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Sa zadovoljstvom Vas pozivamo na predavanja prof. Kelly Hunt i izv. prof. Michaela Blooma u ponedjeljak 9. svibnja 2022. u 13 sati, u Novoj vijećnici, Šalata 3, kako slijedi:

Prof. Kelly Hunt: Impact of intrauterine and early life exposures on childhood obesity: ECHO-FGS

Izv. prof. Michael Bloom: Getting SMARTer – Impacts of environmental pollutants on infertility treatment

Kratke biografije predavača su u nastavku:

Kelly J. Hunt, Ph.D.
Professor and Division Leader of Epidemiology
Department of Public Health Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina

Prof. Hunt has worked extensively on a number of large epidemiologic cohort studies as well as a number of family studies. Prof. Hunt has extensive experience in designing, implementing and utilizing large observational cohort studies which are inherently collaborative in nature with much of her work focused on genetic and early life determinants of cardiometabolic disease.  Her personal area of research interest and expertise is the epidemiology of diabetes with a specific focus on gestational diabetes, cardiometabolic risk and biomarker prediction. Through a K01 award Prof. Hunt studied gestational diabetes and early life determinants of adult disease (NIH K01DK064867); as MPI she completed a grant (NIH 1R01MD004251-01) entitled: Trans-generational Impact of Maternal Obesity and Diabetes on Health Disparities; and as PI she completed a grant (NIH R01 DK088778) entitled: Longitudinal Assessment of LDL Immune Complexes and Type 1 Diabetes Complications. She also served as co-investigator on many large NIH funded cohort studies. Prof. Hunt has extensive experience with participant recall gained through follow-up of participants in the San Antonio Heart Study, San Antonio Family Diabetes Study, the Evans County Heart Study and Project SuGAR. As part of Project Sugar, Prof. Hunt used interviews with a response rate of 76.3% in Charleston, SC to retrospectively collect information from participants up to 15 years after prior contact. Prof. Hunt has extensive experience in designing, implementing and utilizing large observational cohort studies which are inherently collaborative in nature with much of my work focused on genetic and early life determinants of cardiometabolic disease. Prof. Hunt teaches Advanced Epidemiologic Methods.

Michael S. Bloom, Ph.D., MS.
Associate Professor
Department of Global and Community Health
Medical University of South Carolina

Assoc. Prof. Bloom is based in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason University. Assoc. Prof. Bloom’s research focuses on the intersection of environmental pollutants and human health in the U.S. and abroad. He is an epidemiologist, especially interested in the effects of endocrine disrupting compounds on human reproduction and fetal development, and on the disproportionate impacts of these agents among vulnerable populations. Assoc. Prof. Bloom has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications to date, in addition to book chapters and encyclopedia articles, and has delivered more than 100 research presentations and invited talks to domestic and international audiences. Assoc. Prof. Bloom’s research been supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Institute on Aging. He conducted international research as a Fulbright Scholar in Romania and received a High-End Foreign Expert award that supported collaborative environmental epidemiology research at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Before coming to Mason, Assoc. Prof. Bloom was a faculty member in the Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University at Albany, State University of New York.