2007 APHA Genomics Forum Related Sessions
Sunday, November 4th
2:30-3:30 PM—2033.0 Social Epidemiology Poster Session (Board 7—Multiple
dimensions of mistrust to genetic testing: The effects of race, gender, and education)
2:30-3:30 PM—2039.0 Poster: College Health (Board 1—Screening for healthy genes:
A model for Jewish Genetic Disease screening on college campuses)
2:30-3:30 PM—2029.0 Poster: Disaster and Emergency Event Preparedness,
Response, and Recovery (Board 3—Preliminary report of impact and loss of Louisiana
public hospitals' workforce following the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita disasters)
4:30-5:30 PM—2052.0 Issues in Maternal Health: Global (Poster, Board 4—
Utilization of genetic counselors in navigating new reproductive technologies)
Monday, November 5th
10:30-11:30—3073.0 Poster, Delta Omega: The Honorary Public Health Society
Poster Session Part I (Board 4--Plasmid-based Rescue of Influenza A Virus Directly
from Swab Specimens)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM—3137.0 Sickle Cell Disease: Epidemiology and Burden
10:30 AM Community-based Public Health Approach to Newborn Screening
Follow-up for Sickle Cell Disease
Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW, MPH
10:50 AM Maternal and child health initiatives in sickle cell disease
Michele Lloyd-Puryear, MD, PhD, Marie Mann, MD, MPH
11:10 AM Sickle Cell Disease: From bench to bedside to prevention
Naomi L.C. Luban, MD
11:30 AM Public health implications of sickle cell disease
Melissa Creary, MPH
10:30 AM-12:00 PM—3161.0 Policing Reproduction: Lessons and Legacies of
Eugenic Sterilization
10:30 AM Introduction: History, public health, and social justice -- the Spirit of
1848 & reproductive health
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD
10:35 AM Why the History of Reproductive Politics Matterns to Public Health
Alexandra Stern, PhD
10:45 AM Looking back at Buck v. Bell
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD
11:05 AM Poor women, poor choices: Dilemma of civil rights and reproductive
health in the 1970s
Gregory Dorr, PhD
11:25 AM 'We will on longer be silent or invisible': Latinas organizing for
reproductive justice
Elena Gutierrez, PhD
12:30-1:30 PM—3182.0 Emerging Issues in Infant Health (Poster Session, Board 1—
Screening for Life: Building a Prenatal Genetic Roadblock?)
12:30-2:00 PM—3257.0 Pandemic Flu and Katrina's Lessons Lost: A Technical,
Political, and Historical Critique of the CDC Preparedness Plans
12:30 PM CDC flu pandemic guidelines: Repeating the disastrous errors of
Katrina
Hillel W. Cohen, MPH, DrPH
12:45 PM Vaccination shortages: Recurring error or criminal negligence?
C. Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H
1:00 PM Resurrection of Extinct Pathogens: A Smart Move?
Elizabeth Fee, PhD
1:15 PM Healthcare Implications of the Katrina Disaster Planning: A case based
approach from the Common Ground Health Clinic
Ravi Vadlamudi, MD, MPH
1:30 PM Will the military take over response to a flu pandemic?
Howard Ehrman, MD MPH
2:30-3:30 PM—3263.0 Occupational Health and Other Environmental Risk Factors
(Poster Session, Board 8—Public attitudes toward the application of genomic studies to
medicine)
2:30-3:30 PM—3277.0 Poster—Issues Related to Medical Management and
Medication Adherence of HIV/AIDS among Underserved Populations (Board 6—
Antiretroviral drug resistance among treatment-naïve HIV-1 infected individuals in
Washington, DC)
2:30-4:00 PM—3291.0 APHA President Session: Emerging Issues for Public Health
Research, Policy and Practice: Genomics, Informatics and Disability
2:30-4:00 PM—3354.0 Health Issues in Vulnerable Populations (Roundtable—Table
4, Lessons Learned in Developing Genetic Education for Latinos)
2:30-4:00PM—3356.0 Lessons Learned: Health Education and Health Promotion in
the School-Aged Population
2:30 PM A youth-driven “Kids' Nutrigenomics” outreach education project
Patricia Wakimoto, DrPH, RD, JoAnn Johnson, MPH, Gajanth Shanmuganatha
2:45 PM Coordinated School Health in Arkansas: Partnering to improve health
Laura McDowell, BSE, MS
3:00 PM Project Healthy Schools: Community-University Collaboration to
Prevent Childhood Obesity
Jean E. DuRussel-Weston, RN MPH, Timothy B. Cotts, MD, Caren S.
Goldberg, MD, Bruce Rogers, LaVaughn Palma-Davis, MA, Susan Aaronson,
RD, Catherine Fitzgerald, RD, Marc Zimmerman, PhD, Kim A. Eagle, MD,
Roopa Gurm, MS
3:15 PM Coordinated school health programs in Southeast Texas School Districts
Lynn Hayes Trenta, MPH, Deanna Hoelscher, PhD RD LD CNS
3:30 PM No evidence of unintended consequences following passage of Arkansas
obesity legislation
Martha M. Phillips, PhD, MPH, MBA, James M. Raczynski, PhD, Delia West,
PhD, LeaVonne Pulley, PhD, Zoran Bursac, PhD, C. Heath Gauss, MS, Jada
Walker, MEd, Brooke E.E. Montgomery, Victoria L. Evans, MPH, Rebekah
Craig, Amanda Philyaw, BA
2:30-4:00 PM—3352.0 Biotechnology, Women's Health and Reproductive Rights:
Policy Domestically and Internationally
2:30 PM Sex and drugs in the gene age: Promoting a reproductive justice and
public health approach to policy
Emily Galpern, MPH
2:55 PM Assisted reproductive technologies: Distinguishing reproductive justice
concerns from the anti-choice rhetoric of the Religious Right
Reena E. Singh, MPA, Lois Uttley, MPP
3:20 PM Global Human Rights and Reproductive Health
George Annas, JD, MPH
3:45 PM Politics of biotechnologies in the reproductive rights movement
Jacqueline Payne, JD
4:30-5:30 PM—3383.0 Poster—Community Based Initiatives (Board 8—Educating
Latino communities about genetics and rare diseases: A model project)
4:30-6:00 PM—3432.0 The Spirit of 1848 presents: “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality
Making Us Sick?”-- integrating politics, passion, and public health
4:30 PM Introduction: Passion, Politics, and Public Health – The Spirit of 1848
presents “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?”
Nancy Krieger, PhD
4:35 PM Introduction to PBS series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us
Sick? and screening of excerpts
Larry Adelman
5:15 PM Using Unnatural Causes and other tools to build a movement:
Presentation and guided dialog
Makani Themba-Nixon
5:55 PM Discussant: “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?”
Nancy Krieger, PhD
Tuesday, November 6th
8:30-10:00 AM—4015.0 Utilizing Principles of Community-Based, Participatory
Collaboration to Create Culturally Competent Genetics Education Resources for
Diverse, Underserved Populations
8:30 AM Creative approaches to developing and disseminating culturally
appropriate genetics health education information to African American
communities
Valerie J. Robinson, MPH, CHES, Grace-Ann Fasaye, ScM, Charmaine D. M.
Royal, PhD
8:45 AM Collaborative Community-Based Strategies and Culturally Competent
Approaches to Improve Genetic Literacy Among At-Risk Asian American
Women
Rebecca Sze, FNP, MPA, Deborah Hong, MPA, Shao Ping Yu, MPH, Mala
Shah, MPH, MA
9:00 AM Latin@ Consumer Genetics Education Network: Meeting the need for a
culturally and linguistically appropriate genetics education program for Latinos in
NYC
Rosita Romero, MSW, Andel Nicasio, MSEd, Jesus Sanchez, MS, Alejandro
Iglesias, MD, Luis Barrios, PhD, Vanna Nicasio, Trained MD, Mario Cesar
Peralta, Trained MD, Luis Lasose, Trained MD
9:15 AM Family genetics education through school and community partnerships
Louisa A. Stark, PhD, Rebecca Giles, MPH, CHES, Jenny Johnson, CHES,
Stacy Eddings, PhD
9:30 AM Assessing cultural competence and participatory approaches in the
planning, development, implementation and evaluation of Consumer Genetics
Education Network (CGEN) projects
Aida Giachello, PhD, Robin Bates, PhD, Johnnie Daniel, PhD, Stacy Eddings,
PhD, Jesus Sanchez, MS
8:30-10:00 AM—4009.0 Community Based Genomic Medicine: A Human Rights
Perspective
8:30 AM Opportunities and Challenges for Human Rights Protection with
Genomic Medicine
Debra Wallace, PhD, RN
8:50 AM Aspiration for Health
Ellen Jones, ND, APRN-BC
9:10 AM Rights and Genomic Medicine
Terrance McConnell, PhD
9:30 AM Genomic Medicine in Community Health: Protecting Human Rights
V. Henrich, PhD
8:30-10:00 AM—4050.0 Genetics and Newborns Screening: Practice, Policy and
Ethics
8:30 AM Newborn screening practice, policy, and ethics: Parental perspectives on
the issues
Rachel N. Grob, MA, PhD
9:00 AM Role of Genetic Counselors and Genetic Services in Medical Care
Maya Rom, PhD
9:20 AM Using community based participatory approaches to provide genetics
education
Panelpha Kyler, MA, OTR/L, Michele Puryear, MD, PhD
2:30-4:00 PM—4254.0 Science as the Foundation for Health Education/Health
Promotion
2:30 PM Advocating for the incorporation of genomic competencies into public
health education: Nation-wide evidence
Lei-Shih Chen, PhD, PT, CHES, Patricia Goodson, PhD
2:45 PM Increasing the public's knowledge about genetics: Utilization of genetic
counselors as health educators
Maya Rom, PhD
3:00 PM Bringing science to consumers: Designing appropriate health education
materials
Alison Lemon, MHS
3:15 PM What does the public want to know about health-related research?
Lynn Waishwell, PHD, CHES, Laura Hemminger, MPH, CHES, Jennifer
Campbell, MPH
3:30 PM Weight Management Research to Practice Series: Working with multidisciplinary teams to translate scientific evidence for different audiences
Mary K. Serdula, MD, MPH, Kristen Riehman Sullivan, MS, MPH, Mary Ann
Fenley, Beth Tohill, PhD, Maria Elena Jefferds, PhD, Judith McDivitt, PhD
2:30-4:00 PM—4228.1 Improving Health Literacy through Health Informatics and
Health Information Technology (Roundtable, Table 6—If you build it, will they come?
A description and evaluation of an online professional genetics education tool)
2:30-4:00 PM—4205.0 Evaluation, Accountability and Methods for Effective
Assessment of Interfaith and Faith-Based policy on public health issues
2:30 PM Evaluating stakeholder participation in a faith-based initiative
Bernadette M. West, PhD, Elyse Pivnick, MCP, Shachi Gupta, MBBS
2:45 PM Design of an evidence-based web faith assessment tool to reduce health
disparities
Quentin J. Moore, MPH
3:00 PM Colorectal cancer knowledge, perceived barriers to and benefits of
screening, stage of readiness for screening, and screening behaviors among urban
church-attending African Americans: Findings from and feasibility of a selfadministered church-based survey
Cheryl Holt, PhD, Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH, Martha Crowther, PhD, MPH,
John Bolland, PhD, Mark Litaker, PhD, Chastity Roberts, PhD, MPH, CHES,
Penny Southward, MPPM, Steve Coughlin, PhD, Mohamad Eloubeidi, MD
3:15 PM Project GoodNEWS (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness and Spiritual
Growth): Combining Faith and Science, Improving Life, and Overcoming Health
Disparties
Mark J. DeHaven, Ph D, Jenny J. Lee, MPH, PhD, Johnrice Newton, RN
3:30 PM Evaluation of a spiritually-based educational program to increase
informed decision making for prostate cancer screening in African American
churches
Cheryl Holt, PhD, Theresa Wynn, PhD, Penny Southward, MPPM, Emily Schulz,
PhD, Mark Litaker, PhD, Sanford Jeames, MA
4:30-5:30 PM—4279.0 Posters: Diseases and Conditions (Board 2--Social relationships
and family characteristics associated with change in depression scores after receiving
genetic counseling and testing among family members at risk for Hereditary
Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC)
4:30-6:30 PM—4328.0 Teaching Innovations in the Health Classroom
4:30 PM Development, implementation and pilot evaluation of a collaborative
model to teach health
Anca Codruta Rafiroiu, MD, PhD
4:45 PM E-portfolios as tools for programmatic and student based assessment in
health education
Nicole J. Champagne, EdD
5:00 PM Health Education Advocacy in the Classroom
Susan Radius, PhD, CHES, Marlene K. Tappe, PhD, CHES, Regina A. GalerUnti, PhD, CHES
5:15 PM Pathways to Progress: Current and Future Trends of Blended Learning
and Public Health Education
Veronica Acosta-Deprez, PhD, Curtis Bonk, PhD, Cindy Gotz, MPH, Noushin
Khoiny, BS
5:30 PM Using virtual reality to develop and test educational approaches for
abstract scientific concepts
Kimberly Kaphingst, ScD, Susan Persky, PhD, Christina Lachance, MPH, Cade
McCall, Sara Driskell, Andrew Beall, PhD, James Blascovich, PhD
Wednesday, November 7th
8:30-9:30 AM—5010.1—Violence and Psychiatric Epidemiology Poster Session
(Board 4-Evaluating the use of pharmacogenomics to identify adverse drug reactions:
Study design considerations)
2:30-4:00 PM—5188.0 Ethical issues in clinical occupational healthcare services and
integrity in science
2:30 PM Ethical, legal, and social issues of toxicogenetic research with working
populations
Linda A. McCauley, PhD, Marc Weinstein, PhD, Connie Ulrich, RN, PhD
2:45 PM Occupational Health Screenings of Former Atmic Bomb Assembly
Workers
Marek A. Mikulski, MD, Poland, Laurence Fuortes, MD, Sujana Gunta, Rw
Field, PhD, Patrick Hartley, MD
3:00 PM Volunteers and Emergency Responders-How Safe Must it Be?
Katherine Kirkland, MPH, Karen B. Mulloy, DO, MSCH, Peter Orris, MD,
MPH
3:15 PM Evaluation and Federal Rsponse to Radiation Induced Cancers Among
Manhattan Era Nuclear Workers
Laurence Fuortes, MD, Marek Mikulski, Rw Field, PhD
3:30 PM An historical perspective on one company's manipulation of the science
of occupational arsenic and lead exposure: The American Smelting and Refining
Company
Marianne Sullivan, MPH
2:30-4:00 PM—5203.0 Critical issues in access to women's health care
2:30 PM Examining disparities for women with disabilities in accessing health
care due to cost
Diane L. Smith, PhD, OTR/L
2:45 PM Gender differences in access and intervention outcomes: The case for
women with disabilities
Ari, K. Mwachofi, PhD
3:00 PM Improving well-woman preventive health care in internal medicine
clinics
Paige Hall Smith, PhD, Nancy Phifer, MD, Sarah Colonna, Treva Anderson,
Donna Duffy, MS
3:15 PM Health needs and health care utilization among rural, low-income
women
Leigh Ann Simmons, PhD, Elaine Anderson, PhD, Bonnie Braun, PhD
3:30 PM Women returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring
Freedom:Comparison of healthcare utilization among women & men veterans
Mona Duggal, MD, MHS, Sally Haskell, MD, Joseph Erdos, MD, PHD, Amy
Justice, Cynthia Brandt