2017 ACE Preliminary Meeting Agenda

2017 Annual Meeting: The Methods of Translating and Disseminating Epidemiology into Public Health

#ACE2017

Program Agenda

Saturday, September 23

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ACE MAC Workshop: Meeting of the Minds: Why Haven’t Compelling Epidemiologic Data Eliminated Health Disparities? Terrace, 12th floor

Sunday, September 24

 

7:15 am - 5:00 pm

RegistrationTerrace Foyer, 12 Floor

Concurrent Education Workshops

Workshop 1- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (morning)Crescent, 11th floor

Co-chairs: Gila Neta, MD, National Cancer Institute, and Ross Brownson, PhD, Washington University

Workshop 2- In the News: Communicating Research Findings to the Media and Public (morning) Imperial, 12th floor

Chair: Jennifer Loukissas, MPP, National Cancer Institute
Saloni Nayar, MPH, Mayo Clinic 

Workshop 3: The Medium is the Message: Crafting your Results to Impact Policy and the Public (afternoon) Imperial, 12th floor

Chair: Stephen Deppen, MA, MS, PhD, Vanderbilt University 

Workshop 4: QGIS Basics (afternoon) Crescent, 11th floor

Chair: Amber Dismer, MPH, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention

Workshop 5: Extreme Personal Exposure Biomarker Levels: Guidance for Investigators (Full-Day) Sallon12th floor

Chair: Susan Pinney, PhD, University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health

8:00 am - 3:00 pm

ACE Board Meeting (by invitation only) River, 12th floor

5:15 pm - 6:00 pm

 

Speed Networking(registration required) Terrace, 12th floor

Sponsored by the Career Mentoring and Associate Member Committees

Open to ACE Members and Associate Members

Meet and Greet ACE Fellows

Monday, September 25

7:15 am - 8:15 am

Associate Member breakfast with ACE President Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE, FACE
River, 12th floor

8:15 am - 8: 30 am

Welcome and Call to Order by local host Terry Fontham, PhD, FACE, and Program Committee Chair, Ed Trapido, ScD, FACE
Grande Ballroom, 12th floor

8:30 am – 9:55 am

Keynote Presentation: "Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: From AIDS to Zika"

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health

9:55 am - 10:05 am

Awarding Outgoing Annals of Epidemiology Editor-In-Chief, Richard Rothenberg, MD, MPH, FACE, Georgia State University

10:05 am – 10:30

Annals of Epidemiology Best Paper Presentation, “Quantitative Bias Analysis in an Asthma Study of Rescue-Recovery Workers and Volunteers from the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks”, Anne Jurek, PhD, MS, DOW Chemical Company, Midland, MI

10:30 am- 10: 45 am

Beverage Break, Foyer, 12th floor

10:45 am - 12:00 pm

Plenary Session
Crescent, 11th floor

How Epidemiologists can Play a Greater Role in Environmental Decision-making: Comparing Apples to Apples

Chair: Heidi Erickson, PhD, MS, Chevron Energy Technology Company

Speakers:

Carol Burns, PhD, FACE, Burns Epidemiology Consulting, “How do Regulators use Environmental Epidemiological data for Public Health Protection? Challenges associated with interpreting exposure data in epidemiological research and in human health risk assessment and weight of evidence assessment”

 

Judy Lakind, PhDPresident of the LaKind Associates, LLC, “Evaluating Strengths and Limitation of the Exposure data using the Biomonitoring, Environmental Epidemiology, and Short-Lived Chemicals (BEES-C) Instrument: Implications for Science and Policy”

Kayla Taylor, PhD, NIEHS, “Advances in Methodologies for Conducting Systematic Reviews within the Federal Government”

Hubert Vesper, PhD, CDC, “Ensuring Harmonized and Comparable Laboratory Measurements to Improve Public Health Programs: Implications of the lack of comparability of biomarker measurements for preventing the effective assessment, implementation and monitoring of potential health risks and public health activities”

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

Beverage Break, Foyer, 12th floor

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Luncheon Roundtables

  1. Q&A with Abraham Lilienfeld Awardee, Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, Rockwell Professor of Public Health at the University of Texas, Imperial, 12th floor

    Q&A with Translation of Disaster Epidemiology Into Public Health Awardee, David Abramson, PhD MPH, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health New, York University, Imperial, 12th floor

  2. Highlighting IJPC-SE goals, objectives, and accomplishments, Grande Ballroom, 12th floor

  3. Editorial & Publisher Perspective of Peer Review: The Nitty-Gritty -  Sallon, 12th floor

    Lead Discussants: Kate Williamson (Elsevier) & Patrick S. Sullivan (Annals of Epidemiology Editor-in-Chief). Quality peer reviews—a balancing act. Perspectives on sending a good message to make the paper stronger as well as addressing the don’ts

  4. Dept. of Epidemiology Chairs Luncheon (by invitation only), River, 12th floor

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Concurrent Session 1
Grande Ballroom, 12th floor

Untangling the Ethical Intersection of Epidemiology, Human Subjects Research and Public Health

Co-Chairs and Affiliations: WayWay Hlaing, MBBS, PhD, University of Miami, and Jennifer Salerno, PhD, McMaster University

Moderator: Ken Goodman, PhD, FACMI, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy University of Miami

Speakers:

Ed Peters, DMD, SM, ScD, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University

“Overview of Ethics and Epidemiology”

Susan Pinney, PhD, University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health

“Very High Biomarker Levels in Environmental Epidemiology Research: A void in guidance for investigators”

Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

“Interface of Epidemiology, Human Subjects Research, and Public Health Interventions”

Concurrent Session 2 
River, 12th floor

Refugee Health: Global and Domestic Perspectives
Organizer: Lorna Thorpe, PhD, MPH, FACE, NYU School of Medicine

Moderator: Olivia Carter-Pokras, MHS, PhD, FACE, University of Maryland

Speakers:

Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, MPH, PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco

J. David Ingleby, MA, PhD, University of Amsterdam

Sonita Singh, MPH, PhD, Tulane University School of Law

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Beverage Break, Foyer, 12th floor

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Plenary Session
Grande Ballroom, 12th floor
Advancing Risk Stratification for Precision Prevention: Methodologic, Clinical, and Ethical Considerations for Rare Diseases

Chairs:

Jessica L. Petrick, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

Ronald C. Eldridge, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

Speakers:

Nancy Cook, ScD, MS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, “Current methodological concepts in risk reclassification”.

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Augusta University, “The Relevance of Public Health Ethics to Rare Diseases”.

Teri Manolio, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, “Risk Prediction in the Genomic Era”

Ashley I. Naimi, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, “Machine Learning for Risk Stratification of Rare Outcomes: Examples from Reproductive/Perinatal Epidemiology”

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm

Poster Session
Magnolia, 3rd floor
Poster Walkabouts, Sponsored by the Publications Committee

5:30 pm - 6:15 pm

ACE Business Meeting—all members are welcome to attend
Terrace, 12 floor

6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

Host Reception
Magnolia, 3rd floor

Tuesday, September 26

7:15 am - 8:25 am

Breakfast Roundtables
Crescent, 11th floor

  1. TBD
  2. Teaching and Promoting Interest in Epidemiology at the High School Level, Ralph Cordell, CDC
  3. Mentoring Committee
    • What are the Alternatives to Academic careers? (Pharma)
    • What are the alternatives to academic careers? (Consulting)
    • What are the alternatives to academic careers? (Academia)
    • What are the alternatives to academic careers? (Government)
  4. Ethics Committee: Douglas Weed, PhD, FACE, DLW Consulting Services “Beyond Financial Conflicts of Interest”

8:30 am - 9:00 am

ACE Presidential Address, Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE, FACE, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Grande Ballroom, 12th floor

9:00 am - 9:40 am

"Politics and Policy: Implications of Federal Actions on the State Level", Rebekah E. Gee, MD, MPH, MS, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health

9:40 am - 10:00 am

Beverage Break, Foyer, 12th floor

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Concurrent Session 1

Grande Ballroom, 12th floor
Advancing Policy-Relevant Epidemiologic Research on the Social Determinants of Health

Chair: Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH, Department of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Speakers:

Kelli Komro, PhD, MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, “Effects of State-Level Minimum Wage and EITC Policies on Infant Health Outcomes”

Katherine Theall, PhD, Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans, “Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity: Closing the Gap on Maternal and Child Health Disparities”

Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH, Department of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, “Novel Approaches to Estimating Impacts of State-Level Social Determinants on Adult Health”

Concurrent Session 2

Terrace, 12th floor
“What Elephant in the Room? What does the Current Political Climate Mean for Epidemiology and its use in Policy, Rules, and Enforcement?

Chair: Edward Trapido, Sc.D., FACE, LSU School of Public Health

View from an Epidemiologist in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cathy Critchlow, PhD. FACE,AMGEN

View from an Environmental Epidemiologist and Former EPA Scientist: Joel Schwartz, PhD, Harvard T. H. Chan, School of Public Health

   

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Plenary Session

River, 12th floor
Antimicrobial Resistance: Shaping Policy Solutions through Epidemiology

Moderator: Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania

Speakers:

Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania, “The Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis: Urgent Need for Action”

Jeffrey S Gerber, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, “The Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Addressing AR”

Susan Huang, MD, MPH, University of California at Irvine, “Strategies to Curtail AR Healthcare Infections: Translating Data into Practice”

Mike Lin, MD, MS, Rush University, “Thinking Regionally: Novel Approaches to Tracking Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance”

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Awards Luncheon
Magnolia, 3rd floor
Abraham Lilienfeld Award, Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, Rockwell Professor of Public Health at the University of Texas
Translation of Disaster Epidemiology into Public Health Special Award, David Abramson, PhD MPH, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health New, York University

1:45 pm

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