Being Precise in Precision Medicine: Measuring Exposures in Diverse Populations
September 28, 2017
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A
8:00 – 8:30am Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 8:40am Welcome and Introduction
Dana Crawford, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Institute for Computational Biology
Case Western Reserve University
8:45 – 9:30am Measuring air pollution and its impact on human health
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, ScD, MSc, Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Health
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
9:30 – 10:15am Using wearable devices to improve physical activity measurement
Jennifer Schrack, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:15 – 11:15am Break and Poster Session
11:15 – noon Harmonization and analysis approaches for gene-environment interaction studies
Misa Graff, PhD, MS, Research Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina
Noon – 2:30pm Workshop on extracting lifestyle/behavior and exposures from electronic health records
Sarah Pendergrass, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor
Geisinger Health System
2:30 – 3:15pm Community tools for data harmonization and genetic variant interpretation, the PhenX ToolKit and ClinGen
Erin Ramos, PhD, MPH
Division of Genomic Medicine
National Human Genome Research Institute
3:30-4:15pm Stress exposure and tobacco-related disparities
Monica Webb Hooper, PhD, Professor
Director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University
4:15-5:00 Canvassing the community to measure little cigar and cigarillo use in Cleveland
Erika Trapl, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Acting Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods
Case Western Reserve University
5pm Thank you and adjourn
Reception
Smith Commons, 1st floor Tinkham Veale University Center