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Nutrition Center scholars, Office of Public Health Practice and other researchers will present studies at APHA
October 30, 2013
(Editor's Note: Below is a list of presentations to held at APHA by Arnold School faculty and students. These are highlighted in response to a call for presentations earlier in October. If we have missed your presentation, we will highlight it upon our return from APHA. Please send any additional items to kpetit@mailbox.sc.edu.)
Research from the Arnold School of Public Health will have a significant presence at the 141st American Public Health Association meeting Nov. 2 – 6 in Boston.
Affiliated scholars with the Center for Nutrition in Research and Health Disparities will have a number of presentations about their research. Their presentations will include studies on food insecurity, physical activity and health, childhood obesity prevention, the use of Photovoice for community engagement, cancer and other topics affecting the health of children, adults, families and communities.
Visit http://nutritioncenter.sph.sc.edu/doc/APHA2013_Center_Affiliated_Scholars.pdf to access a complete list of the center's affiliated scholars' presentations, which has been developed by the center's faculty and staff.
The Office of Public Health Practice will have two posters and a presentation:
- Poster, More than a webinar: How S.C. public health training center is using a competency-based learning management system to support practitioners' professional development, Lydia Frass, with Lillian Smith, Brie Turner-McGrievy, Xavery Hopkins and Greg Hand.
- Poster, Strengthening the public health workforce by supporting a learning culture value system, Xavery Hopkins, with Lydia Frass, Lillian Smith, Greg Hand and LouAnne Ellison.
- Presentation, Capacity building in South Carolina: The importance and power of partnerships in designing a community engagement toolkit, Tremaine Paul, with Shaena Rouse, Barbara Grice and Lillian Smith.
Sudha Xirasagar and researchers working with her will have:
- Podium Session, Assessment of an innovative colonoscopy protocol using a 2-person technique and propofol sedation in ensuring high quality screening colonoscopies by trained primary care physicians, Wendy Li, with Sudha Xirasagar, Zaina Qureshi, T.G. Hurley, James W. Hardin, JiaJia Zhang, Michael Wirth.
- Podium Session, Primary care physician (PCP)-performed colonoscopy screening: Does PCP procedure experience affect performance quality?, Sudha Xirasagar, with Wendy Li, T.G. Hurley, James W. Hardin, Mena Tsai, James Hébert.
- Podium Session, Colorectal cancer prevention efficacy of primary care physician-performed vs. specialist-performed colonoscopies at one endoscopy center, Sudha Xirasagar, with Wendy Li, T.G. Hurley, James W. Hardin, D.M. Hurley, James Hébert and P.C. de Groen.
- Podium presentation, Colonoscopy screening among Americans with a family history of colorectal cancer, Mina Tsai, with Sudha Xirasagar, Wendy Li and Zaina Qureshi.
Lucy Annang
Two posters and two presentations will highlight the research of the R.I.S.E. Project (Restoration in Graniteville through Supportive Engagement) for which Dr. Annang is a co-principal investigator.
- Presentation, Long-term impact of a disaster on a rural, underserved, community's health;
- Presentation, Perspectives on emergency response from healthcare providers and community residents: Local disaster with global implications. (Dr. Sacoby Wilson, co-principal investigator from the University of Maryland, will conduct the oral presentations.)
- Poster, Long-term impacts of a disaster on overall community health: The healthcare provider perspective;
- Poster, Mental health concerns in a rural community post-disaster. (Chiwoneso Tinago, a Ph.D. student in HPEB and graduate student research team member, will present the posters.)
Among the other research being highlighted at APHA from the Arnold School:
Grishma Bhavasr
Poster, Rural-urban differences in receipt of home health care services among Medicare beneficiaries with cerebrovascular disease.
Junxiu Liu
Poster, Association of Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality. (Dr. Liu is receiving an award from Delta Omega for her poster.)
Justin Moore
Poster, Objectively measured physical activity levels of rural, suburban, and urban youth, with Michael Beets, S.F. Morris, M.B. Kolbe. (Dr. Moore is receiving an award for the best abstract in physical activity.)
Joni D. Nelson
Oral Presentation, Characteristics of successful partnerships to promote physical activity among youth, with Christine Blake, Justin B. Moore, M.B. Kolbe and S.F. Morris. (Nelson is a finalist for the Student Presentation award given by the Physical Activity Section of the American Public Health Association.)
Patricia Sharpe
Poster, Use and perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for arthritis, with Sara Wilcox, Andrew Ortaglia and Brent Hutto.
Stacy Smallwood
Poster, Different dimensions: Internalized homonegativity and condom use among African-American men who have sex with men, with Mindy Spencer, Lucy Annang.
Myriam Torres
Poster, Routine HIV Testing among Pregnant Latinas in Rural South Carolina, 2012, with Edena G. Meetze, Kenneth L. Dominguez, Madeline Y. Sutton.
Edith Williams
Oral Presentation, Stress intervention and disease in African American lupus patients;
Poster, Predictors of non-response and non-compliance in African American lupus patients: Findings from the balancing lupus experiences with stress strategies (BLESS) study.
