Workshop+Presenters+and+Panelists

=** Presenters (in order): **= ** Stephen A. Matthews, Ph.D. (Moderator) ** Penn State University Sociology, Anthropology & Demography, Penn State The Pennsylvania State University 601 Oswald Tower University Park, PA 16802-6211 Ph. (814) 863-9721 e.  matthews@pop.psu.edu

My primary research interests focus on the connections between people and places focusing on vulnerable populations, in particular low-income families in diverse urban and rural contexts across the U.S.. I am currently exploring the use of geoethnography (the integration of ethnography and GIS) to help better understand the spatial and temporal components of human behavior, specifically the degree to which families are able to jump scale to take advantage on non-local resources, opportunities, and social networks. I have a long standing interest in spatial demography and the use of GIS in applied and basic research including most recently on food environments and race/ethnic segregation. I direct the Geographic Information Analysis (GIA) Core in Penn State's Population Research Institute.

** Jacqueline Kerr, PhD (Moderator) ** University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) 9500 Gilman Dr. #0811, Atkinson Hall La Jolla, CA 92093-0811 Ph. (858) 534.9550 e.  jkerr@ucsd.edu

Dr Jacqueline Kerr is a researcher in "active living" and "ecological assessment" at UCSD and SDSU. Her projects include cross sectional studies investigating the relationship between the built environment and physical activity in adults, older adults, children and teenagers. She has developed a multilevel intervention to improve physical activity levels in older adults that includes environment and policy change components. Dr Kerr has also developed tools to objectively assess physical activity opportunities for older adults. She has used GPS devices with teenagers and older adults.

University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill Department of City and Regional Planning Ph. (919)-962-4763 e.  danrod@email.unc.edu
 * Daniel A. Rodríguez, PhD**

Daniel A. Rodríguez is Director of the Carolina Transportation Program (ctp.unc.edu) and Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the connection between the built environment and behavior. Dr. Rodriguez is co-author of the textbook Urban Land Use Planning published by University of Illinois Press and serves in various journal editorial boards.

** Mei-Po Kwan, PhD ** Ohio State University Department of Geography 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1361 Ph. 614-292-9465 e.  kwan.8@osu.edu

Mei-Po Kwan is Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Ohio State University and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include analysis of human activity-travel behavior in space-time using GIS-based geocomputation and 3D geovisualization methods, access to healthcare, the effect of sociogeographic context on health outcomes, and protection of geoprivacy through geographic masking.

** Arthur Getis **, ** PhD ** Department of Geography San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-4493 Ph. (619) 594-6639 e.  arthur.getis@sdsu.edu

Research Interests

 * Spatial Statistics
 * Pattern Analysis
 * Urban Geography
 * Disease and Crime Clustering
 * Geographic Information Sciences

Current Projects
** Adrienne Perry, MS ** ** GIS Cooridinator ** Strategic Planning and Operational Support Division Health and Human Services Agency County of San Diego Ph. 619.515.4294 e.  Adrienne.Perry@sdcounty.ca.gov
 * Entomological Assumptions of Dengue Fever (Peru) [NIH]
 * Dengue Virus Transmission (Thailand) [NIH]
 * Spatial Aspects of the Arab Fertility Transition (Egypt and Jordan) [NSF]
 * Specification of the Spatial Weights Matrix
 * Partitioning Large Spatial Datasets

** Fred Raab ** University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) 9500 Gilman Dr. #0811, Atkinson Hall La Jolla, CA 92093-0811 Ph. 858.534.9550 e.  fraab@ucsd.edu

Fred Raab is the Senior Systems Engineer at the UCSD Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems where he is developing and evaluating phone applications in the areas of physical activity, energy balance and nutrition. He is the technical director of the PALMS (Physical Activity Location Measurement System) project and is the designer of e/Balance, a smartphone platform incorporating wireless sensors, accelerometer, heart-rate monitor, and GPS receiver.

** Kevin Patrick, MD, MS ** University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) 9500 Gilman Dr. #0811, Atkinson Hall La Jolla, CA 92093-0811 Ph. 858.534.9550 e.  kpatrick@ucsd.edu

Kevin Patrick, M.D., M.S. is a Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. His research focuses on how ubiquitous computing environments and mobile technologies can support improved health-related behaviors of individuals and populations. His primary emphasis has been on physical activity and diet, depression, successful aging and diabetes prevention and gene/environment exposures. He is a Senior Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Active Living Research program and is on the National Advisory Committee of the RWJF Health Games Research initiative. Dr. Patrick is Co-founder of Santech, Inc. of La Jolla, California, which is developing mobile applications for real-time health behavior measurement and improvement.

** Audie A. Atienza, PhD ** National Cancer Institute HPRB/BRP/DCCPS Ph. (301) 402-8426 e.  atienzaa@mail.nih.gov = = =** Panelists: **= ** Jean Wolf, PhD ** GeoStats President, Co-Founder 530 Means St, NW, Suite 310 Atlanta, GA 30318 84°24'14.84"W 33°46'21.32"N Ph. 404-588-1227 e.  jwolf@GEOSTATS.com

** Jim Roemmich, PhD ** University of Buffalo 3435 Main Street, Building #26 State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14214-3000 Ph. 716-829-3400 e.  roemmich@buffalo.edu

Dr. Roemmich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University Buffalo. His research focuses on field studies of how environmental attributes; particularly parks, influence children's choices to be physically active, the duration and intensity of activity at various land parcel types, and the amount of physical activity associated with various park elements. Other research is centered on the effect of psychological stress on children’s health behaviors and cardiovascular health.

** Phil Troped, PhD ** Purdue University D  [|epartment of Health & Kinesiology] 800 W. Stadium Ave. Lambert Fieldhouse Room 106B West Lafayette, IN 47907-2046 Ph. 765-496-9486 e.  ptroped@purdue.edu

Dr. Philip Troped is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Purdue University. Dr. Troped earned his Ph.D. in health promotion, education, and behavior from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. His current research interests include examining perceived and objective physical environmental influences on physical activity in youth and adults and the use of accelerometers and wearable GPS units in built environment studies.

** Deborah Cohen, MD, MPH ** RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities e.  dcohen@rand.org

Deborah Cohen is a Sr. Natural Scientist at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. She is the co-author of the book, Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A new approach to improving our lives by fixing our everyday world. She is studying the role of parks in physical activity as well as other the nature of human interactions with the environment. ** Donald Janelle, PhD ** University of California, Santa Barbara Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) Department of Geography / NCGIA Santa Barbara CA 93106-4060 ph. (805) 893-5267 e.  janelle@geog.ucsb.edu

Donald G. Janelle, Research Professor at UC Santa Barbara, is interested in how individuals, cities, and regional-economic systems restructure themselves and their activities in response to space-adjusting technologies (e.g., transportation and communication innovations). Projects have focused on detailed behavioral studies at the individual level (based on geo-coded activity diaries) and on the service responses of transportation systems at regional and global levels to new communications technologies.

** Kimberly C. Brouwer, PhD ** University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Division of Global Public Health - School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Dr. # 0507 La Jolla, CA 92093- 0507 Ph. (858) 822-6467 e. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> kbrouwer@ucsd.edu

Kimberly C. Brouwer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the UCSD School of Medicine. Trained as a molecular epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health, she applies spatial and genetic methods to better understand the epidemiology of infectious diseases. She is currently principal investigator of a 5 year study to investigate environmental factors affecting HIV, syphilis, and tuberculosis transmission and related risk behaviors of injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. Recently she began a study to explore mobility and disease transmission among truck drivers and sex workers along major transportation corridors in Mexico, linking North and Central America. Dr. Brouwer is also a co-investigator on a project to explore factors affecting malaria transmission in the Peruvian Amazon.

** Marc A. Adams, MPH ** University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) 9500 Gilman Dr. #0811, Atkinson Hall La Jolla, CA 92093-0811 Ph. (858) 534-9550 e. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> m1adams@ucsd.edu

Marc Adams is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health (Health Behavior) between San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. His interests include measurement of built and social environments and understanding how they shape physical activity and dietary behavior. Marc manages the spatial data collection for two NIH-funded studies to expand existing intervention datasets with built environment variables; the San Diego cohort of the Women’s Health Initiative, and Multilevel Mechanisms of Physical Activity.

** Simon Marshall, PhD ** San Diego State University Exercise and Nutritional Sciences San Diego, CA 92182-7251 Ph. (619) 594-7272 e. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> smarshal@mail.sdsu.edu

Dr Simon Marshall is an Associate Professor of Exercise and Nutritional Science at San Diego State University and a member of SDSU's Institutional Review Board (IRB). His research focuses on youth sedentary behavior, obesity prevention, and exercise behavior change for public health. He serves as a senior research scientist in the center for Behavioral and Community Health Studies and is adjunct research faculty at the San Diego Prevention Research Center. Dr Marshall is currently on research leave with the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) at UCSD. Dr Marshall has 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and coordinating the measurement and evaluation of physical activity-related research, including many technology focused studies that use PDAs and cell phones to collect real-time data. He has authored over 40 peer reviewed articles and book chapters in the area of youth sedentary behavior and physical activity.