Center Research Accepted For Presentation at 2010 APHA Meeting
Two papers by Center Researchers have been accepted for oral presentation at the American Public Health Association's 2010 annual meeting in Denver in October. Pierre Elias, a Finger Fellow, will present InSpire, a game to motivate children to monitor and manage their asthma, and Kara McArthur will present on the Center's Blue Box system for in-home monitoring of heart failure.
How Would Your Doctor Rank on Angie's List?
Executive Director Cliff Dacso's Op-Ed on the conundrum of quality assessment in health care. How do we judge and compare individual doctors in a way that is fair and makes sense to patients? Read the article.
New Info-Gap Website
A new website has been published on the decision theory developed by Center partner researcher Yakov Ben-Haim, PhD, of the Technion-Israel Institue of Technology. Info-gap is a method for analysis, planning, decision and design under uncertainty. Visit the website.
New Papers Published
Two new peer-reviewed papers were recently published by Center faculty. Drs. Pollonini and Dacso, Finger Fellow Steve Xu, and Nithin Rajan published "A Novel Handheld Device for Use in Remote Patient Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients--Design and Preliminary Validation on Healthy Subjects" in this month's issue of the Journal of Medical Systems. Amy Harris, Lindsey Reichlin, and Kara McArthur published "Parent Teacher Organizations as Partners to Reduce Obesity and Prevent Diabetes in an Hispanic Community" in the Texas Journal of Public Health.
The Future of Medicine 2020: Texas-United Kingdom Collaborative
In November, Center Executive Director Dr. Cliff Dacso presented at the 3rd Technology Innovation Forum, "The Future Delivery of Medicine: 2020." The forum was held at University College, London and co-hosted by the TX-UK Collaborative and UCL Advances. The workshop gathered together international experts in research, engineering and policy to discuss pressing issues in health delivery.
Dr. Dacso's presentation was entitled “Extension Technologies in Developed and Developing Economies.” Center researcher Nithin Rajan spoke on “Lessons Learned from Blue Box Device Development.”
2010 APHA Presentations
Two Center researchers were invited to speak at the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Denver in October.
Center, Rice University Receive $1.5 million Grant
The Abramson Center, Rice University, and Technology For All (TFA) have received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant for research in east Houston that will examine ways to provide novel, health-sensing applications using a new generation of low cost wireless networks and mobile computing platforms.
LEARN MORE by listening to a KUHF interview with the Center's Executive Director, Dr. Cliff Dacso. The interview is also available on the KUHF website.
David Watts, MD, Gives Fourth Annual Gregory Lecture
On November 4, David Watts, MD presented "Professionalism in Medicine, Finding the Balance" at the Fourth Annual Lloyd Gregory, Jr, MD Lecture in Medical Professionalism. The lecture series honors the legacy of Dr. Gregory, former Medical Director of the Dunn Foundation. Dr. Watts is professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and an NPR commentator.
Dacso Featured on Science & Society
Each week, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY presents interviews with trendsetting and groundbreaking researchers, industry-leading executives, and senior government officials, providing in-depth coverage of the publication's core areas. Listen to the podcast of the interview with Cliff Dacso, MD.
Issa Awarded Greenwall Foundation Grant
Amalia Issa, PhD, Director of Personalized Medicine and Targeted Therapeutics for the Center, received a grant for over $100,000 from the Greenwall Foundation. The grant, entitled "Evaluating Patient Decision-Making and Preferences for Personalized Medicine," will support her analysis of patient preferences and trade-offs as they make decisions about genetically tailored treatments.
Center Researchers Receive NIH Grant
In July, center faculty Courtney Queen, Luca Pollonini, and Clifford Dacso received an NIH grant, "Development of New Imaging Tools for the Early Detection of Buruli Ulcer Disease." Buruli ulcer is a devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection that, each year, affects thousands of people in developing countries, mostly children under the age of 15. If it is detected early, it can be easily treated and cured. This grant supports the creation of software tools and cell phone cameras to detect the disease early so it can be cured. George Zouridakis, PhD, of University of Houston is PI.
Center Members Present at International Meetings
Yakov Ben-Haim, PhD; Clifford Dacso, MD; Jon Carrasco; and Nithin Rajan presented a research poster entitled "Robust-Satisficing Decision Making Under Severe Uncertainty Illuminates Patient Choice" at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, October 14-18 in Boston.
On October 10, Amalia Issa, PhD, spoke on "The Role of Pharmacogenomics in Drug Development: Economic and Regulatory Considerations" at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Human Genomics in New Orleans.
