Summer 2013 COM Outlook | NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine

16 COM Outlook . Summer 2013 2013 Public Health Services and Systems Research Keenel- and Conference held April 8-11 in Lexington, Kentucky. He also was invited to serve as a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Public Health begin- ning in May 2013. 11 Robin J. Jacobs, Ph.D., M.S.W. , associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine, preventive medicine, biomedical informatics, and public health and director of international medicine, coau- thored an article with M. Isabel Fernandez, Ph.D. , and others entitled “The Role of Multiple Identities in Engagement in Care Among Gay/Bisexual Male Adolescents Living with HIV” in the January edition of AIDS and Behavior . She also made several presentations with Raymond Ownby, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. , professor and chair of the Department of Psy- chiatry and Behavioral Medi- cine, at the Eighth International Conference on HIV Treatment and Prevention Adherence held June 3-4 in Miami, Florida. These included “The Health Care Attitudes Scale (HAS) in HIV,” “A Computer-Delivered IMB-Based Health Literacy In- tervention Reduces Racial Dis- parities in HIV Information,” Research/Scholarly Activity - Faculty and Student Achievements 9 13 10 11 12 tive Feedback” at the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians 50 th Annual Con- vention held March 21-24 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 10 T. Lucas Hollar, Ph.D. , assistant professor of public health, presented a paper entitled “Public Health in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act: Transitioning from the Medicalization of Public Health to the Socio-Ecologi- calization of Public Health to Improve Health and Reduce Health Care Spending” at the Midwest Political Science Association’s 71 st Annual Conference, held April 11-14 in Chicago, Illinois. He also presented a lecture on “Setting Goals and Creating Objectives for Public Health Profession- als” as part of the 2013 Public Health Workforce Develop- ment Series on May 14 at the Broward Regional Health Planning Council in Holly- wood, Florida. In addition, Dr. Hollar presented a poster with Nicole Cook, Ph.D., M.P.A. , assistant professor of public health, entitled “Evaluating Patient-Centered Medical Home and Panel Management Practice Implementation and Transformation in Primary Care Safety-Net Clinics” at the and “A New Measure of Health Literacy Predicts Medication Adherence in Persons Treated for HIV.” Dr. Jacobs also co- presented on the topic “Factors Associated with Internalized Homonegativity in Midlife and Older Gay and Bisexual Men” with Dr. Ownby and others at the First International Confer- ence on LGBT Psychology and Related Fields held June 21 in Lisbon, Portugal. 12 OMS-IV Milla Kviatkovsky presented her coauthored ab- stract entitled “The Minimum Clinically Important Improve- ment and Patient Acceptable Symptom State in Basdai and Basfi in Patients with Ankylos- ing Spondylitis” at the Annual European Congress of Rheu- matology, EULAR 2013 (Eu- ropean Union League Against Rheumatism) held June 12-15 in Madrid, Spain. 13 Jennie Q. Lou, M.D., M.Sc. , professor of biomedical informatics, public health, and internal medicine and director of the Biomedical Informat- ics Program, was selected to serve as a scientific reviewer for improving research methods application for the Patient-Cen- tered Outcomes Research In- stitute, which is authorized by Congress to conduct research to provide information about the best available evidence to help patients and their health care providers make more informed decisions. She also coauthored an article with Christine Nel- son, B.S. , biomedical infor- matics program manager, and Steve E. Bronsburg, Ph.D. , assistant professor of biomedi- cal informatics, entitled “Health Information Technology Field” in the February edition of Military Medicine and Veterans Affairs Forum. 14 Oneka B. Marriott, D.O., M.P.H. , assistant profes- sor of pediatrics and public health, was selected to serve as a member of the eJournal Editorial Board for the Ameri- can College of Osteopathic Pediatricians during its April meeting. In May, she was also appointed to the NSU Medical Center Advisory Council as a physician representative. 15 Raymond Ownby, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. , professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, was quoted in the May 1 issue of the New York Times in an article entitled “Does Depression Contribute to Dementia?” 14 15 16