Brown Bag Sessions
Ongoing COA educational "brown bag" seminar series are offered. Below are a list of current as well as past events.
For more information on future brown bag programs, please call Sharon Purcell at the Center on Aging, at 305-355-9080 or email spurcell@med.miami.edu.
Brown Bag Presenters - 2010
Dr. Lydia Burdick
Topic: Two-Lap Books
Date Presented: Monday, February 15, 2010, 12 noon-1 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Brown Bag Presenters - 2009
Prof. Ron Baecker
Knowledge Media Design Institute and Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Topic: Designing and Understanding Electronic Cognitive Prostheses
Date Presented: Monday, February 9, 2009, 1-2 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Associate Professor Armando Barreto
Electrical & Computer Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
Director, DSP Laboratory
Florida International University
Topic: Role of Digital Signal and Image Processing Techniques in the Facilitation of Human-Computer Interaction
Date Presented: Monday, March 30, 2009, 12-1 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Forest Labs Fellowship Award
Alicia Pickrell
Neuroscience Program
Topic: "A Novel Mouse Model to Study the Role of mtDNA deletions in Mammalian Aging"
Mentor: Dr. Carlos T. Moraes
Jessica Taha
Center on Aging/ Dept. of Engineering
Topic: "The Impact of Internet Health Information on Physician-Patient Relationships"
Mentor: Mentor: Sara J. Czaja, Ph.D.
Lana Jones
Neurological Surgery
Topic: "Aging and General Anesthesia – cognitive deficits and changes in MAPK proteins as a result of isolfurane treatment in aged rats"
Mentor: Dr. Helen Bramlett
Garima Thakur
Chemistry
Topic: "The Mechanism of Aggregation of AB proteins using the lipid raft Langmuir monolayer as a model system"
Mentor: Mentor: Dr. Roger LeBlanc
Date Presented: Monday, May 18, 2009, 12:30-1:45 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Dan Morrow, M.D.
Professor
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
Human Factors Division
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Topic: Patient cognition and knowledge interact to influence health literacy
Date Presented: Monday, November 9, 2009, 12 noon -1 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Brown Bag Presenters - 2008
Rose Maria van Zuilen, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Longitudinal Theme in Geriatrics, Palliative Care and Pain Management
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Topic: "Tests Administration"
Date Presented: Monday, January 28, 2008, 2 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Brown Bag Presenters - 2007
Maria Llorente, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Chief of Psychiatry at Veterans Hospital
Topic: "The Use of Technology to Improve Outcomes in Depression and Diabetes"
Date Presented: Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12-1 PM
Location: Mental Health Hospital Center, Center on Aging Conference Room 3208A, 3rd floor
Brown Bag Presenters - 2006
Robert Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Sociology
University of Miami
Topic: "Physical and Emotional Health Effects on Self-Attributions of Disability"
Date Presented: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Vicki L. Hanson, PhD
Manager, Accessibility Research
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY
Topic: Adapting the Web to Meet the Needs of Older Adults
Date Presented: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Forest Graduates Fellowship Award
Tamer El-Attar
Industrial Engineering
Title: The Use of Internet Health Information by Older Adults
Mentor: Sara J. Czaja, PhD
Kristen Laengle
Psychopharmacology
Title: Prevalence and Risk Factors for the Frailty Syndrome in Miami Veterans
Mentor: Bruce R. Troen, M.D.
Luminita Luca
Physiology & Biophysics
Title: The Effect of Stress on Neuronal Progenitor Cells in Aging Brain
Mentor: John N. Barrett, PhD
Lara Traeger
Psychology
Title: Inflammatory Processes Among Older Men Recently Treated for Prostate Cancer
Mentor: Frank J. Penedo, PhD
Date Presented: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Dr. Laura N. Gitlin
Director
Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health
Jefferson College of Health Professions, Philadephia
Topic: "From Randomized Controlled Trials to Real-Life: Models for Moving Caregiver Intervention Research to Community and Home"
Date Presented: Monday, October 30, 2006
Gill Potter, Ed King, John Hanna
Humana representatives
Topic: "Overview Humana Medicare Population"
Date Presented: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
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Brown Bag Presenters - 2005
David R. Kaufman, PhD
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Topic: "Understanding Barriers in Patient-Centered Health Information Technologies"
Date Presented: Thursday, January 6, 2005
Carl Schulman, M.D., MSPH
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
University of Miami
Topic: "Elderly Pedestrian Injuries"
Date Presented: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Dr. Joseph Sharit
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and
Mario Hernandez
Graduate Research Assistant, Center on Aging
Topic: A Study of Internet-Based Health Information Seeking by Older and Younger Adults
Date Presented: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Christine L. Williams, RN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Topic: Exercise and Depression in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease
Date Presented: Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Carl Schulman, M.D., MSPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
Topic: Elderly Pedestrian Injuries
Date Presented: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Dr. Herman Cheung
Professor of Medicine, Orthopaedic, and Rehabilitation
Senior VA Research Career Scientist
Miami, VA Medical Center
Topic: Stem Cell-based Tissue Engineering
Introduction: The topic focuses on the use of human and animal adult stem cells in cartilage tissue engineering for cartilage repair in Osteoarthritis and the effect of mechanical force on stem cell differentiation as well as the effect of age of donors and recipient.
Date Presented: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Brown Bag Presenters - 2004
Frank J. Penedo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and UM/Sylvester
Topic: "Cognitive Behavioral Stress MAnagement in Prostate Cancer"
Date Presented: Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Wallace J. Sadowski, Ph.D.
IBM Pervasive Computing Division
Boca Raton, Florida
Topic: "Evaluating the Intelligibility and Naturalness of Shadowed Speech and Exploring Verbal Shadowing as an Effective Method of Enrolling in a Speech Recognition System"
Date Presented: Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Kathyrn Roach, M.P.H.
Research Compliance Officer
Office of Research
University of Miami
Topic: "Current Issues in Compliance"
Date Presented: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Bonnie Blomberg, Ph.D.
Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Miami
Topic: "Immune System in Aging"
Date Presented: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Theresa E. Chin Loy
Travel Management Department
University of Miami, Coral Gables
Topic: “E-Cane Travel”
Date Presented: Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Brown Bag Luncheon Presenters - 2003
Dr. John R. Bethea
Associate Professor
Basic Science REsearch Laboratories
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Topic: " A Dominandt Negative Transgenic Approach to Study the Role of NF-KB in Learning and Memory"
Date Presented: Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Dr. Mahendra Kumar
Professor and Chief
Department od Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Molecular Neuroendocrinology
Topic: "Stress and Neuendocrinology"
Date Presented: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Rose Van Zuilen, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Geraitric Medicine
Topic: "A Blended LEarining Approach to Teaching Medical Students BAlance and Gait Assessment in the Elderly"
Date Presented: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
