Spring 2013

Thursday, January 31
Warren Bickel, Ph.D.
Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Director, Addiction Recovery Research Center Professor of Psychology, College of Science,Virginia Tech Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, VTC School of Medicine
Self-control failure and its repair

Thursday, February 21
Michelle Juarez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology Department
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Epidermal wound response sing drosophila as a model

Tuesday, March 5
Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New insights into breast cancer etiology

Tuesday, April 9
Joy S. Reidenberg, Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Of mice and men, whales and women: Comparative anatomy of the mammalian upper respiratory tract

Thursday, April 18
Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Weill Cornell Medical College
Psychological and social determinants of health and cardiovascular disease

Fall 2012

Thursday, September 20
Christopher Sempos, PhD
Coordinator, Vitamin D Standardization Program/Director, Population Studies Program
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements

Diet heart and nutritional epidemiology: Lessons not learned

Thursday, October 4
Andrei L. Gartel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago

Targeting oncogenic transcription factor FOXM1 in cancer

Tuesday, October 23
Francesca Gany, MD
Chief, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Overcoming immigrant health disparities

______Special Session -- Thursday, November 1 @ 4-6pm______

Dr. Giulio Tononi, MD
David P. White Professor of Sleep Medicine
University of Wisconsin
PHI

This book presentation and signing event will be held in the Faculty/Staff Dining Room, NAC Building, 3rd Floor.

Thursday, November 15
May May Leung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Public Health Department at Hunter College

Engaging and empowering youth in childhood obesity prevention

Thursday, December 13
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MHS, MPH, PD
Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor, Queens College of the City University of New York

Transportation and health

Location: Harris Hall, The City College of New York
Time:  12-2:00pm
Refreshments Will Be Provided
For additional information, contact amotta@med.cuny.edu

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Spring 2012

Thursday, January 26
Maurizio Trevisan, MD, MS
Dean, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

Oral health and cardiovascular disease: A potentially important public health problem

Thursday, February 23
Claudia Lascar, MS, MPA
Assistant Professor, Reference Librarian, CCNY

LibGuides: Grants & funding opportunities and Biomedical research resources

Thursday, March 22
Peter Muennig, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

The social determinants of health: new evidence

Thursday, April 26
Eric G. Pamer, MD
Chief, Infectious Diseases Service; Director, The Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation and Cancer; Member, Immunology Program Sloan-Kettering Institute

Antibiotics, the intestinal microbiota and infection with VRE and Clostridium difficile

Thursday, May 15
Adam Greenberg
Acting Director, Research Administration at The City College of New York

Introduction to Research Administration at CCNY

Thursday, May 31
Hoau-Yan Wang, PhD
Associate Medical Professor, Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Department
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

The hunt for effective Alzheimer's Disease treatments

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Location: Harris Hall, The City College of New York
Time:  12-2:00pm
Refreshments Will Be Provided
For additional information, contact amotta@med.cuny.edu