Events
The Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research hosts an informal seminar series as a venue for investigators and staff to present their work, present new ideas, to brainstorm, and to present information pertinent to all, such as review of benefits.
The Brown Bag series convenes during September through June on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays in Conference Room 636 between Noon-1:00 pm at 121 S. Main Street.
For more information, or if you are interested in presenting at this venue, please contact the series organizer Denise_Tyler@Brown.Edu.
Brown Bag Presentation Schedule - 2012-2013 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 9/20/12 | M. Barton Laws | The future of research in clinical communication: sociological, sociolinguistic, psychological and computational perspectives |
| 10/4/12 | Momotazur "Shantu" Rahman | Does duel eligibility affect the skilled nursing facility care experience of the medicare enrollees? |
| 10/18/12 | Shailender Swaminathan | The impact of providing free preventive screening for cardiovascular disease: Evidence from the Medicare program |
| 11/1/12 | GSA Practice Session | Canceled |
| 11/15/12 | Florencia Borrescio Higa | Can Wal-Mart make us healthier? Price competition in the market for prescription drugs |
| 12/6/12 | Kali Thomas | Influence of Hospital and Nursing Home Quality on Hospital Readmissions from Skilled Nursing Facilities |
| 12/20/12 | Vince Mor | Developing Measures of Hospital SNF Linkages |
| 1/3/13 | Cancelled | |
| 1/17/13 | Gary Epstein-Lubow |
Dementia is a Family Disease -- Integrating Services for Caregivers into Routine Dementia Treatment |
| 2/7/13 | David Dore | A case-crossover study of non-benzodiazepine sleep medications and hip fractures in nursing home residents |
| 2/21/13 | Susan Miller |
Measuring and Understanding the Adoption of Culture Change Practices in U.S. Nursing Homes |
| 3/7/13 | Kofi Acquah | The inter-generational impacts of epidemics on healthcare utilization: evidence from the elderly |
| 3/21/13 | Cancelled | |
| 4/4/13 | Linda Resnik | Rehabilitation services in the acute care setting prior to and following lower limb amputation: Impact of evidence-based guidelines |
| 4/18/13 | Leigh Ann Leung | Diabetes diagnosis and subsequent exercise participation among older Americans |
| 5/2/13 | Orna Intrator | What do we know about medical care providers in nursing homes? |
| 5/16/12 | Cancelled | |
| 6/6/13 | Andrea Wysocki | Examining Changes in the MDS 3.0 |
| 6/20/13 | Virginia Briggs |
Healthcare service variations in foster children and children with special healthcare needs |