Invited presentations and Grand Rounds
D. Van Sickle. HHS/IOM Community Health Data Initiative. Washington, DC. June 2, 2010.
D. Van Sickle. Participatory Public Health Surveillance and the Collaborative Future of Environmental Health. Global Health and the UAE: Asia-Middle East Connections. United Arab Emirates University. Al Ain, UAE. January 4-8, 2010.
D Van Sickle. Asthma Inhaler Tracking – Technology to Understand Asthma Triggers and Control. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Asthma Teleconference. December 8, 2009.
D Van Sickle. GPS Applied to Inhalers: Understanding Asthma Triggers and Control. Inhaled Drug Delivery. Management Forum. London, UK. November 12, 2009.
D Van Sickle. Tracking Asthma Inhalers. University of Wisconsin – Madison. Wednesday Nite @ The Lab. Madison, WI . October 21, 2009.
D Van Sickle. The Development and Evaluation of an Inhaled Bronchodilator Surveillance System: The Potential Clinical and Public Health Benefits. Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA. September 21, 2009.
D Van Sickle. Development of a networked asthma inhaler to improve clinical management and public health surveillance. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Immunology. Pittsburgh, PA. November 4, 2008.
D Van Sickle. Networked asthma inhalers for (participatory) public health surveillance and clinical management. Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health. Wisconsin Department of Health Services. October 28, 2008.
D Van Sickle. Networked Asthma Inhalers for Clinical Care and Public Health Surveillance. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Population Health Sciences Seminar. Madison, WI. March 10, 2008.
D Van Sickle. The Acute Health Effects of Chlorine Gas Release in the Community. Epidemiology Grand Rounds. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. February 7, 2006.
D Van Sickle. The Rise of Asthma in India: Its Epidemiology, Management and Marketing. Division of Respiratory Disease Studies Seminar, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV. March 29, 2004.
AL Wright and D Van Sickle. Asthma on the Navajo Reservation. Grand Rounds – Yukon-Kuskokwim Regional Hospital. Bethel, AK. 1999.
Presentations
Academic conferences
D Van Sickle, S Magzamen, S Truelove. Online feedback about remotely monitored inhaled bronchodilators improves composite measures of asthma control. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting [Poster discussion session]. New Orleans, LA [May 2010]
J Glynn, A Dias, J Schaefer, A Bremer, D Van Sickle. Design and development of a low-cost spirometry system. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting [Poster session]. New Orleans, LA [May 2010]
V Gudisena, VS Bhatnagar, A Nimunkar, D Van Sickle. Comparison of Spirometric Parameters Calculated Using Different Numerical Integration Techniques. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting [Poster session]. New Orleans, LA [May 2010]
W Willis, M Riggs, S Beavers, J Couch, and D Van Sickle. Obtaining Miner and Mine Operator Participation in a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey of Kentucky Coal Mines. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition [Poster Session]. Philadelphia, PA. [November 9, 2009]
A Nimunkar, J Baran, J Webster, D Van Sickle, NK Pagidimarry. Medical Devices for Developing Countries: Design Constraints and Approaches. 31st Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference. [Oral presentation]. Minneapolis, MN. [September 6, 2009]
A Nimunkar, J Baran, J Webster, D Van Sickle. Low-Cost Medical Devices for Developing Countries. 31st Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference. [Oral presentation]. Minneapolis, MN. [September 6, 2009]
MA Riggs, WD Willis, S Beavers, J Couch, D Van Sickle. Kentucky Coal Miner Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding the Coal Worker’s X-ray Surveillance Program. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Meeting. [Poster presentation]. Buffalo, NY. [June 2009]
D Van Sickle, S Magzamen, J Crane, T Corden. Variability in the perception of asthma among pediatricians in Wisconsin. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting. [Oral Presentation]. San Diego, CA. [May 2009]
D Van Sickle. Development of a networked asthma inhaler to improve clinical management and public health surveillance. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting. [Poster Presentation]. San Diego, CA. [May 2009]
D Van Sickle, J Mullahy. The effect of education on adult lung function. University of Wisconsin Department of Population Health Sciences Poster Session [Poster presentation]. Madison, WI [March 2007]
M Riggs, C Rao, D Van Sickle, K Cummings, C Brown, K Dunn, J Ferdinands, D Callahan, L Pinkerton, J Deddens, R Moolenaar, P Thorne, M Mullenberg, G Chew. This Mold House: Exposure Assessment of Flood-damaged Homes in New Orleans. Second North American Congress of Epidemiology/Society for Epidemiological Research Annual Meeting. [Poster presentation]. Seattle, WA. [June 2006]
J Ferdinands, D Van Sickle, E Hunter, and WG Teague. Unexpectedly low breath pH in adolescent runners exposed to ambient ozone. American Thoracic Society International Conference [Poster discussion presentation]. San Diego, CA. [May 2006]
MA Wenck, D Van Sickle, A Belflower, D Drociuk, C Youngblood, D Whisnant, J Gibson. Rapid Epidemiologic Assessment of Chlorine Exposure and Health Consequences after a Train Derailment—South Carolina, 2005. American Thoracic Society International Conference [Poster discussion presentation]. San Diego, CA. [May 2006]
D Van Sickle, Wenck MA, Belfower A, Drociuk D, Svendsen E, Ferdinands J, Holguin F, Moolenaar R. Acute Health Effects of Chlorine Gas Exposure in the Community: The Clinical Presentation, Course and Treatment of Hospitalized Persons. American Thoracic Society International Conference [Poster discussion presentation]. San Diego, CA. [May 2006]
D Van Sickle, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Hurricane-Associated Use of Portable Gasoline-Powered Generators—Florida, 2004. Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference. [Oral Presentation]. April 25, 2006.
Kristin Cummings, D Van Sickle, C Rao, M Riggs, C Brown, J Ferdinands, R Moolenaar. There’s a Fungus Among Us: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Residents and Remediation Workers Regarding Mold—New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2005. Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference. [Oral Presentation]. Atlanta, GA. April 24, 2006.
MA Riggs, C Rao, D Van Sickle, K Cummings, C Brown, K Dunn, J Ferdinands, D Callahan, L Pinkerton, R Moolenaar, P Thorne, G Chew. This Mold House: Exposure Assessment of Flood-Damaged Homes — New Orleans, LA, October 2005. Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference. [Oral Presentation] Atlanta, GA. [April 2006]
D Van Sickle. The population health effects of widespread corticosteroid use in rural and urban Tamil Nadu, India. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Annual Meeting [Oral presentation – Session S45] Santa Fe, NM. April 9, 2005.
D Van Sickle. Do Indian Practitioners Recognize Asthma in ISAAC Video Scenes? American Thoracic Society International Conference [Poster presentation – Abstract number 3457] Orlando, FL. May 24, 2004.
D Van Sickle. The Rise of Asthma and Allergy in the Mental Environment and Medical Marketplace of South India. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting [Oral presentation] New Orleans, LA. November 2002.
D Van Sickle. Perceptions of Asthma among the Navajo. Abstract published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 161(3 Supplement). American Thoracic Society International Conference [Poster discussion presentation] Toronto. May 2000.
D Van Sickle and AL Wright. Navajo Perceptions of Asthma and Asthma Medications. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting [Oral presentation]. Chicago, IL. November 1999.
M Nichter, M Nichter, and D Van Sickle. Tobacco Use Among Adolescents in South India. Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting [Oral presentation]. Tucson, AZ. 1999.
M Nichter, M Nichter, and D Van Sickle. Tobacco Use Among Adolescents in South India. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco [Poster presentation]. San Diego, CA. 1999
D Van Sickle and AL Wright. Results of the Navajo Asthma Study. Presented at the Arizona Medical Anthropology Symposium [Oral presentation]. Flagstaff, AZ. 1999.
D Van Sickle and AL Wright. Project Report: The Navajo Asthma Study. Presented at Diné Bá Na’alkaah: A Conference on Navajo Community Research [Oral presentation]. Shiprock, NM. January 28-29, 1999.
D Van Sickle. The History of Childhood Asthma Research and Therapy. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting [Oral presentation]. Washington, DC. 1997.
D Van Sickle. The Parentectomy: Adolescence in asthma research. Presented at the Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting [Oral presentation] October 24, Tucson, AZ. 1997.
D Van Sickle. Pictures of Health. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting [Poster presentation] San Francisco, CA. 1996.
