Public Health Research at Maryland 2019

Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of Keynote and Town Hall Meeting

Jay A. Perman, MD, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Wallace D. Loh, PhD, MA, JD, President, University of Maryland, College Park
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, John Z. and Aiko K Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, RADM Ret, Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Health 

KEYNOTE: Better Health Through Better Partnerships: The Surgeon General’s Priorities

VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, Surgeon General of the United States

Panel: Sustainability at the Nexus of Food, Energy, Water, Climate and Health

Co-Moderators:
William Piermattei, JD, Managing Director, Environmental Law Program, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Amy R. Sapkota, PhD, MPH, Professor, Maryland Institute of Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health

Panelists:

Sarah Everhart, JD, Research Associate, Legal Specialist, Agricultural Law Education Initiative, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Nathan Hultman, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Global Sustainability University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Roni Neff, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Program Director, Food System Sustainability & Public Health Program
Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Amir Sapkota, PhD, Associate Professor, Applied Environmental Health, Maryland Institute of Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health

Panel: Health Technology and the Impact on Communities

Co-Moderators:

Wendy Camelo Castillo, MD, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Baltimore
Susan Winter, PhD, MA, Associate Dean for Research and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Communities and Information, University of Maryland College Park, College of Information Studies (iSchool)

Panelists:

Eun Kyoung Choe, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College of Information (iSchool)
Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, FAPhA, Executive Director Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science
DeJuan Patterson, MPA
Senior Consultant, The BeMore Group and community partner in The PATIENTS Program 

Panel: Action for Prevention of Violence, Human Trafficking and More

Co-Moderators:

Susan G. Esserman, JD, Founder and Director, SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Visiting Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work,
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
Kevin Roy, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Family Science, University of Maryland School of Public Health

Panelists:

Min Xie, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies,  Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland
Mona Mittal, PhD, MS-CI, LMFT, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Science
University of Maryland School of Public Health
Joseph Richardson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of African-American Studies
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

Presentation of Poster and Photo Contest Awards & Closing Remarks

Nancy J. Ellish, DrPH, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Marian Moser Jones, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Family Science,  University of Maryland School of Public Health
Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, RADM Ret, Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Health 
Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine

More than 100 researchers presented posters illustrating their work. Research presented at the poster session included projects conducted in collaboration with or led by partners from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, LifeBridge Health, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (Israel) Westate and county and state health departments, among others.

Doctoral Student Awards

First Place

• Hillary Craddock (UMD School of Public Health, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), "Microbiological Quality of Treated Household Greywater, Palestinian Territories"

Honorable Mention

• Fiona Jardine (UMD College of Information Studies), "Breastfeeding Without Nursing: Reasons for Initiation and Cessation of Exclusively Pumping Human Milk"
• Harry Li (UMD SPH, Dept. of Kinesiology), "Calcium Activation of Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation is Maintained in Heart Failure Levels of Extramitochondrial Sodium"

Masters Student Awards

First Place

• Emily Jenkins (UMD SPH, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), "Tooth Resorption and Risk for Anesthetic Complication During Anesthetized Dental Procedures in Domestic Felines"

Honorable Mention

• Erica VanDyke (UMB School of Medicine, Pediatrics/Division of Growth and Nutrition), "Examining the Provision of Technical Assistance in a School Wellness Policy Intervention: What Worked and Why?"
• Ajuni Choudhary (UMB School of Medicine, Epidemiology), "The Association Between student’s Perceptions of School Physical Activity Policies/Environment and Objectively Measured School-Day Physical Activity"

Undergraduate Student Awards

First Place

• Eileen Yee (Georgetown University, Human Science), "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Uncontrolled Diabetes"

Honorable Mention

• Delia West (Georgetown University, Human Science), "The Effect of Education on Overweight/Obesity in Young Adults"
• Adewale Awoyemi (UMD SPH, Public Health Science), "High-Intensity Acute Cycling Exercise Performed during Consolidation"