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Jacobson IG, Horton JL, LeardMann CA, Ryan MAK, Boyko EJ, Wells TS, Smith B, Smith TC. Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression among US military health care professionals deployed in support of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan . J Trauma Stress; 2012 Dec;25(6):616-23. Among military personnel deployed with combat experience, health care professionals did not have increased odds for new-onset PTSD or depression over time compared to individuals in other occupations. Combat experience significantly increased the odds for new-onset PTSD or depression among deployed health care professionals, suggesting that combat experience, not features specific to being a health care professional, was the key exposure explaining development of these outcomes.

In a recent analytics meeting Dr. Tyler Smith followed the American Statistical Association President Dr. Bob Rodriguez keynote with a presentation on weighting of public use data.  

Master of Science, Hea lth Informati cs s tudent , Muhammad Nauman, was sele cted as on e of the recipients of the Greater Chicago Chap ter of HIM SS Scholarship for 2012-2013 .  Please join me in congratulating Muhammad Nauman on his outstanding achievement s!

Stay informed and up-to-date with the latest from the Healthcare Workforce Development Division: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/ .

It is my pleasure to introduce our newest addition to the full-time faculty in the Department of Health Sciences, Dr. Ricardo Parker. Ricardo is the new Program Lead for the BS in Allied Health Program. Dr. Parker earned his PhD in Microbiology from Oregon State University, and trained as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the National Cancer Institute . Since 1994, Dr. Parker has been a clinical cancer scientist with his major research focus being the molecular biology of cancer, mechanisms of chemotherapy drug resistance and the development of novel clinical strategies and tools to predict and stratify treatment regimens toward rational therapy of cancer patients. He is joining us from his most recent position at Loma Linda University, where he provided leadership and direction toward development and support of clinical research projects and clinical trials involving infants and children. We are excited to have Ricardo join us. Please help welcome Ricardo to ...