Save the Date: 6th Annual Glenwood Endowed Lecture

Wed. April 21, 2010 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
UAB Hill University Center Alumni Auditorium (1400 University Blvd.)

"Will Epidemiology Help Us Find the Causes of Autism?"
Presented by Craig Newschaffer, Ph.D.
Professor & Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health

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Dr. Craig Newschaffer is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University School of Public Health. Prior to Drexel University, Dr. Newschaffer was on the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he founded and directed the Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology. At Drexel, Dr. Newschaffer now leads an NIH Autism Center of Excellence project studying a large cohort of mothers of children with autism and the start of subsequent pregnancies. He is also principal investigator on other major autism epidemiology initiatives, including a national network established to monitor secular trends in autism prevalence and a CDC-funded multisite study that will be the largest case-control study of autism fielded to date. He has worked on autism internationally, where he led a project to study the feasibility of conducting epidemiologic research on autism in China. Dr. Newschaffer is a co-investigator on the Baltimore site of the National Children's Study, a prospective epidemiologic study of a representative sample of 100,000 U.S. pregnancies. He is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Autism Research and Developmental Epidemiology. Dr. Newschaffer holds a masters degree in health policy from Harvard University and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from John Hopkins University. He also maintains an appointment as an adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at John Hopkins.

Location: Alumni Auditorium, Hill University Center, 1400 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL

Parking: Free parking will be available in UAB Parking Lot #15A which is located on the corner of 13th Street and University Boulevard.

Directions to Hill University Center from Lot #15A: Facing University Boulevard, walk left across 13th and 14th Streets. Alumni Auditorium is the first set of doors that you'll come to (left side of the building) in Hill University Center.

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