Announcements UPCOMING TALKS PUBLICATIONS

February 6 2015
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Announcements
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Upcoming Talks
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Publications
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Presentations
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Clinic & Services
Announcements
The next CICATS OSH CIG Trends in Occupational Health meeting will be held on Wednesday,
February 25th from 12-1:30pm. This month’s topic will be work-life balance. Please email
Jennifer Garza (garza@uchc.edu) or Mazen El Ghaziri (elghaziri@uchc.edu) for more
information.
UPCOMING TALKS
Our next invited guest speaker for our Colloquium series is: Jack Ross, MD.
Dr. Ross graduated from Yale College and Tufts University School of Medicine. He
completed his Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease training at Hartford Hospital, and
served with the United States Public Health Service. Currently, he is the Director of
Infectious Diseases, HIV, and Epidemiology programs at Hartford Hospital, and the Director
of Infection Control for Hartford Healthcare Corporation. He is an Associate Professor of
Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. His career has been
devoted to serving underserved populations, medical education, and infection control.
He will be presenting a seminar on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 12:00pm-1:00pm;
Title of Talk: “ID Issues in Occupational Health: You are safer than you think”.
Location will be at The Exchange, Disabilities Library, 1st floor, Suite 173.
Lunch is provided, sponsored by CICATS and the Occupational Health and Safety Core
Interest Group; to RSVP please email Miriam at muniz@uchc.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Barry, L., Trestman, R.L., Wakefield, D., Conwell, Y. “Disability in Prison Activities of Daily
Living and Suicidal Ideation in Older Inmates”. Presentation at the American Association for
Geriatric Psychiatry, 2015 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LI, March 29, 2015.
Trestman, R.L. “The Ethics of Constrained Choice: Improved Health during
Incarceration”. Presentation, Research Program Global Health & Human Rights, UConn
Storrs Campus, April 1, 2015.
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PRESENTATIONS
Michael Erdil M.D., FACOEM will be in San Francisco CA, and will present “Integrated Benefits Institute
Forum: Low Back Pain: A Major Employer Uses Guidelines to Manage Quality, Cost & Outcomes”,
San Francisco, CA. Mar 18, 2015.
Mazen El Ghaziri, PhD, MPH, BSN, RN presented and participated in a full-day conference entitled "Shatter
the Silence", organized by ConnectiCOSH and the Connecticut AFL -CIO and focused on how to prevent assault
and violence on the job, Meriden, Ct., January 22, 2015.
Recent Sturbridge presentations from the UConn - UMass Lowell Semi-Annual “Sturbridge Symposium”
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015;
“Psychosocial measures in a longitudinal manufacturing cohort” by Janet Barnes-Farrell , Ph.D (UConn)
‘Physical performance measures in a longitudinal manufacturing cohort” by Anne Kenny, M.D. (UCHC)
“Age-related factors of body mass index and body fat percentage among manufacturing workers”
by Jenny Garza, Sc.D (UCHC)
“Creating a summary index for musculoskeletal health” by Gigi Petery,B.S. (UConn)
The Occupational Health Research Writing Group (OHRWG) held a workshop on updating to the new NIH
Biosketch format on Wednesday January 21st 2015.
CLINIC & SERVICES
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