Integrating Special Populations Events

These events were hosted by the Integrating Special Populations (ISP) Resource.

2022

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Collaboration, Building Trust and Awareness of Parkinson’s disease in the African American/Black Community and High-Throughput Sequencing Platform for the Diagnosis of Bacteremia in Children with Cancer

Speakers: Hiral Shah, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University and Son H. McLaren, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine, CUIMC
Date: 12/12/2022

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Collaboration, Communication and Conflict Resolution: Integrating Team Science

Speakers: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, Professor of Medical Humanities & Ethics, Chief of the Division of Ethics, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Director of the TEAMS Resource, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translation Research
Date: 11/21/2022

Integrating Special Populations Lecture, Research for Studying Best Outcomes in Transition of Care from Pediatric to Adult Providers for Patients with Rare Diseases

Speakers: Katherine South, BSN, RN, CPN; School of Nursing, Moving up: Healthcare Transition Experiences in Cystic Fibrosis and Sivan Kinberg, MD, MS, MA; Department of Pediatrics, The GUTSY Program: Gaining Understanding of Transition for Short Bowel Syndrome Among Youths.
Date: 7/18/2022

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Academic-Community Partnerships: Benefits to Translational Research with Special Populations

Speakers: Katherine Dimitropoulou, PhD, OTR/L, MSPOR, Jacqueline Chen and Alejandra N. Aguirre, DrPH, MPH
Date: 4/18/2022

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Defining Cellular Markers of Fontan- Associated Liver Disease.

Speakers: Matthew Lewis, MD and Jennifer Bain, MD, PhD
Date: 2/28/2022

2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Identification and characterization of Genetic Modifiers for Familial Alzheimer’s Disease and Down Syndrome: An Integrative Approach

Speakers: Joseph H. Lee, DrPH, Catherine Marquer, PhD and Andrew A. Sproul, PhD
Date:11/15/2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Metabolomic and MRI-Determined Body Composition Changes Following Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents

Speakers: Wei Shen, MD, MPH, MS and Elizabeth Berg, MD,
Date:10/18/2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Impact of Dietary Iron Deficiency on Adaptive Antiviral Immunity and Unexplained Early-Onset Epilepsy: New Directions

Speakers: Thomas Connors, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CUMC, Tristan T. Sands, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, CUMC
Date: 5/17/2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Long COVID-19: Identifying Pulmonary and Cognitive Phenotypes

Speakers: Matthew R. Baldwin, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, CUIMC; Claire M. McGroder, MD, Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, CUIMC; Anna S. Nordvig, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CUIMC
Date: 4/19/2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Bone Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Causes, Consequences and Management in Adults and The Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Adolescent Bone Health

Speakers: Emily Stein, MD, MS, Director of Research, Metabolic Bone Service, Weill Cornell Medical College and Alyson Weiner, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow, CUIMC
Date: 3/15/2021

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Aging with HIV and Comorbidities Across the Lifespan: Clues from the Epigenome

Speaker: Stephanie Shiau, PhD, MPH, Instructor of Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health
Date: 2/22/2021

2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, A Life Course Perspective on Health and Aging

Speakers: Sarah Tom, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology
Date: 11/16/2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Utilizing Negative BOLD to Distinguish Pathological Aging from Healthy Normal and Novel approach to modeling of Pathogenicity of CPVT Mutations

Speakers: Ray Razlighi, PhD and Alexander Kushnir, MD, PhD; Oliver Clarke, PhD, and Halil Beqaj, BA
Date: 6/15/2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Examining inflammatory indices and vitamin D levels as stroke risk factors in pediatric sickle cell disease

Speakers: Mady Hornig, MA, MD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nancy Green, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
Date: 6/4/2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Natural History of Type 1 Diabetes and Diabetes Related Technology: Update and Future Directions

Speakers: Magdalena Bogun, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Kristen M. Williams, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Date: 5/18/2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Pediatric Obesity

Speakers: Michael Rosenbaum, MD, Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD, MPH, and Anthony Ferrante, MD, PhD
Date: 2/24/2020

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Community Voices in Engaged Research

Speakers: Jennifer J. Manly, PhD and Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN
Date: 1/27/2020

2019

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Geographic Disparities in Lung Transplantation: Is it fair? Are the changes helping?

Speakers: Luke Benevenuto and Christine Garcia
Date: 11/18/2019

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to Guide Clinical Management of Children with Nephrotic Syndrome and Irrational Decisions in Kidney Allocation

Speakers: Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD and S. Ali Husain, MD, MPH
Date: 9/16/2019

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Precision Recruitment: Inclusion and Diversity in Precision Medicine Research

Speakers: Elizabeth G. Cohn, RN, PhD
Date: 6/17/2019

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, New Insights into Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Adolescents and the Adult Woman

Speakers: Sharon E. Oberfield, MD and Rogerio Lobo, MD
Date: 5/20/2019

2018

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Untargeted Metabolomics: Measuring Endogenous and Exogenous Chemicals in Populations

Speaker: Gary W. Miller, PhD Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Date: 12/17/2018

2017 Pilot Award Presentations

Date: 11/19/2018

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Engaging Communities around Us in Clinical Care and Research

Speakers: Alwyn T. Cohall, MD, Christel J. Hyden, EdD and Jorge A. Benitez
Date: 6/14/2018

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Environmental Toxicants and Human Health: Across the Lifespan

Speakers: Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD and Andrew G. Rundle, Dr.PH
Date: 5/03/2018

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Translating Epigenetics into Precision Medicine – New Research Findings and Capabilities at the Mailman School Laboratory of Environmental Precision Biosciences

Speaker: Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD
Date: 2/28/2018

2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Use of the Electronic Health Record and Administrative Data to Optimize Patient Selection and Recruitment and Conduct Generalizable Research

Speakers: Chunhua Weng, PhD, FACMI and May Hua, MD
Date: 12/11/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Geriatric Measurements to Assess Disability in Patients of All Ages

Speakers: Matthew R. Baldwin, MD, MS and Stephanie Cosentino, PhD
Date: 9/19/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Sickle Cell Disease as a Model for Stroke across the Lifespan

Speakers: Nancy S. Green, MD and Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS
Date: 6/08/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Special Issues in HIV Treatment & Prevention Across the Lifespan

Speakers: Claude A. Mellins, PhD, Michael Yin, MD, MS, Magdalena Sobieszczyk, MD, MPH, and Caroline Carnevale, FNP, MPH
Date: 4/27/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Cognitive Decline & Dementia in Younger Populations: Down Syndrome to Familial Alzheimer’s Disease

Speakers: Nicole Schupf, PhD, DrPH, Sharon Krinsky-McHale, PhD, and Joseph H. Lee, DrPH
Date: 3/23/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Mountains beyond Mountains: Caring for Patients with Congenital Heart Disease in an Era of Improved Survival

Speakers: Matthew Lewis, MD, MPH and Brett Anderson, MD, MBA, MS/POR
Date: 3/13/2017

Integrating Special Populations Seminar Series, Rare Diseases Across the Lifespan

Speakers: Lynne Quittell, MD, Alice Prince, MD, Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, and Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD
Date: 1/26/2017