2013 URISA GIS in Public Health Conference - Wednesday Program Details

Concurrent Breakout Sessions
8:30 - 10:00 AM

Travel Time

• Role of GIS and Estimating Travel to Hospitals for Infants with Spina Bifida
  Eric Delmelle, PhD, MS, MA, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
  Russell Kirby, Ph.D., MS, FACE, Professor and Marrell Endowed Chair, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  
  
• Comparing Primary Care Service Areas to Estimated Drive Times
  Sean Finnegan, MS, Research and GIS Data Manager, American Academy of Family Physicians, Washington, DC

Disease Ecology

• Risk Factor Analysis for Regional Occurrence of Bovine Tuberculosis in Africa
  Zheng Huang, Master PhD Student, Wageningen University,The Netherlands

• Informing Zoonosis Surveillance with Animal Movement  Ecology: Tracking Elk during the Montana Anthrax Risk Period
  Jason K. Blackburn, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

• A Spatio-Temporal Risk Assessment of Hemorrhagic Disease Exposure in Cattle in Illinois
  Varun Goel, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Mobile GIS

• Mobile Maps in Healthcare Apps
  Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, MPAff Director, Texas Life Science Foundation, Austin, TX

• Health Applications of Geographic Information Science in India: A Review
  Marilyn O'Hara, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  Sharma Arun, MD, DNB, DIH, Professor, University of Delhi, India   
  

Concurrent Breakout Sessions
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Socio-Demography and Health

• Individual/ Neighborhood Correlates of Membership in HIV Prevalent Drug Networks
  Abby Rudolph, PhD., M.P.H., Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD

• Assessment of Individual Spatial Behavior: Results of the RECORD Cohort Study
  Camille Perchoux, MSc, Ph.D. Student, UdeM / CRCHUM, Montreal, Quebec Canada
  Yan Kestens, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, UdeM / CRCHUM, Montreal, Quebec Canada

• Sweet Home Chicago: An Analysis of the Effects of Socio-economic and Population
  Evanielis Grissom, PhD Student, University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, IL

Environmental Exposures

• Radon In Schools
  Stephanie Foster, MPH, MA, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA

• Estimating Potential Exposures to Unhealthy Air Using Spatial Interpolation
  Jeffrey Pearcy, MSc, Statistician, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD

• Biofilms, Microbes, and Beach Water Quality: An Analysis of Florida Counties
  Elizabeth Kelly, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Uses of GIS to Improve Community Health
Learn how the Sarasota Community Studio, a nonprofit organization, uses GIS in community engagement work for health issues.

• Tim Dutton and Allison Pinto, Sarasota Community Studio, Sarasota, FL

Lunch on own

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Poster Session & Exhibits

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Because of the outstanding response to the Call for Poster Presentations this year, we have scheduled this opportunity to continue discussing projects and research with the presenters during the Poster Session.

Click here for a list of poster presenters (opportunities to participate in the poster session are still available. Contact Pat Francis for details.)

Concurrent Breakout Sessions
3:00 - 4:30 PM

Toxic Waste - Environmental Exposure

• Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Monitoring Industrial Wastes for Amman City
  Raina Qutieshat, PhD, Lecturer, Balqa Applied University, Jordan

• Personal Real-time Exposure and Cell-phone Integrated Spatial Environmental Data
  Naresh Kumar, PhD,  Associate Professor, University of Miami, Miami, FL

• GIS-based Assessment of Urban Community Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events
  David Padgett, Ph.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Geography, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
  Nia Foderingham, M.D., M.S.P.H., M.B.A., Preventative Medicine Physician, Concentra Medical Centers, Nashville, TN

Infectious Disease

• Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Bronchiolitis in England and Wales 2004 -2010
  Lynette Akong, Bsc, Msc, Ministry of Planning and Sustainable Development, Trinidad and Tobago

• Decision Trees and GIS Techniques for Modeling Disease Emergence
  Nathaniel Royal, PhD, Post-Doc, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Chronic Disease

• Using Geospatial Mapping to Address the Burden of Diabetes in Durham County, NC
  Nicole Sandberg, MURP, GIS Analyst, Children's Environmental Health Initiative, Ann Arbor, MI

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in India: GIS is The Tool for Epidemiological Studies
  Arun Sharma, MD, Professor, University College of Medical Sciences, India
  Marilyn O'Hara, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

• Small-Area Geographies of Mental Health in England
  Nick Bearman,  Associate Research Fellow in GIS, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom

Conference Social Event/Reception

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