STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN THE INDO-US STUDY

One graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, played a role in the Indo-US project, published papers using the Indo-US project data, and also used Indo-US data for his thesis.

Master's Degrees in Public Health

Year Student Thesis/Term Paper Topic
2002 Rajesh Pandav Factors associated with cognitive impairment and dementia in a rural Indian population.

 Rajesh' Outstanding Student Award celebration

   with Mary & Rohan Ganguli

Student / trainee publications using Indo-US Project data

  1. Pandav R, Fillenbaum G, Ratcliff G, Dodge H, and Ganguli M. Sensitivity and specificity of cognitive and functional screening instruments for dementia: The Indo-US Dementia Epidemiology Study. (2002) Journal of the American Geriatric Society 50:554-561.
  2. Pandav R, Mehta A, Belle SH, Echement DM, Chandra V, Dodge H, and Ganguli M.  Data management and quality assurance for an international project: The Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study. (2002) International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 17:510-518.    
  3. Pandav R, Dodge HH, DeKosky ST, Ganguli, M.  Blood pressure and cognitive impairment in India and the US: A cross-national epidemiological study.  (2004). Archives of Neurology 60:1123-1128.
  4. Pandav RS, Chandra V, Dodge HH, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M. Hemoglobin levels and Alzheimer disease: an epidemiologic study in India. (2004). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 12: 523-526.

 

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