Professional Development

Classes

  • 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)