Grand Rounds and Special Events, 2003 - 2004

October 15, 2003  4:00 p.m. Room W1020
"ROAD TRAVEL OVERSEAS:  HOW SAFE ARE WE?"
Speakers:
Rochelle Sobel, MD, Executive Director, Association for Safe International Road Travel

Eleni Petridou, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries Among the Young, Athens University Medical School, Greece

Julie Abraham, Director, Office of International Policy and Harmonization, NHTSA

October 22, 2003 4:00 p.m. Room  W1020

"HIV PREVENTION RESEARCH IN RAKAI, UGANDA: SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND CHAOS THEORY"
Speaker:  Ronald Gray, MBBS, MS, Professor, Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

November 5, 2003  4:00 p.m. Room W1020

General Preventive Medicine Residency Grand Rounds

"PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.  WHERE DO WE STAND TWO YEARS AFTER 9/11 AND ANTHRAX?"
Speakers:
Jerome M. Hauer, Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Capt. Gregory J. Martin, MD, Assistant Dean for Special Projects, Uniformed Services University

December 10, 2003  4:00 p.m. Room W1020

"SCIENCE, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH:  METHYL MERCURY, TUNA FISH, AND POWER PLANTS"
Speaker:
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 4, 2004  4:00 p.m. Room W1020

General Preventive Medicine Residency Grand Rounds

"FORECASTING NEW EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES:  HOW PREDICTION CAN LEAD TO PREVENTION"
Speaker:
Michael Osterholm, MD, University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

February 9, 2004   4:00 p.m.  Room W1020

The Fifth Annual Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture

"IT STARTED WITH BURNEY:  THE SURGEONS GENERAL'S REPORTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH"
Speaker:
Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, Jacob I. and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor of Health, Risk, and Society, and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

March 3, 2004  4:00 p.m. Room W1020

"FIGHTING MALARIA WITH TRANSGENIC MOSQUITOES"
Speaker:
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

March 17, 2004  4:00 p.m. Room W1020

"RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION IN SHANGHAI"
Speaker:
David B. Thomas, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

April 14, 2004   4:00 p.m. Room W1020

"HEALTH CARE FOR THE UNINSURED:  POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO A SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM"
Speakers:
Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Maryland Insurance Administration
Barbara McLean, Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission
Jeff Singer, President and CEO, Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.

April 21, 2004  4:00 p.m.  Room W1020

"PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR PREVENTION OF LIVER CANCER IN CHINA"
Speaker:
Thomas Kensler, PhD, Professor, and Director, Division of Toxicological Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health