Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor was awarded the Endocrine Society’s 2018 Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award
The Society’s highest honor, this annual award recognizes lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to the field of endocrinology. As a Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine, Barrett-Connor is the first to show that fasting glucose is a heart disease risk factor, that isolated post challenge hyperglycemia is more common and a stronger heart disease risk factor than fasting hyperglycemia, and that proinsulin is a stronger heart disease risk factor than serum insulin. 2018
Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) 2018 Annual Meeting
Public Health JDP student
Chelsea Obrochta won best poster award:
Ethnic Disparities in the Receipt of Guideline Concordant Treatment in Colorectal Cancer Patients, with Causal Mediation Analysis
Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, Heather Pines, MPH, PhD
Oral Presentation
Teaching reproducibility in epidemiology: A new course for future epidemiologists
Caroline Thompson, PhD
Oral Presentation
The balanced case-crossover design
Sara McElroy, Public Health JDP student
Oral Presentation
Decomposition of maternal education and wealth inequalities in child mortality and access to safe water and sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia
Paige Sheridan, Public Health JDP student
Oral Presentation
Air pollution and preterm birth in California: assessment of critical exposure windows
Sindana D. Ilango, Public Health JDP student
Poster
The role of cardiovascular disease in the relationship between chronic exposure to air pollution and dementia

Best Poster Awardee, Chelsea Obrochta