Department of Medical Social Sciences

News and Highlights


Assessment Center Workshop - May 31, 2012
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The PROMIS Technology Center sponsors workshops to help researchers learn about PROMIS, item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, and Assessment Center, a web-based software application.  More>>


We’re proud to announce that David Cella, PhD is the recipient of the 2012 American Cancer Society Trish Greene Quality of Life Award. This award is given annually to recognize an outstanding investigator in the field of quality of life research, honoring significant contributions made to achieving excellence in compassionate care for people facing cancer.

Karen Kaiser, PhD received the Medical Women’s Faculty Organization award  for her poster Black Women’s Awareness of Breast Cancer Disparity and Perceptions of the Causes of Disparity at  Eighth Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day.  Additional posters submitted by Medical Social Sciences researchers listed here>>

Events

See a complete list of upcoming and previous presentations, conferences and workshops >>

Upcoming Event Highlights

May 15-18, 2012
International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, Portland, OR. Advancing Outcomes Measurement and Data Collection in Integrative Medicine Clinical Research Using NIH PROMIS and Assessment Center Applications. David Victorson, PhD.

May 17-19, 2012
Moffitt Cancer Center Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL. Implementing a Multimedia Talking Touchscreen in Clinical Practice, Elizabeth Hahn

May 18, 2012
Biostatistics / Outcomes / Bioinformatics Seminar, Michelle Birkett, PhD, 9:30, 750 N Lake Shore Dr. (Rubloff); Rm. 11-300 Social Network Analysis: Applications to a Longitudinal Study of Young Men who have Sex with Men.

May 19-23, 2012
American Urological Association, Atlanta, GA.
-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Decreases Fear of Progression over Time for Men with Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial, David Victorson, PhD.
-Fertility preservation preferences and viewpoints among adult male survivors of childhood cancer and their parents.  David Victorson, PhD, T. Pearman, PhD et al.

May 22, 2012
Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop. Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Development. Ball State University Alumni Center, Muncie, Indiana   Workshop presentation by Michael Kallen, Ph.D. and Nan Rothrock, PhD

June 4, 2012
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Chicago, IL. Characterizing fatigue associated with sunitinib (SU) in patients (pts) with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). David Cella, PhD 

June 14-17
Plastic Surgery Research Council. Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI. Multimodal assessment of ethnic differences in cosmetic outcome following breast conserving therapy: Results from a pilot study.  E. Hirsch, Z. Butt , S. Khan,  C. U. Chukwu, R.D. Galiano


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Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS), established in 2009 under the direction of Dr. David Cella, provides a unique scientific home for applied researchers who integrate biomedical and social science approaches to improve health and health care delivery in diverse populations across the lifespan. More >>


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