Public Health Grand Rounds
Through this series, UR faculty, staff, students and community partners can hear about community-based initiatives to reduce health inequities, improve access to care and tackle some of our toughest health challenges. Public Health Grand Rounds (PHGR) are a collaborative effort between the Center for Community Health & Prevention and the Department of Public Health Sciences, and are intended to highlight the link between research, clinical medicine and community health improvement.
We look forward to providing Public Health Grand Rounds both virtually and in person on Fridays, from noon – 1 p.m. Details will be provided for each event in the box below.
Join us for lively discussions with some of Rochester’s community health champions, both URMC faculty and staff, as well as expert community leaders. Recordings for most sessions can be found below.
You can earn continuing education credits at PHGR! Information about continuing education credits can be found below.
This seminar series is funded in part by the University of Rochester Clinical & Translational Science Institute via grant UL1 TR002001 from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additional financial support is provided by gifts to the Department of Public Health Sciences and an endowment to the Center for Community Health & Prevention by Brewster C. Doust, M.D. All support is greatly appreciated.
The fall Public Health Grand Rounds season has finished. Please find recordings of the sessions below. We look forward to sharing our spring schedule in the new year!
Fall 2024 Public Health Grand Rounds
We look forward to providing some of these events in a hybrid format. The format of each event and how to register will be shared with other event details in the box above.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/20/24 | Marielena Vélez de Brown, MD, MPH, acting commissioner of public health, Monroe County Department of Public Health | Public Health and Cross Sector Collaboration: Continued Progress Towards Whole Health |
| 10/11/24 |
| Lifespan of Greater Rochester |
| 10/25/24 |
| Patient-Centered Care for Trans and Gender Diverse Individuals |
| 11/1/24 *RESCHEDULED for Spring 2025* | Health Equity & Anti-Racism Technology Program | Health Equity through Clinical Informatics |
| 11/15/24 | Jennie Noll, PhD, executive director, Mt. Hope Family Center | |
| 11/19/24 | Special Public Health Grand Rounds: Guyer Lecture Dorcey L. Applyrs, DrPH, MPH | |
| 12/6/24 |
| Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A New Gun Violence Prevention Tool for Healthcare. |
*Captions for each linked presentation can be turned on during viewing by clicking ‘Captions’ in the top left corner of the screen.
ACCREDITATION - The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CERTIFICATIONS
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Rochester Center for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This offering provides 1.0 nursing contact hours. An evaluation must be completed within 30 days and attendance is required for at least 90% of the activity.
University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for Experiential Learning is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0005. This activity is approved for 1.0 Social Work continuing education hour(s). Attendance at the entire program is required (no partial credit can be awarded).
University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Psychiatry is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0117. This course has been approved for 1.0 contact hours. Attendance at the entire program is required (no partial credit can be awarded).
University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for Experiential Learning is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0107.
Strong Memorial Hospital, Strong Recovery is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0250.
Public Health Grand Rounds Archive
Below you can find available videos and slides from past presentations. Closed Captioning as noted (CC).
5/3/24:
- Kelly M Luther, LMSW, senior director of Social Work and Patient & Family Services at URMC
- Peg Bierley, LMSW, associate director of Adult Social Work Services at URMC
- Lisa Lewis, MPA, Chief Program & Operations Officer at Catholic Charities Family and Community Services
- Kathy Curtis-Rubin, RN, senior program director of Clinical Services at DePaul Community Services
Transitional Supportive Housing and Community Partnerships
4/19/24: Michelle A. Williams, ScD, Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Bold Steps American Health Care Systems Must Take to Ensure an Equitable and Healthier Future
4/5/24: Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA, Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice; Senior Vice President, Health Justice and Equity at New York-Presbyterian; Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC; Advancing Health Justice Through Data: Dalio Center for Health Justice
3/1/24:
- Marlene Blocker, Superintendent, EAST High School
- Jodi Cook, Teacher and Medical Sciences Pathway Lead, EAST High School
- Maria A. Marconi, EdD, RN, NursEast Pipeline to Pathways Nursing Program
- Emily Murphy, Lab Manager, NeuroEAST Program
- Ashwani Sharma, MD, Associate Professor, Imaging Science Program
- Elizabeth Cox, MD, Primary Care Provider, University Health Service
- Annabelle Kleist, PhD, Director, Teen Health & Success Partnership
EAST High School & University of Rochester Collaborations
2/16/24: Mary T. Caserta, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, URMC; A New Era of RSV Prevention
2/2/24:
- Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Neuropalliative Care Division, URMC
- Rev. Kelly Spahr, M.Div., BCC, Chaplain, Neurology Supportive & Palliative Care Service; TAR Chaplain, Strong Memorial Hospital
The Loneliness of the Long-term Caregiver: Exploring Connections for the Disconnected Caregivers of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy-body Dementia Patients
12/1/23: Maureen R. Benjamins, PhD, senior research fellow, Sinai Urban Health Institute, Chicago; Unequal Cities, Structural Racism, and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities. The book is available to purchase.
11/17/23: Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, MACPsych, founder and director, Institute for Trauma Informed Systems Change (ITISC), McLean/Harvard Medical School. assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, affiliate faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and clinical associate professor, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU); Building Trauma Informed Organizations and People: Why Healing Must Be the Way Forward
11/3/23: Naomi Lee, PhD, CPH, assistant professor; director of the Cultural and Academic Research Experience, CARE Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University; The More You Know...About HPV and Cervical Cancer in Native American Communities
10/20/23: Irshad Altheimer, PhD, director, Center for Public Safety Initiatives; professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology; Assessing Gaps in Services for Violence Victims and How We Can Fix Them
9/15/23: Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH, former commissioner Monroe County Public Health Department; Public Health in Monroe County: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future
9/29/23: Martin Shapiro,MD, PhD, MPH, professor, faculty lead, HRSA Health Equity Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine; The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions
Interested in learning more about this topic? The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions by Dr. Shapiro can be purchased here (enter HTWN to receive a 30% discount).
4/21/23: Andrea Garroway, PhD, clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at URMC & Tziporah Rosenberg, PhD, LMFT, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at URMC, the Institute for the Family, and the Division of Collaborative Care within the Department of Psychiatry; Strategies for Effective Partnership and Communication in Healthcare
3/31/23: Holly Russell, MD, founder and director of the Addiction Medicine program at Highland Family Medicine and medical director of Clinical and Community Programs at the Center for Community Health & Prevention; Jade Malcho, MD, senior instructor of Clinical Emergency Medicine - Department of Emergency Medicine (SMD) and assistant director, URMC Opioid Safety Office; Opioid Safety at UR Medicine
3/17/23: Mahala Schlagman, MD, physician, Strong Internal Medicine and assistant professor, Department of Medicine, General Medicine (SMD); Rebecca Russo, supervising attorney Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.; Medical Legal Partnership – A Tool for Community Advocacy
3/3/23: UR School of Medicine and Dentistry Candidates for Distinction in Community Health: Mariah Erlick ’23, Kiersten Flodman ’23, Shane Fuentes ’23, Nilsa Ricci ’23, and Valentina Sedlacek ‘23; Medical Students and Community Engagement: Partnerships for Health
2/17/23: Edith Williams, PhD, founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research, UR CTSI and Theresea Green, PhD, MBA, director of Health Equity Education, UR CTSI; Progress Report: URMC Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan
2/3/23: David Figlio, PhD, University of Rochester provost; How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions
12/9/22: Lisa Harris, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, University of Michigan Medical School; From Politics Towards Care: Talking about Abortion as a Health and Public Health Issue
11/18/22: Garen Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H., Susan P. Baker-Stephen P. Teret chair in Violence Prevention at UC Davis, director, Violence Prevention Research Program; Public Health Grand Rounds & 11th annual Bernard Guyer Lecture on gun violence and prevention; Additional Q&A Report
11/4/22: URMC Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan - Panel; URMC Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan; Additional Q&A Report
10/21/22: Abigail McHugh-Grifa, Ph.D., Executive Director of Climate Solutions Accelerator; Climate Impacts and Solutions for the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region
10/7/22: Stefanie Hollenbach, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, URMC; Modern Echoes of Historic Institutionalized Racism: Associations Between Previously “Redlined” Districts and Current Obstetric Outcomes
9/16/22: Michael Mendoza, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner of Public Health, Monroe County Health Department and Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences and Nursing, URMC; Public Health in Monroe County: Past, Present and Future
4/22/22:
- Jessica Watington, Chief of Children’s Priority Services, Monroe County Office of Mental Health
- Meghan Jenner, LCSW, Community Mental Health Services Manager, Monroe County Office of Mental Health
- Jason Teller, BA, CASAC, Manager of Addiction & Prevention Services, Monroe County Office of Mental Health
Changing Times: Behavioral Health In Monroe County
4/1/22: Michael Waller, PhD, director of Sustainability, Rochester Regional Health; Sustainability in Healthcare
3/18/22: Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine; Black Women and Maternal Health Disparities: Addressing the Role of Racism
3/4/22: Heather Reyes, MD, URMC; Social and Emotional Learning Tool via Moxie the Robot
2/18/22:
- Wendy Parisi, MS, director, Health Equity Program Support Office at URMC
- Amy Woods, MPH, project manager, Health Equity Program Support Office
- Mitch Gruber, PhD, Foodlink's chief strategy officer and City coordinator
- Laura Ballou, MSW, assistant dean, Student Life operations and director at The Campus Center, UR
- Eugene Vogler, food pantry and reservation coordinator, UR
A Tale of Two Pantries: Partnering with the Community to Address Local Food Insecurity
2/4/22: Daniel G Petereit, MD, radiation oncologist and principal investigator Walking Forward, Cancer Care Institute at Monument Health in Rapid City, South Dakota; Walking Forward: Collaborating at the Community Level to Advance Cancer Control in the Northern Plains American Indians
1/20/22: Jonathan Jackson, PhD, executive director of the Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Special Session Supplement: "Towards a Quantifiable Science of Research Equity"
1/7/22: Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, associate professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Rheumatology; department of Medicine/Center for Health Disparities, Medical University of South Carolina; Special Session Supplement: "Joy in the Journey: Triumphs in lessons learned along the way"
12/3/21: Michael D. Mendoza, MD, MPH, Commissioner of Public Health for Monroe County, NY and Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Nursing, URMC, Making the Most of a Global Pandemic
12/2/21: Dean S. Seneca, MPH, MCURP, (Seneca, Beaver Clan) CEO and Founder, Seneca Scientific Solutions+ and Rohsennase Dalton LaBarge (Kanienkehaka, Bear Clan) URSMD '23, Historical Trauma and the Health Disparities that Perpetuate in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities
11/19/21: Jeff Wyatt, DVM, MPH, DACLAM, Professor & Chair, Comparative Medicine, URMC, One Health Initiative in Borneo: Transforming Community Health & Saving Endangered Orangutans
11/5/21: Jane Hoppin, ScD, Deputy Director, Center for Human Health and the Environment; Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; University Faculty Scholar, NC State, Responding to Community Concerns about Chemical Exposure: The GenX Exposure Study
10/15/21: Abigail Zuger, MD, Infectious Disease Expert and Retired Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Special Public Health Grand Rounds - 10th annual Bernard Guyer Lecture - Public Health at the Bathroom Sink: Home Testing for Contagious Disease
10/1/21: Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health, "The Color of Health: The Devastating Toll of Racism on Black Lives" webinar, "The Color of Health:The Devastating Toll of Racism on Black Lives" Report
9/17/21: Heather J Busick, MS, MD, Physician; Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, URMC, The HEART of the Matter: Leveraging Our Electronic Health Record to Address Health Inequities
4/16/21: Girmay Berhie, PhD, Dean of the College of Health Sciences, Jackson State University, Managing Epidemics with Consumer Wearables
4/2/21: Moderator: Katrina Smith Korfmacher, PhD, Director, Community Engagement Core, Environmental Health Sciences Center; Professor of Environmental Medicine, URMC
Speaker: Elijah de la Campa, PhD, Senior Research Associate in Economics and Urban Analytics, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Panelists:
- Nadine D. Hylton, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Common Ground Health
- Mark Muoio, Program Director, Housing Unit, Legal Aid Society of Rochester (LASROC)
- John Oster, Senior Community Housing Planner, City of Rochester
- Denise Read, Director of Financial Assistance Services, Monroe County Department of Human Services.
Housing and health in a pandemic: A public health perspective on Rochester’s looming eviction crisis
Reading:
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Landlords: Survey Evidence from Albany and Rochester, New York | Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Housing and Health Resources for the Greater Rochester Community
- Community Resources List - Housing and Eviction
3/19/21: Stephanie Townsend, PhD, Director of Research & Analytics, ROC the Future; Member, Commission on Racial and Structural Equity, Our City. Our County. United for Change.
3/5/21: Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, founder and Director of the Center for Community Health & Prevention and Co-Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Feast and Famine: COVID-19 Vaccine Local Efforts Dr. Bennett Q & A
2/19/21: Amy JH Kind, MD, PhD, Director, Health Services and Care Research Program; Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Aligning Towards Action in Social Determinants of Health Research: The Neighborhood Atlas
2/5/21: Marguerite A. Urban, MD , Medical Director, Center for Community Practice; Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, URMC, Pandemics and Epidemics: Updates on Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2021
12/4/20: Medical students, Medical student community health improvement projects
11/20/20: Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, "Tobacco Use and Vulnerable Populations"
11/6/20: Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD and Irena Pesis-Katz, PhD, "COVID-19 Modeling: Navigating Towards a Moving Target"
10/16/20: Gipsy Escobar, PhD, and Sema Tehari, PhD, MA, "Measures for Justice"
10/2/20: Panelists include:
- Shani Wilson, PA-C - Internal Medicine Board-certified Physician Assistant (NCCPA); Chair of the Rochester Police Accountability Board
- Adrienne Morgan, PhD - Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion SMD; Associate Vice President in the University’s Office of Equity and Inclusion
- Kevin Spencer Beckford – University of Rochester HR Director, Staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Rochester Anti-Racism Action Coalition (RARAC); Councilman Board Member Pittsford-NY Town Board
- Yvette Conyers, DNP, MS, RN, FNP-C, CTN-B - Assistant Professor of Nursing, St. John Fisher College; Founding President, Rochester Black Nurses Association
- Mitch Gruber, PhD - Foodlink's Chief Strategy Officer and City Councilmember
- Jerome H. Underwood - President & CEO Action for a Better Community; Co-Chair RMAPI Steering Committee
"Racism as a Public Health Crisis"
9/18/20: Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH, MS, "COVID-19: It Shouldn't Have to Take a Pandemic to Rediscover Public Health"
3/6/20: Rep. Joseph D. Morelle, U.S. Congressman, Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health, and Laura Gustin, MPH,
"Monroe County Systems Integration Project: Building a multi-sector, person-centered system of service delivery"*
*Rep. Morelle’s likeness is not to be used for monetary gain in any way, now or in the future.
2/21/20: Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH, MS, "Vaping and E-Cigarettes: Fighting the Battle, Losing the War?"
2/7/20: R. Cameron Schauf, Director, University of Rochester Campus Dining Services and Auxiliary Operations, "Local, Sustainable and Delicious"
12/6/19: David Rich, ScD, MPH, Air pollution exposure and effects on fetal growth: From Beijing to Rochester
11/15/19: P. Amina Alio, PhD, Socio-cultural, economic and internal drivers of HIV related stigma among female and male sex workers in Niamey, Niger
11/1/19: Julie A. Baldwin, PhD, “Walking in Beauty:” Addressing Health Concerns of American Indian Communities: Future Directions for Health Equity Research
10/18/19: Leonard Brock, PhD, and Larry Marx, Poverty & Policy: Can't Just Program Our Way Out
10/4/19: Mark A. Levine, MD, The Continuum of Potential Comprehensive Public Health Responses to the Opioid Crisis
9/20/19: Parul D. Rahbari, MPH, and Pamela Bailie, MPH, The Urgency of type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Rochester’s Initiatives to Address it Locally
2/1/19: Mike Mendoza, MD, MPH, The Opioid Crisis in Monroe County: Past, Present and Future
2/15/19: Fahad Saeed, MD, BS, Dialysis Decision-Making for Older Adults
3/1/19: Daniel Maeng, PhD, Impact of Primary and Specialty Care Integration via Asynchronous Communication
4/5/19: Sheryl Zimmerman, MSW, PhD, A Public Health Imperative: Improving Mouth Care in Nursing Homes
4/19/19: Daniel Ford, MD, Dr. Ford's involvement in the initiative to connect their state quit line with their HER for bidirectional referral and progress reporting
9/21/18: Stanley O. Foster, MD, PhD, MPN, OBN, Strengthening Community Ownership of Health and Well-Being
10/12/18: Joyce Duckles and ENGOAL, Project ENGOAL: Engaging Older Adult Learners as Health Researchers
10/19/18: Addisu Mesfin,? Management of Metastatic and Primary Spine Tumors: Do Health Care Disparities Exist?
11/2/18: Adam Simning, MD, PhD, An interdisciplinary approach to understanding and optimizing the SNF to home transition
11/16/18: Monica Sharma, MD, Radical Transformational Leadership - Dr. Sharma has 20 years working at the United Nations and has written a book, "Radical Transformational Leadership
12/7/18: Robert Block, MD, MPH, Geof Williams, MD, PhD, & Katherine Manou, clinical pharmacist, The Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
5/11/18: Dr. Supriya Mohile, Improving Cancer Care Delivery for Older Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers: Updates from GAP/COACH Trials and Next Steps
5/4/18: Jennifer R. Mammen, PhD NP-C, Smartphone-Based Telemedicine for Primary Care of Asthma: Development of a Technology-Enabled Asthma Management System (TEAMS)
4/6/18: Dr. Timothy Dye, Critical Medical Ecological Perspectives on Diabetes in the Pacific Islands: Colonialism, Power, & Balance in Human-Environment Interaction Over Time
2/16/18: Caroline P. Thirukumaran, Natural Language Processing for the Identification of Surgical Site Infections
2/2/18: Mitch Gruber, PhD, Chief Programs Officer, Foodlink, The history of healthy food retail/access in Rochester
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