The SPC Online Journal Club is a live, online journal club for SER-SPC members. The journal club provides our members with the opportunity to discuss recent epidemiologic literature. Papers chosen for discussion in the journal club are focused on epidemiologic methods. Journal club sessions are led by one of the authors of the article. Please join us for our next session!
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October 20, 2021
January 12, 2022
April 20, 2022
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UPCOMING EVENTS
October 20, 2021
12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Adam Leventhal, PhD
Director, USC Institute for Addiction Science
and Health, Emotion, & Addiction Laboratory
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Psychology
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Article: Digital media use and suicidal behavior in U.S. adolescents, 2009–2017
Adam Leventhal, Ph.D., is a Professor, Population and Public Health Sciences and Psychology, Keck School of Medicine USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. He graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara and completed clinical psychology graduate studies at University of Houston. Dr Leventhal attended Brown University Medical School for his clinical psychology internship and post-doctoral training. He is Founding Director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science (IAS) and USC Health, Emotion & Addiction (USC-HEAL), which supports transdisciplinary collaborative addiction research and education. Having been awarded over 40M in grant funding from the NIH and other agencies, Dr. Leventhal’s laboratory’s current areas of focus are: (1) adolescent and young adult tobacco, cannabis, and opioid use; (2) addiction among populations with mental illness, from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds, with socioeconomic disadvantage, and other groups subject to health disparities; (3) the development of medications to treat nicotine addiction; (4) science to inform public policies for regulating tobacco and other addictive consumer products; and (5) cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
July 21, 2021
12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Annabel X. Tan
PhD student
Stanford School of Medicine.
Article: Association Between Income Inequality and County-Level COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US.
April 21, 2021
12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Isabelle Malhamé
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Physician, Obstetric Medicine and General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
McGill University Health Centre
Article: Identifying cardiovascular severe maternal morbidity in epidemiologic studies
This event is co-sponsored by the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER).
February 3, 2021
12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Erline E. Martinez-Miller
Epidemiologist & Project Director
Social & Scientific Systems
A DLH Holding Company
Durham, NC
Adjunct
Department of Population and Data Sciences
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Article: Longitudinal Associations of US Acculturation With Cognitive Performance, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging
Date: November 18, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm EDT
This event is co-sponsored by the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER).
Jonathan M Snowden
Associate Professor
School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University/Portland State University
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University
Article:
Cesarean birth and maternal morbidity among Black women and White women after implementation of a blended payment policy
Sarah Osmundson, MD MS
Assistant Professor
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Article:
Cesarean Delivery Rates and Costs of Childbirth in a State Medicaid Program After Implementation of a Blended Payment Policy
Date: July 15, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm EDT
Author: Dr. Laura Balzer
Article: Machine learning to identify persons at high-risk of HIV acquisition in rural Kenya and Uganda
Link to Article
Author: Dr. Jason Salemi
Article: Estimating the obstetric co‐morbidity burden using administrative data: The impact of the pregnancy‐related assessment window
Link to Article
Date: January 15, 2020
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm EDT
Author: Dr. Erika Garcia
Article: “Association of Changes in Air Quality With Incident Asthma in Children in California, 1993-2014”
Link to Article
Date: October 16, 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm EDT
Author: Dr. Sarah MacDonald, ScD, ScM
Senior Consultant Epidemiologist, IQVIA
Article: “Assessment of recording bias in pregnancy studies using health care databases: An application to neurologic conditions.”
Link to Article
MacDonald SC, Hernán MA, McElrath TF, Hernández-Díaz S. Assessment of recording bias in pregnancy studies using health care databases: An application to neurologic conditions. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2018 May ; 32(3): 281–286. doi:10.1111/ppe.12459. PMID 29569366