Dr. Briana Mezuk and Dr. Jeannie Concha held a two-day workshop on “How to obtain data to inform policy and practice” for the VCU Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. Doctoral student Natalie Bareis also participated as a research assistant. The workshop addressed survey methodology, qualitative data collection, community mapping, and creating factsheets to communicate to policy makers. More information about the VCU Humphrey Fellow Program is available here.

Dr. Briana Mezuk will be presenting as part of a panel at the Institute of Medicine conference, “Training in Interdisciplinary Population Health Science: A Vision for the Future,” June 1-2, 2015. She will be speaking on how her training experiences (undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate) prepared her to successfully engage in transdisciplinary population health research. The meeting is free and open to the public. Register here. 

GREMAP member, Lauren Gray, co-authored an opinion article in the Richmond Times Dispatch. The article, which posted on Saturday, July 19, focuses on the work of Gray and other VCU students at CrossOver Healthcare Ministry, a Richmond-based health clinic that delivers medical care to low-income and ininsured individuals. The students worked with VCU faculty and CrossOver health care providers to offer one-on-one bilingual diabetes education, psychological support, and case-management for Latinos with diabetes. Click here for the full article. 

Congratulations to Monique Brown, MPH, PhD on her December 2014 graduation from the VCU PhD in Epidemiology Program! Dr. Brown has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of South Florida. 

Doctoral student Natalie Bareis will present her research “Psychiatric polypharmacy and implications for obesity” at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders 2015 Annual Conference. The conference will take place June 3-6 in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Briana Mezuk is a co-author on the abstract. Additional conference details can be found here. 

Doctoral student Trisha Sando will present her research “Diabetic foot ulcer screening: Who are we missing?” at the 2015 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care on May 1 in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Steve Cohen is a co-author on the abstract. Additional conference details can be found here. 

GREMAP members Dr. Briana Mezuk and Natalie Bareis presented at the 2015 meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in New Orleans, LA. The conference took place March 27-30.

Dr. Mezuk chaired a panel on “Bridging Epidemiologic Concepts with Clinical Care” with Dr. Constantine Lyketsos and Dr. Adam Spira at Johns Hopkins University.

Natalie presented her paper “Relationship between childhood poverty and military service on late-life depression among men: A life course perspective” which used data from the Health and Retirement Study.

Finally, GREMAP alumnus Dr. Matt Lohman presented a poster on the impact of a depression care management intervention on rehospitalizations among home healthcare patients. Dr. Lohman is now at Cornell University doing a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Marty Bruce. The conference schedule can be found here.  

Doctoral student Kristen Kelly presented her poster titled “Factors associated with remission in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder” at the 2015 American Psychopathological Association Annual Meeting. The meeting was held March 5-7, in New York, NY. Dr. Briana Mezuk is co-authored on the abstract. Further conference details can be found here.