The Cardiovascular Epidemiology Journal Club is a forum for scientific interaction between the cardiovascular epidemiology trainees, collaborating faculty and other students with interest in cardiovascular epidemiology. The main focus is the presentation of research being conducted by the students of the cardiovascular epidemiology training program which may take the form of practice for the overview, comprehensive, or defense milestones, preparation for conference presentations, and informal works-in-progress (WIP) presentations. In addition, we will review published articles related to cardiovascular epidemiology and methodology. This semester, the focus is on methods to use in cardiovascular epidemiology research.

Journal Club Coordinators
Mary Schiff, mds159@pitt.edu
Megan Marron, mmm133@pitt.edu

Primary Faculty
Emma Barinas-Mitchell
Akira Sekikawa

September 10^th: Group-based Trajectory Analysis, presented by Yamnia I. Cortés, PhD, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing,

September 17^th: Trend analyses: Interrupted time-series analysis, presented by Brandon Herbert, MPH, Predoctoral Scholar, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.

September 24^th: Graphical causal models for integrative analysis of biomedical and clinical data, presented by Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

October 1^st: Measures of physical activity/sedentary behavior, presented by Bethany Barone Gibbs, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Development and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh.

October 8^th: AHA guidelines for statistical reporting in CVD medicine, presented by Andrew D. Althouse, PhD, Assistant Professor, Centers for Research on Health Care Data & Clinical Trials and Data Coordination, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

October 22^nd: Community-engaged mixed method approaches to CVD prevention, presented by Jessica R. Thompson, PhD, Med, Postdoctoral Scholar, Community Impact Office, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.

October 29^th: Joint modeling/mixed modeling techniques, presented by Fouzia Farooq, MPH, Predoctoral Trainee, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.

November 5^th: Introduction to Meta-analysis: Sexual Violence and CVD, presented by  Karen P. Jakubowski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh.

November 12^th: Longitudinal Exposure to Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage and Midlife Markers of Cardiovascular Health In Women (comprehensive meeting practice), presented by Mary D. Schiff, MPH, Predoctoral Trainee, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.

December 3^rd: Introduction to Metabolomics and its Application in Epidemiology, presented by Megan M. Marron, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.

December 10^th: The Google Earth Engine: a primer with applications to public health and CV epi research, presented by Mary D. Schiff, MPH, Predoctoral Trainee, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.