Grand Rounds

Stressors and Strengths of Mississippi Farmers:
What Population Health Professionals Need to Know

• Identify the impact of agriculture on Mississippi’s economy.
• Recognize the risks and health outcomes associated with agricultural producers.
• Identify opportunities for intervention on risks of poor outcomes for agricultural producers.

Applying Precision/Predictive Medicine Concepts to Cancer Prevention: An Evolving Discipline

presented by

Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD

• Identify that Precision Medicine / Predictive Medicine is more than Genomic Medicine alone
  • Data Sciences, Electronic Health Records, Telemedicine, and Social Sciences can all contribute to Precision Medicine / Predictive Medicine
• Explain Precision Medicine / Predictive Medicine Concepts that can and should be applied to the prevention of cancer.
• Describe examples from specific disease site data to prove the above two points

The Data Void for Rural Public Health Practice -
Making data accessible to address inequities

• Identify key activities necessary for making data more accessible to and of use among rural public health practitioners.
• Describe how public health practice partners can and should be engaged in the design and development of what is needed to make data accessible.
• Describe at least 2 ways local (i.e., county or sub-county) data can be made available to address health inequities and support related decision-making.

Place and Health at CDC/ATSDR:
Understanding the Application of Geospatial Science in Public Health through the Social Vulnerability Index and the Geospatial Determinants of Health Framework

• Recognize successes and challenges in health inequities research.
• Identify priorities and opportunities for future research on health inequities.

Research on health inequities:
successes, challenges, and ideas for the future 

presented by

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH

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• Recognize successes and challenges in health inequities research
• Identify priorities and opportunities for future research on health inequities

Person-centered research: Detection of traumatic stress and resilience

• Explain person-centered research
• Express the role of the communimetric theory of measurement in person-centered research
• Identify the detection of traumatic stress and the role of strengths in reducing the impact of traumatic life events

Gap between evidence and practice: Why and what to do?

• Identify the clinical trials evidence for management recommendation for heart failure
• Review the current population-based treatment patients for heart failure in clinical practice
• Discuss the possible causes and solution for the current heart failure treatment trends

What’s the Big Idea with Mississippi INBRE?
Building Research Capacity and Engaging Diverse Communities in Mississippi

• Identify research opportunities within the Mississippi INBRE network.
• Describe the project aims of the Mississippi INBRE Community Engagement and Training Core
• Name the various projects and activities supported by the Mississippi INBRE Community Engagement and Training Core.

Population Health Management of Employed Populations

• Identify quantify costs of disability and modifiable disability risk factors in the US
• Review cost-benefit studies of health promotion measures in employed populations
• Discuss the NIOSH Total Worker Health Program approach to population health
  in employed populations

The Impact of Climate Change on Zoonoses:
Here, Now, Tomorrow? Mississippi as a representative microcosm

Monday
September 27, 2021

• Measure the complexity of the life cycle of many disease organisms and how climate limits or facilitates vector(s), reservoir host(s), and the disease organism itself.
• Recognize diseases previously limited to tropical areas are extending their previously known range; those thought to be vanquished decades ago are reappearing
• Identify the role of surveillance for (re)emergent autochthonous diseases including anthrax, chagas disease, leprosy, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, paragonimiasis, and fungi and their toxins.

One Health Applications to UMMC and Mississippi

• Discuss the concepts of a One Health approach
• Formulate conversations with a broad audience of stakeholders
• Identify collaborative opportunities in One Health for UMMC

Who benefits from increasing human longevity in the United States?:
Cancer Mortality

• Examine familiarity with place-based analysis of public health data over time
• Compare cross-sectional data to temporal data
• Explain the complexities and dynamics of improvements in longevity in the U.S.

Building Capacity in Health Disparities Research

presented by

Mona Fouad, MD, MPH

• Discuss the main principals of community-based research
• Describe the role of social determinants of health on Health Disparities
• Discuss the barriers and facilitators of enhancing minorities participation
  in clinical trials

Health Policy in Mississippi

presented by

Mitchell Adcock

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• Cite what is health policy
• Measure the impact health policy has on the health of Mississippians
• Analyze your role in monitoring, developing and implementing health policy for all individuals involved in providing health care to Mississippians

Role of Remote Patient Monitoring in Population Health

• Report understandings of the basics of the rpm program
• Explain different types of rpm programs and data supporting them
• Identify the impact of rpm program on healthcare spending

Reaching for the Top: Public Health Recommendations to the Canadian Government

presented by

Kellie Leitch, MD

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• To cite an organized approach to public stakeholder relations
• To explain transition of ideas to public policy implementation
• To review elected stakeholders and the public service to accomplish a public policy

Public Health Impact of COVID-19

presented by

Thomas E. Dobbs, MD, MPH

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• Understand the epidemiology of COVID-19 in MS
• Understand the critical role of science and evidence-based decision making in responding to a pandemic
• Understand the public health successes and failures in the COVID response

An Introduction to Systematic Literature Searching

• To recognize the six steps of a systematic literature search
• To apply steps to develop components of a search string
• To construct an authoritative and unique search string
• To identify strategies to improve search results

Policy Implementation for Built Environment Interventions in Rural Mississippi:
A Discussion of Complete Streets

• Define Complete Sets
• Identify Relevant Community Approaches and Multi-Sectorial Collaboration Processes
• Discuss State and Local Policy Impacts on Local Built Environment Intervention

Grantsmanship: Artistry with Science

presented by

Michael Stefanek, Ph.D.

• Enhance knowledge of key components of writing a grant submission with an increased chance for funding
• Measure knowledge of key information needed in each required section of an NIH grant
• Increase knowledge of what grant reviewers respond to positively in a grant submission

At the Intersection of Population Health & Criminology:
A New Interdisciplinary Science

Recording

• To recognize a better understanding of modern crime science
• To describe the intersection of criminological, health, and genomic sciences
• To examine future directions for population health science as it relates to psychopathology and antisocial behaviors
• To illustrate new and exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research and grant writing

Healthy Aging Is Everybody's Business!!!

Recording

• Discuss the CDC population projections to reveal embedded populations.
• Apply strategies for modifying existing models of care rather than reinventing the wheel.
• Integrate use of geron-technology to produce more optimal and sustainable aging outcomes.
• Discuss ways to address challenges and opportunities that the multigenerational
  workforce provides within their discipline.

The Promise and Perils of Biosurveillance Strategies to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Sensitization and Immunity in Mississippi Citizens

• Describe the process of biosurveillance for prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody positivity in the UMMC employee population as a measure of community prevalence
• Discuss the results of our studies to date in the context of how to interpret such results for applications to population health.

UMMC Biobank and its Research Projects

presented by

Gouri J. Mahajan, Ph.D., MBBS

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Monday
July 27, 2020

Recording

• Distinguish the roles and responsibilities of principal investigators, administrators, and the UMMC Biobank
• Distinguish the types of samples available, timelines for acquisition and additional services and fees
• Demonstrate how to submit a request for samples
• Identify the benefits of using the UMMC Biobank for population health studies

Application of Telehealth in Improving Population Health

presented by
          
Akeem Adebayo, MD, MBA, MPH, and Julio Cespedes, Jr., MS

Monday
June 29, 2020

• Introduction to population health and telehealth application
• Describe UMMC’s designation as a center for excellence for telehealth in the nation
• Describe different telehealth application
• Describe the current and future plans for the telehealth in improving population health

Pop-Up Grand Rounds: SOPH Talks COVID-19

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Thursday
May 21, 2020

• Public Safety Support Division, COVID-19 (Ogirala)
• Assessing Differential Impacts of COVID-19 on Black Communities (Mena)
• Community-Driven Risk Communication for Vulnerable Populations (Compretta, Gamble, Washington)

The Dilemma of Management of Hypertension in Young Adults and Older Adults

Monday
February 24, 2020

• Review existing “evidence” outside of randomized trials that support consideration of the use of medication to lower blood pressure in adults with stage 1 hypertension and 10-year risk below 10% uncontrolled after 6 months of intensive lifestyle therapy.
• Recommend management of adults in the same way pediatric guidelines recommend the management of adolescents.

Parasites and Poverty

presented by

Charlotte V. Hobbs, MD

• Describe the risks factors associated with parasitic diseases of poverty
• Discuss the history of these diseases in Mississippi
• Cite current projects to identify and source remediate these diseases

"Sex and the City: Urbanization, the Built Environment and the Sexual Geography of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"

Paul Burns, PhD, MA

Sept. 28, 2017

• Define the concept of the built environment;
• Describe key social determinants associated with HIV vulnerability;
• Describe how the built environment or physical characteristics of poorer neighborhoods influence population health and contribute to increased HIV risk vulnerability; and
• Implement evidence-based HIV prevention, care and treatment interventions and programs that use a social determinants of health framework to improve the HIV health-related outcomes of most at-risk populations.

Obesity and Dementia: A Paradoxical Association?

Presentation

• Accumulating evidence suggests that a high body mass index, measured in late life, may be associated with lower risk of dementia.
  • Could a higher BMI in older ages reflect a protective physiologic effect?
  • Is there enough evidence to justify revision of the public health dangers of being overweight for individuals at older ages?