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Yale Public Health Faculty, Alumni and Student Presentation Schedule
APHA Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
November 8 – 10, 2004

Monday, November 8

• Oral Session 8:30am – 10:00am
  3003.0: Tobacco Marketing and Sponsorship
  8:45am: Tobacco Marketing to Women: How and Why Virginia Slims Appealed to Young Adult Females
  Benjamin Toll, PhD, Pamela Ling, MD, MPH

• Oral Session 8:30am – 10:00am
  3031.0: Asthma Epidemiology
  9:30am: Asthma Prevalence in Elementary School Children in Connecticut: A School Nurse Based Survey of Asthma and of School Building Characteristics that may Contribute to Asthma.
  Eileen Storey, MD, MPH, Mark Cullen, MD, Nadine Schwab, RN, MPH, PNP, Nancy Alderman, MES, Nancy Simcox, MS, Paula Schenck, MPH

• Poster Presentation 8:30am – 10:00am
  3048.0: HIV/AIDS Prevention Poster Session
  Board 5: HIV/AIDS Prevention Needs Assessment among Migrant Factory Workers in Fuzhou, China
  Julie Hsieh, MPH, Ming Wang, MD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD

• Poster Presentation 8:30am – 10:00am
  3050.0: HIV/AIDS International Health Poster Session
  Board 4: A Comparison of HIV Knowledge, Perception, Risk Behaviors and Stability between Heroin and Opium Users in Tehran, Iran
  Michelle Mehri Haghpanah, MPH, Azarakhsh Mokri, MD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Richard Schottenfeld, MD

• Oral Session 10:30am –12:00pm
  3091.0: International Tobacco Control Tango: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  10:30am: Time to Learn New Steps: Is the U.S. Moving Backwards in Tobacco Control Efforts?
  Derek Yach, MD

• Oral Session 10:30am – 12:00pm
  3108.0: Methodological Techniques and Tools Utilized in Health Care
  Planning, Policy Development and Evaluation
  10:30am: Community Health Assets Profiler (CHAP) for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  Jennifer M. Lavely, BA, Rena A. Seth, BS, Alisa M. Ple-Plakon, BS, Karen
  Elizabeth Schultz, MPH, Beth Comerford, MA, Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD, Margot Zaharek, MS, CD-N, David L. Katz, MD, MPH

• Poster Presentation 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  3173.0: Innovative Applications of Community Based Research
  Board 5: Building Organizational Capacity through Seed Grants
  Margot, Zaharek, MS, CD-N, Kari Hartwig, DrPH, Zubaida Faridi, MBBS,
  MPH, Richard Louis Dunville, MPH, Michelle A. LaRovera, David L. Katz, MD, MPH

• Oral Session 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  3175.0: Built Environment Institute I: Exploring the Connections Between the Built Environment and Obesity
  1:10pm: Factors of the Built Environment and Physical Activity
  Mary E. O'Neil, MPH, Loretta DiPietro, PhD, MPH, Melinda Irwin, PhD, MPH

• Poster Presentation 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  3188.0: Health Administration Posters in Quality, Social/ Behavioral Environment and Structural
  Board 7: Cancer Patient Navigators: Increasing Access to Timely and Quality Care
  Erica Warner, BA, A. Ronald Garcia, PhD, Harold P. Freeman, MD

• Oral Session 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  3213.0: Psychiatric Epidemiology
  1:30pm: Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) Hotline: Psychiatric Screening, Assessment, and Referral for Pregnant and Postpartum Women in New Haven's Healthy Start Initiative
  Karalee Poschman, MPH, Megan Smith, MPH, Heather Howell MSW, Mary Cavaleri, MSW, Kimberly Yonkers, MD

• Poster Presentation 4:30pm – 6:00pm
  3323.0: HIV/AIDS: Testing, Prevention and Service
  Board 5: Strategies for Involving IMGs in Community-Based TB Control Activities: Formative Research to Identify Innovative Approaches to Increase Access to Foreign Born Populations
  Kelly Detsch, MPH, Bill L. Bower, MPH, Kenneth Holley, BA,
  Paul Colson, PhD
  Board 6: Gap Analysis of an HIV/AIDS Service Organization's Programs in Relation to Member Needs
  Marina MacNamara, Marie Harris, Michael Giconi, Michael Rosencrantz, Peter Bowler, Gauri Dwivedi, Farnoosh Hashemian

• Poster Presentation 4:30p.m – 6:00pm
  3355.0: Promoting Good Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Board 10: An Assessment of Obesity-Related Knowledge, Behavior, and Readiness to Change at a Community Health Center, New Haven, CT
  Annalyn Saludares, BA, Robert Kilpatrick, MPH, Lara Hauslaib, BA

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

• Oral Session 8:30am – 10:00am
  4009.0: Screening and Brief Intervention: Translating Research Findings into Policy Change
  8:30: Translating SBIRT Research to Practice and Policy
  Gail D'Onofrio, MD, MS

• Poster Presentation 8:30am – 10:00
  4024.0: Using Methodological Tools as a Framework for Services and Planning
  Board 7: Domestic Distribution Network for Non-Controlled Donated Drugs, Supplies or Equipment
  Sarah Zalud, Koren Odierna, Elizabeth Lundeen, John Pitman, Karen Gottlieb, RN, MBA, Peter Farnsworth
  Board 10: Designing a Road Map for Health Promotion at Hill Health Center in New Haven, CT
  Karen Cheung, BA in MCB, Lisa DiFedele, BA in MCDB, Flavia Silva de Paula, Edward J. Angeli, MS, RD

• Poster Presentation 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  4117.0: Creative Approaches to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
  Board 7: Reducing Health Disparities through Mini-Grants
  Kari Hartwig, DrPH, Margot Zaharek, MS, CD-N, Michelle A. LaRovera, Richard Louis Dunville, BS, Zubaida Faridi, MBBS, MPH, David Katz, MD, MPH

• Poster Presentation 12:30pm- 2:00pm
  4119.0: Promoting Children's Health in Adverse Physical and Social Environments
  Board 4: Parental Expectations and Satisfaction: Experience of a Community –Based Mental Health Clinic
  Komail Abbas, Elizabeth King, Michelle Silverio, Alice Forrester, PhD, Pam Hubner, MA, Louis Massari, MPH

• Oral Session 12:30pm-2:00pm
  4120.0: Approaching Asthma Through Mutliple Venues
  12:45pm: A Fifth Vital Sign for a Pediatric Asthma Program
  Elizabeth W. Holt, Jonathan Tan, Dean Hosgood

• Oral Session 2:30pm- 4:00pm
  4224.0: Gambling and Mental Health
  3:15pm: Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology of Pathological Gambling
  Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD

• Oral Session 4:30pm- 6:30pm
  4282.0: Gender Studies and HIV/AIDS
  4:45pm: High Risk Women's Willingness to Try a Simulated Vaginal Microbicide
  Katie e. Mosack, PhD, Margaret R. Weeks, PhD, Marilyn Stolar, PhD,
  Maryann Abbott, MA, Laurie Novick Sylla, BSW, MHSA

• Poster Presentation 4:30pm – 6:00pm
  4291.0: Student Papers in Child and Family Health
  Board 4: Maternal Child Healthcare Infrastructure: Fewer Resources for More Patients
  KaSandra N. Rogiers, BA, Enid Castro, BA, Nabila Alibhai, BA

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

• Poster Presentation 8:30am – 10:00am
  5029.0: Environmental Contaminants and Assessment of Exposure
  Board 7: Animals as Sentinels of Biological and Chemical Terrorist Agents
  Zimra Gordon, DVM, MPH, Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH

• Oral Session 8:30am- 10:00am
  5058.0: Healthy Child Care America: Building Child Care Health Consultant Networks and Supporting Social- Emotional Development of Children in Child Care Settings
  9:30am: Impact of Health Training on Child Care Health Consultant Knowledge and Practice
  Angela A. Crowley, PhD, APRN, PNP, Joanna M. Kulikowich, PhD

• Oral Session 8:30am –10:00am
  5077.0: Public Health Nursing Education
  9:15am: Building Capacity in Health Disparities Nursing Research Through Partnering
  Erin Ruppe, MPH, Dorothy Powell, EdD, RN, FANN, Catherine L. Gilliss, DNS, RN, FANN

• Oral Session 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  5111.0: Measuring Quality of Care
  1:10pm: Measuring Quality of Care From a New Perspective: An Examination of Racial Differences in Consumer Empowerment in the American Health System
  Lisa C. Gary, MS, MPH, Mark Schlesinger, PhD

• Oral Session 2:30pm – 4:00pm
  5164.0: National Efforts to Publicly Report Hospital Quality Information
  3:00pm: Session Abstract: National Efforts to Publicly Report Hospital Quality Information: Results of Four Studies
  David Miranda, PhD, Harlan Krumholz, MD