PHHP Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
The College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series brings some of the nation’s top health professions and public health researchers to the University of Florida campus. Lectures are free and open to the public. Check back frequently for more details on the lectures as information becomes available.
Past Lectures
April 5, 2013
Kathleen F. Gensheimer, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Medical Officer, Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, FDA
“FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network: A Multidisciplinary/One Health Approach to Foodborne Outbreak Investigations”
Dr. Gensheimer joined the FDA in 2011 in a new senior position with the Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine–Chief Medical Officer/Director of CORE. She has overall responsibility for leadership, policy development, decision making, strategic planning, and day-to-day operations for food-related outbreaks and food incidents affecting the public health of the nation and under the purview of the FDA.
Hosted by PHHP’s Department of Environmental and Global Health
January 28, 2013
Norman Sartorius, M.D., D.P.M., Ph.D., FRCPsych
Former Director, World Health Organization Division of Mental Health
Former President, World Psychiatric Association
“Public health efforts to fight the stigma of mental disorders”
Dr. Sartorius joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1967 and soon assumed charge of the programs of epidemiology and social psychiatry. He was also principal investigator of several major international studies on schizophrenia, depression and health service delivery. In 1977, he was appointed Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO, a position which he held until mid-1993. In June 1993 he was elected President of the World Psychiatric Association. READ MORE
Hosted by the UF Department of Epidemiology
December 5, 2012
Myron Cohen, M.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health; J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology; Public Health Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases; Director, Center for Infectious Diseases
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Transmission and prevention of transmission of HIV: Where do we go from here?”
Dr. Cohen’s work focuses on the prevention of transmission of HIV, with emphasis on the role played by STD co-infections. He has conducted landmark studies related to the biology of HIV transmission, and use of antiretroviral agents for prevention. In 2005, Dr. Cohen received an NIH MERIT Award for ongoing support of this work. READ MORE
Hosted by the Rural South Public Health Training Center
May 16, 2012
Murray Grossman, M.D., Ed.D.
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; Member, Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences
“What does semantic dementia tell us about semantic memory?”
The focus of Dr. Grossman’s research is the neural basis for language and cognition. He pursues comparative studies in patients with a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, and obtains converging evidence using fMRI studies in healthy adults. He relates these observations to biofluid biomarkers and biochemical brain analytes obtained at autopsy in neurodegenerative patients. READ MORE
Hosted by the PHHP Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
March 21, 2012
Adewale Troutman, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Public Health Practice and Leadership
University of South Florida
“Creating Health Equity: More Than an Apple a Day and a Walk in the Park”
Adewale Troutman identifies himself through his commitment to social justice, human rights, community activism, health equity and national and global health. His life’s work has been a testimony to this fact. Dr. Troutman has over 40 years of dedication through action to the principles of universal freedoms and the elimination of racism, injustice and oppression. READ MORE
Hosted by the PHHP Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health
January 25, 2012
Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Member, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
“Eliminating Health Care Disparities for Persons with Disabilities”
Dr. Iezzoni has spent more than two decades conducting health services research focusing on three primary areas: risk adjustment methods for predicting cost and clinical outcomes of care; use of administrative data for assessing health care quality; and health care experiences and outcomes of persons with disabilities. READ MORE
Hosted by the PHHP Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy
September 14, 2011
Dan Shapiro, Ph.D.
Arnold P. Gold Foundation Professor of Medical Humanism; Chair, Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine
“What Patients Aren’t Telling Us Because We’re Listening in the Wrong Places: Patients as Teachers, Health Trainees as Filmmakers, and the Video Slam”
Hosted by the PHHP Department of Clinical and Health Psychology