Weds March 30 2011 (10am): Prev Med and Epidemiology Grand Rounds: Kiros Berhane

Note the time is 10am and the location is in the Stritch School of Medicine, room 360.

Presenter: Kiros Berhane, Ph.D
"Multi Level Modeling Techniques for Childhood Obesity Research"

10:00 AM
Conference Room 360, SSOM
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics
Dept. of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California

ABSTRACT (brief):
The alarming rise in childhood obesity and its health consequences are serious public health challenges. We will discuss the main features of our multi-level study design, the modeling approaches under the general mixed effects model structure, flexible tools for handling non-linear growth trajectories in BMI trajectories in children, and tools for fitting the models in order to draw valid inferences about the impacts of environmental and genetic factors on obesity development in children.