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CPHS Approved Research Projects - 2021

Approved research projects by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects

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Myrto Petreas, PhD

Pilot Study to Test Laboratory Components of the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program

Nerissa Wu, PhD

Firefighter Occupational Exposures (FOX) Project

Renee Hsia, MD, MSc

Factors Associated with the Closure of Emergency Services and Impact on Patient Outcomes:  Effect of Employment on Emergency Department Utilization

Dharshani Pearson, MPH

Investigation of the Relation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Temperature to Hospital Admissions and Emergency Room Visits in California

Bryn Mumma, MD, MAS

Hospital Characteristics and Outcomes Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH

The California Maternal Data Center:  Establishing a Statewide Data Center for Use in Rapid-Cycle Maternity Care Improvement Projects

Kaiser Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health and Biomonitoring California Adult Cohort Project Biomonitoring Exposures Study

Michelle Pearl, PhD

Multigenerational Familial and Environmental Risk for Autism (MINERvA) Network – California Population

Annie Chen, PhD

Investigation of the Relation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Temperature to Mortality in California

Amy Miller, RPh, PharmD

Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Surveillance Study:  A Case-Series Registry

Lisa Oakes, PhD

The Development of Object Representation in Infancy

Development of State-Wide Perinatal Quality Improvement Metrics with Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Patient Discharge Data/Birth Certificate Linked Data

Saro Armenian, DO, MPH

Linkage with the California Cancer Registry

Rupa Basu, PhD, MPH

Adverse Birth Outcomes Associated with Ambient Temperature in California, 1999-2013

Yih-Ing Hser, PhD

The Starting Treatment with Agonist Replacement Therapies Follow-Up Study

David Zingmond, MD, PhD

The Impact of Physician Supply, Socioeconomic Status, and Insurance on Preventable Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

Hung Fu Tseng, PhD

Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Study

Phytoestrogens and Time to Pregnancy

Does Tobacco Exposure Delay Conception?

Maternal and Infant Environmental Exposure Project (also known as Chemicals in Our Bodies Project)

Gretchen Gierach Benson, PhD

Infertility Follow-Up Study

Pennan Barry, MD

Predictors of Long-Term Outcomes in California Children with Central Nervous System (CNS) Tuberculosis (TB)

Celeste Doerr, PhD

Personal Responsibility and Education Program (PREP) Evaluation

Dawn Stone, PhD(c), RN

Understanding the Workplace Interactions of Young Adult Cancer Survivors with Occupational and Environmental Health Professionals

Peggy Reynolds, PhD

Pooled Analysis of Very Low Birth Weight and Childhood Cancers

Gary Fraser, MD, PhD

Cancer Epidemiology in Adventists – A Low-Risk Group

Lawrence Czer, MD, FAHA, FACC, FACP, FCCP

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Internal Quality Assurance Tracking Process

Anthony Norcia, PhD

Normal and Abnormal Spatial Vision in Infants and Form and Motion Integration

Avital Harari, MD

Surgical and Medical Outcomes in Patients with Endocrine Cancers from California

Lynn Rosenberg, ScD

Black Women's Health Study - A Follow-Up Study for Causes of Cancer in Black Women" formerly Black Women's Health Study:  A Follow-Up Study of Cancer and Other Illness in United States Black Women

Irva Hertz-Picciotto, PhD

Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI)

Nina Hyams, PhD

Children’s Development of Grammatical Rules

Megha Sundara, PhD

Children’s Developing Speech Perception and Production

Rashmi Sinha, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH) American Association for Retired Residents (AARP) Diet and Health Study

David Moore, PhD

Mental Rotation in Human Infants

Nadereh Pourat, PhD

Low Income Health Program (LIHP) Evaluation

Use of Clofazimine for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Tuberculosis in Patients with Limited Therapeutic Options

Suzan Carmichael, PhD

Genetic Susceptibility to Hypospadias (National Institutes of Health [NIH] Proposal is Entitled "Genes, Environmental Exposures and Hypospadias")

Occurrence and Distribution of Autism in California

Daniel Webster, PhD

California Child Welfare Indicators Project/California Children's Services Archive

Stephen Arnon, MD, MPH

Using Infant Feces and Serum for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Assay with Large Immunosorbent Surface Area (ALISSA) Assay Development and Validations and for Intestinal Microbiome and Clostridium Botulinum Genomic Characterizations

Mark Courtney, PhD

California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH) Formerly Proposal for an Evaluation of the Impact of California's Fostering Connections Act on Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth

Paula Braveman, MD, MPH

Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA)

Diana Liu, MPH

Los Angeles Health Overview of a Pregnancy Event (LAHOPE)

Katharine Graf Estes, PhD

Statistical Learning as a Foundation for Lexical Development

Beth Green, PhD

Retrospective Collection of Child Protective Service Reports Among National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project

Mieke San Julian, MA, BCBA

Theory of Mind Test Validation Study

Deborah Sellmeyer, MD

Exercise for Bone Health:  Young Breast Cancer Survivors

Beate Ritz, MD, PhD

Evaluating the Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Adverse Birth Outcomes in Southern California

June-Soo Park, PhD

Survey of Body Burdens in California Communities

Heather Volk, PhD

Air Pollution and Autism in Southern California

Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE Study)

Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH

Cohort Cancer Registry Follow-Up Study

Cynthia Garcia, BA

Surveillance of Air Pollution and Related Cardiopulmonary Morbidity in California, 2000-2020

Gary Shaw, DrPH

Using Population-Based Datasets to Generate and Test New Hypotheses for Investigating Preterm Births and Related Adverse Conditions in California

Rebecca Schmidt, PhD

Markers of Autism Risk in Babies – Learning Early Signs (MARBLES)

Candidate Genes and Congenital Malformations of Neural Crest Cell Origin

Christopher Elliott, MD, PhD

Quality of Care in Hysterectomy and Urogynecologic Procedures in the State of California

Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (LAMB) Project

Esther John, PhD

LEGACY: A Cohort of Youth in Families from the Breast Cancer Family Registry

Leeka Kheifets, PhD

Replication of Draper Study of Leukemia, Brain Tumors and Distance to Power Lines in California

Robert Schechter, MD

Enhancement of Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases Using California Hospital Discharge and Death Data

Aaron Caughey, MD, PhD

The Association Between Gestational Age at Delivery, Race/Ethnicity, Hospital Characteristics, and Perinatal Outcomes

Artur Dubrawski, PhD

Applied Statistics for Pattern and Fraud Detection in Health Care Data

Michael Kuzniewicz, MD, MPH

Tools to Reduce Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Morbidity and Asthma: 
 Use, Adherence and Effectiveness

Catherine Sandhofer, PhD

Research in Language and Cognitive Development

Scott A Lorch, MD, MSCE

Perinatal Regionalization and Quality of Care

Phyllis Tien, MD, MSc

The Connie Wofsy Women's Human Immunodeficiency Virus Study (HIVS) (Northern CA Women's Interagency HIVS)

Nabeeh Hasan, PhD

Surveillance of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk and Prevention Behaviors of Men Who Have Sex with Men, Injection Drug Users, and Heterosexuals:  San Diego, California

Xiao Xu, PhD, MA

Hospital Variation in Obstetric Care

Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD

An Assessment of the Impact of Social Vulnerability on the Relationship Between Environmental Exposures and Birth Outcomes

Tim Bruckner, PhD

Changes in Birth Outcomes for California:  The Role of Neighborhood Level Land Use

Philip Ituarte, PhD, MPH

Disparities in the Surgical Treatment of Cancer based on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Status

Pamala Kirley, MPH

Geocoding and Underlying Disease Protocol for Surveillance Within the 
California Emerging Infections Program

Los Angeles Mommy and Baby Project Follow Up Project (LAMB Follow-up)

Birth Defects Study to Evaluate Pregnancy Exposures – California Component

Lori Sakoda, MPH, PhD

Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Biomonitoring California – Using Banked Specimens to Enhance Our Understanding of Chemical Exposure in California

Scarlett L Gomez, PhD

Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Pharmacy Data Linkage Pilot

Ted Wun, MD, FACP

Complications of Hematological and Oncologic Diseases in California

Jennifer Puck, MD

Sequencing of Newborn Bloodspot Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) to Improve and Expand Newborn Screening

Peishi Gu, PhD

Commuter Exposure to Air Pollutants

Christopher Haiman, ScD

Genetic Studies of Prostate Cancer in African American Men

Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD

Kaiser Permanente Inter-Regional Behavioral Health Suicide Metric for Quality Improvement Benchmarking

Joel Milam, PhD

Reducing Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Childhood Cancer Survivorship

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