and across our six clusters in chronic disease epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, psych/neuro epidemiology, social epidemiology, and injury epidemiology. We also feature a listing of this year’s speakers for our three major seminar series, the Columbia University Epidemiology Scientific Symposium (CUESS), Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds (CUEGR) and the Department Seminar to give you advance notice of talks you won’t want to miss. A short guide to where to find news and information will help keep you current on department happenings and new research findings.

We want our students to take advantage of the rich research environment in the department, to tap into the knowledge and wisdom of faculty and administrators, and to avail themselves of what Columbia and New York City have to offer. We surveyed some of our faculty members for their advice as to how students can make most of their experience, which you will see throughout the issue. Of course, who better to provide insight and recommendations than our current students? Sprinkled throughout these pages you will find advice from students about achieving academic goals, reaching out to profes-sors, campus life, cultural events, and where to get the best food in Washington Heights.

Learn about our doctoral-master’s student liaison program, which deploys experienced doctoral students to help bring master’s students more fully into the life of the department, through outreach, special events, and informal one-on-one advising.

The incoming class of 13 doctoral students is featured, and each of them share a bit about where they come from and where they hope a doctorate in epidemiology will take them in the future. Our current crop of master’s students have shared words and pictures about their summer practicums to give incoming master’s students a small taste of the practicum experience. Additionally we include a summary of the guidelines for our academic programs.

A campus map and departmental faculty directory will help you find what and whom you need, and a listing of “dates all students should know” will tell you when and where you need to be.

You’ll discover these and other tips and tools in the pages ahead. Your first order of business, however, is to meet with your academic advisor as soon as possible to get you started on the right track—we can’t recommend this strongly enough. You should also plan to attend cluster meetings and talks as a way of getting to know the faculty in your area of interest.

For now, I wish you a glorious end-of-summer and an academic year filled with exciting challenges.

Warm regards,

Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/cuepidemiology, and “like” us on Facebook facebook.com/cuepidemiology to keep up with the latest Department news and events.

Be sure to also check out our online presence at the2x2project.org.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:00-5:30pm David Savitz, PhD / Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brown University

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:00-5:30pm Patricia Buffler, PhD, MPH / Professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 4:00-5:30pm Brian Schwartz, MD, MS / Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:00-5:30pm Olli Miettinen MD, PhD /Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Professor of Medicine,McGill University

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:00-5:30pm Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, MPH / Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:00-5:30pm Dan King, PhD / Research Professor, Department of Psychology,Boston University School of Medicine

Lynda King, PhD / Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston University School of Medicine

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:00-5:30pm Berkman Memorial Lecture: Arline T. Geronimus, ScD / Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 4:00-5:30pm Cesar Victora, MD, PhD / Visiting Professor, Department of International Health,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 8:30-5:00pm Putting Childhood Disability on the Map Co-sponsored with UNICEF

Friday, November 22, 2013 8:30-5:00pm Philosophy and Medicine: Explanation & Prediction in the social sciencesCo-sponsored with the Philosophy of Medicine

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EPIDEMIOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS (CUEGR)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EPIDEMIOLOGY SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM (CUESS)

Our department hosts many events and socials throughout the year. Below find a list of events for 2013-2014.

DEPARTMENT EVENTS: 2013-2014

Attend Grand Rounds, Seminars, and Symposia that interest you! The best way to

take advantage of the department’s resources is to use them to learn more about

topics you already love.— SECOND YEAR MASTER’S STUDENT

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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR

EPI SOCIALS

PIZZA FRIDAY STAFF MEETINGS

The Department Seminars, held eight times annually, showcase the research and work being done by faculty and trainees in the department, many of whom have joint appointments with other departments.

Friday, September 13, 2013 12:00-1:00pm Elan D. Louis, MD, MS / Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology Searching for the Prime Mover of the Movers and Shakers: Recounting a 15 Year Journey into the Environmental Epidemiology of Essential Tremor

Friday, October 11, 2013 12:00-6:00pm Master Students Presentations and Master Students Poster Session

Friday, November 1, 2013 12:00-1:00pm David Lederer, MD, MS / Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology (in Pediatrics), Associate Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program

Body Composition and Lung Transplantation: A Translational Epidemiological Approach

Friday, December 6, 2013 12:00-1:00pm Henry Greenberg, MD / Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (in the Institute, for Human Nutrition and the Department of Epidemiology) Editor in Chief, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

The Emerging Role of Global Cardiovascular Disease in the Public Health Curriculum

Friday, January 24, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS / Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Friday, February 14, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Katherine M. Keyes, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Friday, March 7, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Pam Factor-Litvak, PhD / Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Friday, April 11, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Al Neugut, MD, PhD / Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research (in Medicine) and Professor of Epidemiology

Investigating Modifiable Preventive Factors for Rare and Fatal Cancers

Friday, May 9, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Parisa Tehranifar, DrPH / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Understanding HIV Incidence

Friday, June 6, 2014 12:00-1:00pm Dawn Hershman, MD, MS / Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Friday, October 11, 2013

Student-faculty mixer

4:00-6:00pm

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Holiday party

4:00-6:00pm

FACULTY MEETINGS

Friday, September 20, 2013 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, October 18, 2013 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, November 15, 2013 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, December 20, 2013 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, January 17, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, February 21, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, March 14, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, April 18, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, May 16, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, June 13, 2014 1:00-3:00pm

Friday, September 14, 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013

DEPARTMENT EVENTS: 2013-2014

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PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS

There is a paradox in psychotherapy today, says Dr. Myrna Weissman, Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry). “While psychotherapy is fading from consciousness and practice in some developed countries, it is being enthusiastically embraced in developing countries hurt by HIV, natural disasters, wars, or political strife,” she writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. For example, in Uganda, a country that has been struggling with high rates of HIV and civil war, results were widely disseminated of two clinical trials of a psychotherapy treatment for depression. Other psychotherapy trials have taken place in Ethiopia, Haiti, Pakistan, and Brazil.

Meanwhile, the US has seen a decline in the percentage of people receiving outpatient therapy for depression, and the United Kingdom has stopped funding research for a program that improves access to therapy.

“The reduction of psychotherapy practice, training, and research in the United States is often explained by economic forces,” says Dr. Weissman. “But if underdeveloped countries find it economical, why can’t we figure out how to make it cost-effective and researchable for ourselves?”

Weissman MM. Psychotherapy: a paradox. Am J Psychiatry. 2013;170(7):712-5. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111415.

The psychotherapy paradox

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Teens continue to have high motor vehicle traffic deaths despite introduction of graduated driver licensing laws that restrict risky driving behaviors. According to a study by Mr. Dustin Carpenter, MPH ’11, and Dr. Joyce Pressley, associate professor of clinical epidemiology and health policy and management, 15 percent of the nearly 3,500 teen drivers involved in a crash involving a death happened when nighttime driving restrictions were in effect, which is one provision of the multi-provision graduated driver licensing laws. Additional risks were associated with drink-ing alcohol and not using seatbelts.

The paper also demonstrated that the current standard of defining the weekend as Saturday and Sunday fails to capture adequately the risk associated with the teen social weekend. Friday night, traditionally categorized as a weekday, had the highest teen mortality risk, while Sunday, a school night, had the lowest mortality. The paper originated from Mr. Carpenter’s thesis with Dr. Pressley which won best student paper from the American Public Health Association’s injury and emergency health services section in 2011.

Carpenter D, Pressley JC. Graduated driver license nighttime compliance in U.S. teen drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes. Accid Anal Prev. 2013;56:110-7. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.12.014.

Inclusive anti-bullying policies reduce suicide risk among gay and lesbian teensIn the past year and a half, several widely covered suicides have drawn attention to school bullying based on sexual orientation. Now, a new study finds that “inclusive” high school anti-bullying policies that specifically prohibit harassment on the basis of sexual orientation reduce the risk of suicide among teens. Co-authors Dr. Katherine Keyes, assistant professor of epidemiology, and Dr. Mark Hatzenbuehler, assistant professor of sociomedical sciences, studied self-reported suicide attempts by 11th-graders in Oregon. They found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) students who lived in counties with fewer school districts that include sexual orientation in their anti-bullying policies were 2.25 times more likely to have attempted suicide than those in counties where more districts had inclusive policies.

“The school environment plays a key role in the lives of adolescents, and is a critical social context in which LGB youth health behaviors are shaped,” says Dr. Keyes. “Our results indicate that schools with a proactive stance against bullying of LGB youth may have a positive impact on teen suicide among sexual minorities.”

Hatzenbuehler ML, Keyes KM. Inclusive Anti-bullying Policies and Reduced Risk of Suicide Attempts in Lesbian and Gay Youth. J Adolesc Health. 2013;53(1 Suppl):S21-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.08.010.

Violation of state graduated licensing laws often involved in teen car deaths

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IN THE NEWS

A recent NewFocus article in Science magazine looks at how the fetal environment contributes to to an individual’s later health. It features the long-running studies by Dr. L.H. Lumey, associate professor of epidemiology, and his colleagues in the Netherlands as an example of the search for greater sophisti-cation to address these questions. These days, it is widely believed that the fetal environment may be a factor in one’s risk for disease later in life. However, scientists do not yet know the mechanism behind this. Together with Dr. Bastiaan T. Heijmans of the Leiden University Medical Center, Dr. Lumey’s group found that individuals who were born at the time of the Dutch famine in 1944-45 had different methyla-tion patterns in the IGF2 gene compared to siblings without famine exposure. Looking for a biological mechanism, he is currently conducting studies of methylation patterns across the genome to link these to later health.

“We are looking for regional differences in DNA methylation that can be linked to the fetal environ-ment and to obesity and diabetes risk,” says Dr. Lumey.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6137/1160.full?sid=c8f28e61-b7c1-436e-9d57-999882e722c0

The fetal environment, genetics, and future health

Taking a daily antiretroviral pill prevented HIV transmission among addicts who inject drugs, according to a study that bolsters the use of such treatments for at-risk groups. Antiretroviral therapy has also been shown in clinical trials to reduce HIV transmission risk from mother to child and through sexual intercourse.

“This provides the totality of the evidence that the drugs used to treat the infection are also very effective at preventing it,” said Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, professor of epidemiology at Columbia and director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, who wrote a commentary to accompany the study, which was published in the Lancet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/health/pill-prevents-hiv-among-drug-addicts-in-a-study.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Daily antiretroviral pill prevents HIV among drug addicts

It’s been struck down by a state court and criticized for targeting the poor, but a study co-authored by MPH ’13 graduate Ms. Seanna Vine finds that New York City’s large soda ban would not in fact hurt lower income people. Ms. Vine and senior author Y. Claire Wang, assistant professor of health policy and management, found that although low-income Americans do consume significant amounts of sugary drinks, they usually buy them from businesses that are not regulated by the ban, which only targets restaurants, theaters, and sports arenas.

“This doesn’t apply to things like the two-liter bottles of soda that you purchase at a bodega and you drink at home,” Ms. Vine told NY1.

Additionally, the ban would reduce obesity rates, Ms. Vine and Dr. Wang found. “Even if everyone doesn’t follow this policy it still will result in a modest caloric reduction and sugar reduction,” said Ms. Vine.

http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/health/184752/study--proposed-sugary-drink-size-ban-would-help-nyers-of-all-income-levels#sthash.v6ArVPTS.dpuf

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130612/PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES/130619942

Sugary drink ban would take aim at obesity without hurting poor

A group of international medical organizations have recommended that doctors screen all people over 70 for frailty, a condition that affects 5 percent of that population. Dean Linda Fried was one of the authors of the article that made the recommendation, and first brought the condition of frailty to the attention of the medical community, according to an article by The New York Times’ “The New Old Age” blog. Researchers have been debating how to intervene on frailty, which is seen in seniors who are tired, weak, and thin.

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/learning-to-spot-frailty/?_r=0

All people over 70 should be screened for frailty, say medical organizations

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Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS ’98, FAAN, associate professor of neurology and epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center), has spent his career trying to piece together the puzzle of what gives rise to stroke, a rapid loss of brain function with complex precursors that have long challenged clinicians who encounter it.

He began his degree in epidemiology in 1996 to do just that. At the time, he was complet-ing a fellowship with Drs. Ralph Sacco and Allen Hauser in the department of neurol-ogy, working on the Northern Manhattan Study, or NOMAS, which was begun by Dr. Sacco in 1990 to study stroke risk factors in thousands of residents in nearby Washington Heights.

Research had linked heart disease to chronic inflammation that was precipitated by infection, and Dr. Elkind wondered if the same was true for stroke.

“I got interested in the idea that there may have been causes of stroke that had not been fully explored, like infection or inflammation.”

With the support of his colleagues on NOMAS, Dr. Elkind began this line of inquiry, eventually making several pioneer-ing findings that have linked infections and inflammation to stroke and opened up the possibility that it can be predicted. Today he has become internationally known as one of the few investigators pursuing this compli-cated area of research.

Dr. Elkind did not always plan to be a doc-tor. In fact, when he began Harvard College as an undergraduate, he wanted to be a writer. He changed his mind after discovering he liked pre-med courses, especially biology.

“In the back of my mind, I was always in-terested in neurology,” he says. He had been exposed to the field when he was younger through his father, who was an internist interested in migraines and had several well-known neurologists as friends.

“In neurology, you get a sense of what people’s stories are. In part because I had this interest in writing and storytelling

to begin with, I found stories that neuro-logical patients would tell to be the most compelling.”

As a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he became interested in stroke because “the people who were doing stroke were the most exciting group to work with, and the treatment of stroke was chang-ing dramatically.”

One of his first big discoveries at Columbia was that people who had had a stroke often had been previously infected with Chlamydia pneumoniae—a bacteria that is a major cause of pneumonia. He has continued to uncover various relationships between stroke and inflammation and infection, saying that the causes for stroke appear to be multi-faceted.

“The direction that I have tried to push the stroke field is that it’s not about any one organism. There’s no single bug that’s going to cause stroke,” he says.

To try to identify early infections that precipitate stroke, he is working on a new multi-center international case-control study that looks at children who have stroke.

He has also begun collaborations with Dr. Ian Lipkin, the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, who uses a broad array of technologies to identify biomarkers for infections in blood samples from Dr. Elkind’s stroke studies. And Dr. Elkind is collaborating with Dr. Moïse Desvarieux on research around periodontitis, inflammation, and stroke; Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb on diabetes in NOMAS; and with Dr. Karestan Koenen on post-traumatic stress disorder and stroke.

He balances his research with clinical work, spending one day per week in his office and one week out of every six on the Neurology Institute’s Stroke Service, seeing patients who have just had a stroke or are at risk of stroke.

In addition to everything else, Dr. Elkind has taken on a significant teaching role within both his departments, for which he was recently honored with the member-ship in the Apgar Academy for Excellence in Teaching. He mentors several master’s students on projects, is a doctoral disserta-tion sponsor, and is currently co-director of the neuro-epidemiology training program with Dr. Elan Louis.

He and his wife, Rachel Vail, who is a novelist, live in New York City and have two sons ages 18 and 13.

As for creative writing, Dr. Elkind says he does not really have the time he would like to

PROFILES FACULTY

Mitchell Elkind

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

Mary Beth Terry was promoted to professor

of epidemiology, in the chronic disease

epidemiology cluster.

Mary Ann Chiasson was promoted to professor

of clinical epidemiology in the infectious

disease epidemiology cluster.

FACULTY

devote to it, although he published one of his poems, aptly titled “If I had time,” in a 2009 is-sue of the journal Neurology (see next page).

“Marrying Rachel was one of the reasons why I was able to back off on my own future as a writer,” he jokes. “I learned to vicariously appreciate the writer’s life through her.”

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“If I had time”

BY DR. MITCHELL ELKIND

(THIS POEM ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN NEUROLOGY , MAY 11, 2009)

If I had time to write a poem, then

I’d make the subject this mother of two,

Now forty-four, unable to speak,

Her husband’s anger a reproach to my training

And skill. Or the retired physician’s wife who

So silently slipped away last year,

Her brain’s decay explained but unexplained.

But we had toast this morning, and jam, and then

Packed lunches and sent the boys to school;

We shared the paper, and a pot of tea,

And talked about the candidates’ speeches that

Went on too long, then kissed at the door.

“Will you be home for dinner?” you asked me.

I shrugged. “I’ll call you later,” you said.

Sweet luxury our later. And then

The day, like others before and still to come,

A flood of patients, papers, lectures and letters,

Passed deadlines, and dead lives. Past hope,

She too is speechless, offering only a shrug

To my “I think you’re getting better.”

After, an old man holds his wife’s hand, and copes.

This once, at least, I’ll make the time to write this poem

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An infectious disease epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Sonja Olsen PhD ‘98 has always relished working in the field. From investigating the cause of food-borne outbreaks in the US to visiting SARS cases in northern Asia, she has played a firsthand role in identifying many different kinds of infec-tious diseases and working to prevent their spread.

As director of CDC’s influenza program in Thailand, her job entails conducting disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and applied research. It also means she can be sent out into the field at little more than a moment’s notice.

“You have to think through that this is a potentially risky situation. What do I need to do to protect myself? Do I need to have a mask or gloves? Should I be taking prophy-laxis? You have to think through your own safety and security issues.”

Immediately after graduating Mailman in 1998, Dr. Olsen got her start at CDC’s food-borne illness and diarrheal diseases group in Atlanta as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, a two-year position designed to expose young epidemiologists to applied public health.

On her fourth day of training, she was sent to an E. coli outbreak in Wyoming that her group eventually traced to a contami-nated water source. She also investigated a Salmonella outbreak in Pennsylvania that they linked to contaminated milk.

After completing her two –year EIS stint and an additional year on staff in Atlanta, she decided she wanted to go abroad.

“To get a real feel for global health work, you really have to live in a place. To fly in from Atlanta I thought was probably a really different experience from being on the ground and working in different ministries of health,” she says.

She moved to the CDC office in Thailand,

a hot spot for emerging infectious disease. During the 2003 outbreak of SARS she was sent to Taiwan, because of concerns the virus would spread from China.

The next year she went with a rapid response team to investigate a case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in northern Thailand. They visited rural areas where homes are up on stilts and poultry—some possible carriers of avian flu—are running underneath.

“You get an immediate visual picture of how the environment could be contaminated. In some ways they’re almost like pets. They are all over the place, and there is close contact. [The residents also] prepare the chickens [for eating]. They have to pluck the feathers, skin them, and cook them,” she says.

After five years in Thailand, she went back to Atlanta for four years and then returned again to Thailand in 2010 where she has been ever since. This summer she will return to Atlanta.

Dr. Olsen grew up in a suburb of Portland, Ore. and studied anthropology at Dartmouth College. After graduating, she went on to pursue a PhD in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University but decided to switch over to epidemiology after taking a course in the subject and realizing how much she liked it.

After she came to Columbia, she worked in the HIV surveillance unit of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The job sent her to nearly every hospital in the city to review patient charts to investigate the epidemiology of HIV in certain high-risk populations.

She also worked with then faculty mem-ber Dr. Maureen Durkin in Harlem Hospital on injury epidemiology and worked in the lab of Dr. Patrick Moore and Dr. Yuan Chang who identified the virus that causes Kaposi sarcoma, a cancer that often develops in people with AIDS. Her work centered around describing the epidemiology of the disease and identifying risk factors for infection.

To students who want to practice epidemi-ology overseas, she suggests searching for short-term opportunities to see how they like it and recommends checking out opportuni-ties at the CDC.

She also advises to “have a degree of patience and flexibility,” adding: “You can have a great experience, but things change—though that’s not always a bad thing. Be open to different possibilities, and always have a sense of humor.”

PROFILES ALUMNA

Sonja Olsen

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Since coming on board a little over one year ago, Stephanie Capellan, the business manager for the department of epidemiology, has shown her strong capabilities with the complex financial system that she works with every day to assist department administrator Christina McCarthy in managing the department’s grant portfolio, analyzing the department’s budget, and reimbursing faculty and staff.

Stephanie joined the department a year ago as financial coordinator for the psych/neuro cluster, assisting senior cluster administrator Jamie Hager with financial operations for the cluster, including processing invoices, handling reimbursements for staff and fac-ulty in the cluster, and reconciling accounts. She was promoted to her current position as business manager at the beginning of July.

In her new role, she will be working with Christina McCarthy to assist with department budgeting, as well as doing purchases and reimbursements for the chair’s office.

She recently led a successful training for staff who work with the university’s year-old financial system known as Accounting and Reporting at Columbia or more commonly as ARC and has become a point person for questions about the complex financial reporting system.

“Stephanie joined our department amidst the chaos of the financial system transition, but you would never know that from how quickly and easily she became the resident ARC expert,” says Christina. “Her dedication and drive impress me on a daily basis, and her professionalism has been commended by the faculty members for whom she provides support. We are truly fortunate to count her among our colleagues.”

Stephanie came to the department

with many years of experience working on complex budgets. She began at Columbia’s office of facilities, Morningside Campus, as a freshman in college at the university. Her office managed the budget for things like campus renovations; building maintenance; and university and school events, such as graduation.

During summers between college, Stephanie, who majored in economics, interned at the Federal Reserve Bank, with plans to go into finance after college. In the spring of her junior year, she was selected for a summer internship at Bear Stearns.

“Two weeks later, Bear Stearns went under,” she says. When she started her senior year of college, in the thick of the financial crisis, she had landed a fulltime position with Lehman Brothers to begin the summer of 2009. A month later, Lehman was also gone.

At the Columbia facilities office, her co-workers would joke that the banks should stay away from her, Stephanie says. In the end, she got a full time job there as a finan-cial coordinator. She eventually decided that she was more suited for a career in academia or government and continued on at facilities for three more years. There she handled many different financial portfolios, such as fire safety, landscaping, and utilities.

While at facilities, Stephanie started working toward an executive master of public administration in advanced management and finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, a two-year program that meets on nights and weekends.

“The greatest thing about the program is you meet so many kinds of people that are at different stages of their lives in different industries,” she says.

After earning that degree in May, she has found that it has been surprisingly easy to fill her newly regained free time. She has made it a point to see friends she did not see as often during her degree program and spend time with her American pit bull terrier, Gotti—“no affiliation to the gangster”—includ-ing taking him on frequent walks in Pelham Park near her home.

In May she received an unexpected surprise when her boyfriend Gabriel Nieto showed up in Cancun while she was there on an annual trip with some of her friends. After arriving with her parents Gabriel asked her to marry him. The two of them have set a tentative date for July 4, 2014.

PROFILES STAFF

Stephanie Capellan

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

Tanya Kaufman was appointed as a project

coordinator in the social epidemiology cluster.

Angeline Protacio was appointed as a data

analyst in the chronic disease epidemiology

cluster.

STAFF

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Dr. Abdool Karim appointed to UN HIV/AIDS Panel and to UNAIDS and Lancet commission Dr. Salim Abdool Karim has been appointed by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS to chair a panel that will provide advice on how new research and innova-tions can help tackle the epidemic. He was also appointed to the UNAIDS and Lancet commission which began meeting in June to explore the post-2015 agenda of AIDS and global health.

Dr. Willey honored by American College of Epidemiology An article by Dr. Joshua Willey, MS ‘09, assistant professor of neurology, called “Coronary Death and Myocardial Infarction among Hispanics in the Northern Manhattan Study: Exploring the Hispanic Paradox” was selected by the American College of Epidemiology as runner up for the Annals of Epidemiology 2012 Best Paper award. Dr. Mitchell Elkind, associate

professor of epidemiology and neurology, was the senior author of the paper. The work was sponsored by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and is a joint effort between Columbia and the University of Miami.

Dr. Garbers receives NYC Innovative Nonprofit Award A project by Dr. Samantha Garbers, PhD ’12, was selected as a finalist for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s NYC Innovative Nonprofit Award, the only health-related project included among the semi-finalists. The project was based on her doctoral dissertation which looked at a comprehen-sive assessment application created by the non-profit organization Public Health

Solutions that helps women choose the contraceptive method that best fits their individual needs. Dr. Garbers’s dissertation sponsor was Dr. Mary Ann Chiasson, associate professor of clinical epidemiology.

Dr. Terry receives dean’s mentorship award

Dr. Mary Beth Terry, professor of epidemi-ology, has received the first ever Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award from Dean Linda Fried. “Mary Beth provides thought-ful feedback not only on the overarching research question and design, but also on grantsmanship, feasibility and other practical matters,” says her mentees. “Dr. Terry’s passion and enthusiasm for mentoring are not only instructive, but also truly inspiring.”

Dr. Lipkin receives Drexel Prize Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, has been awarded the Drexel Medicine Prize in Translational Medicine by the Drexel University College of Medicine.

AWARDS

BRIEF MENTIONS

Doctoral candidates on research trip

Doctoral trainees Mr. Justin Knox and Mr. Stephen Mooney are shown here on a trip to the National Archives in College Park, Md. They made the trip with Dr. Alfredo Morabia to look for the original data on Pellagra, a disease caused by vitamin deficiency that affects the skin, nervous, and digestive systems. The trip was financed in part by the EPIC fund, which helps trainees access resources to further their education. To learn more about the EPIC fund, see page 43.

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“Consequential epidemiology” the theme of SER 2013 annual meetingIf there was a theme for the 2013 Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) annual meeting, it was “consequential epidemiology”: the idea that epidemiology needs to make a difference on the health of populations.

This was the subject of three keynote addresses at SER, by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, by Dr. Denise Cardo, acting deputy director at the office of surveillance, epidemiology and laboratory services at the CDC, and by the keynote session chair, Dr. Sandro Galea, who is the outgoing president of SER. “To be relevant epidemiology needs to translate findings into ‘lives saved’ to increase the impact of our work,” said Dr. Cardo in her keynote.

This is especially important in a difficult financial climate, where epidemiology is slowly falling out of favor with grant funders, said Dr. Galea. He pointed out that 85 percent of papers in epidemiology journals are etiologic—focusing on the cause of a disease.

“We spend more time looking for causes of disease than doing something about them,” he said.

Other sessions picked up where the keynotes left off, addressing strategies around public health interventions.

At a plenary called “Causal inference: Why bother?” Dr. Magdalena Cerdá said that using causal inference methods can help public health professionals better target interven-tions. She noted that, lacking inquiry into a causal mecha-nism, interventions informed by epidemiology often fail.

A session on dealing with systems sciences approaches chaired by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed took up how complex sys-tems models can be used to predict outcomes of different health strategies.

Dr. Katherine Keyes, assistant professor of epidemiology, spoke about modeling related to health interventions into alcohol use. “Alcohol resides in a complex system,” she said, referring to how factors such as location of stores that sell alcohol, income level, race, and levels of violence all interact.

Other sessions involving epidemiology faculty, trainees

and alumni included “Health of indigenous people: A global health dispar-ity,” chaired by Dr. Ezra Susser; “Perinatal exposures and outcomes over the lifecourse,” chaired by Dr. Pam Factor-Litvak; “SERDigital: Student methods web conference award winners,” which featured MPH ’13 graduate and incoming PhD trainee Ms. Jackie Blachman-Forshay on the subject of crowd-sourced mapping of sexualized violence in Syria; and “Methodological issues in psychiatric epide-miology,” chaired by Dr. Galea and featuring talks by Dr. Keyes and Dr. Cerdá .

Doctoral trainees Ms. Carolyn Herzig and Mr. Stephen Mooney both were awarded poster prizes from SER, Ms. Herzig for her poster “The impact of prison inmate movement on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus transmission in the New York State Correctional System” and Mr. Mooney for his poster “There goes the neighborhood effect: Non-differential misclassification in aggregated measures of neighborhood context.”

The department hosted its annual alumni and friends’ reception, which brought old friends together and sent them off with Boston-themed favors: lobster lollipops and Boston Baked Beans.

DR. SHAKIRA SUGLIA (LEFT) AND DR. MAGDALENA CERDÁ (RIGHT).

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Dr. Keyes is explaining how complex systems’ approach can be used to understand alcohol use and related health outcomes #SER2013

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Student SER awardsThis year, the department awarded two prizes for best student abstracts submitted to SER, to doctoral trainees Ms. Joanne Brady and Mr. Mooney. Following are the winning abstracts.

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES STEPHEN MOONEY AND CATHERINE RICHARDS

Mr. Stephen J. Mooney

Non-differential misclassification in aggregated measures of neighborhood context

With Dr. Andrew Rundle and Ms. Catherine A. Richards

Background Studies of incorporating neighborhood characteristics as predictors frequently aggregate individual level data to create contextual measures. For example, percent of residents in poverty is an aggregation of individual-level measurements of household size and household income, both measures likely to include error. We explored the bias introduced by non-differential misclassification in individual-level data aggregated for use as a contextual measure.

Methods We conducted simulation studies using GEE and mixed models to relate neighborhood contextual measures derived from Census data to an individual level outcome variable, varying the extent of non-differential misclassification in the underlying Census measures. We assessed the consequences of misclassification on neighborhood effect estimates.

Results For neighborhood variables aggregated from dichotomous measures (e.g. % of residents living below the poverty line), non-differential misclassification at the individual level inflates the asso-ciated regression parameter estimate to 1/(sensitivity+specificity-1) times the true value in both GEE and mixed models. However, no bias is present in comparisons between rank-ordered neighborhoods (e.g. comparing quartiles of neighborhoods by percent of residents in pov-erty). Comparisons of neighborhoods grouped by external cutpoints (e.g. neighborhoods with <5% of residents in poverty vs. neighbor-hoods with >20% of residents in poverty) may be biased towards or away from the null, though bias away from the null is more frequent.

Discussion When using contextual measures created through the aggregation of individual level data, the effect of non-differential misclassifica-tion at the individual level depends on the com-parison estimated. No bias is present in estimates interpreted as the average difference in outcome between quantiles of neighborhoods.

Ms. Joanne Brady

Time trends in the prevalence of alcohol and drugs in fatally injured drivers, 1999-2010

With Dr. Charles Dimaggio and Dr. Guohua Li

Media attention and public concern regarding the role of drugs in motor vehicle crashes has grown in recent years. A previous study of drivers fatally injured in 2005-2009 found that almost 60% of the study sample tested positive for alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and nearly 20% tested positive for two or more drugs (including alcohol). Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, drivers who died within one hour of the crash in six states that performed toxicological testing on 80% or more of these drivers between 1999-2010 were examined. Over the 12-year study period, 53.0% of the 23,590 drivers studied tested positive for AOD (39.7% for alcohol, 24.8% for non-alcohol drugs, and 15.2% for two or more drugs (including alcohol)). While the prevalence of alcohol remained constant across the study period, the prevalence of non-alcohol drugs increased from 16.6 % (95% confidence interval (CI) 14.8, 18.4) in 1999 to 28.3% (95% CI 26.0, 30.7) in 2010. From 1999-2010, stimulants were the most commonly detected drug class (10.4% (95% CI 10.0, 10.8)). Their use did not change meaningfully throughout the study period. Cannabis was the second most commonly detected non-alcohol drug and its prevalence more than doubled during the study period (from 5.3% (95% CI 4.8, 5.8) in 1999-2002 to 11.3% (95% CI 10.5, 12.0) in 2007-2010). Use of narcotics also increased considerably, particularly in female drivers and drivers aged 55-64 years. These results suggest that drugged driving, specifically driving under the influence of cannabis and narcotics, may be a contributing factor in an increasing number of fatal motor vehicle crashes.

Nomination for best poster title: “There goes the neighborhood effect” by Stephen Mooney #SER2013

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“BEING IN THE PET PROGRAM WAS ONE OF THE PEAK EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE,” SAYS DR. SARAH ROSENFIELD.

Legacy of excellenceAt 40 years, the department’s Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program is still going strong

Last year, the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) program celebrated its 40-year anniversary, a significant achievement for any grant-funded training program. In a difficult grant environment such as the current one, it is even more remarkable, especially as so many psychiatric epidemiology training programs across the nation have come and gone.

Today, PET is well established as the most prestigious psychiatric epidemiol-ogy training program in the country.

It has trained over 170 epidemiologists in pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, and its alumni have gone on to make important contributions in the study of the origins of psychiatric disorders such as drug addic-tion, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how population-level factors like stigma, urban living, war, income, and race contribute.

PET’s success arises from a culture that is both highly rigorous and comfortingly familial, say faculty, alumni, and current students of the program.

“Things like PET hardly exist in the world nowadays, where you get to do something that’s all about you and figure out what you love. To me that’s the best way to start a research career: in-depth study and learning and interacting with the faculty,” says Dr. Ben Adams, a 2012 postdoctoral graduate who is currently a project manager in the department.

Fellows who have been though the program say it is an unparalleled intellectual experience that teaches them to ask big questions that frequently form the research they will do over the course of their career.

“Being in the PET program was one of

the peak experiences of my life,” says Dr. Sarah Rosenfield, a sociologist at Rutgers University’s Institute for Health Care Policy who was in the program’s second cohort.

“When I came to PET after working five years in academia, I was somewhat dissatis-fied about my career choice. It seemed like expectations were just to get out any little tidbit of research, handle the next little issue in the field,” says Dr. J. Blake Turner, a PET alumnus who is now an assistant professor of social science in Psychiatry at Columbia. “It was not so much that PET taught me how to ask the big questions, it is that it gave me permission to.”

PET’s reputation for excellence was set by its founder, Dr. Bruce Dohrenwend, professor of social science in Psychiatry and in Epidemiology, who has produced seminal research on rates of post-traumatic stress disorder linked to the Vietnam War and on the role of environmental adversity more gener-ally in the cause of psychiatric disorders.

When it began in 1972 on a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, PET became the first psychiatric epidemiology training program in the nation.

“People were either clinicians and didn’t know anything about research design or they were behavioral scientists, social scientists, sociologists, psychologists, social

PET 2009-11 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS WITH MS. BRENDA SCARIFF (FRONT FAR LEFT), DR. SHARON SCHWARTZ (FRONT SECOND FROM RIGHT), AND DR. BRUCE LINK (BACK FAR RIGHT) IN 2011

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psychologists and so on who really didn’t know anything about psychopathology and had never seen a psychiatric patient up close being interviewed,” Dr. Dohrenwend says.

Fellows who came to the program from both areas were challenged to think in new ways about psychological health, ways that emphasized the larger, population-level forces at work.

A core aim of PET going back to its begin-nings has been to study how adversity can affect mental health. The research of PET faculty and fellows has helped to illuminate how race, socio-economic status, war and other factors and events that are responsible for stress give rise to mental disorders.

In its early years, PET was not exclusively focused on psychiatric disorders, as it is today. The faculty and fellows had differ-ent ideas of what they thought PET should emphasize, with director Dr. Dohrenwend favoring inquiries into psychiatric disorders and training coordinator Dr. De Witt Crandall supporting fellows’ interests in subjects like commuter marriages and pornography.

Early PET seminars were filled with tension and smoke—cigarettes were not yet the public health enemy they are today—as faculty, fellows, and guests presented and critiqued each other’s research and ideas.

“It was exciting. It was tense. People feared not living up to PET’s very high standards and often gave what was almost an audible gulp when Bruce Dohrenwend’s turn to ask questions came around,” says Dr. Bruce Link, professor of epidemiology and sociomedical sciences (in Psychiatry) who is the director of PET and also one of the first fellows.

“I always say PET taught me how to think. All that is best in my work I credit to PET and particularly to Bruce Dohrenwend,” says Dr. Karestan Koenen, a PET alumna who is now an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia and the leader of the department’s psychiatric/neurology research cluster.

As the program continued through the 1980s, many of its earliest graduates became faculty in the department. They brought their research interests into PET seminars where they were able to refine ideas that later became influential in the field and on social policy.

“The PET context was important as they developed these ideas. This is something we do. We take on these big things and make them happen,” says Dr. Link, who became the PET training coordinator in the early 1980s after getting a faculty position at Columbia. He credits PET seminars with helping him to develop his research into the stigma sur-rounding psychiatric illness.

Around the same time, Dr. Ezra Susser, also an alumnus and current professor of epidemiology and psychiatry and PET faculty member, was introducing in seminars an idea for a “critical time intervention,” that he was developing with colleagues. Its aim was to help prevent homelessness among mentally ill individuals who have been discharged from hospitals into their community, and it has since been adopted as a model internationally.

Dr. Dohrenwend meanwhile was con-cerned with how to measure the extent to which external stress was related to mental disorders.

“He figured out how to do that much better than it had been done before. It was a really hard thing to do, which is why nobody else had done it well before,” says Dr. Link.

And Dr. Sharon Schwartz, professor of epi-demiology and a PET alumna from the 1980s, emphasized strong methods approaches, a focus she maintains to this day as the program’s training coordinator.

PET has been an incubator for many research partnerships forged by its trainees. Dr. Deborah Hasin, now a professor of clinical epidemiology in Psychiatry and Epidemiology, and Dr. Bridget Grant, now director of biome-try and epidemiology at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of Health at NIH, met as PET fellows and teamed up to investigate the psychiatric epidemiology of alcohol and substance abuse.

Dr. Hasin credits PET for contributing to her learning about tools to do this research. At the time, there was very little work on the epidemiology of alcohol and drug disorders

from a psychiatric perspective. “I saw that you could take methodology

we learned in PET and integrate it with then-existing methods in alcohol and drug research to expand knowledge in new ways,” she says.

Many faculty and fellows are currently investigating prevalence of PTSD in relation to recent mass tragedies such as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hurricane Irene. They are working on innovative new ways to integrate biological concepts into the study of psychiatric epidemiology by investigating potential epigenetic changes in survivors of these events. For instance, one group is conducting a study that looks at the influence of stress from the 2008 Texas Hurricane Ike on a gene region that is thought to play a role in PTSD.

Global mental health has been another recent focus of the program, with several faculty and trainees investigat-ing the prevalence and burden of psychiatric disorders in low and middle income countries, including India, China, and several in South America.

The PET training consists of coursework in psychiatric epidemiology and statistics, field placements that pair trainees with established researchers, and the legendary faculty-fellow seminar. Many PET alumni call these seminars some of the most enriching and intellectually challenging experiences they have had.

“We fellows were obligated to present, and with those presentations learn from the

listeners everything that was wrong with our research, an experience that was as humbling as it was edifying,” says Dr. Irvin Schonfeld, now a professor of psychology at the City College of the City University of New York.

This fit into the PET tradition established by Dr. Dohrenwend of looking at the data before drawing conclusions.

“PET…refined the way I think and ask questions by challenging my assumptions, my data, and my theory,” says Dr. Philip Alberti, the senior director for health equity research and policy in the scientific affairs section of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C.

Fellows are taught to challenge conven-tional wisdom, even around theories and explanations that seem compelling. This year

“PET…REFINED THE WAY I THINK AND ASK QUESTIONS BY CHALLENGING MY ASSUMPTIONS, MY DATA, AND MY THEORY,” SAYS DR. PHILIP ALBERTI.

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a group of fellows started a working group to investigate the book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker, which heavily scrutinizes the efficacy and side effects of psychiatric medications, especially antipsychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It is a controversial stance that pits Whitaker against the drug companies that sell the drugs and the psychiatrists who prescribe them.

What the fellows, Ben Adams, David Barnes, Greg Cohen and Seth Prins found after doing a comprehensive investigation of the research that has been published is that there is little evidence to support the stronger claims of either side.

“Basically there are hardly any studies of the use of antipsychotic medication that are longer than two years,” says Dr. Schwartz.

That working group exemplified “a classic PET thing,” says Dr. Link. “’So these people are saying this, but what does the data say?’ They kind of went through that exercise and said which propositions were supported by the data, which ones weren’t, and which ones we just don’t know enough about.”

According to Dr. Dana March, an alumna and an assistant professor of epidemiology

in the department, “PET represents a way of thinking about science—an ethos and an approach—that is rigorous, deeply analytical, and gloriously unforgiving.”

Yet despite this fear factor, PET fellows and faculty are a close-knit group.

“Not only were the fellows surrounded by a group of brilliant faculty and peers, there was a ‘family atmosphere’ to the program,” says Dr. Ana Abraido-Lanza, a PET alumna who is now an associate professor of socio-medical sciences at Columbia.

The program’s rigor has translated into a history of professional accomplishment for its graduates, the vast majority of whom have continued to do research in psychiatric epidemiology. Alumni are flung far and wide, at major universities like Harvard, Yale, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Pfizer, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Rand Corporation, King’s College London, University of Geneva, and the University of Tel Aviv. Over half the graduates of PET have been principle investigators at some point in their careers.

Such success has been possible because PET has encouraged to think hard about big, important questions, say alumni.

“One of the things that’s most interesting about PET is what hasn’t changed,” says Dr. Link. “And that has to do with the culture of the program, and its emphasis on really rig-orous logic, execution, and doing everything possible to ensure that the questions posed get answered as correctly as possible.”

PET FELLOWS CIRCA 1995 IN SHARON SCWARTZ’S OFFICE ON THE 18TH FLOOR OF PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FRONT: KAREN BUCK, BACK ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: GUEST, DAISY NG-MAK, PAMELA GELLER, ANA ABRAIDO-LANZA, BLAKE TURNER, KENNETH CARPENTER, ALISA LINCOLN

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Doctoral program20 Doctoral students entering fall 2013

21 Student profiles: incoming doctoral students

Student life around campus and NYC46 Student life

50 Off-campus dining in Washington Heights and beyond

Master’s program24 The Columbia MPH program

26 Department of Epidemiology master’s program degree requirements

27 The practicum experience

30 Thesis

Maps & other useful information56 Campus map

57 Faculty directory

62 Staff directory

Academic life31 Academic calendar, 2013-2014

33 Conferences for trainees

34 Frequently asked questions from trainees

36 Academic advising

37 Communications

38 Doctoral-master’s student liaisons

39 The cluster structure in Epidemiology

41 Discrimination and harassment

42 Become a teaching assistant

43 The EPIC fund

FOR STUDENTS

SUMMER 2013 20FOR STUDENTS A GUIDE TO EVERYTHING

All doctoral students should have completed the following prerequisites (or equivalents) PRIOR to entry into the doctoral program. If you have not, please talk to your academic advisor. You may need to take a department-administered waiver exam or take the course during the summer semester prior to entering the program or during the first semester of the program. Most students will have completed the pre-requisites listed below. Those who have not will make a plan with Drs. Leslie Davidson and Sharon Schwartz regarding completion before beginning the required methods curriculum.

Doctoral program

Doctoral students entering fall 2013

STUDENT GUIDE

COURSE NUMBER TITLE POINTS

P6103 OR P6104 INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS 3

P6400 PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 3

P8438 EPIDEMIOLOGY II: DESIGN AND CONDUCT 3

P8483 APPLICATIONS OF EPI RESEARCH METHODS : SAS 3

P8400 EPIDEMIOLOGY III: APPLIED EPIDEMIOLOGIC ANALYSIS 3

P8120 ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA 3

P8100 APPLIED REGRESSION I 3

COURSE NUMBER TITLE POINTS

P9400 EPI IV: CRITICAL THINKING IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 3

P9485 EPIDEMIOLOGY V: CONCEPTS IN CAUSAL INFERENCE 3

P9487 EPIDEMIOLOGY VI: ADVANCED TOPICS IN EPI METHODS 3

P9405 HISTORY OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 3

P9489 APPLICATIONS OF EPI RESEARCH METHODS II 3

P9494 PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND GRANTS 3

P9410 BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR EPIDEMIOLOGISTS 3

P8110 APPLIED REGRESSION II 3

Required courses

Note: 1: Additional coursework: In addition to the above courses, doctoral stu-

dents are encouraged to take substantive courses in their area of current and

emerging interests. Additional statistical and methods courses should be taken

as needed. Probability and Selected Problems in Measurement in Epidemiology

(P8417) are highly recommended. Consultation with your academic advisor on

course selection is strongly recommended.

Note 2: Seminars: Doctoral students are also expected to choose a department

cluster to join and to attend their cluster and departmental seminars (i.e.,

CUEGR, Epidemiology Seminars).

Note 3: Research experience: It is expected that all doctoral students will be

actively engaged in epidemiologic research throughout the doctoral program.

This should be arranged in consultation your academic advisor.

Note 4: Teaching experience: All students are required to fulfill at least a one-

semester teaching requirement by serving as a seminar leader, typically in an

introductory or intermediate level epidemiology course.

Note 5: Training program fellows: Students who are funded by training

programs or fellowships may have additional program or fellowship-specific

course requirements.

Pre-requisites

Doctoral Guidelines

GUIDELINES

Department of Epidemiology UPDATED JULY 2013

PhD and DrPH Programs in Epidemiology

“For more information about our doctoral programs, view the doc-toral guidelines online at mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/Doctoral_Guidelines.pdf

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This fall 2013 the department will welcome 16 new doctoral candidates to the PhD program. They come to us with diverse professional backgrounds in areas including non-profit work, medicine, psychology, global health, and medical research. Learn more about our new doctoral students below:

Ayana April received her BS in public health from Rutgers University and her MPH in sociomedical sciences at Mailman. As a DrPH epidemiology student, Ms. April seeks to develop a methodologically diverse research foundation examining social contexts in chronic disease disparities, and specifically the social epidemiology of racial/ethnic disparities in cancer control and prevention among people of the African diaspora and

immigrants in urban settings. Her other research interests include global health development, health and human rights, and youth and social entrepreneurship.

Carolyn Bancroft currently works as a senior program associate, overseeing grant making on the health team of the Rockefeller Foundation. She joined Rockefeller after receiving an MPH in population and family health at Mailman in 2011. While completing her MPH, Carolyn worked as a graduate re-search assistant and evaluated the sensitivity of a surveillance system used by UNICEF for tracking child injury and mortality. Before

entering the field of public health, Ms. Bancroft worked at the Social Science Research Council, the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, and StoryCorps, a na-tional oral history project where she recorded hundreds of interviews with individuals across the United States. She is interested in social epidemiology, urban populations, migration, gender, and inequalities. She hopes in the future to use epidemiologic studies and methods to inform interventions, policies, and programs that improve population health in the US and globally.

Jackie Blachman-Forshay received a BS in social work from New York University and an MPH in epidemiology from Mailman. As a researcher at New York University’s Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies, Ms. Blachman-Forshay’s work in-vestigated the interplay of sexual risk-taking, substance use, and mental health burden among young men who have sex with men. She currently works alongside Dr. Karestan

Koenen as the lead researcher for Women’s Media Center’s Women Under Siege project, where her research focuses on developing innovative methodology to crowd-source sexualized violence in the ongoing Syrian conflict. Ms. Blachman-Forshay’s research has been featured in publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and NPR, and her analyses have been presented to the United Nations, the US State Department, and the UK Foreign Office.

Danielle Crookes completed an MPH and went on to work at Fox Chase Cancer Center as the project coordinator for a statewide dissemination of “Body and soul,” an evidence-based, faith-based program to promote cancer prevention through healthier eating and living. She happily returned back to New York in 2010 and has been working at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in the cancer prevention and control

program. There she has works on colorectal cancer prevention and clinical trials awareness research and outreach initiatives. She is pursuing her DrPH in epidemiology to research the impact of social determinants of health (including acculturation), and perhaps also etiological factors, on cancer and/or diabetes in subpopulations of US-based Latinos and blacks. Ultimately, she would like her research to combine her epidemiological training with her interest in commu-nity engagement to translate the science to the community.

David Fink is interested in the influence of social arrangements and interactions on the health and well being of trauma exposed populations. Since 2010, he has been an epidemiologist for the Behavioral and Social Health Outcomes Program of the US Army Public Health Command, where he has been involved in several mixed-methodology behavioral health studies among US Armed forces. He has written on the association

between trauma exposure and mental health (e.g., PTSD, aggression), sexual health, and substance misuse/abuse among both military and civilian populations. Mr. Fink is currently leading research to examine the prevalence of spice use (synthetic cannabinoids) among US Army soldiers and a study to assess the scope, severity, and burden of mental health issues within the Army Warrior Transition Unit. He received his MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from San Diego State University.

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DrPH


Adriana Maldonado Martínez holds a degree in psychology from Bogota, Colombia, and a master’s degree in research in health psychology from Barcelona, Spain. She has worked on a variety of topics in health psychology, with a particular interest in exploring the associations between mental and physical health. Her interest became more evident over the course of her numer-ous research experiences at CUMC. She

coordinated a study on depression and breast cancer and has identi-fied considerable overlap in the symptoms of these two illnesses. She is thrilled to have found the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program at Columbia, because it is a perfect match for her research interests. In her spare time, Ms. Maldonado Martinez is an avid reader, an incessant traveler, and a big fan of Zumba dance.

Javier Narvaez is a health researcher from Colombia. His main academic interests include the application of novel epidemiologic methods to provide new perspectives on unresolved health problems, the interface of cooperation between epidemiology and biostatistics, the epidemiology of non-communicable chronic diseases, and more specifically the association between social determinants of health and cardiovascular

diseases. His experience includes participation in burden of disease studies, complex survey design, modeling of longitudinal data, and Bayesian network modeling in topics such as vaccination coverage, economic evaluation of tobacco smoking cessation, the association between HIV and high blood pressure, and the under-diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Elizabeth Oelsner, studied literature at Harvard University and enjoyed a brief stint at McKinsey & Company prior to medical school and an internal medicine residency at CUMC. For the past two years, she has been a Mailman MPH student, a general internist and resident preceptor in the Associates in Internal Medicine clinic, and a post-doctoral clinical fellow in the division of general medi-cine. She primarily works with Drs. Steve

Shea and R. Graham Barr, with whom she has been examining rates of all-cause mortality and pulmonary events in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA-Lung). Ms. Oelsner is also validating a novel ascertainment protocol for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma events in MESA-Lung and the Hispanic Community Health Study. Her interests include respiratory epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis, and health policy.

Mandy Goldberg’s main research interest is the study of social determinants of health across the lifespan. She earned her inter-national MPH from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she completed her thesis on the effect of socioeconomic position on breast cancer incidence and survival among Israeli women. Since obtaining her MPH, she has worked as a clinical research assistant at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, educating inner-city

families to better control their kids’ asthma on an individual basis and reducing disparities in pediatric asthma on a community level. Ms. Goldberg’s work within the community has inspired her to pursue her doctoral studies in social epidemiology, with a focus on targeting areas for intervention aimed to reduce health disparities on a popula-tion level.

Katrina Kezios is a graduate of Mailman, who earned her MPH in epidemiology in 2011. During her MPH she worked under Dr. Pam Factor-Litvak, researching prenatal exposure to organochlorine compounds, maternal thyroid dysfunction, and birth outcomes. After her MPH she has worked for the department as a project coordinator. She has continued her research with Dr. Factor-Litvak and also works on Dr. Bruce Link’s Health Disparities

Study.

Stephanie Kujawski is interested in social epidemiology and health systems as social determinants of health. She currently works at Mailman’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) program, where she is researching disrespectful and abusive treatment of women during childbirth in health facilities in Tanzania. Ms. Kujawski has worked in global public health for the last five years. Prior to joining AMDD, she

worked with the Clinton Foundation in Zambia analyzing pediatric HIV/AIDS policies and programs with the Ministry of Health. She has a BA from Stanford University in psychology and an MPH from Columbia University in health policy and management and global health.

Erin Kulick is currently an epidemiologist for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She attended Villanova University as an undergraduate, receiving a BS in Biology and then went on to earn an MPH from Drexel University’s School of Public Health. Ms. Kulick’s past research ex-perience includes traumatic brain injury and most recently, the epidemiology of stroke.

She hopes to continue research into neuroepidemiology throughout her PhD studies. On weekends, she enjoys running along the Charles River and baking cupcakes.

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Anton Palma as an undergraduate attended the University of California, San Diego, where he received a BS in psychology. Interested in social and behavioral determinants of health, he worked six years in clinical trials across various chronic health conditions including diabetes and schizophrenia. During this time he moved to New York to study public health at New York University. As a PhD student in epidemiology, he continues to apply psycho-

social theories to study the role of social and cultural context in the causality of disease, as well as to understand ways to improve self care behavior and health management. Mr. Palma’s current research focus includes using systems thinking and mathematical modeling to address complex health causality, study care delivery systems, and model population level vaccination and screening policies.

Alexis Rivera completed her BA at Vassar College and received her MPH in epidemiol-ogy at Mailman in 2009. She has spent the past four years working under Dr. Crystal Fuller as a project director overseeing several large-scale National Institute on Drug Abuse intervention studies. Her research interests include substance use, social epidemiology, and racial disparities.

Ana Tergas completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Florida in 2000 and her medical degree at the University of Miami in 2006. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago in 2010 and a clinical fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2013. She completed her MPH in 2011 during her research year of fellowship. Ms. Tergas’s research interests include

disparities in outcomes of gynecologic malignancies in domestic and international underserved populations. She is particularly interested in cervical cancer screening and prevention.

Sheila Vaidya’s interest in epidemiology began while working summers in Singapore with the National University’s department of epidemiology as she pursued her bachelors in biology and psychology at the University of Chicago. She formally continued her epidemi-ology education and graduated this summer with an MPH in epidemiology from Mailman. During her time here, she worked as an intern at the New York City Department of

Health’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Bureau. Her thesis focused on predictors of acceptance of expedited partner therapy as a method for presumptive treatment of chlamydia in the sex partners of chlamydia cases. In her spare time, Ms. Vaidya enjoys painting, yoga, ballet, and traveling. As she pursues her PhD, she is excited to continue working in infectious disease epidemiology.

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Your first semester

Below we offer a glimpse into what your first semester as an MPH student will look like:

1. An integrated core curriculum focusing on foundational knowledge in the field of public health. All students begin their program through a highly interwoven, full-time, first-semester experience.

2. Two school-wide courses that focus on integrating classroom knowledge with practical application through case-based learning (the Integration of Science and Practice course) and leadership and professional skill-building (the Leadership and Innovation course).

3. Centralized and augmented support to the student practice experience. Students entering in the fall will benefit from an increased set of centralized resources ranging from pre and post practicum programming to technology resources such as an online scope of work database and cultural competency training.

4. The certificate. Students may now gain a credential in addition to the MPH in a specialized area of knowledge important to the future of the public’s health (e.g., climate and health, healthy aging, public health informatics). Certificates allow students more flexibility to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and achieve cross-cutting experiences that are essential as we move toward the next generation of public health problems and solutions.

Students take the interdisciplinary core courses in the fall semester of their first year. The interdisciplinary core includes courses that fall within six groupings called “studios.” The six studios are Foundations of Public Health; Biological & Environmental Determinants of Health; Health Systems; Quantitative Foundations, Evidence, and Policy; Social, Behavioral and Structural Determinants of Health; and Systems and Methods for Public Health Planning.

Students will be separated into groups of 20 with a faculty member for the discussion-based Integration of Science and Practice, which continues into the spring semester of the first year.

Students entering the Mailman School Columbia MPH have access to a first-in-the-nation, innovative, interdisciplinary, leadership-based public health program. At its foundation the new curriculum was constructed with a focus on essential public health core knowledge, interdisciplinary team building, translating science into practice, and innovation in leadership development. The program offers an integrated interdisciplinary school-wide experience.

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From beginning to end, students participate in small group, interdisciplinary based experiences that shape and bridge science, leadership, and application skills to build capacity in addressing the world’s most complex public health problems.

— JIM GLOVER, ASSISTANT DEAN FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH


PRACTICUM

INTEGRATION OFSCIENCE AND PRACTICE

DISCIPLINE

SEMESTER 1FALL

SEMESTER 2SPRING SUMMER

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LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION

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Looking forward: your second semester and the summer before year two

In the spring semester students will take the Leadership and Innovation course. Epidemiology students will also take the bulk of the methods sequence (epidemiology and biostatistics) courses in the spring semester of year one, with the exception of Epidemiology III, which they will take either in the fall of year two or the summer between years one and two.

With the exception of students undertaking the global health certificate, most students will un-dertake a practicum during the summer between years one and two.

The core is awesome but intense. If you stay on top of your classes and immerse yourself in the experience you will walk away with a strong and diverse foundation in public health.

— SECOND YEAR MASTER’S STUDENT

Certificates

Students within the Department of Epidemiology are able to select a certificate from 21 of the 24 certificate programs.

The majority of Epidemiology 2-year MPH students are in one of the following certificate programs: Advanced Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Chronic Disease, Global Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, or Social Determinants of Health.

Smaller numbers of Epidemiology students will take other certificates such as Public Health Research Methods, Health of an Aging Society, Applied Biostatistics, and Child Youth and Family Health.

To learn more about all of the certificates, visit mailman.columbia.edu/academics/degree-offerings/mph/full-time-mph/certificates.

Columbia MPH year 1

http://mailman.columbia.edu/academics/degree-offerings/mph/full-time-mph/certificates




DEGREE INTEGRATED CORE

METHODS SEQUENCE*

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED COURSES THESIS PRACTICUM DEPARTMENTAL

SEMINARS

COLUMBIA MPH YES YES CERTIFICATE COURSES Yes Yes 18

ACCELERATED MPH YES YES 3 SUBSTANTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY COURSES No Yes 10

MS NO YES 2 SUBSTANTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY COURSES Yes No 18

EXECUTIVE MS NO YES 3 ADVANCED METHODS COURSES Yes No ENCOURAGED BUT NOT REQUIRED

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*The methods sequence is a central feature of all the MPH and MS degrees offered by the Department of Epidemiology. The methods sequence consists of a series of core epidemiology and biostatistics methodology courses that provide an increasingly honed understanding of and skills to function as an epidemiologist.

The methods sequence includes the courses listed below.

■ P6050 Methods for Research Design and Evaluation in the integrated core (MPH students)

OR ■ P6400 Epi I: Principles of Epidemiology (MS students)

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■ P6050 Methods for Research Design and Evaluation in the integrated core (MPH students)

OR ■ P6103 Biostats I: Introduction to Biostatistics (MS students)

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■ P8438 Epi II: Design and Conduct of Observational Epidemiology

■ P8400 Epi III: Applied Epidemiologic Analysis

■ P8120 Analysis of Categorical Data

■ P8483 Applications of Epidemiologic Research Methods I

Students learn from each other. A very important thing is the bonding. Seek out some of the students who are ahead of you [i.e. second years and doctoral students]. They are great sources of advice.

— DR. STEPHEN MORSE , PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Master’s Guidelines

GUIDELINES

Department of Epidemiology UPDATED JUNE 2013

MPH and MS Programs in Epidemiology

For more information about our master’s programs, view the master’s guidelines at mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/Masters_Guidelines.pdf

http://mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/Masters_Guidelines.pdf




Most master’s students in the Department of Epidemiology complete an epidemiologically-relevant practicum that enables them to apply skills acquired in the classroom in a professional public health setting.

All two year MPH students complete a practicum of 280 hours or more, while Accelerated MPH students have the option of completing a shorter practicum of 140 hours. The practicum is not required for MS and Executive MPH degree students. Most students work full-time for two months or more during the summer, though there is also the option of working an equivalent length of time on a part-time basis over a longer period.

Although some practicum functions are centralized at the school level through the Integrative Practicum Experience (IPE) office, practicum advising remains at the departmental level.

Global health track epidemiology students undertake their practicum for six months in an international setting. Approximately 20% of students who are not in the global health track undertake the practicum overseas as well.

Most students choose to complete a practicum in their certificate area, but this is not required.

Students not in the global health track attend a practicum seminar series held in the fall and spring semester led by faculty member and practicum-thesis direc-tor, Dr. Joyce Pressley. The seminar series introduces students to the practicum process, provides resources for the practicum, exposes students to a range of practicum opportunities, and offers tips for developing a successful application for the most competitive practicum positions. Through a joint effort with the Epi Practicum Office, the Office of Career Services and other Mailman school initia-tives, students receive resume guidance and prepare for successful interviews.

Global health track students take two seminars to assist in identifying an over-seas placement: a professional development seminar in the fall semester of the first year and a pre-practicum seminar in the spring semester. Both seminars are led by Epidemiology faculty member and director of the global health track Dr. Anne Paxton. Students leave for their practicum after the first summer session (during which they take Epi III) and stay through the fall semester. The practicum affords students considerable flexibility in defining their experiences.

Columbia University has policies governing student research with human subjects. The practicum program includes educational seminars and technical assistance to facilitate compliance with these policies.

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PHOTO: VALERIE GEBARA

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2012 STUDENTS, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: WENDY XIAOLIANG WANG, VALERIE GEBARA, AND NIDHI ARORA ON THEIR PRACTICUM AT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN GENEVA.


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Choosing the right practicum experience

There are several processes in place to help students identify a practicum that best suits their professional interests. Students locate practicum opportunities through a variety of sources such as the departmental practicum office, attending the Master’s Student Day in October, school-wide practicum opportuni-ties, office of career services announce-ments, and through their own initiatives. At the Master’s Practicum Day, students hear talks, view posters, and speak firsthand with second year students who have just completed their practicum. Nearly 100 post-ers/ talks are grouped by cluster and roughly indexed by certificate in an event program distributed to attendees.

Students complete a pre-practicum advising survey and have departmental practicum ad-vising sessions to help identify their interests and match practicum opportunities with their long-term career goals.

From start to finish, the practicum is a creative process that helps students make important professional contacts and cement the skills they need to work as professional epidemiologists.

Additional information can be found on the Department of Epidemiology practicum website at: mailman.columbia.edu/academ-ic-departments/epidemiology/academics/masters-practicum

…from the student perspective

Ms. Janet Hui / Public Health Department: Seattle and King County

I am currently working as a research assistant at the public health department that is jointly managed by the city of Seattle and King County governments, as part of the Epi Scholars Program. I am using GIS to conduct spatial analysis of communicable disease patterns and develop a GIS-based infrastructure for disease surveillance. My project has been a perfect fit for my interests in epidemiology and informatics. Additionally, I have an amazing mentor who is accessible and supportive while giving me freedom to conduct my own work. The Epi Scholars program offers a great introduction to the department of health and a comfortable environment to develop professional skills. And perhaps best of all, the program also of-fers a stipend that allows me to enjoy Seattle after work.

Ms. Lindsey Wahlstrom / Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity / New Haven, Connecticut

I chose to pursue an MPH in epidemiology because experience has taught me that gathering the right data can lead to policy changes that impact our health. This is called strategic science, and it is what I am working on this summer at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

For my practicum, I am conducting a national study about the effect marketing has on our food choices. I am also translating scientific research findings into easy-to-understand information and practical tools for advocates who wish to tackle the issue of marketing to children. We recently launched a new website (ruddrootsparents.org) and soon will serve as a national hub for individuals and organizations hoping to end food marketing to children.

This summer has taught me the importance of rigorous research in encouraging action on important issues. Our findings are already being used at the local, state, and federal levels to shape new policies to address childhood obesity.

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You should aim to get practical, real world experience that you can draw on for your research here. Also think about publishing. My experience with master’s and PhD students is that if they publish, it is a stepping stone for their career and they are more prepared when they leave.

LINDSEY WAHLSTROM

practicum continues

— DR. TIFFANY GARY-WEBB, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

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http://ruddrootsparents.org


■ Alma Sana Inc. (Cusco, Peru)

■ American University of Beirut (Lebanon)

■ Basic Health International (Haiti)

■ Black Lion Hospital (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

■ Clinton Health Access Initiative (Mbabane, Swaziland; Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

■ Cochrane Center (Durban, South Africa; Paris)

■ Doris Duke Medical Research Institute (Durban, South Africa)

■ Earth Institute (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

■ Ecole des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (Rennes, France)

■ Foundation for Professional Development (Pretoria, South Africa)

■ Ghana Health Service (Accra, Ghana)

■ Helen Keller International (Maputo, Mozambique)

■ ICAP (Kisumu, Kenya)

■ International Family AIDS Program (La Romana, Dominican Republic)

■ Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (Chennai, India)

■ Ministerio de Salud (Managua, Nicaragua)

■ Population Council (Ethiopia)

■ Mauritius Ministry of Health

■ Rakai Health Services Program (Uganda)

■ Roots of Health (Paseo de Roxas, Philippines)

■ Seoul National University (South Korea)

■ University of Tokyo

■ World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland; Montevideo, Uruguay; Japan)

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NYC DOH

Other NYC

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International

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Practicum Placementsfor the Class of 2014

■ College of Physicians & Surgeons

■ Ghana Essential Heath Intervention Programme

■ Herbert Irving Pavilion

■ ICAP

■ New York Presbyterian Hospital

■ Project Stay

■ School of Dentistry

■ Sergievsky Center

■ City Harvest

■ EcoHealth Alliance

■ HIV Law Project

■ Memorial Sloan-Kettering

■ Mount Sinai

■ National Center for Disease Preparedness

■ New York City Department of Health

■ New York University Langone Medical Center

■ Quintiles

■ Social Intervention Group

■ Becton Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, NJ)

■ Epi Scholars (Los Angeles; Seattle)

■ IMS Health (Plymouth Meeting, PA)

■ Jersey Shore Medical Center (Neptune Township, NJ)

■ Georgetown University (Washington, DC)

■ Pfizer Inc. (New Jersey)

■ Rudd Center at Yale University (New Haven)

■ Washington DC Department of Health

■ Westchester County Department of Health (New York)

Examples of practicum placements

Columbia University practicum sites

Other New York City practicum sites

Other domestic practicum sites

International practicum sites


Past theses have used traditional epidemiology methods and ana-lytic applications to examine factors

impacting population health as well as novel approaches to old problems like tropical diseases, health disparities, exploration of environmental prenatal exposures, air pollution and respiratory disease, antimi-crobial resistance, metabolic syndrome, neighborhoods, diet and health, internet use and substance abuse, smoke exposure, and post-traumatic stress. Programmatic impacts and treatment effectiveness were examined across current issues affecting population level health including prescription drug monitoring, complementary medicine and patient-centered medical home models. Investigations of disease outcomes for Hepatitis, HIV, AIDS, TB, Lupus, cancer, diabetes and others produced new findings, many of which will be presented at national conferences and published in peer review journals. Health in special populations was examined in conflict zones, World Trade Center Registry participants, minority neigh-borhoods, and resource-limited societies. GIS analytic methods were used to reveal spatial patterns in disease, injury and violence here and abroad.

Ideally, students will begin to seek out and become involved with faculty with whom they have common research interests in their first year. Students should enlist a department of epidemiology faculty member to serve as the first reader and mentor for their thesis work before August of their third semester. The student’s faculty adviser and the thesis program director can be helpful in guiding students as they identify and engage an epidemiology faculty member as first reader.

Engaging a first reader early is crucial to a successful thesis experience as the first reader will provide content expertise and assist the student in identifying gaps in the literature, formulating a scientifically important research question and selecting

a dataset appropriate for exploring the thesis question. Students have the option of a second reader who is frequently someone associated with practicum or the thesis data. The second reader can be any researcher with a doctoral degree, either from the Columbia community or from outside the institution. The second reader provides additional support and confers with the first reader on the thesis grade.

The thesis data set should come from an epidemiologic study large enough to utilize multivariable statistical methods to which students are exposed during their training. Students often use faculty members’ datas-ets, publicly available datasets, or data from a practicum site if it is suitable for thesis work, although the thesis and practicum do not have to be linked. Columbia University policy on research by students requires that all theses involving human subjects research be submitted for IRB review prior to begin-ning data analysis.

Completion of the thesis has a timeline that spans two semesters. Students in the two-year MPH or MS degree programs should identify a first reader and a dataset for the thesis before August of the third semester. The student works with the first reader during September to complete a structured thesis plan to which the student, thesis reader and data set owner agree. If the thesis involves human subjects research, an IRB is submitted by early October to ensure that approval is granted with sufficient time to permit exploratory data analysis during the fall semester. The first half of the thesis is completed in the fall semester of the second year, and the thesis is finalized in the spring semester with April 15 as the submis-sion deadline for the final thesis.

Two courses are designed to assist stu-dents in the thesis process. Master’s Thesis in Epidemiology I (P9419) is offered in the fall of the second year, and P9420 Master’s Thesis in Epidemiology II (P9420) in the

spring. Students in the global health certifi-cate are not able to take Master’s Thesis I in person because they are overseas, but have access to course materials via Courseworks and are expected to follow along and return from their placement with data and readers in hand prepared to complete the thesis by April 15 of the second year.

Columbia MPH students in interdisciplin-ary certificate programs may propose an alternative thesis format commensurate with interdisciplinary learning. Alternative thesis formats will be considered on a case-by-case basis. This will allow for harmonization of the thesis across departments for interdisciplin-ary certificates. Accelerated MPH students are not required to write a master’s thesis.

The thesis program is under the direction of Dr. Joyce Pressley ([email protected]).

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ThesisMaster’s program

The master’s thesis is the culmination of the student’s educational experience at Mailman. Cutting edge thesis topics have ranged from human disruption of ecosystems as a driver of zoonotic disease emergence to pharmacological approaches for treating carriers of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation.

STUDENTS SHOULD ENLIST A DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY FACULTY MEMBER TO SERVE AS THE FIRST READER AND MENTOR FOR THEIR THESIS WORK BEFORE AUGUST OF THEIR THIRD SEMESTER


Fall 2013, Spring 2014 and Summer 2014

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7TH REGISTRATION FOR SPRING SEMESTER. CONTINUING STUDENTS ONLY.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8TH – THURSDAY, JANUARY 9TH REGISTRATION FOR CONTINUING AND NEW STUDENTS.

MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH NO CLASSES. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST FIRST DAY OF CLASSES.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST – FRIDAY, JANUARY 31ST CHANGE OF PROGRAM PERIOD. (LATE REGISTRATION WITH FEE).*

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR MAY DEGREE.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH AWARD OF FEBRUARY DEGREES.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH NO CLASSES. PRESIDENT’S DAY OBSERVED.

TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH START OF 2ND QUARTER.

MONDAY, MARCH 17TH – FRIDAY, MARCH 21ST NO CLASSES. SPRING HOLIDAYS.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27TH LAST DAY TO DROP INDIVIDUAL COURSES OR CHANGE GRADING OPTION.

MONDAY, MAY 5TH LAST DAY OF CLASSES.

FRIDAY, MAY 9TH – FRIDAY, MAY 16TH FINAL EXAMINATIONS. TERM ENDS.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST ALL-UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT – CONFERRING OF DEGREES.

MAILMAN COMMENCEMENT TBD THE MAILMAN SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT DATE WILL BE DETERMINED IN LATE FALL 2014.

Fall 2013

Spring 2014

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* NO ADJUSTMENT OF FEES FOR INDIVIDUAL COURSES DROPPED AFTER THIS DATE.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 26TH – FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH ORIENTATION PROGRAMMING

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27TH – THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH REGISTRATION FOR NEW AND CONTINUING STUDENTS.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND NO CLASSES. LABOR DAY.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD FIRST DAY OF CLASSES.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH CHANGE OF PROGRAM PERIOD. (LATE REGISTRATION WITH FEE).*

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16TH AWARD OF OCTOBER DEGREES.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22ND START OF 2ND QUARTER.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH NO CLASSES. ELECTION DAY.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH LAST DAY TO DROP INDIVIDUAL COURSES OR CHANGE GRADING OPTION.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH CONTINUING STUDENTS REGISTER FOR SPRING TERM.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1ST NO CLASSES. THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2ND LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR FEBRUARY DEGREES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13TH LAST DAY OF CLASSES.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16TH – TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH READING PERIOD.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20TH FINAL EXAMINATIONS. TERM ENDS.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 23RD – MONDAY, JANUARY, 13TH NO CLASSES. WINTER HOLIDAYS.


One of my favorite bits of advice that I got as a grad student was to take up a hobby that involves completing something. The thesis and dissertation are such long, iterative projects that it’s easy to lose sight of the progress you’re making and the skills you’re building. You can offset that frustration by creating something during your off time.

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND – FRIDAY, MAY 23RD REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER TERM. CONTINUING AND NEW STUDENTS.

MONDAY, MAY 26TH MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED. NO CLASSES.

TUESDAY, MAY 27TH FIRST SIX WEEK SESSION BEGINS.

TUESDAY, MAY 27TH – FRIDAY, MAY 30TH CHANGE OF PROGRAM PERIOD. (LATE REGISTRATION WITH FEE).*

FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH LAST DAY TO DROP INDIVIDUAL COURSES OR CHANGE GRADING OPTION.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24TH – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH REGISTRATION FOR SECOND SIX WEEK SESSION.

THURSDAY, JULY 3RD FIRST SIX WEEK SESSION ENDS.

FRIDAY, JULY 4TH NO CLASSES. INDEPENDENCE DAY OBSERVED.

MONDAY, JULY 7TH SECOND SIX WEEK SESSION BEGINS.

MONDAY, JULY 7TH – FRIDAY, JULY 11TH CHANGE OF PROGRAM PERIOD. (LATE REGISTRATION WITH FEE).*

MONDAY, JULY 14TH – FRIDAY, JULY 18TH CONTINUING STUDENTS REGISTER FOR FALL TERM.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1ST LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR OCTOBER DEGREES.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1ST LAST DAY TO DROP INDIVIDUAL COURSES OR CHANGE GRADING OPTION.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15TH LAST DAY OF SEMESTER

Summer 2014

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— DR. GINA LOVASI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

* NO ADJUSTMENT OF FEES FOR INDIVIDUAL COURSES DROPPED AFTER THIS DATE.

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Academic calendar – Mailman School of Public HealthFall 2013, Spring 2014 and Summer 2014


Epidemiology

■ Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) epiresearch.org

■ American College of Epidemiology (ACE) acepidemiology.org

■ International Epidemiology Association (IEA) ieaweb.org

Public Health

■ American Public Health Association (APHA) apha.org

Cancer Epidemiology

■ American Society for Preventive Oncology (ASPO) aspo.org (Highly recommended for all cancer epidemiology training fellows)

■ American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) asco.org

■ American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) aacr.org

Environmental Epidemiology

■ The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISSE) iseepi.org

Genetics

■ American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) ashg.org

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

■ Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) retroconference.org

■ Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) idsociety.org

■ International Meeting on Emerging Diseases (IMED) imed.isid.org

■ Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) apic.org

Pediatric Epidemiology

■ Society for Pediatric and Epidemiologic Research sper.org

■ Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH EPI) cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MCHEpi/Conference/AboutConference.htm

Psychiatric Epidemiology

■ American Psychopathological Association (APPA) appassn.org (Required for all psychiatric epidemiology training fellows) appassn.org

■ American Psychiatric Association (APA) psych.org

■ American Psychological Association (APA) apa.org

■ International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies to the Psychiatric Epidemiology istss.org

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Enjoy the resources of the city. New York has one of the best health departments in the world, and our school has many connections to them, including through the practicum, through volunteer programs, and through the Epidemiology Scholars Program.

— DR. STEPHEN MORSE, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Below is a list of conferences trainees can attend in their area(s) of interest. Most of these conferences are sponsored by organizations in which trainees can become student members. Visit their websites for more details. This selected list comprises the recommendations of both trainees and faculty in the department.

Conferences for trainees

http://epiresearch.org

http://acepidemiology.org

http://ieaweb.org

http://apha.org

http://aspo.org

http://asco.org

http://aacr.org

http://iseepi.org

http://ashg.org

http://retroconference.org

http://idsociety.org

http://imed.isid.org

http://apic.org

http://sper.org

http://cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MCHEpi/Conference/AboutConference.htm



http://appassn.org

http://appassn.org

http://psych.org

http://apa.org

http://istss.org


What degrees are offered by the Department of Epidemiology?

■ MPH with certificate

■ Accelerated MPH

■ MS

■ Executive MS

■ DrPH

■ PhD

What is the difference between the MPH and the MS? The MPH is a public health degree with training in all the aspects of the field, including epidemiology and biostatistics. The MS is a research degree with specific training only in epidemiology and biostatistics and epidemiologic methods. See the master’s guidelines for more complete information.

What is the difference between the PhD and the DrPH? The PhD and DrPH are very similar in their content and coursework, though the DrPH is intended mainly for working profes-sionals and includes a mentored practicum component that is tailored to trainees’ work and research interests. A monthly seminar also helps bridge the link between course-work and practice for DrPH trainees. Both degrees require passing qualifying exams and completing dissertation.

The PhD is administered through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and requires students to complete coursework within four residence units, one extended residence unit, and to be continuously registered through matriculation and facili-ties until the defense of the dissertation. The DrPH is administered through the Mailman School of Public Health, where students must be registered until they defend. See the doctoral guidelines for more complete information on the PhD and DrPH.

How many students enter the degree programs each year? On average 100-120 students enroll in the master’s programs and 10-15 in the doctoral programs.

Will I be able to work at minimum part-time during my first semester? During your first semester, it will be somewhat difficult to work, even part-time, because of the core curriculum; however as you move along into the spring semester your time will be more flexible. There are many research-related employment opportunities in the department at any given time.

When is orientation? Orientation will be held from August 26-30. All student are expected to attend.

Will I be assigned an advisor? Toward the end of the summer the department will notify you as to who your advisor will be. We select advisers based on a review of your applica-tion and your choice of certificate and try to match you with a faculty member who has similar interests to yours.

When will I register for my classes this fall? For those in the MPH, the school registers you for classes for your first semester For new and incoming students in other programs registration for the fall semester takes place August 27-29.

Where can I find the academic calendar? You can find an academic calendar via the following link on the school website: mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-academics/academic-calendar or on page 31 of this guide

Where is the best place to find descrip-tions of the courses and the most current information on the schedule of classes and classrooms for each semester? You can find descriptions of courses via the following link on the school website: mailman.columbia.edu/academics/courses

What are the basic elements of the new MPH curriculum? The new curriculum is integrative. It comprises the following basic elements:

■ Core course that integrates all the disciplines within public health

■ Integration of Science and Practice course

■ Leadership and Innovation course

■ Department discipline courses, required Department of Epidemiology courses

■ Practicum

■ Certificate courses

■ Thesis

For more information, see our article about the curriculum renewal (page 24), the Mailman school website publichealth.columbia.edu/degree-programs/columbia-mph, and the master’s guidelines mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/Masters_Guidelines.pdf.

Can I take courses beyond the certificate requirements? Yes, we have a long list of substantive courses that students may take that are beyond the list of required certificate courses.

I am undecided about my certificate choice. When must I choose a certificate? You will need to choose your certificate before the end of the fall 2013 semester.

Can I take courses Pass/Fail? Only a limited number of courses may be taken pass/fail, and required courses cannot be taken pass/fail.

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We have compiled a list of frequently asked questions that trainees have posed to the educational team over the years. We hope you find them useful. Do not hesitate to contact associate director of academic programs Ms. Liliane Zaretsky, master’s program director Dr. Anne Paxton, and doctoral program director Dr. Leslie Davidson with questions about the program.

Frequently asked questions from trainees

Newly revamped master’s and doctoral guidelines are available at mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/epidemiology/department-resources

http://mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-academics/academic-calendar

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Frequently Asked questions from trainees

What is a tutorial? Tutorials are inde-pendent studies which students do with a member of the faculty for anywhere from one to six credits and a letter grade. A student may do research work, library work, literature review, data collection and receive tutorial credit. Both the student and the faculty have to agree on the scope of the tutorial.

I’ve taken a course at another university. Can I get transfer credit for taking that course? We will accept up to 15 transfer credits for graduate level courses related to public health. The courses must have been taken at an accredited academic institu-tion and cannot have been used at the undergraduate level to complete academic credits. To earn transfer credits, you must provide a syllabus and an official transcript and have received a grade of B+ or better. We will not accept core courses for transfer credit.

What are the seminar requirements? All students in the master’s program are required to attend at least 18 seminars over a two year period, either CUEGR’S (Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds) or Epidemiology Department Seminars. Transfer students or global track students will be expected to attend at least 14 seminars over the two year period. View the list of CUEGRs and Department seminars on pages 3-4.

How do I find out if I am eligible for work study? To find out if you are eligible for work-study, contact the financial aid office: mailman.columbia.edu/prospective-students/financial-aid

I have been asked to present a poster at a conference but need some help with travel expenses. The school has fund that can help with travel expenses: mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-travel

Students can also, as a back-up, re-quest funding from the Department of Epidemiology through the EPIC fund. See page 43 for more information or the department’s resources page: mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/epidemiology/department-resources

Where can I find out about housing? To find out about housing, visit CUMC’s housing website: cumc.columbia.edu/facilities-management/housing/housing

Where can I find out about the cost of a degree at the Mailman School of Public Health? You can learn about the cost of the degree via the Mailman website. MPH in-formation can be found here publichealth.columbia.edu/apply/financial-aid/tuition-costs, and MS and doctoral information can be found here publichealth.columbia.edu/apply/financial-aid/ms-doctoral-tuition.

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Incoming epidemiology master’s students are all assigned a faculty adviser. Students are

strongly encouraged to set up a meeting within the first month of the semester with their

advisers to introduce themselves. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisers in the

first semester or early in the second semester to discuss thesis ideas. The faculty adviser can

assist the student in two ways: to find a data set for the thesis and to find a thesis reader who is

familiar with the topic the student wants to address. Associate director for academic programs,

Ms. Liliane Zaretsky, and director of the master’s program, Dr. Anne Paxton are also available to

assist students.

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Two core communications missions of the Department of Epidemiology are to share

information among our colleagues in the department, school, and the university and

to translate epidemiology to the public, believing that the goals of our discipline are

better achieved when our science is engaging and accessible to a wide audience.

Communications

Follow on Twitter twitter.com/cuepidemiology

Like on Facebook facebook.com/cuepidemiology

Add us on LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/cuepidemiology

Department website mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/epidemiology

Mailman School events calendar mailman.columbia.edu/events

Mailman School student digest mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-life/student-digest

Week N Each week department chair Dr. Sandro Galea sends out a round-up for faculty, trainees, and staff of announcements about upcoming events, academic opportunities, social events, faculty and trainee awards, and other news from around the department, school, and university.

Monthly trainee email Each month Dr. Galea reaches out directly to all trainees with news and updates that affect them, including research and training opportunities, academic and social events, and important information regarding the the academic calendar, policy, and administration.

Bi-monthly alumni email Every other month Dr. Galea sends an email to department alumni, keeping them abreast of the news in the department and the field at large, inviting them to lectures and sympo-sia, and encouraging their continued participation in the intellectual life of the department.

Two by Two The Department of Epidemiology’s quarterly newsletter, Two By Two, provides information on the core elements of our work, featuring news about current research; achievements of faculty, trainees, and staff; profiles on affiliated centers; and long-form articles about controversial public health topics.

the 2x2 project (the2x2project.org) Providing “health beyond the headlines,” the 2x2 project is a department-sponsored site that delivers public health news, analysis and commentary, and trains future science communicators. The site dis-seminates epidemiological and public health science insights to the greater public to engage readers in the health conversation.

Share your work Many of you are engaged in important and exciting research that can be shared to our broader community through the Two by Two newsletter and our social media. If you have a paper, a poster, or a talk and you would like to share your findings, please contact Ms. Elaine Meyer at [email protected].

Contribute to communications The skill of communicating science to a broad public is increasingly central to the modern practice of epidemiol-ogy, and we want our trainees to get firsthand experience communicat-ing the science. We are looking for trainees to contribute to the Two by Two newsletter, the 2x2 project, and social media.

If you are interested or would like to learn more, please contact Ms. Elaine Meyer at [email protected].

Follow us and @WomenUndrSiege throughout the day for live tweets of our symposium on global sexualized violence #CUESS

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The role of the doctoral-master’s student liaisons is intended to enrich the social and academic experiences of master’s students in the department. To that end, their objective is to devise and organize events particularly suited to the needs of master’s students. The hope is that these events will not only enhance students’ overall experienc-es within the department, but also provide opportunities for master’s students to become better acquainted with other students and faculty. In addition, they will be available to address specific questions that arise and, when appropriate, refer students to available resources.

Among the events and clubs the doctoral-master’s liaison program sponsors are:

■ Master’s student journal club in epidemiology: an opportunity for students to discuss recent and important papers in epidemiology with their peers as well as to practice critically evaluating the epidemiological literature

■ Student-faculty lunch series: allows students to enjoy informal conversation with some of our outstanding faculty members

■ Question-and-answer session on applying to doctoral programs in epidemiology: provides information about the application process and insight into deciding where and when to apply.

Ms. Kahn can be reached at [email protected]

Ms. Shiau can be reached at [email protected]

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Utilize all resources that are available to you! Make connections, engage with professors and fellow students, and don’t be afraid to ask questions. The people you connect with will likely be some of your closest colleagues after your graduate!

— FIRST YEAR MASTER’S STUDENT

LEFT: STEPHANIE SHIAU RIGHT: LINDA KAHN

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This year, doctoral trainees Ms. Linda Kahn and Ms. Stephanie Shiau will act as liaisons to master’s students for the department.

Doctoral-master’s student liaisons


Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Mary Beth Terry, PhD

Research in the chronic disease epidemiology cluster addresses the etiology, prevention, distribution, natural history, and treatment outcomes of chronic health disorders, including cancer (particularly breast, colon, lung, prostate, ovary and pancreas), cardiovascular dis-ease, diabetes, gastrointestinal and pulmonary disease, and obesity.

Research within this cluster extends from our local Northern Manhattan community to US and international cohorts. Our faculty have expertise across a range of epidemiologic study designs including follow-up, family-based, and population-based studies. Our studies integrate approaches across many different disciplines and specialties including molecular epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, social epidemiology, and health outcomes.

Our cluster maintains and continues to expand innovative collabor-ative research and training programs. Primary Columbia collaborators include the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center; the depart-ments of Environmental Health Sciences, Sociomedical Sciences, Biostatistics, Medicine, Neurology, Urology, and Psychology; and the School of Dental Medicine. We benefit greatly by drawing on expertise from many of our faculty in the cluster who share appointments in other departments across Columbia University Medical Center.

The cluster holds a monthly seminar, sponsors a highly popular certificate in chronic disease epidemiology for MPH students, and teaches several courses open to the department.

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA

Infectious diseases continue to have a substantial impact on the health of communities around the world. From the global HIV and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, to the threat of resistant bacteria, to the challenge of emerging and newly identified pathogens. All compel the need for new methods to detect such pathogens, to understand their pathogenesis, and to devise effective interventions for their preven-tion and control.

Emerging molecular methods are critical for future efforts. Traditional case control and cohort studies will be necessary to define the role of such pathogens in disease causality. In addition, a deepen-ing of the understanding of the complexity of factors that determine risk and susceptibility to various infectious diseases is necessary for the design of appropriate interventions. Moreover, exciting opportuni-ties exist at the interface of communicable and non-communicable diseases, offering new and expanding research agendas.

The infectious disease epidemiology cluster encompasses domes-tic and global work on the epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging

infections, global infectious disease threats, disease surveillance, disease detection, development of vaccines and other prevention methods, clinical trials, and the role of infectious pathogens in the pathogenesis of chronic non-communicable diseases (such as cancer and cardiovascular disease). The focus is broad, ranging from the search for novel pathogens using advanced molecular techniques to longitudinal population based studies to define transmission dynam-ics and spectrum of disease and survival. Approaches are employed in an interdisciplinary fashion to define etiology, pathogenesis, transmission, and prevention/treatment potentials. The infectious disease epidemiology cluster is home to the faculty of several centers and includes several large-scale projects. Affiliated faculty members play a substantial role in the intellectual life of the cluster, conducting collaborative research, organizing interdisciplinary seminars, and providing mentorship to students and junior faculty.

The cluster holds a monthly seminar, sponsors a highly popular certificate in infectious disease epidemiology, and teaches several courses open to the department.

Injury Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Guohua Li, MD, DrPH

The Injury Epidemiology Cluster aims to improve population health by reducing the morbidity and mortality from unintentional and intentional injuries.

The newest of the six administrative and intellectual core organiz-ing units in the Department of Epidemiology, the injury cluster was catalyzed by the launch of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, one of 11 injury control research centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The cluster brings together a group of faculty with diverse expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, engineering, emergency medicine, pediatrics, surgery, rehabilitation, and geriatrics to address unintentional and intentional injuries across the life span.

The objectives of the injury cluster are to integrate expertise and other resources across academic divisions, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, forge diverse partnerships, and accelerate the advance-ment of science and the translation of scientific discoveries to reduce the incidence and severity of injury at the community, regional, state and national levels.

The cluster sponsors an annual conference on translating injury research into effective prevention, a new peer-reviewed open access journal, Injury Epidemiology, in partnership with Springer Science and Business Media, and a certificate in injury prevention and control for MPH students. The cluster also hosts two seminar series: a university-level seminar that provides a forum for cross-pollination of ideas and programs between local professionals and academicians, and a monthly cluster seminar to advance the scientific discourse on contemporary topics related to injury research and prevention.

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The department is organized into six clusters. The clusters serve as catalysts for scientific discussion among faculty and trainees through a structured program of formal interaction that encourages the development of innovative projects and programs. All doctoral students are assigned to a cluster, and all master’s students are encourage to join a cluster and attend cluster events.

The cluster structure in Epidemiology


Lifecourse Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH

Lifecourse epidemiology is the study of antecedent exposures and later health outcomes, taking into account the pathways between the two and the evolution of health and disorders over time. Our faculty members examine biologic, genetic, social, and environmental determinants of health across the lifecourse, carrying out studies in numerous large birth cohorts around the globe. Virtually all of the work in the cluster involves interdisciplinary collaborations with faculty across the Department of Epidemiology, the Mailman School of Public Health, and the Columbia University Medical Center.

Primary collaborators include the Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies, the Institute of Human Nutrition (College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia), and the Division of Developmental Neuroscience (New York State Psychiatric Institute).

Training the next generation of lifecourse epidemiologists is critical to the success of our mission. We see our long-term research goals in two broad categories: first, the further integration of biologic, genetic, epigenetic, and social contextual measures into lifecourse studies, and second, the development of innovative analytic approaches to studying exposure trajectories and outcomes measured over the life-course. We also aim to build capacity and support lifecourse studies in low and middle income countries.

The cluster holds a monthly seminar and teaches several courses open to the department.

Psychiatric / Neurological Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Karestan Koenen, PhD

The psychiatric and neurological epidemiology cluster is an intel-lectual community of faculty and students in the Department of Epidemiology who share an interest in understanding the causes, origins, progression, and consequences of psychiatric and neurologi-cal disorders.

Our research and training program is committed to a population-based perspective that takes a ‘cells to society’ approach to inves-tigate how environmental factors ‘get under the skin’ and shape psychiatric and neurological disorders over the lifecourse. We aspire to reduce the global public health burden of psychiatric and neuro-logical disorders through making our findings accessible to the public and in using our findings to develop effective population-wide and clinical interventions.

Students in this cluster benefit from working with faculty who are leading scholars in neurodevelopmental science and developmental psychopathology; stress and adversity, trauma, and stigma; genetic epidemiology; substance use and abuse; systems science; global mental health; mental health services research; and the etiology, treatment, and prevention of neurological disorders. Students also benefit from our long collaborative history with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Department of Psychiatry, the Neurological Institute, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, and the School of Social Work and have the opportunity to work with faculty across all Department clusters.

The cluster holds a monthly seminar and teaches several courses open to the department.

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Social Epidemiology

Cluster leader: Bruce Link, PhD

The social epidemiology cluster seeks to understand the ways in which social, psychological, political, cultural, and economic circum-stances influence our chances for a healthy life. We combine theory from the social sciences with rigorous epidemiological methods so that we can illuminate the connections between social factors and health and use what we find to improve health. Within this broad frame we have a special interest in the connections between social inequalities and health inequalities.

The cluster has three aims. First, we aim to produce knowledge about the influence of social circumstances on health with a special emphasis on social inequalities in health. Second, we aim to train and mentor a new generation of scholars and practitioners who have the capacity to conduct rigorous research on the role of social factors in health. Third, we aim to leverage what we learn to improve population health and reduce health inequalities locally, nationally, and across international borders.

Anchored upstream from the more proximal determinants of disease, research in the social epidemiology cluster engages col-laboratively with the other epidemiology clusters in the department, so that the full cascade of influences on health from social conditions to biology can be understood. The social epidemiology cluster builds on its connections with the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Health and Society Scholars Program and the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health. The RWJ program facilitates interdisciplin-ary collaborations between the biological and social sciences and has dramatically increased contacts between researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and those elsewhere across multiple disciplines. Students benefit from close ties to the Departments of Sociology and Psychology and the School of Social Work. The Center for Social Inequalities and Health provides a rigorous intellectual basis for the study of health inequalities and support for junior faculty interested in this area, sponsors speakers, seminars, and events that highlight the importance of social inequalities for on the production of health inequalities, and keeps members current on critical issues through a lively journal club.

The social epidemiology cluster sponsors a monthly cluster semi-nar, a certificate in social determinants of health for MPH students (in collaboration with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences), and offers several courses open to the department.


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Our position is clear: discrimination and harassment of any kind have no place in our department. Our goals are twofold: first, we seek to create an environment of inclusive-ness and respect where discrimination and harassment do not occur; second, we seek to empower those who might witness or experi-ence discrimination or harassment and let them know what recourse is available to them.

Students who are concerned about interpersonal behavior of any kind are encouraged to communicate directly to the department chair, Dr Sandro Galea ([email protected]). In addition specific university resources intended to help address issues of discrimination and harassment are:

Student Services for Gender-based and Sexual Misconduct is designed to support students facing inappropriate behavior based on sex and/or gender discrimination that may or may not be sexual in nature. Their website contains information on resources, on policy and on how to get advice. It can be accessed at columbia.edu/cu/dpsa, and they can be contacted at 212-854-1717.

Office of University Compliance provides a confidential channel to report a compliance concern, including issues of academic, gender-based or sexual misconduct, or seek guidance on compliance issues with the option of anonymous reporting. The hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 866-627-3768 (compliance.columbia.edu).

Other Resources

Students who face difficulty of any kind during their time with us are encouraged to go to their faculty advisors for advice about how to access resources. Students should also feel free to contact Ms. Liliane Zaretsky ([email protected]), associate director of academic pro-grams, Dr. Leslie Davidson ([email protected]), director of doctoral programs, or Dr. Ann Paxton ([email protected]), director of master’s programs.

In addition, below is a list of school-side resources students may find helpful during their training.

The Office of Disability Services works closely to facilitate equal access for students, including coordination of reasonable accom-modations and support services for students with disabilities. For more information, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or [email protected].

Center for Student Wellness (CSW) works to promote health and enhance learning by addressing health-related barriers to academic success. Located at 107 Bard Hall, the CSW is open Monday through Friday by appointment and also maintains walk-in hours. Services provided by the CSW are free to CUMC students. For more informa-tion, call them at 212-304-5564 (email [email protected]) or see their website at cumc.columbia.edu/students/wellness/aboutcsw.html.

The Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center provides peer counsel-ing, advocacy, and education to the entire university community. If you are a survivor of sexual assault and would like to talk with someone immediately, please contact a peer advocate at 212-854-HELP. Walk-in hours are also available. health.columbia.edu/services/svprp/rcavsc

Ombuds Office, (director, Marsha Wagner) is an excellent source for thoughtful and confidential advice regarding a wide-range of chal-lenges or conflicts including academic issues. More information can be found at columbia.edu/cu/ombuds. The office has drop-in hours or an appointment can be made by calling 212-843-1234.

The Department of Epidemiology is deeply committed to fostering an environment in which every member of our department has the opportunity to maximize her or his potential.

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They are assigned to classes through associate director for Academic Programs, Ms. Liliane Zaretsky, and compensated at $4,000 per class. Classes that have at least 15 students are assigned at least one TA. Smaller classes may have a TA assigned to help the instructor with technical support matters, who is paid $1,000. No class has more than two TAs, regardless of registration, with the exception of required courses that have laboratory components. These courses will have a variable number of TAs depending on enrollment and an additional TA for technical assistance. We also engage three TAs each semester for the master’s thesis courses to help students with their thesis projects. TAs are evaluated by students and the instructor at the end of the course, and these evaluations will be used to decide future teaching assignments.

In advance of each semester Ms. Liliane Zaretsky will reach out to both master’s and doctoral students as needed.

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The department offers students the opportunity to help faculty teach courses by becoming

teaching assistants (TAs). TAs are typically doctoral students or advanced master’s students

who are selected on the basis of their teaching capacity and academic performance.

Become a teaching assistant

I attended some seminars, dance club shows, and happy hours. They served as a nice way to meet fellow students, and I hope we have more events next semester.



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The EPIC fund is a funding source for department trainees pursuing research and training opportunities beyond those covered by their standard tuition. Examples of potential uses for the EPIC fund include but are not limited to:

■ Travel for conferences, data collection, or presentation of findings

■ Purchase of e-books, datasets, or samples for a study

■ Tuition for specific training needs, such as short courses, workshops, and training in software packages or lab techniques

■ Research related items that will contribute to the trainees’ research (for example, data collection)

The EPIC fund will not fund trainee tuition for their ongoing degree programs, or living expenses, or application fees to other degree programs.

All master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral trainees enrolled in a degree program in the Department of Epidemiology are eligible.

All things being equal, priority for funds will be given to students who have demonstrated active engagement in the department, particularly in attendance at Department Seminars and CUEGRs.

There are three EPIC funding cycles: applications will be accepted on January 30, May 30, and September 30 each year. Applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision and, if successful, funds will be awarded within a month of the request. Applicants who are funded will be reimbursed an amount up to the award amount upon conclusion of the event and after applicant has submitted (a) all receipts and (b) a brief summary of how the EPIC fund award was used.

Students seeking funding will complete a brief one-page application, providing the following information:

■ Description, including, as applicable, date(s), location

■ Cost, including, as applicable, a detailed listing of each element. It is anticipated that applications will be for amounts less than $2,500 for any one project. Lump sum costs without explanation will not be considered. Projects for higher amounts may be considered in exceptional circumstances.

■ Rationale, as in, why this conference/dataset/class is vital to the student’s education and research goals

■ Brief description of other funding avenues the student has pursued prior to, or concomitantly with, seeking EPIC funds

■ A clear explanation of how all costs requested will be spent

All things being equal, priority for funding will be given to students who demonstrate that they have exhausted all other available avenues of funding.

All applications should be submitted to Ms. Liliane Zaretsky, [email protected].

A committee made up of the department chair and other senior faculty will adjudicate applications.

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The EPIC fund: OverviewEpidemiology and Population HealthSummer Institute at Columbia University

WHAT The EPIC fund was created to provide our graduate students with an opportunity

to access resources to help advance their educational agenda, using the revenue generated by

the Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University (EPIC).


Ava Brozovich (MPH ‘13) attended the Society of Critical Care Conference where she presented work on risk factors for healthcare-associated infections.

Rebecca Pe-feng Hsieh (MPH ‘13) attended the 46th Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting in Boston.

Tanya Kaufman (MPH ’13) attended the Environmental Health 2013-Science and Policy to Protect Future Generations Conference in Boston and the Summer Institute of Statistics and Modeling of Infectious Diseases (SISMID) in Seattle. “My experience at SISMID enabled me to further develop my statistical analysis and mathematical modeling skills, tools that are central to my research as an epidemiologist.”

Ali Khan (MPH ’13) attended the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adult Psychiatry (AACAP) in San Francisco to present on “Problematic internet use and substance use among chil-dren and adolescents.” “Attending the AACAP conference was inspiring, and it strengthened my interest in mental health and research. My future career goals include going to medical school, and my research experiences have al-lowed me to home in on my interest in pediatric psychiatry. After thoroughly enjoying this conference and my other research experiences at Columbia University, I plan to participate in research throughout my career.”

Faiz Ahmad Khan (MPH ‘13) attended the American Thoracic Society Conference, where he delivered an oral presentation of his poster.

Bari Kilcoyne (MPH ’13) attended the 2013 Society for Epidemiology Research annual meeting in Boston. “Not only was I able to attend several symposia relevant to my area of focus (genetics + substance use disorders), this conference provided me with an opportu-nity to network with prominent epidemiologic researchers and obtain an up-to-date view on current projects.”

Justin Knox (PhD candidate) traveled to the National Archives in College Park, Md. to look for Joseph Goldberger’s original data on the Pellagra virus among rural cotton mill vil-lages in South Carolina, purchased software for coding and organizating qualitative interviews for research into sexual behavior and risk among South Africans, and attended the 2012 International AIDS Conference to present a poster. “It was refreshing to see that amidst all the optimism regarding the potential that we have to reduce transmission and improve the quality of living for people already infected with HIV through the tools that we currently have available, there was a recogni-tion that stigma and discrimination against the population that we do research on—men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa, prevent us from providing adequate care to this community and that they need to be made a priority moving forward.”

Stephen Mooney (PhD candidate) attended the 2013 Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting in Boston and traveled with Mr. Knox to the National Archives in College Park, Md. to look for Joseph Goldberger’s original data on the Pellagra virus among rural cotton mill villages in South Carolina.

Ivy Mushamiri (MPH ’13) contributed to her travel expenses to Kenya, where she was doing her global health practicum with the Millennium Villages Project.

Michelle Nolan (MPH ‘13) attended the Esri User Conference in San Diego to develop data analysis skills in GIS.

Jonathan Platt (MPH ’13) attended the American Psychopathological Association an-nual meeting poster session and presented a preliminary analysis of his MPH thesis en-titled “Is quantity or quality more important? Social support within post-traumatic stress disorder etiology.”

Catherine Richards (PhD candidate) purchased data for her dissertation. “I am using the hospital closure data to validate a measure of hospital financial distress. Based on the results from this paper I will not only be able to make a significant contribution to the hospital finance literature, but I will also use the validated measure to complete my second empiric paper. This data is essential to my dis-sertation, and without EPIC funds I would have had to purchase the data with my own money.”

Julian Santaella (PhD candidate) attended the 2013 American Psychopathological Association conference in New York to present a poster on gambling disorders. “The meeting was a high quality experience to advance my training and career goals. It was an amazing opportunity to meet top researchers in this field and to learn from their novel approaches to be exposed to debates on how mental disorders are being studied and classified (i.e. in the DSM-V) and to develop new ideas to understand how adversities shape the mental health of individuals.”

Suzue Saito (PhD candidate) and Stephanie Shiau (PhD candidate) purchased the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study public dataset for their final assignment for P9490: History of Epidemiology, which required students to team up and write a methodology paper using a real historical dataset.

Leona Zahlan (MPH ‘14) attended the Unite for Site Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. “I was able to network with lead-ing innovators, organizations, and university students, and professors who had ideas I was interested in and those I could potentially work with in the future.”

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Academic life

In 2012-2013, the EPIC helped trainees fund trips to conferences, software, and other research funds. For the 2013-14

academic year, there will be three funding cycles during which trainees can apply for EPIC funds. Following is a snapshot

of what trainees did with their EPIC funds over the past academic year, including quotes from some of our trainees:

The EPIC fund: Profiles


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DATE

Please explain why the above is essential to your educational and/or research goals:

Please describe briefly the other funding avenues you have pursued prior to applying to the EPIC fund:

Funding is requested for the following:

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Please use additional pages as necessary. More detail and justification will increase likelihood of funding. Submit completed application to Ms. Liliane Zaretsky, Associate Director for Academic Programs, Room 728, Department of Epidemiology [email protected]

Academic life

The EPIC fund: ApplicationApplications deadlines: September 30, January 30, and May 30


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Places to eat on campus

On those days when there isn’t enough time to grab something off-campus, there are cafes and cafeterias throughout CUMC:

Hess Café, Allan Rosenfield Building (722 W. 168th Street), on the lobby floor next to Hess Commons. Sandwiches, soup, salads, coffee and tea, and many snack choices.

Hammer Health Sciences Center Café (701 W. 168th Street), off of the main entrance of the building. Coffee and espresso drinks, gourmet sandwiches, salads, and desserts.

Express Room Café, Black Building (630 W. 168th Street), 1st floor. Coffee and espresso drinks, gourmet sandwiches, salads, and desserts.

Garden Express at Milstein Pavilion, Milstein Building lobby (177 Fort Washington Avenue).

Streets of New York, Milstein Hospital Building, 2nd floor, Salad bar with fresh fruit, salads, soups, entrees, sandwiches, and desserts.

Sam’s Underground Café, Bard Hall, 50 Haven Avenue. Serves lunch and dinner.

Windows on the Hudson, Milstein Hospital Building, 9th floor. Fine dining.

Study spaces

Allan Rosenfield Building (722 W. 168th Street) Students have access to all rooms in the building for study when a class or event is not taking place. Information on booking rooms for collaborative/group work is on the MSPH website: mailman.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-and-staff-resources/meeting-space-reservations.

There is a lounge located directly off of the lobby, which is available as a study space and gathering place. It has a kitchenette, microwave, and refrigerator and is a great meeting place for coffee or lunch.

Hess Commons on the lobby floor is also available as study space when a class or event is not taking place.

The following study spaces are available for use in the Hammer Health Sciences building:

Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library (701 W. 168th Street) The library is located on the lobby level of the Hammer building. Computers in the library can be used to access journals to which the university subscribes. Nearby is a 24-hour computer room.

The lower levels of the building have lots of space to spread out, including a laptop classroom and group study rooms. For more information about the Hammer building, visit library.cumc.columbia.edu/hammer

Bard Hall Lounge (50 Haven Avenue) For students who need a break from the library, the Bard Hall Lounge overlooks the river and has a living room feel with couches, chairs, and tables.

Don’t forget about the Morningside campus of Columbia. Study spaces include the stately Butler Library (116th between Broadway and Amsterdam), Lehman Library for Social Sciences (118th and Amsterdam), Lerner Hall (115th and Broadway), and the Northwest Corner Building, which has a Joe Coffee.

Getting involved in student life around campus and in the larger city will greatly complement and enhance students’ academic experience at Mailman. The following guide will help students get oriented to the Columbia University Medical Center campus, including its food options and study spaces, as well as interesting activities around NYC. For more information about student life, visit the Mailman School page on student life at mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-life. This guide was prepared in collaboration with the Mailman School’s Office of Student Affairs.

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Exercise

All students have access to the Bard Athletic Center, located in Bard Hall. The Center includes aerobics machines, squash courts, a weight room, a swimming pool, and a basketball court. Students can also take fitness classes, such as yoga and spinning, for an extra fee. To learn more about Bard, visit cumc.columbia.edu/facilities-management/housing/bard-athletic-center.

Other exercise options include running, walking, or biking outside along Riverside Drive, in Riverside Park, or on the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.

Wireless locations and connecting

There are two wireless networks you can access on campus:

Athens is the supported secured wireless network on campus. A UNI login and special configuration on your computer is required.

The Wireless Guest Network (broadcast as guest-net) is not secured. Only basic services such as web browsing and email are allowed.

Following are locations where students can access wireless:

Mailman School of Public Health, Allan Rosenfield Building

■ Connection available throughout building

Hammer Health Sciences Center

■ Lower Levels I and II – Teaching and Learning Center

■ 1st through 4th floors

■ 10th floor

■ Outside coverage: Hammer Steps and Sidewalk

For IT Help, call the Help Desk, Technology and Operations at 212-305-HELP or 5-HELP, cumc.columbia.edu/it

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Student digest

The student digest informs students at Mailman about what’s going on around campus, with important information from the Office of Student Affairs. It is the main way to learn about student life and events. The Student Digest is available here: mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-life/student-digest

Student organizations

Looking to get involved and meet new people? The Mailman School has a variety of clubs for graduate students, listed below and acces-sible via this website mailman.columbia.edu/students/student-life/student-groups.

■ Advocates for Asian American Health

■ Association for Public Health Action in Criminal Justice

■ Black and Latino Student Caucus

■ Complex System Approaches to Population Health

■ Food Policy and Obesity Prevention

■ Future Healthcare Leaders

■ Group for Community Recovery

■ International Students’ Organization

■ Perspectives on Aging

■ Public Health Doctoral Students Association

■ Queer Health Task Force

■ Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group

■ Skills, Experiences, and Resources for Conflict and Health Working Group

■ Strengthening Healthcare through Actionable Research and Evidence

■ Students for Environmental Action

■ Students for a National Health Plan

■ Student Government Association

To visit any of the club websites, search google for the club name +Mailman.

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Transportation

The Mailman School is served by the Metroplitan Transit Authority (MTA) A, C, and 1 trains. Single-ride cards are $2.50. Cards that allow unlimited rides for seven or 30 days can also be purchased. Check mta.info for information about service changes and advisories.

Columbia University runs a free shuttle between its Morningside Heights campus, CUMC, and Harlem Hospital (an ID is required). Information about the schedule and stops is available on the Transportation Services website: transportation.columbia.edu

Other needs

Lactation roomsColumbia University provides lactation rooms to support nursing mothers returning to work, school, or campus. Each room offers equipment and a clean, secure, and private space for women who need to express breast milk during their time on campus. The lacta-tion room at CUMC is located at Presbyterian Hospital Building-17, at the sink in the nearby bathroom/refrigeration in room. It is acces-sible 24 hour access, 7 days/week. For more information, visit here: worklife.columbia.edu/breastfeeding-support#section2

CUMC Audubon Bookstore Barnes & Noble 3854 Broadway at 165th Street. columbia-med.bncollege.com CUMC’s main bookstore.

Live on or as close to campus as possible. It will make it easier for potential group projects, and you can take advantage of the public safety escort program. Try to take advantage of activities and events happening at the Morningside campus with the other schools (SIPA, Law and Business Schools).


MAP: MTA

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Free things to do in NYC

■ Check the NYC Parks and Recreation website for events, nycgovparks.org

■ New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and Lincoln Center all have free concert series

■ Outdoor film screenings during summer

■ Staten Island Ferry -free way to see the Statue of Liberty and Downtown Manhattan

■ Free admission to over 30 museums including The Cloisters, The Met, MOMA, and the Intrepid—full listing at: artsinitiative.columbia.edu/city/museums/map

■ Take a ferry to Governor’s Island for boating, bike rides, and tons of green space

Learn what’s going on in NYC

■ NYC GO: nycgo.com

■ Time Out New York: newyork.timeout.com

■ Gothamist for NYC news: gothamist.com

■ CU Arts Newsletter: cuarts.com

■ New York Magazine Arts: nymag.com/arts


I like to take advantage of the museums we can get into for free with our student IDs. Also, many places offer student rush tickets. For instance, students can get into shows at Carnegie Hall for $12. I recommend checking out the Cloisters, its nestled in a gorgeous spot, a Washington Heights gem.


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Quick bite: within two blocks

■ Chipotle, The popular burrito chain is just a couple of blocks from campus. 4009 Broadway near 168th.

■ Coogan’s, A good place to grab a drink after classes, with a selection of typical bar food and appetizers. 4015 Broadway between 168th and 169th.

■ Famiglia Pizza, A NYC chain that serves up pizza slices to go and does delivery. 4007 Broadway between 168th and 169th.

■ Jou Jou, Soups, sandwiches, choose-your-own salad bar, and coffee. Cash only. 603 W. 168th Street.

■ Mike’s Bagels, NYC style bagels and coffee. 4003 Broadway between 168th and 169th.

■ Shangri-La, Hot/cold buffet and sandwiches. 228 Fort Washington Ave. at 169th.

■ Starbucks, The omni-present chain has an outpost in the Heights for all of your coffee needs. 4001 Broadway at 168th.

■ University Deli, Sandwiches, snacks, and a great hot and cold salad bar. Open 24/7. 603 W. 168th Street.

Take a stroll: within five blocks

■ Antika Pizzeria, Italian place that gets decent reviews. 3924 Broadway between 165th and 164th.

■ Carrot Top Pastries, Pastries and cakes. Try the delicious carrot muffins. 3931 Broadway near 165th.

■ Dallas BBQ, This barbecue chain is known for its ribs and giant cocktails. Show up hungry. 3956 Broadway at 166th.

■ El Presidente, Caribbean and Latin American food with cheap $6 lunches like pork shoulder and roasted chicken with rice and beans. 3938 Broadway between 166th and 165th.

■ Empire Szechuan Noodle House, Pan-Asian variety, with a cheap lunch special ($5.95-$6.50). 4041 Broadway, at 170th.

■ GoGo-Gi, A small restaurant that serves up Korean food. Broadway between 163rd and 164th.

■ Jade House, A very large menu of Chinese cuisine. 2131 Amsterdam Ave. at 166th.

■ Koronet Pizza, The beloved Morningside Heights giant slice pizza spot has opened up in Washington Heights. 4087 Broadway between 172nd and 173rd.

■ Marcha, A Spanish/English restaurant that serves up tapas and hosts live music. 4055 Broadway near 171st.

■ Reme’s Restaurant, Diner food, especially good for breakfast. 4021 Broadway between 169th and 170th.

■ Strokos Fine Foods, Pizza, sandwiches, and a choose-your-own salad bar, with some healthy options. 1121 St. Nicholas Ave.

■ Tasty Deli, People love the sandwiches at this deli, which serves up the classics as well as their own originals. 4020 Broadway, between 169th and 170th.

■ WaHi Diner, A new 24-hour spot that serves diner fare. 3915 Broadway at 164th.

Food adventure: within 10 blocks

■ 175th Street Greenmarket, A bustling farmer’s market with local fresh produce from a variety of nearby farms. Open Thursdays from 8am-5pm, 6/16 to 11/17, on 175th St. between Broadway Ave. and Wadsworth.

■ Las Palmas, This bodega in the front/restaurant in the back serves up authentic Mexican food. 3891 Broadway, between 162nd and 163rd.

■ Malecon, Caribbean food with $7 lunch specials that include pork ribs and codfish stew. 4141 Broadway at 175th.

■ Manolo Tapas, Hot and cold tapas, paellas, and otherSpanish food. 4165 Broadway at 176th.

■ Milan Caffé, A tucked away coffee shop that serves coffee and pastries. 708 W. 177th St.

■ Pick N Eat, Healthy food, including choose-your-own salads, and paninis, as well as wood-burning oven pizza, pastries, juices, and coffee. 4179 Broadway at 177th between Broadway and Fort Washington.

■ Tipico Dominicano, Dominican sit-down restaurant. 4172 Broadway at 177th.

There are plenty of cafes and restaurants to eat at around Washington Heights. The neighborhood is especially known for its great Caribbean and South American food. Sushi, deli food, Chinese, and delicious bagels are also here, along with two bustling farmers markets.

Off-campus dining in Washington Heights and beyond

Student life around campus and NYC


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Master’s students and their theses for 2012–13

Doctoral students who defended their dissertation in 2013

NAME DEGREE SPONSOR DISSERTATION TITLE

Becker Buxton, Meredith PhD David Vlahov Blood borne infections and duration of injection drug use among young, recently initiated injection drug users

Friedman-Jimenez, George DrPH Pam Factor-Litvak A cohort study of men stationed on nuclear-powered submarines in the United States Navy

Lipner, Ettie PhD Nicole Schupf Genetic contribution to type 1 diabetes microvascular complications

Malcolm, Bianca PhD Stephen Morse The spatial and temporal dynamics of seasonal influenza in the United States, 1968 – 2008

Paczkowski, Magdalena PhD Sandro Galea Potentially traumatic event experiences and health care service in Liberia

Petukhova, Lynn PhD Ruth Ottman The genetic architecture of Alopecia Areata

Salazar, Christian PhD Pam Factor-Litvak Allostatic load in relation to periodontal disease, toothloss, and mortality: Findings from the 1914 Glostrup aging study

NAME FIRST READER / SECOND READER DISSERTATION TITLE

Ahmad Khan, Faiz Andrea A. Howard Evaluation of symptom-based screening for tuberculosis disease among people living with HIV in the era of antiretroviral therapy in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Akyar, Serra Elaine L. Larson/ Sameer J. Patel Human disruption of ecosystems as a driver of zoonotic disease emergence

Allen, Christopher George Stephen Morse Human disruption of ecosystems as a driver of zoonotic disease emergence

Alvi, Saman Stephen Morse Increased risk of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection among pediatric racial minority hospitalized patients

Amin, Ami Sharon Shwartz Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and respiratory disease

Andrews, Colleen Maura Jeri Nieves The effect of an integrated nutrition education and homestead food security intervention on women’s empowerment in the far western region of Nepal

Arora, Nidhi Ryan Demmer Association between chronic periodontitis and pre-diabetes based on impaired glucose levels

Baldin, Elisa Dale Hesdorffer Occurrence of EEG epileptiform abnormalities after single unprovoked seizure or epilepsy diagnosis

Blachman-Forshay, Jaclyn Karestan Koenen Effects of lifetime sexual trauma on mental health outcomes after Hurricane Ike

Boulos, Sylvia Claude Matt Lamb Does awareness of HIV existence affect the rate of condom use when having sex outside of your main partnership

Brozovich, Ava Angeline Ryan Demmer /Lisa Saiman Healthcare-associated infections among pediatric patients who underwent cardiac surgery

Chehayeb Makarem, Dalia Katherine Crew Impact of adherence to cancer prevention guidelines on development of breast cancer in high risk women

Chhuon, Richard Ryan Demmer /Lisa Saiman Examining drug use, waiting time, treatment duration, and treatment completion among southeast Asians in LA county publicly-funded substance abuse treat-ment facilities, 2005-2010

Chong, Katherine Grace Magdalena Cerdá Treatment outcomes of HIV-infected children on antiretroviral therapy in Swaziland

Chua, Andrew Gina Lovasi The relationship between childhood environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung function in adulthood


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Masters students and their theses

Creque, Ashley Yvonne Tiffany Gary-Webb Racial disparities of weight-loss behaviors among overweight/obese diabetics who seek weight loss

Demb, Joshua Brian Benjamin Spencer The impact of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model on the health-related quality of life and health care costs in cancer patients

De Miguel, Maria Hamm Steven Shea/ Graham Barr heart failure, readmission, and ejection fraction

Devinney, Katelynn Elaine Larson Prevalence and predictors of antimicrobial resistance among clinical non-typhoidal salmonellosis isolates in New York City, 2009-2011

duRivage, Nathalie Elisabeth Thelma Mielenz/ Melissa Stockwell Exchange of data between clinical and population based immunization informa-tion systems to improve vaccine coverage and documentation

Ebrahim, Sumayyah Quarraisha Abdul Karim/Judith Jacobson HPV and risk for HIV in South Africa

Ehrmann, Max Rossen Ulka Campbell Testing the mini-sentinel input parameters: Are we asking the right questions

Ekono, Mercedes Medou Tiffany Gary-Webb The impact of social support and religious involvement on diabetic health outcomes among type 2 diabetic African-Americans living in Baltimore

Eldred-Skemp, Nicolia Gina Lovasi Associations between early life exposure to neighborhood and family risk and obesity in a longitudinal birth cohort

Ellman, Tanya Mary Ann Chiasson Engaging members of racial/ethnic minorities in HIV vaccine trials

Famouri, Maryam Leila Rosalind Carter/ Nabila El-Bassel Partner notification of HIV, hepatitis c, and STIs in a cohort of injecting drug users and their sexual partners in Kazakhstan

Farhat, Maggie Lambert H. Lumey The metabolic syndrome and electrocardiographic marker of future cardiac disease

Feathers, Alexandra Elizabeth Heather Greenlee Predictors of antioxidant supplement use among the 2007 NHIS respondents

Feng, Melinda Gong Cynthia Driver Salmonella schwarzengrund association with live animal markets and poultry food products in New York City, September 2009 to june 2012

Firestone, Melanie Jane Catherine Stayton/ Judith Sackoff Pregnancy intention and pregnancy complications: understanding levels of intendedness

Fu, Benjamin Chunmin Ryan Demmer Operationalization of homim microarray data and associations between subgin-gival microbes and biomarkers of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Gastel, Edward Kyle Katherine Keyes Risky behaviors among LGB youth of ethnic minorities+

Gebara, Valerie Jeanine Genkinger The effect of BMI and height on risk of epithelial ovarian cancer among high-risk women

Gerber, Noam J. Nicole Schupf/ Joseph Lee Genetic polymorphisms of estrogen enzymes and receptors and cognitive functioning in women with down syndrome*

Gonzalez, Camille Cassandra Shakira Suglia Cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: does having an informal mentor make a difference?

Graves, Justin Sharon Shwartz Volunteer workers, malaria knowledge and service satisfaction: a cross-sectional study of the Ethiopian health extension program

Grbic, Mara Alexandra Ruby Senie Risk factors leading to early stage of cancer detection among women in Long Island, New York

Hammond, Gmerice Judith Jacobson/ Brook Aggarwal Gender differences and the impact of statins on the association between low LDL-C and survival among hospitalized patients with heart failure

Ho, Kimberly Anne Katherine D. Crew / Jeanine Genkinger Biomarker effects of an oral green tea extract, polyphenon e, in breast cancer

Hsieh, Rebecca Pe-feng Athanasios Zavras Metabolic syndrome and risk development to oral neoplasm

Huang, Jessica Betty Parisa Tehranifar Hormonal birth control use and active smoking before first full-term pregnancy and mammographic breast density

Jamison, Kelly Erin Neil Schluger The performance of interferon-γ release assays for the serial testing of latent tu-berculosis infection among American-born and foreign-born healthcare workers


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Kalhan Siddiqui, Moneeza Joyce Pressley The association of safety ratings of small cars with driver injury in fatal crashes on us roadways

Kaufman, Tanya Katrina Gina Lovasi Neighborhood density of physical activity venues, gym membership and physical activity among adults in New York City

Keech, Sarah Kirsten Jeanine Genkinger/ Shama Ahuja TB transmission in New York's Guyanese-born population

Khan, Ali Asif Ping Wu Problematic internet use and substance use among children and adolescents

Kilcoyne, Bari A Deborah Hasin/ Dvora Shmulowitz Evaluating the relationship between ADH1B and the DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence criteria

Klioueva, Anna Paul Colson/ Michelle Macaraig The effect of provider type on having a known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status among tuberculosis (TB) patients in New York City (NYC)

Kong, Joanne Steven Stellman Diabetes and post-traumatic stress disorder among adults in the world trade center health registry

Kornhauser, Naomi Tamar Mary Beth Terry Use of tamoxifen and raloxifene for the prevention of breast cancer in brca1 and brca2 mutation carriers

Kwon, Kelly Sooyeon Ryan Demmer/ Renee Goodwin Assessing association of asthma and suicide ideation by asthma severity and asthma medication

Lee, Eric Mitchell Elkind Depression and stroke among a multi-ethnic cohort in northern manhattan

Lee, Erica Jane Pam Factor-Litvak Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyl hydrocarbons (oh-pcb’s) levels and thyroid function in pregnant women

Lee, Stella Myung-Hee Joseph Lee/ Nicole Schupf Ethnic and racial differences in telomere length and levels of oxidative stress

Lee Strizich, Garrett Mathew Heather Greenlee Using exploratory factor analysis to examine patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use among breast cancer cases in the long island breast cancer study project

Levin, Deysia Dundas Silvia S. Martins Using prescription drug monitoring data to predict prescription opioid analgesic misuse

Lum, Stephanie Bruce Link Lifecourse body mass index and occupational prestige

MacFarlane, Matthew Steve Morse Determining the effectiveness of prevention techniques on malaria incidence in an area of unstable transmission, the Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Malik, Farah Megan Hall Associations between diet-quality scores, oxidative stress, c-reactive protein, and homocysteine levels in premenopausal women of the biocycle study

Marques, Andrea Ezra Susser/ Shakira Suglia Mass index on cognitive functions in middle-aged adults in the EDAH birth cohort

Mertelsmann-Voss, Christina Ryan Demmer/ Lisa Mandl Arthoplasty rates increased among US patients with systemic lupus erythema-tosus: 1991-2005

Mikles, Sean P Thelma Mielenz Characteristics of electronic patient-provider messaging system users in an urban healthcare organization

Moir, William G Charles DiMaggio Analysis of the effect of the safe routes to school program interventions on traffic safety among pediatric pedestrians in New York City

Montes, Claudia Vanessa Elaine Larson Risk factors of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) e. coli surgical site infections as compare to non-ESBL E

Morrison, Janina Lord Steven Stellman Non-specific psychological distress in the World Trade Center Health Registry

Moy, Amanda Josephine Steven Stellman Longitudinal analysis of emotional and behavioral difficulties among children and adolescents exposed to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Mushamiri, Ivy T Maria Lahuerta Relationship between hormonal contraceptive use and HIV-1 acquisition (DHS Kenya data)

Nelson, Sharifa Simone Judith Jacobson Analysis of association between lifestyle factors and breast cancer stage at diagnosis among Hispanic women

Master’s students and their theses


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Nolan, Michelle Joyce C. Pressley/ Douglas Morales, Aida Angelescou

Gun prevalence and the spatial distribution of homicide in Los Angeles county

Oelsner, Elizabeth C. Graham Barr Associations between subclinical emphysema and all-cause mortality: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (mesa)

Oskar, Sabine Parisa Tehranifar Breast cancer risk assessments and mammographic density correlation: Comparing Gail and CARE models in a multiethnic cohort

Padilla, Debbie Maureen Miller/ Byron Crape Socioeconomic determinants of influenza incidence across the united states

Papoyan, Elya Neil Schluger Spatial and statistical epidemiologic profile of tuberculosis in the republic of Armenia

Parisi, Monika Jeanine Genkinger Prescription drug shortages and the impact on severity of medication errors

Philippou, Christopher Denis Nash Estimates of factors to never-testing for HIV and assessing the impact of treat-ment as prevention initiatives in NYC adult populations

Phillips, Liza K Andrew Rundle/ Gina Lovasi The effect of prenatal maternal environmental tobacco smoke exposure on blood pressure in children of Dominican and African American women in the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health study

Platt, Jonathan Manion Katherine Keyes Es quantity or quality more important? social support within post-traumatic stress disorder etiology+

Pratt, Charissa Katherine Keyes Effects of losing a child through death or disappearance and experiencing numerous potentially traumatic events on mental status of rural Liberians

Protacio, Angeline Andrew Rundle The role of neighborhood walkability on active transport (walking): Using GPS to improve neighborhood measurement

Reilly, Emily Margaret Stephen Morse Malnutrition and mental status among predictors of severe acute lower respira-tory tract infection in children in rural Thailand+

Revol, Cynthia Smith Neil Schluger No assignments received--student did not resurface after a death in her family

Ryland, Paige Noelle Heather Greenlee Implication of traditional birth attendant use for improved child nutrition+

Sarma, Shohinee Andrew Kanter/ Bennett Nemser Assessing the impact of mobile health services on timeliness of care by com-munity health workers in the millennium village in Bonsaaso, Ghana

Schlegel, Amy Pam Factor-Litvak Prenatal exposure to hydroxylated pcb metabolites (OH-PCBs) and postnatal neurodevelopment in a 1950-60’s California birth cohort

Shott, Gordon Samuel Deborah Hasin The effect of childhood maltreatment on DSM-IV lifetime drug abuse & dependence

Silva, Juliana Soares Louise Kuhn High mortality rates among a cohort of HIV infected children identified in Johannesburg hospitals, South Africa

Somaroo, Harsha Quarraisha Abdool Karim Trends in HIV from antenatal clinic, HIV sero-prevalence data*

Stead, Alice Elizabeth Mary Ann Chiasson Association between HIV, hepatitis c, and HIV/hepatitis c co-infection with venous thromboembolic events in a cross-sectional analysis of 2010 US hospitalizations

Stein, Joanna S Jose Luchsinger Influence of vitamins b12 and b6 and folate in cognitive function and decline

Sultan, Sally Mitchell Elkind/ Nicole Schupf Predictors of lipid testing in the IPSS (international pediatric stroke) registry

Taber, Niloufer Anna Larkin McReynolds Managing the transition from hospital to the community: Incarceration outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of a “critical time intervention

Thai, Linh-Tu Ashley Mary Beth Terry Comparative prospective examination of alcohol consumption effect on breast cancer and heart disease/all cause mortality in the metropolitan New York Registry

Top, Karina Anne-Marie Scott Hammer/ Scott Halperin Seizures after immunization among children aged less than 2 years in Canada: A comparison of an active surveillance program with enhanced passive surveillance


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Tseyang, Tenzin Neil Schluger Analysis of risk factors associated with TB mortality in New York City (NYC), 2002-2011

Tzong, Keane Yu-Sean Pam Factor-Litvak/ Katherine M. Keyes Does prenatal exposure to organochlorines result in behavioral disinhibition in adolescence? results from the CHDS prospective birth cohort

Vaidya, Sheila Mrunal Denis Nash/ Julia Schillinger Predictors of acceptance of expedited partner therapy among eligible patients in New York City department of health sexually transmitted disease clinics, 2012

Vine, Seanna McNamara Joyce Pressley The association between organic food consumption and urinary environmental pesticide levels

Virkud, Arti Vikas Katherine Keyes Prevalence of sensation seeking personality traits in relation to substance use as respondent’s age over time

Wang, Xiaoliang Mary Beth Terry Impact of family history of breast cancer on multiple behavior changes

Weisenfluh, Lauren Ann Stephen Morse Clinical characteristics of lassa fever in post-civil war Sierra Leone (2007-2012)

Whitfield, Jessica Lauren Ezra Susser The effect of critical time intervention on community reintegration and treatment engagement in persons with mental illness following release from prison

Wolfe, Caitlin Marie Elaine Larson Risk factors for antibiotic resistant vs. susceptible sepsis present on hospital admission

Yagos, Stephanie Ruby Senie/ Regina Santella Polymorphic variations in genotypes as predictors of aflatoxinb1 induced hepatocellular carcinoma


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Quarraisha Abdool KarimAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 736, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9081 [email protected]

Salim Abdool Karim Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 736, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9081 [email protected]

Elaine AbramsProfessor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at HHC/CUMC


Habibul Ahsan Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Chronic DiseaseUniversity of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637

(773) 834-9956 [email protected]

Cande AnanthProfessor of Reproductive Sciences (in Obstetrics and Gynecology) and Epidemiology

Lifecourse 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-2800 [email protected]

Stephen ArpadiProfessor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at CUMC

Infectious DiseaseSt. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027


Abraham Aviv Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology Chronic DiseaseThe Center of Human Development and Aging, UMDNJ, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB, F-464, Newark, NJ 07103


Barbara BarlowProfessor Emerita of Surgery (in Epidemiology); Special Lecturer in Epidemiology

Injury 722 West 168th Street, Room 513, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0518 [email protected]

Jeremiah Barondess Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 822-7351 [email protected]

R. Graham BarrAssociate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease622 West 168th Street, PH 9 East, Room 105, New York, NY 10032


Daniel Barth-JonesAssistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 557 Atlantic Avenue, Apartment 6C, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (284) 542-9577 [email protected]

Mary Travis BassettAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Chronic DiseaseDoris Duke Charitable Foundation, 650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10019


Lisa Bates Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Social 722 West 168th Street, Room 808, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-0842 [email protected]

Gerard Bodeker Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease Green College, University of Oxford, , Oxford, OX2 6HG011-44-1865-516-960

[email protected]

Luisa BorrellAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

SocialLehman College, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468


Michaeline BresnahanAssistant Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC

Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 809, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3129 [email protected]

Thomas BrieseAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 1801B, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-9035 [email protected]

Alan BrownProfessor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology

Psych & NeuroNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032


Jennifer CalderAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 1947 7th Avenue, #4, New York, NY 10026 (917) 885-0162 [email protected]

Ulka CampbellAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Chronic DiseasePfizer, Inc., 150 East 42nd Street, MS 150/3/81, New York, NY 10017


Rosalind CarterAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 20 Hillside Court, , Huntington, NY 11743 [email protected]

Magdalena Cerda Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 527, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-2570 [email protected]

Mary Ann ChiassonAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Medicine)

Infectious DiseasePublic Health Solutions, 220 Church Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013

(646) [email protected]

Paul Colson Instructor in Epidemiology Infectious Disease 215 West 125th Street, First Floor, Suite A, New York, NY 10027 (646) 448-0956 [email protected]

Francine CournosProfessor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology)

Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 1030C, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1157 [email protected]

Katherine CrewAssistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease161 Fort Washington Avenue, Room 10-1072, New York, NY 10032


Leslie DavidsonProfessor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics at CUMC

Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 1613, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342 0247 [email protected]

Richard DeckelbaumRobert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition; Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology

Lifecourse 630 West 168th Street, Room 1512, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4808 [email protected]

Ryan Demmer Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 522, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9339 [email protected]

Moise Desvarieux Associate Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 525, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5172 [email protected]

Charles DiMaggioAssociate Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology and in Epidemiology)

Injury 622 West 168th Street, Room 5-531, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-6920 [email protected]

Bruce DohrenwendProfessor of Social Science (in Psychiatry and in Epidemiology)

Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 812H, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9373 [email protected]

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John DoyleAdjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management and Epidemiology

Psych & Neuro 600 West 168th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-0296 [email protected]

Cynthia DriverAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Psych & Neuro 519 8th Street, Apartment 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (212) 442-9782 [email protected]

Ernest Drucker Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology InjuryJohn Jay College CUNY, Department of Anthropology, 899 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10028


Wafaa El-Sadr Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 1312, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0532 [email protected]

Mitchell ElkindAssociate Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology (in the G.H. Sergievsky Center)

Psych & Neuro 710 West 168th Street, Room 6-641, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1710 [email protected]

Batya ElulAssistant Professor of Epidemiology (in ICAP) at CUMC

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-2803 [email protected]

John EncandelaAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Lifecourse 105 15th Avenue, , Sea Cliff, NY 11579 (646) 352-9174 [email protected]

Pam Factor-LitvakAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Jeffrey FaganIsidore and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Epidemiology

Social 435 West 116th Street, Room 916, New York, NY 10032 (212) 854-2624 [email protected]

Robin FlamAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 575 West 181st Street, , New York, NY 10033 (212) 342-3062 [email protected]

Linda Fried

Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health; DeLamar Professor of Public Health; Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

722 West 168th Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9300 [email protected]

William FriedewaldProfessor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Medicine at CUMC

Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 1512, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3017 [email protected]

Gerald Friedland Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Infectious DiseaseYale University, 135 College Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT 06510


Crystal FullerAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Sandro Galea Gelman Professor and Chair Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1508A, New York, NY 10032 (212) 822-7378 [email protected]

Tiffany Gary-Webb Associate Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 812G, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0167 [email protected]

Nicolle GattoAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Chronic DiseasePfizer, Inc., 235 East 42nd Street, MS 105/3/81, New York, NY 10017


Jeanine Genkinger Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 803, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0410 [email protected]

Lee Goldman

Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine; Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University; Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease 630 West 168th Street, Room 2-401, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3878 [email protected]

Inge Goldstein Special Lecturer in Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 805, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7660 [email protected]

Renee GoodwinAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology


Rachel GordonAssistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at CUMC

Infectious Disease 630 West 168th Street, Box 82, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0109 [email protected]

Madelyn GouldProfessor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC

Psych & NeuroNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 72, New York, NY 10032


Henry GreenbergAssociate Professor of Clinical Medicine (in the Institute for Human Nutrition and in Epidemiology)

Chronic DiseaseSt. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, 425 West 59th Street, #9, New York, NY 10019


Heather GreenleeAssistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Oncology (in Medicine)


Megan Hall Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 731, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3161 [email protected]

Scott HammerHarold C. Neu Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at NYPH/CUMC


Deborah HasinProfessor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC

Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Suite 228, New York, NY 10032 (212) 543-5035 [email protected]

W. Allen HauserProfessor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Neurology


Gary HeimanAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Lifecourse Rutgers University, Genetics Department, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (212) 304-5857 [email protected]


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Dawn HershmanAssociate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease 161 Fort Washington Avenue, Room 1068, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1945 [email protected]

Dale HesdorfferAssociate Professor of Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center) at CUMC


Grace Hillyer Associate Research Scientist Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 704, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-1658 [email protected]

Hans Hoek Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Lifecourse Parnassia Bavo Psychiatric Institute, Lijnbaan 4, The Hague, [email protected]

Susie HoffmanAssistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Infectious DiseaseNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 15, New York, NY 10032


David HoosAssistant Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Mady HornigAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Christina HovenProfessor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC



Andrea HowardAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, 7th Flooor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-0385 [email protected]

Judith JacobsonAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Jessica JustmanAssociate Professor of Medicine (in Epidemiology) at CUMC


Bindu KalesanAssistant Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery and Epidemiology)


Andrew KanterAssistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Epidemiology at CUMC

Injury 622 West 168th Street, VC5, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4842 [email protected]

Bonnie KerkerAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

SocialNYC Department of Health, Gotham Center, CN #6, 42-09 28th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101


Katherine Keyes Wild Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 503, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5652 [email protected]

Jennie KlineAdjunct Professor of Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center)


Beryl Koblin Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Infectious Disease NY Blood Center, 310 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021 (212) 570-3105bkoblin@ nybloodcenter.org

Karestan Koenen Associate Professor of Epidemiology Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 720G, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7482 [email protected]

Louise KuhnProfessor of Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center)


Maria Lahuerta Associate Research Scientist Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-3856 [email protected]

Matthew Lamb Associate Research Scientist Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-7135 [email protected]

Elaine LarsonProfessor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research (in Nursing); Professor of Epidemiology


Benjamin LebwohlAssistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at CUMC

Chronic Disease 180 Fort Washington Avenue, Suite 936, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5590 [email protected]

David LedererAssistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology (in Pediatrics) at CUMC

Chronic DiseasePH 8 East, Room 101, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032


Joseph LeeAssociate Professor of Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center) at CUMC

Psych & Neuro 622 West 168th Street, Room 19-305, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6022 [email protected]

Stephen Leeder Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Chronic DiseaseMenzies Center for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006

61 2 9351 5211stephen.leeder@ sydney.edu.au

Guohua LiM Finster Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology); Professor of Epidemiology

Injury 622 West 168th Street, Room 5-510, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0177 [email protected]

Bruce LinkProfessor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)


W. Ian LipkinJohn Snow Professor of Epidemiology; Professor of Neurology and Pathology


Elan LouisProfessor of Neurology and Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center and in the Taub Institute)

Psych & Neuro 710 West 168th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1304 [email protected]

Gina Lovasi Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Social 722 West 168th Street, Room 804, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7660 [email protected]

Jose Luchsinger

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center and in Taub Institute) at NYPH/CUMC

Chronic Disease 622 West 168th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4730 [email protected]


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Lambert LumeyAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC

Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 1617A, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9222 [email protected]

Sharon MannheimerAssociate Professor of Clinical Medicine (in Epidemiology)

Infectious DiseaseHarlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Avenue, Room 3101A, New York, NY 10037


Dana March Associate Research Scientist Social 622 West 168th Street, PH 9-212, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]

Silvia Martins Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 509, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-2848 [email protected]

Barun MathemaAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]

John MayProfessor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology

Injury Bassett Hospital, One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-3048 [email protected]

Richard MayeuxG. H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epidemiology


James McIntyre Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology Infectious DiseaseAnova Health Institute, 12 Sherborne Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193

27-11-715-5802 [email protected]

Margaret McNairy Associate Research Scientist Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 712, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5483 [email protected]

Larkin McReynoldsAssistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)



Thelma Mielenz Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Injury 722 West 168th Street, Room 809, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0169 [email protected]

Maureen MillerAdjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 250 West 99th Street, Apartment 3C, New York, NY 10025 [email protected]

Alfredo Morabia Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 736, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-6662 [email protected]

Stephen Morse Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 1504, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-8054 [email protected]

Benjamin Landon

MyerAdjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology (in ICAP)

Infectious DiseaseUniversity of Cape Town, Private Bag, Observatory, Cape Town, 7935

[email protected]

Merle MyersonAdjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiolgy

Chronic DiseaseRoosevelt Hospital, 425 West 59th Street, Suite 9D, New York, NY 10019


Denis NashAdjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious DiseaseCUNY School of Public Health, 425 East 25th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10032

[email protected]

Alan NeaigusAdjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious DiseaseNYC Department of Health, 346 Broadway, Room 701, New York, NY 10013


Yuval NeriaProfessor of Psychology (in Psychiatry and in Epidemiology) at CUMC



Richard NeugebauerAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

LifecourseNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 53, New York, NY 10032


Alfred NeugutMyron M Studner Professor of Cancer Research (in Medicine); Professor of Epidemiology at NYPH/CUMC


Jeri NievesAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Chronic Disease Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993 (845) 786-4833 [email protected]

HarrietNuwagaba-Biribonwoha

Instructor in Epidemiology Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]

Danielle OmpadAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Infectious DiseaseDepartment of Applied Psychology, NYU Steinhardt, 725 Broadway, Suite 525, New York, NY 10003


Mark Orr Associate Research Scientist Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 528, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-7823 [email protected]

Ruth OttmanProfessor of Epidemiology (in Neurology and in the G. H. Sergievsky Center)


Anne PaxtonAssociate Professor of Epidemiology and Population and Family Health at CUMC


Michael PhillipsProfessor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology

LifecourseShanghai Mental Health Center, 3210 Humin Road, Shanghai, 201108

86-21-64901737, ext 2553

[email protected]

Kathleen PikeClinical Professor of Psychology and Education (in Psychiatry and Epidemiology)

Psych/Neuro 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 09, New York, NY 10032 (212) 543-3671 [email protected]

Daniel PilowskyAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at CUMC


Joyce PressleyAssociate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management at CUMC

Injury 722 West 168th Street, Room 812J, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0421 [email protected]

Miriam RabkinAssociate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology & Medicine (in ICAP)

Infectious Disease 106 Ridge Lane, , Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (646) 270-8200 [email protected]


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Phillipe Ravaud Special Lecturer in Epidemiology Chronic Disease 27 rue Claude Terranssse, , Paris, 75016philipperavaud@ gmail.com

William Reidy Associate Research Scientist Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5240 [email protected]

Andrew Rundle Associate Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 730, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7619 [email protected]

Neil SchlugerProfessor of Medicine, Environmental Health Sciences, and Epidemiology at NYPH/CUMC

Infectious Disease 622 West 168th Street, Room 8-101, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-4904 [email protected]

Nicole SchupfProfessor of Epidemiology (in the G. H. Sergievsky Center, the Taub Institute, and in Psychiatry) at CUMC


Sharon Schwartz Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 720B, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7789 [email protected]

Lloyd Sederer Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Psych & NeuroNew York State Office of Mental Health, 330 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001


Ruby Senie Professor Emerita of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 810, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9332 [email protected]

Steven Shea

Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology (in Biomedical Informatics); Chief, Division of General Medicine; Senior Vice Dean, College of Physicians & Surgeons


Giorgio Solimano Senior Lecturer in EpidemiologyChronic Disease Epidemiology

University of Chile, School of Public Health, Av. Independencia 939, Santiago, Chile

(56-2) 978 6149gsolimano@ med.uchile.cl

Benjamin SpencerAssistant Professor of Urology and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease 161 Fort Washington Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-0140 [email protected]

David St. Clair Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Lifecourse University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX [email protected]

Peter Stastny Lecturer in Epidemiology Lifecourse 55 Hudson Street, , New York, NY 10013 (212) 732-8832 [email protected]

Catherine StaytonAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

SocialNYC Department of Health, 125 Worth Street, Room 216, New York, NY 10016

cstayton@ health.nyc.gov

Zena SteinProfessor Emerita of Epidemiology and Psychiatry; Special Lecturer in Epidemiology


Steven Stellman Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 726, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4911 [email protected]

Shakira Suglia Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Social 722 West 168th Street, Room 508, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-5241 [email protected]

Ezra SusserProfessor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry

Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Suite 1030, Room E, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-2133 [email protected]

Parisa Tehranifar Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 812D, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1018 [email protected]

Awash Teklehaimanot Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Infectious DiseaseProject Ethiopia, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 401, New York, NY 10115


Mary Beth Terry Professor of Epidemiology Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 724A, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4915 [email protected]

Lorna ThorpeAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Chronic DiseaseCUNY School of Public Health, 425 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010


Eliecer Valencia Lecturer in Epidemiology Lifecourse 2186 Cruger Avenue, Apartment 2C, Bronx, NY 10462elie.valencia@ gmail.com

Paolo Vineis Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology Chronic DiseaseImperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ

39-011-670-6525

[email protected]

Isaac WeisfuseAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Infectious Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]

Myrna WeissmanProfessor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Psych & NeuroNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032


Carolyn WesthoffProfessor of OB/GYN, Epidemiology, and Population and Family Health at NYPH/CUMC

Chronic Disease 630 West 168th Street, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4805 [email protected]

Hannah WunschAssistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology

Chronic Disease 622 West 168th Street, Room 5-527D, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-8287 [email protected]

Thomas Yager Associate Research Scientist Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 812I, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-2122 [email protected]

Lawrence YangAssociate Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC


Lydia ZablotskaAdjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Chronic DiseaseUnviersity of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite #280, San Francisco, CA 94118



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Barbara Aaron Administrative Director 722 West 168th Street, Room 1511, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4680 [email protected]

Katherine Austin-Evelyn Program Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 517, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5352 [email protected]

Donna Buono Staff Associate Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 705, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0448 [email protected]

Kristen ByersWeb Developer/Graphic Designer

722 West 168th St., Room 1505, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-3720 [email protected]

Stephanie Capellan Financial Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7171 [email protected]

Angelina Caruso Project Coordinator CUSSP program 722 West 168th Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-1777 [email protected]

Gregory Cohen Project Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1513, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5712 [email protected]

Mario Cruz Technician B Infectious Disease 100 Haven Avenue, Apartment 29G, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5531 [email protected]

Mirtha Delvalle Program ManagerInfectious Disease/Lifecourse

722 West 168th Street, Room 1615, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7171 [email protected]

Anthony Diaz Clerk B 722 West 168th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9539 [email protected]

Abdulrahman El-Sayed Project Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 521, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-2433 [email protected]

Natalie Engmann Data Analyst Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305 3586 [email protected]

Kim FaderAdministrative Coordinator

Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Suite 1030, Room B, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6223 [email protected]

Elizabeth Ferrari Project Manager 722 West 168th Street, Room 727, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-4552 [email protected]

Emil Fraija Financial Coordinator Social 722 West 168th Street, Room 1616, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0271 [email protected]

Ghoncheh Ghiasian Technician A Infectious Disease 100 Haven Ave., Apt. 29F-D, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-8280 [email protected]

Laura Goldenkranz Administrative Assistant 722 West 168th Street, Room 1508, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-8755 [email protected]

Gerald Govia Project Coordinator 722 West 168th Street, Room 1509, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-4542 [email protected]

Dana Greeson Project Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 517, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5352 [email protected]

Jamie Hager Program Manager Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1503, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9557 [email protected]

Carolyn Hernandez Project Coordinator Infectious Disease 100 Haven Avenue, Tower 3, Apartment 29G, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-5453 [email protected]

Beverly Insel Senior Staff Associate Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, 16th floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7851 [email protected]

Lenita Estell JohnsonDirector of Marketing & Communications

Injury 722 West 168th Street, Room 812I, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0516 [email protected]

Ann Johnston Cloud Project Manager Chronic Disease 100 Haven Avenue, Tower 3, Apartment 17H, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9650 [email protected]

Spruha Joshi Data Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 520, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]

Tanya Kaufman Project Coordinator I Social 722 West 168th Street, Room 720.5, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-7278 [email protected]

Katrina Kezios Project Coordinator Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-1638 [email protected]

Ebony KingAdministrative Manager, Operations


Vasiliki KorikisAssociate Director of Human Resources and Faculty Affairs


Yuyan Liao Senior Staff Associate Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 727, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-0246 [email protected]

Thai Linh-Tu Program Coordinator Chronic Disease 100 Haven Ave., Tower 3, 29F, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-6450 [email protected]

Emma Marquez Research Assistant Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 1604, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9110 [email protected]

Tsitsi Masvawure Program Manager Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 517, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5352 [email protected]

Christina McCarthyDepartment Administrator


David Merle Project Manager Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 231, New York, NY 10032 (212) 543-5927 [email protected]

Elaine Meyer Project Coordinator 722 West 168th Street, Room 1506, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3651 [email protected]

Lena Milian Research Assistant Chronic disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 518, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6835 [email protected]

Ashwata Pokhrel Project Coordinator Chronic disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 523, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305- 5172 [email protected]

Charissa Pratt Project Coordinator I Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Suite 1030, New York, NY 10032 (212) 342-2133 [email protected]

Angeline Protacio Data Analyst Chronic disease 722 West 168th Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10032 (212)342-3847 [email protected]

James Quinn Staff Associate Chronic disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 726, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6319 [email protected]

DiLenny Roca-Dominguez Program Manager Injury 722 West 168th Street, Room 1608, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6718 [email protected]

Sasha RudenstinePostdoctoral Research Scientist

Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1505, New York, NY 10032 [email protected]


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Emma Sacks Project Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 517, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5352 [email protected]

Laura Sampson Data Coordinator Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1513, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5712 [email protected]

Brenda Lee Scariff Administrative Aide Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 720A, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-6706 [email protected]

Manidipa Sengupta Financial Coordinator Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 735, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9081 [email protected]

Tejal Shah Program Coordinator LifecourseNew York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 47, New York, NY 10032


Bijal Shah Program Manager Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Suite 228, New York, NY 10032 (212)305-8313 [email protected]

Daniel Sheehan Staff Associate Chronic disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 726, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-3791 [email protected]

Jin Joo Shim Data Analyst Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 702, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-4596 [email protected]

Thomas Shriver Senior Staff Associate Chronic Disease NYSPI, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 47, New York, NY 10032 (212) 543-6022 [email protected]

Sean Slifer Program Coordinator Chronic Disease 722 West 168th Street, Room 523, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-5172 [email protected]

Linh-Tu Thai Program Coordinator Chronic Disease 100 Haven Ave., Tower 3, 29F, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-6450 [email protected]

Melissa Tracy Data Collection Analyst Psych & Neuro 722 West 168th Street, Room 1513, New York, NY 10032 (212) 304-5712 [email protected]

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Roslyn Yee Project Manager Lifecourse 722 West 168th Street, Room 1606, New York, NY 10032 (212) 305-9110 [email protected]

Liliane ZaretskyAssociate Director of Academic Programs


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Friedman SM, Farfel MR, Maslow CB, Cone JE, Brackbill RM, Stellman SD. Comorbid persistent lower respiratory symptoms and posttraumatic stress disorder 5-6 years post-9/11 in responders enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry. Am J Ind Med. 2013 Jun 21. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22217. [Epub ahead of print]

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Hesdorffer DC, Shinnar S, Lewis DV, Nordli DR Jr, Pellock JM, Moshé SL, Shinnar RC, Litherland C, Bagiella E, Frank LM, Bello JA, Chan S, Masur D, Macfall J, Sun S; Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures in Childhood (FEBSTAT) Study Team.Risk Factors for Febrile Status Epilepticus: A Case-Control Study. J Pediatr. 2013 Jun 25. pii: S0022-3476(13)00587-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.05.038. [Epub ahead of print]

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Hwang AM, Stoupel J, Celenti R, Demmer RT, Papapanou PN. Serum Antibody Responses to Periodontal Microbiota in Chronic and Aggressive Periodontitis: A Postulate Revisited. J Periodontol. 2013 May 31. [Epub ahead of print]

Hwang J, Alemayehu BH, Reithinger R, Tekleyohannes SG, Takele Teshi, Birhanu SG, Demeke L, Hoos D, Melaku Z, Kassa M, Jima D, Malone JL, Nettey H, Green M, Poe A, Akinyi S, Udhayakumar V, Kachur SP, Filler S. In Vivo Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine and Chloroquine against Plasmodium vivax: A Randomized Open Label Trial in Central Ethiopia. PLoS One. 2013 May 22;8(5):e63433. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063433. Print 2013.

Hwang J, Alemayehu BH, Reithinger R, Tekleyohannes SG, Takele Teshi, Birhanu SG, Demeke L, Hoos D, Melaku Z, Kassa M, Jima D, Malone JL, Nettey H, Green M, Poe A, Akinyi S, Udhayakumar V, Kachur SP, Filler S. In Vivo Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine and Chloroquine against Plasmodium vivax: A Randomized Open Label Trial in Central Ethiopia.

Imamura F, Mukamal KJ, Meigs JB, Luchsinger JA, Ix JH, Siscovick DS, Mozaffarian D. Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Preceded by γ-Cell Dysfunction, Insulin Resistance, or Both in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2013 May 24. [Epub ahead of print]

Jakszyn P, Luján-Barroso L, Agudo A, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Molina E, Sánchez MJ, Fonseca-Nunes A, Siersema PD, Matiello A, Tumino R, Saieva C, Pala V, Vineis P, Boutron-Ruault MC, Racine A, Bastide N, Travis RC, Khaw KT, Riboli E, Murphy N, Vergnaud AC, Trichopoulou A, Valanou E, Oikonomidou D, Weiderpass E, Skeie G, Johansen D, Lindkvist B, Johansson M, Duarte-Salles T, Freisling H, Barricarte A, Huerta JM, Amiano P, Tjonneland A, Overvad K, Kuehn T, Grote V, Boeing H, Peeters PH, González CA. Meat and heme iron intake and esophageal adenocarcinoma the European Prospective investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. Int J Cancer. 2013 Jun 1. doi: 10.1002/ijc.28291. [Epub ahead of print]

Jovanovich A, Bùzková P, Chonchol M, Robbins J, Fink HA, de Boer IH, Kestenbaum B, Katz R, Carbone L, Lee J, Laughlin GA, Mukamal KJ, Fried LF, Shlipak MG, Ix JH. Fibroblast Growth Factor 23, Bone Mineral Density, and Risk of Hip Fracture among Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Jun 14. [Epub ahead of print]

Kamper-Jørgensen M, Rostgaard K, Glaser SL, Zahm SH, Cozen W, Smedby KE, Sanjosé S, Chang ET, Zheng T, La Vecchia C, Serraino D, Monnereau A, Kane EV, Miligi L, Vineis P, Spinelli JJ, McLaughlin JR, Pahwa P, Dosman JA, Vornanen M, Foretova L, Maynadie M, Staines A, Becker N, Nieters A, Brennan P, Boffetta P, Cocco P, Hjalgrim H. Cigarette smoking and risk of Hodgkin lymphoma and its subtypes: a pooled analysis from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph). Ann Oncol. 2013 Jun 19. [Epub ahead of print]

Kaonga NN, Labrique A, Mechael P, Akosah E, Ohemeng-Dapaah S, Sakyi Baah J, Kodie R, Kanter AS, Levine O. Using social networking to understand social networks: analysis of a mobile phone closed user group used by a Ghanaian health team. J Med Internet Res. 2013 Apr 3;15(4):e74. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2332.

Khan S, Okuda M, Hasin DS, Secades-Villa R, Keyes K, Lin KH, Grant B, Blanco C. Gender Differences in Lifetime Alcohol Dependence: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2013 Jun 13. doi: 10.1111/acer.12158. [Epub ahead of print]

Kim MH, Ahmed S, Preidis GA, Abrams EJ, Hosseinipour MC, Giordano TP, Chiao EY, Paul ME, Bhalakia A, Nanthuru D, Kazembe PN. Low Rates of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in a Routine Programmatic Setting in Lilongwe, Malawi. PLoS One. 2013 May 31;8(5):e64979. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064979. Print 2013.

Klomek AB, Kleinman M, Altschuler E, Marrocco F, Amakawa L, Gould MS. Suicidal Adolescents’ Experiences With Bullying Perpetration and Victimization during High School as Risk Factors for Later Depression and Suicidality. J Adolesc Health. 2013 Jul;53(1 Suppl):S37-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.12.008.

Koblin BA, Andrasik M, Austin J. Preparing for the Unexpected: The Pivotal Role of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Trials of Biomedical HIV Prevention Interventions. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Jul;63 Suppl 2:S183-6. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31829a3a4d.

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