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All seminars are held on Friday mornings from 9:00 – 10:00 am ET unless otherwise noted.
Meeting ID: 991 2985 2010 | Passcode: 923472
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MetroHealth Medical Center
2500 MetroHealth Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44109 Rammelkamp Bldg., Conference Room R219
Randall D. Cebul Visiting Professor Seminar
Friday, September 5, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:30 am
A Room with a View
Stephen W. Hargarten, MD, MPH*
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Senior Policy and Injury Advisor, Comprehensive Injury Center
Founding Dean, Global Health
Medical College of Wisconsin
- Strengthening the care of patients and improving community health through the
doors of the emergency room and the lens of an emergency physician - Honoring Dr. Cebul’s Legacy of championing fair and accessible community health
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Hargarten has been invited to serve as this year’s Randall Cebul Lecturer. Dr. Hargarten is a nationally recognized leader in injury prevention, firearm safety, and ballistic trauma. A professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he has conducted pioneering research on firearm-related injuries and deaths, including investigations involving U.S. citizens abroad.
He is the founding president of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and has published extensively on the public health impacts of firearms. In addition, Dr. Hargarten serves on international advisory boards—including the World Health Organization’s Violence and Injury Prevention Mentoring Committee—and currently holds the role of Senior Advisor to the Office of Global Health.
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:00 am
Nutritional and Social Drivers of Health in Post-COVID Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Outcomes:
Insights from RECOVER Pilot Findings
Shahdi K. Malakooti, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
The MetroHealth System
Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Malakooti will present pilot findings from RECOVER, the national NIH long COVID study, on post-COVID neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomes, with a focus on nutritional and social drivers of health.
Speaker will be presenting in person
Please join on site at:
MetroHealth Medical Center,
2500 MetroHealth Dr., Cleveland
Rammelkamp Bldg., Conference Room R219
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Friday, October 3, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:00 am
Epidemiology of Pre-Adolescent Hospitalizations for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the U.S.
Laura Prichett, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) and among children and pre-adolescents (ages 6-12 years) are increasing at alarming rates in the United States, with differences in trends by race, ethnicity, and sex. Little is known about non-fatal STBs in the group. We used nationally representative emergency department and inpatient data to explore this issue in depth. We found that the most common reason for pre-adolescent STB-related hospital encounters was suicidal ideation (78.6%), followed by intentional overdose (16.8%). The highest rates of STB-related encounters occurred among American Indian/Alaska Native females, followed by White females, Black females and Hispanic females.
Speaker will be presenting via Zoom
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MetroHealth Medical Center,
2500 MetroHealth Dr., Cleveland
Rammelkamp Bldg., Conference Room R219
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Friday, October 10, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:00 am
From silos to synergy:
Integrating academic health informatics with operational IT for healthcare transformation
Elizabeth R. Stevens, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Research Development, Department of Health Informatics
NYU Langone Health
This talk explores the emergence of applied health informatics and the need for intentional integration between academic informatics and operational IT. Highlighting NYU Langone Health’s creation of a unified Department of Health Informatics, it presents a model for aligning digital innovation with clinical operations to advance healthcare system goals.
Speaker will be presenting via Zoom
Please join on site at:
MetroHealth Medical Center,
2500 MetroHealth Dr., Cleveland
Rammelkamp Bldg., Conference Room R219
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