Laura Sands
Professor,
Purdue School of Nursing
Phone: (765) 49-44037
Email:
lsands@purdue.edu
Sand’s research is focused on promoting optimal functioning in older adults, developing metrics for determining whether a patient is functioning optimally, and developing methods for detecting whether individual dementia patients benefit from pharmaceutical therapy designed to enhance cognitive functioning. She has also contributed to the development of instruments to assess quality of life in persons with dementia, patient satisfaction and patient preferences for treatment. She is co-director of the Center for Health Outcomes Research and Policy, a sub-center within the Regenstrief Center.
Malaz A. Boustani
Staff Physician,
Wishard Memorial Hospital
Assistant Professor,
Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research
Phone: (317) 423-5633
Email:
mboustani@regenstrief.org View presentation slides
Boustani's main research interest relates to improving the quality of life of patients with dementia syndromes by designing a system-based approach across settings of care including the community, primary care, hospital, and long-term care. He is currently conducting multiple research studies on dementia care funded from the NIH, not-for profit organizations, and PHARMA.
David Rollock
Associate Professor,
Purdue Department of Psychological Sciences
Phone: (765) 494-6977
Email: rollock@psych.purdue.edu View presentation slides
Rollock’s primary research interests include (1) attitudes, emotions, and interpersonal behavior among ethnocultural minorities; (2) nonintellective predictors of academic success; and (3) appraisal of and responses to, racial discrimination. Other strong interests include cognitive style and its impact on interpersonal processes, development of racial/ethnic identifications, and the impact of ethnocultural background and personality on psychotherapy processes.
Joseph Thomas
Professor, Purdue Department of Pharmacy Practice
Co-director, Center for Health Outcomes Research and Policy, Regenstrief Center
Phone: (765) 494-1477
Email: joseph.thomas.1@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Thomas’ research is concentrated on management of pharmaceutical services, pharmaceutical product and service marketing, health policy and economic analysis of alternative financing and reimbursement arrangements for pharmaceutical products and/or services. He also is analyzing the impact of innovative pharmaceutical services upon healthcare outcomes and total healthcare expenditures.
Session II - Health in the Workplace
9:10-10:00 AM
Shelley MacDermid
Professor,
Purdue Department of Child Development and Family Studies
Director, Purdue Center for Families
Co-Director, Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University Phone: (765) 49-46026
Email:
shelley@purdue.edu
MacDermid has strong interests in the links between work conditions and family life, and in the evaluation of community needs and program outcomes. She is the director of the Purdue Center for Families, director of the Midwestern Work-Family Association, and co-director of the Military Family Research Institute. She is also a faculty fellow with the Corporate Work-Family Roundtable at Boston College.
James D. McGlothlin
Associate Professor, Purdue School of Health Sciences
Technical Director, Regenstrief Center
Phone: (765) 496-6359
Email: jdm3@purdue.edu View presentation slides
McGlothlin specializes in ergonomics, exposure assessment, occupational hygiene, engineering controls and epidemiology. Prior to his appointment at Purdue, he was a senior researcher in ergonomics with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/NIOSH).
Stacey Mobley
Assistant Professor, Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition
Phone: (765) 49-48235
Email:
smobley@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Mobley’s research interests include multidisciplinary clinical and basic science approaches for optimal bone health and body weight in children and young adults; individualized diet and nutrition prescriptions based on genetics or behavior to prevent chronic diseases such as obesity and osteoporosis; and obesity as related to body composition and calcium metabolism.
Weiss' research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of emotional experiences at work. This research deals with the following kinds of topics: types of emotional reactions displayed at work; the effects of immediate affective states on work behaviors and attitudes; mood cycles; dispositional influences on momentary affective states.
Session III - Health Organizational Management
10:20 - 11:10 AM
James Anderson
Professor,
Purdue Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Phone: (765) 49-44703
Email: andersonj@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Anderson specializes in research methods, the organization of health care in the U.S. and other countries, medical informatics and complex organizations. His current research focus is on regional patient safety initiatives such as medical error reporting systems. Results of the research have been reported at international conferences and in international journals. Anderson is a professor of medical sociology and health communication. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Ranga Ramanujam Assistant Professor, Purdue Krannert School of Management
Phone: (765) 496-7521
Email:
ramanujr@mgmt.purdue.edu View presentation slides
Ramanujam’s research examines the organizational causes and effects of errors, error-related communication such as incident reporting, and learning from errors. He studies these issues mostly in the context of medication errors in hospitals. He served as a guest editor of a Journal of Organizational Behavior special issue on healthcare organizations.
Kathleen Abrahamson Graduate Student, Purdue Department of Sociology
Email:
kaabraha@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Abrahamson's research focuses upon patient safety, the work environment of nurses and long-term care. She is a Registered Nurse with eleven years of clinical experience.
Devon J. Hensel
Adolescent Medicine Research Fellow, Indiana University School of Medicine
Phone: (317) 274-8812
Email:
djhensel@iupui.edu View presentation slides
Hensel’s research is focused on the interpersonal and behavioral aspects of reproductive health among adolescent women and developing innovtive methods of modeling health behavior outcomes. She is a research fellow in Adolescent Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and was named the 2007 Society for Adolescent Medicine New Investigator of the Year.
Session IV - Patient/Physician Interaction
11:10 AM- 12:00 PM
Cleveland Shields
Associate Professor,
Purdue Department of Child Development and Family Studies
Phone: (765) 49-68372
Email:
cgshields@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Shield’s research focuses on how couple and family functioning affect outcomes of patients diagnosed with chronic illnesses, in particular, cancer. He also is involved in studies examining physician-patient communication. Prior to joining Purdue in 2006, he was on the faculty in the departments of family medicine and psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical School.
Bart Collins Clinical Professor, Purdue Department of Communication
Phone: (765) 494-4417
Email:
bartcollins@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Collins is advancing the center’s involvement in a tri-state telemedicine initiative with the University of Kansas and Michigan State University, referred to as the Midwest Alliance for Telehealth and Technology Resources. He served as director of Digital Content and the Instructional Development Center at Purdue University since February 2002.
Seza Orcun Research Scientist, e-Enterprise Center, Purdue Discovery Park
Phone: (765) 496-2066
Email:
sorcun@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Orcun’s research focuses on developing novel and practical scheduling and planning tools/environments for daily decision making and training. He also facilitates interdisciplinary research in supply chain modeling-design-management, systems biology, medical intervention planning-design, life sciences engineering, advanced life support systems analysis, and high fidelity multi-scale model building.
Session V - Healthcare Supply Chain Management, Health Economics, Cancer Care 1:10 PM- 2:00 PM
Leroy B. Schwarz
Louis A. Weil, Jr. Professor of Management, Purdue Krannert School of Management
Director of Academic Operations, Regenstrief Center
Phone: (765) 49-44510
Email:
LSchwarz@Purdue.edu View presentation slides
Schwarz’s research interests include healthcare supply-chain management and operations management. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the founding editor-in-chief of Manufacturing&Service Operations Management.
Susan Chen
Assistant Professor, Purdue Department of
Agricultural Economics
Phone: (765) 49-47545
Email:
sechen@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Chen's research is in applied microeconomics. Her primary focus is in Health Economics, particularly in the evaluation of government health programs (such as the Social Security Disability Insurance Program) and in the study of the economics of obesity.
Dorothy Teegarden Professor, Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition
Phone: (765) 494-8246
Email:
teegarden@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Teegarden’s current research program focuses on vitamin D regulation of cancer. She also studies the effect of calcium and vitamin D obesity and bone. She is the Director for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Purdue Oncological Sciences Center and a member of the Purdue Cancer Center.
Session VI - Care Across the Lifespan 2:00 PM- 2:50 PM
Kenneth Ferraro
Professor, Purdue Department of Sociology
Director, Center on Aging and the Life Course
Phone: (765) 49-44707
Email:
ferraro@purdue.edu
Ferraro’s recent research focuses on health inequality, especially between White and African Americans, and the prevention of health decline. He also continues his research on the relationship between obesity and health, examining the links between excess weight and physical health in later life. He is the founding Director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University, and the author of over 65 refereed articles in journals such as the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Public Health, Social Forces, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Greg Arling
Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research
Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Phone: (317) 261-3044
Email:
garling@iupui.edu View presentation slides
Arling’s research interests are in healthcare quality assessment, evaluation, and policy analysis. He has considerable experience with statistical analysis of large data sets. Much of his research has been conducted with elderly populations in long-term care settings. He has helped develop comprehensive measures of quality of care and quality of life which have been applied to long-term care public report cards and pay-for-performance systems. He has sought to understand risk factors associated with health care costs and quality and to develop better risk adjustment and statistical estimation techniques. He also has studied transitions between care settings, such as hospital, nursing home, and community care.
Lakshmi K. Josyula Graduate Student, Purdue Department of Health & Kinesiology
Email:
lakshmi@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Josyula is pursuing a dual-title PhD in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and Gerontology, through the Center on Aging and the Life Course. She has earned a Master's degree in Health Promotion from Purdue University, and a Bachelor's degree in Homoeopathic Medicine from India. Her doctoral research is on the impact of healthcare providers' recommendations on the physical activity patterns of patients. She is also studying cross-cultural attitudes towards aging and physical activity.
Roseann Lyle Professor, Purdue Department of Health & Kinesiology
Phone: 765-494-3158
Email:
rlyle@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Lyle’s research interests are primarily related to the health of women of all ages. Most recently, my research is focused on translating best practice physical activity related interventions to community and clinical settings with an emphasis on reaching older adults.
Dr. Marc Rosenman
Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine View presentation slides
Rosenman's research focuses on clinical epidemiology, electronic medical records systems, and health information from multiple sources. He serves as faculty supervisor for the Institute's data management group.
Session VII - Obesity 3:00 PM- 3:50 PM
Wayne Campbell
Associate Professor, Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition
Phone: (765) 49-48236
Email:
campbellw@purdue.edu
Campbell ’s research interests include basic and clinical human nutrition and exercise studies on protein, carbohydrate and energy metabolism, dietary protein and energy requirements, body composition, muscle strength, and muscle function with special emphasis on aging.
Carol Boushey
Associate Professor, Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition
Phone: (765) 49-66569
Email:
boushey@purdue.edu
Boushey balances her research efforts in diet and behavior with her teaching responsibilities in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics. She is responsible for two multi-site randomized school trials, Adequate Calcium Today and Eat Move Learn; and the statewide Safe Food for the Hungry program in Indiana. Her epidemiological research focuses on individual and group eating behaviors, dietary assessment methods, adolescent dietary behaviors, school-based interventions, food insecurity, and quantitative methods.
Richard Mattes
Professor,
Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition
Phone: (765) 49-40662
Email: mattes@purdue.edu View presentation slides
Mattes’ work aims to better understand the independent and interactive influences of neural, genetic, metabolic, hormonal, cognitive, cultural and especially sensory factors on human dietary behavior, nutrient utilization and energy balance in healthy and clinical populations. He is currently the director of Purdue’s Laboratory for Sensory and Ingestive Studies.
Terry Ridge
Graduate Student, Nursing Practice, Purdue School of Nursing
