Prof Stan Edlavitch
Adjunct Clinical Professor, President/Chairman of the Board - Kansas City Suicide Awareness and Prevention Program (KCSAPP), Governors Mental Health Advisory Council for Kansas, Secretary/Treasurer; Suicide Prevention Sub-Committee Department(s) of Psychiatry Center for Behavorial Medicine
Dr. Edlavitch is a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UMKC School of Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor of infectious disease at the University of Kansas Medical Center and adjunct professor of epidemiology at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China. Dr. Edlavitch served as graduate training director for the Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health from 2006 to 2008.
Before joining the School of Medicine in 2002, Dr. Edlavitch was an adjunct professor of dental health at the School of Dentistry. He worked at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1991 to 2004 as professor of preventive medicine, a member of the Institutional Review Board and director of the Master of Public Health program.
In 1984, Dr. Edlavitch founded the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and served as its executive director through 1997. He serves on multiple advisory and editorial boards and is a contributing editor for the Chinese Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and the senior editor of the Pharmacoepidemiology Newsletter.
Dr. Edlavitch received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1962. He went on to earn a Master of Public Health in 1966 and a master’s degree in mathematical statistics in 1968 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California-Berkeley.
Dr. Chioma Ejekam
African Centre of excellence for Drug Research, Herbal medicine Development and Regulatory Science (ACEDHARS) University of Lagos; Centre for Infection Control and Patient Safety (CiCaPS), College of Medicine of the University of Lagos.
Dr. Chioma Ejekam is a consultant public health Physician and an expert in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology – FMCPH, MWACP, MSc, MPH,MD. Dr. Ejekam is a member of Faculty at the Center for Infection Control and Patient Safety (CiCaPS)College of Medicine, University of Lagos and the African Centre of excellence for Drug Research, Herbal medicine Development and Regulatory Science (ACEDHARS) of the University of Lagos. She teaches MSc pharmacovigilance and postgraduate diploma in infection prevention and control.
Dr. Chioma Ejekam has over 15 years’ experience in the field of public health. She has managed several multi-country projects as a lead investigator with local and international partners.
Dr Chioma Ejekam has contributed remarkably in the development of pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology in public health programs especially in Africa. She is the current Co-lead West Africa for the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE-AfriG).
She has several peer-reviewed publications in her portfolio
Course Description
This session will focus on basic biostatistical techniques in pharmacoepidemiology research. A hands-on approach including use of descriptive statistics and univariate methods for quantifying and testing associations between exposures and outcomes will be explored.