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Department of Public Health Sciences
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
DEPARTMENT NEWS
Inaugural White Coat and Pinning Ceremony Celebrates New Miller School Students InventUM: At the John G. Clarkson Freshman White Coat and Pinning Ceremony held by the Miller School, Alex J. Mechaber, M.D., senior associate dean for undergraduate medical education, gave a keynote address welcoming first-year candidates in the combined M.D./M.P.H. program, as well as in the general M.D. program. The Class of 2023 walked across the stage at the Watsco Center in the Coral Gables campus, first putting on their white coat with the help of President Frenk or Dean Ford, and then receiving the Miller School pin from an alumnus of the program.
Public Health Researchers Selected to Participate in the HEALing Communities Study Kathryn McCollister, Ph.D., and Daniel Feaster, Ph.D., two researchers from the Miller School's Department of Public Health Sciences, will participate in the HEALing Communities Study. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study is one of the four areas within Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL), an initiative taking place to halt the national opioid public health crisis.
Stop, Drop, and Roll: Firefighters and Scientists Team Up to Put Out Cancer Risks
The Firefighter Cancer Initiative (FCI) was launched in 2015 to better understand cancer among firefighters, which is the number one cause of line of duty death. The FCI is housed in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, South Florida’s only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. On August 28, 2019, the FCI held an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series to disseminate research and groundbreaking discoveries that are addressing the excess burden of cancer in firefighters.
Drinking Water Challenges on the Rise News@TheU: Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental health at the Miller School, offered insight into the health effects of lead ingestion, as residents of Newark, New Jersey recently found that their drinking water has been contaminated with lead for years. The ingestion can cause learning disabilities in children, can put unborn babies at risk and can lead to neurodegenerative diseases in adults. Corrosion control measures, University of Miami professors said, is the only solution to the problem, but requires vigilant supervision.
RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES
Liver Cancer is the Leading Cause of Death Among Mexican American Males in the United States, Researchers Find The study published in JHEP Reports, a brand new hepatology journal, analyzed 29,470 death rates for various groups, especially on people born between 1945 to 1965, for whom the prevalence of hepatitis C is particularly high. Researchers included data on people born before 1945, as well as on those who died within 2012 to 2016 in the states of California, Florida and New York.
Barbershop Interventions Improving Health Outcomes: Studies Support Community Involvement The Nation's Health: The Shop Docs, an initiative founded by Annette Grotheer, a fourth-year M.D./M.P.H. candidate at the Miller School, has partnered with several barbershops in Miami-Dade County to conduct blood pressure screenings. The program also plans to begin education on safe sex and HIV prevention in the coming months, as well as glucose testing for diabetes.
FACULTY AND STAFF SPOTLIGHTS
Dr. Guillermo "Willy" Prado Presents at the First Career Development Meeting held by the Collaborative Research on Addiction at the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Seth Schwartz to Participate in a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Project on Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria Survivors in Florida
STUDENT AND ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS Cynthia Lebron, MPH, Selected as an American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Fellow Lebron, a Master of Public Health alumna and a Ph.D. in Prevention Science and Community Health candidate at the Miller School, is using machine learning to predict early childhood obesity among ethnically diverse families.
Bradley Lezak, M.D./M.P.H. candidate, Begins Surgical Mission in the Peruvian Amazon Lezak worked with Scalpel at the Cross, an orthopedic surgical non-profit organization, on the development of a new orthopedic trauma surgery clinic in Pucallpa, a remote city in Peru, which is just outside of the Amazon jungle and about 30 miles west of Brazil. The clinic would have an associated physical therapy space, as well as an orthotics and prosthetics lab.
Saskia Vos, MPH, Finds Inspiration in Germany Vos, who is a third-year candidate in the Ph.D. in Prevention Science and Community Health program, traveled to Hildesheim, Germany where she guest lectured a three-day class for graduate students at the University of Hildesheim. The experience inspired her to choose a topic for her dissertation.
PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS The Washington Post: Contaminant found in vaping products linked to deadly lung illnesses, state and federal labs show National Geographic: How warm oceans supercharge deadly hurricanes
The Nation's Health: CDC: 3 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths among US women could be prevented The Palm Beach Post: Toxic algae: The airborne health threat we know too little about
"Much of the work the FCI and Sylvester teams have done has really impacted not only my organization but the entire Florida fire service and beyond." — CHIEF CHRIS BATER, CORAL SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT
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First-year candidates in the M.D./M.P.H. program gathered for a group photo with Sebastian the Ibis after the John G. Clarkson Freshman White Coat and Pinning Ceremony at the University of Miami. Photo by Jenny Abreu
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