New England Epidemiology Institute (Summer Program). University of Massachusetts at Amherst (7/29/85 to 8/16/85)
(07/1985 - 08/1985)
Seminars and Conferences
18th Annual Conference of the Health Effects Institute (HEI). Seattle, WA (4/ 28-30 / 2002)
(04/2002)
17th Annual Conference of the Health Effects Institute (HEI), Washington, DC (4/28/01 to 5/1/01)
(04/2001 - 05/2001)
15th Annual Conference of the Health Effects Institute (HEI), La Jolla, CA (5/ 11-12 / 1999)
(05/1999)
31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologi Research. Chicago, IL (6/ 24-26/ 1998)
(06/1998)
Symposium on Air Pollution Health Impacts: Recent findings, Implications, Dieselization, and Policy Initiatives. South Coast Air Quality Management District. Diamond Bar, CA (11/ 20-21 / 1997)
(11/1997)
8th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (8/ 17-21 / 1996)
(08/1996)
28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Snowbird, UT (6/ 21-24 / 1995)
(06/1995)
Colloquium on Particulare Air Pollution and Human Mortality & Morbidity. University of Calif at Irvine, CA (1 / 24-25 / 1994)
(01/1994)
26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Keystone, CO (6/ 16-18 / 1993)
(06/1993)
1989 Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. Washington, DC (7/ 17-19/ 1989)
(07/1989)
Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology. University of Washington at Seattle. (6/ 20-24 / 1988)
(06/1988)
Society for Epidemiologic Research. Vancouver, BC, Canada (6/ 14-17 / 1988)
(06/1988)
Joint Statistical Meetings. San Francisco, CA (8/ 17-20 / 1987)
(08/1987)
Multivariable Modeling of Epidemiologic Data. San Francisco, CA (10/ 20-24 / 1986)
(10/1986)
Qualitative Methods in Cancer Epidemiology. International Agency for Resaerch On Cancer. Lyon, France. (8/26/85 to 9/6/85)
(08/1985 - 09/1985)
International SPSS Software Users Exchange (ISSUE) Workshop on Adding User Writtn Procedures to SPSSX. Chicago, IL (7/15-19/84)
(07/1984)
Workshop in Applied Statistics, UCLA (4/16/82)
(04/1982)
Workshop on Statistical Database Management. Menlo Park, CA (12/2-4/81)
(12/1981)
Joint Statistical Meetings. Detroit, MI (8/10-13/81)
(08/1981)
Ninth National conference on Comparative Data Base Management Systems. Los Angeles, CA (10/13-15/80)
(10/1980)
18th National Meeting of the Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. Washington, DC (8/4-6/80)
(08/1980)
Seventh Annual Conference of the Mumps User's Group. San Francisco, CA (6/7-9/78)
(06/1978)
Record Linkage Workshop. State Department of Health. Berkeley, CA (5/12-23/77)
(05/1977)
The 115th Meeting of the Analysis of Large data Sets. Dallas, TX (2/23-25/77)
(02/1977)
Special Projects
Peer reviewer: Journal: J Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Title: Body Adiposity Index is Worse than Body Mass Index when Evaluating the Factors Associated with Adiposity in Elderly People.
(04/2017)
Peer Reviewer: Journal: J Human Nutrition and Food Science
Paper Title: Comparative Analysis of Food Consumption Pattern and Body Mass Index of University Residential Students.
(03/2017)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Pediatrics.
"Is Outdoor Air Pollution Associated with HbA1c in Children and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes?
(03/2015)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Environmental Research
Paper Title: Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution and Type-1 Diabetes - Accounting for Genetic Factors(Revised manuscript)
(02/2015)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Environmental Research.
Paper Title: "Maternal exposure to air pollution and risk of type-1 diabetes - accounting for genetic factors."
(11/2014)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Annals of Translational Medicine & Epidemiology.
Paper title: Translational Research: A Concept Emerged from Health Sciences and Exportable to Education Sciences.
(10/2014)
Peer Reviewer. Invited evaluator of the application materials submitted by Dr. Khalid H. Al-Ahmadi )
to be promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Scientific Council, Saudi Arabia (10/2014)
(10/2014)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology.
"The Individualistic Fallacy, ecological Studies and Instrumental Variables: A Causal Interpretation".
(09/2014)
Peer Reviewer: Journal: Health Promotion International (4/14)
Paper Title: "Leadership skills are associated with health behaviours among Canadian children"
(04/2014)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Health Promotion International. 10/2013
Paper title: "Leadership Skills are Associated with Health Behaviours among Canadian Children".
(10/2013)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Journal of Gerontology.
Paper Title: "Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Hyperuricemia in Elderly Subjects at high Cardiovascular Risk".
(12/2012)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Paper title: "Psychiatric Disease Incidence among Danish Seventh-day Adventists and Baptists".
(11/2012)
Peer Reviewer: Journal: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Title of grant proposal evaluated: "BioPOP: From Exposure to Exposome". [Grant was in English].
(09/2012)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Annals of Epidemiology.
Paper title: "Poultry Processing work and Airway Obstruction among Latino Men and Women in North Carolina".
(09/2012)
Peer Reviewer. Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Paper title: "A Nested Case-Control STudy of Sarcoidosis Diagnosed after September 11, 2001 among Adults Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster.
(10/2011)
Peer Reviewer. 5th International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics (BMIC 2011) to be held 7/ 19-22/2011 in Orlando, FL
Paper Title: "Running EDP (Electronic Data Processing)"
(10/2010)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Paper title: "The Vegan Diet has not Decreased the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in a Taiwan REetrospective Cohort"
(10/2010)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
Paper title: "The effects of Folic Acid Supplementation on Seruim Folate and Plasma Homocysteine in Older Adults".
(10/2010)
Harvard Pooling Project annual meeting, Boston, MA (10/4-5/10)
(10/2010)
EPA START grant peer reviewer, (7/ 27-28 / 2010), Washington, DC
(07/2010)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
Paper title: "Biofuel Smoke and Child Hemoglobin Level in 29 Developing Countries: A Multilevel Analysis".
(10/2009)
Consortium for the study of breast cancer among women of African Ancestry. Rockville, MD (12/16/08)
(12/2008)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Council on Science and Health.
Paper title: "Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Phthalates Revisited"
(10/2008)
Peer reviewer. Journal: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Paper title: "Does Air Pollution Exposure Affect the Development of Type I Diabetes? Experimental Studies in NOD Mice"
(10/2008)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Council on Science and Health
Paper title: "PBDEs: Brominated Flame Retardants: A Burning Issue"
(10/2006)
Peer reviewer. Journal: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Paper title: "The Healthy Volunteer Effect Demonstrated in Smokers Participating in a Dietary Intervention Trial"
(10/2004)
Peer reviewer. Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Paper title: "The Concentration-Response between PM2.5 and Daily Deaths"
(10/2002)
Peer reviewer. Journal: American Industrial Hygiene Association
Paper title: "Occupational Exposure of Racial Groups to Toxic Chemicals and Harmful Physical Agents" (revised manuscript review)
(10/2001)
Peer reviewer. Journal: Amereican Industrial Hygiene Association
Paper title: "Occupational Exposure of Racial Groups to Toxic Chemicals and Physical Agents" (Original review)
(10/1999)
Harvard Pooling Project. Boston, MA
(10/1998 - Present)