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Grand Rounds - Family and Preventive Medicine

2025 - 2026 Academic Year

Date	Speaker	Title
11/25/25	Nicholas Soulakis, PhD Loyola University	Community-First Informatics
1/27/26	Michelle Kegler, DrPH, MPH Rollins School of Public Health Emory University	Preventing Chronic Disease through Community-Engaged Research: Experiences from the Emory Prevention Research Center
2/24/26	Derek Reed, PhD Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc.	TBD
3/24/26	Sherry Pagoto, PhD University of Connecticut	TBD
4/28/26	Mark Ebell, MD Professor, Department of Family Medicine Michigan State University	TBD
5/26/26	Janet Yueh-Yun Lin University of Illinois Chicago	TBD

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2024 - 2025 Academic Year

Date	Speaker	Title
9/24/24	Allison Carroll, PhD Research Assistant Professor Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Research and Community Engagement Activities to Prepare for Implementation
10/22/24	Jalie A. Tucker, PhD, MPH Mary F. Lane Endowed Professor UF Research Foundation Professor Department of Health Education & Behavior University of Florida Director, Center for Behavioral Economic Health Research College of Health & Human Performance	Beyond the Clinic: Studying the Behavioral Economics of Risky Drinking and Behavior Change in Community Settings Among Individuals Not Seeking Services
1/28/25	Joanna Buscemi Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Health Initiatives DePaul University	Testing a Multi-behavioral Parenting Intervention to Improve Oral Health Behaviors in the Pediatric Dental Surgery Population: The PROTECT (Preventing Recurrent Operations Targeting Early Childhood Caries Treatment) Trial
2/25/25	Norrina Allen, PhD Vice Chair for Research, Department of Preventive Medicine Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Epidemiology and Population Health Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Healthier, Earlier: Cardiovascular Health Across the Life Course
3/25/25	Shannon Halloway, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA Associate Professor Heung Soo & Mi Ja Kim Endowed Faculty Scholar Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science University of Illinois at Chicago	Lifestyle Health Behaviors for Cognitive Health: Lessons in Collaboration
4/22/25	TBA
5/27/25	TBA

2023 - 2024 Academic Year

Date	Speaker	Title
9/26/23	Andrew Busch, PhD, LP Associate Professor of Medicine Hennepin Healthcare and University of Minnesota Medical School Director, Hennepin Healthcare Tobacco Dependence Clinic Co-Lead, Investigator Development Core, C2DREAM	Improving physical health among people with mental illness: Innovative treatments and delivery pathways
10/24/23	Emma Brett, PhD Staff Scientist Clinical Addictions Research Laboratory University of Chicago	Understanding use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Implications for tobacco treatment
11/28/23	Kelli Scott, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Medical Social Sciences Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Using Implementation Science to Enhance the Quality of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
1/23/24	Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, MPH, DBSM Professor Clinical Psychologist Director, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program Department of Family and Preventive Medicine University of Utah	Development and Testing of a Sleep Extension Intervention to Improve Cardiometabolic Health
2/27/24	Juan C. (J.C.) Rojas, MD, MS Assistant Professor Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Internal Medicine RUSH University Medical Center	TBD
3/26/24	Molly E. Waring, PhD Associate Professor Department of Allied Health Sciences UConn Center for mHealth & Social Media University of Connecticut	Using Social Media for Health Promotion Among Perinatal Persons and Mothers
4/23/24	Katherine Diaz Vickery, MD Associate Professor of Family Medicine University of Minnesota	Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiometabolic Disease Management with People Who Have Experienced Homelessness