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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar Series

“Effect of Chronic Illness Complexity on Receipt of Evidence-Based Depression Care”

The rate of guideline concordance with antidepressant treatment among veterans with new episodes of depression is low. The problem may be even more pronounced for depression patients with coexisting, multiple chronic conditions (MCC). In this seminar we will examine, for persons with new episodes of depression, the effect of various groups of chronic diseases (clusters of MCC) on the likelihood of receipt of evidence-based depression treatment.

Presented by:
Neil Jordan, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Healthcare Studies, and Preventive Medicine
Director, Mental Health Services & Policy Program
Director, Health Economics Program
Director, Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program

Friday, October 10th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
Department of Preventive Medicine
680 N. Lake Shore Dr, Ste 1400
Stamler Conference Room

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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar Series

“Blood Pressure in Older Adults - Moving Beyond Age”

"The majority of older persons have high blood pressure, but optimal levels for blood pressure control remain controversial. Older adults are a diverse population, and a mix of those aging successfully, and those with frailty and in poor health. This seminar will present evidence demonstrating the importance of considering measures of health status, beyond age, in the debate on optimal blood pressure in older adults."

Presented by:

Michelle C. Odden, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,
College of Public Health and Human Sciences,
Oregon State University

Friday, October 18, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
Department of Preventive Medicine
680 N. Lake Shore Dr, Ste 1400
Stamler Conference Room

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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar Series

"Biomedical Text Mining: Introduction and Examples”

Text mining involves information extraction, defined as the discovery by computer of new and previously unfound information by automatically extracting information from different written resources. Information extraction primarily constitutes concept extraction (also known as named entity recognition) and relation extraction (also known as association extraction). Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the art of text mining. NLP when dealing with written text operates at level of words, grammar, meaning, context, and document. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the basics of text mining and also go through few examples in biomedical domain.

Presented by:

Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics
Department of Preventive Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Friday, October 24, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
Department of Preventive Medicine
680 N. Lake Shore Dr, Ste 1400
Stamler Conference Room
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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar Series- moved to Wednesday, 10/29 at 3p

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Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar Series

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