Education and Clinical Programs:

The Division operates one of the few, three-year general preventive medicine residency programs in the nation. This includes a practicum year based at the Alvin C. York Campus of the Middle Tennessee Veterans Affairs Hospital in Murfreesboro, TN. There, the Division staffs a Preventive Medicine Clinic, delivering smoking cessation, weight management, exercise and general prevention services.

Other teaching activities include mentoring of master's students for graduate training in public health, a seminar and intermediate epidemiology training in Meharry's Master of Science in Public Health program, a two and one half hour segment of the Medical School's Clerkship in Pediatrics (for training in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), and special integrative lectures to first year medical students. Contact Information:Director: Robert Levine M.D. Professor Phone: 615-3276782Fax: 615-327-6131Email: rlevine@mmc.edu

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Ongoing funding includes:

U18HS11131  10/01/00 - 9/30/04

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The goal of this project is to test a new, nurse-based, model for integrating clinical preventive services into a clinic serving a predominantly Medicaid population.

US2MP95

Health Care Financing Administration and Office of Minority Health 10/01/98 - 9/30/05. Evaluation Section. The goal of this project is to bring integrate preventive services into medical care centers serving low-income communities.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  (Meharry site) 10/01/01 - 9/30/04

Center for Improving Patient Safety: The goal of this project is to develop educational and research programs designed to reduce medical error.

5 R24 HS11640          09/30/01 - 08/31/04

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Developing Collaborative Minority Healthcare and Quality Research

Seeks to augment the research infrastructure at Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University to increase the capacity to conduct high quality health outcomes research.

5P02OMD000516  09/30/03 - 08/31/07

National Institute for Minority Health

EXPORT Center for Health Disparities - Research Core.

Seeks to develop institutional capacity for conducting health disparities research.

U50CCU304522 09/30/03 - 09/30/05

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Regional Allied Health Training Program in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Conducts training programs and research related to develop these programs. Designed to increase professional capacity to recognize and treat Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Role: Principal Investigator (20%)

1 R03 CA 105995

National Cancer Institute

Race-specific Occupational Risk Factors for Cancer

This project investigates race-specific occupational risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin disease and soft-tissue sarcoma using secondary data from a large U.S. population-based, case-control study.

Center for Optimal Health

Meharry - State Farm Alliance.

This projects investigates the epidemiology and prevention of motor vehicle accidents.

National Institute for Transportation Safety:

Testing interventions designed to improve automobile safety belt use.

Research Publications (during the past three years include):

1.         Hall, I.H., Caplan, L.S., Coughlin, S.S., Levine, R.S., Zhu, K. An empirical study of the use of living versus deceased study subjects: Associations with liver cancer in the Selected Cancers Study. Ann. Epidemiolol. 12(1):15-20. 2002.

2.         Husaini BA, Sherkat DE, Levine R, Bragg R, Holzer C, Anderson K, Cain V, Moten C. Race, gender, and health care service utilization and costs among Medicare elderly with psychiatric diagnoses. J. Aging and Health. 14:79-95. 2002.

3.         Husaini, BA, Sherkat, DE, Levine R, Bragg R, Cain VA, Emerson JS, Mentes CM. The effects of a church-based breast cancer screening education program on mammography rates among African-American women. J. Nat. Med. Assoc. 94:100-106. 2002.

4.         Briggs NC, Levine RS, Brann EA. Allergies and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma by subtype. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 11: 401-407. 2002.

5.         Zhu K, Levine RS, Brann EA, Hall I, Caplan LS, Gnepp DR.  Case-control study evaluating the homogeneity and   heterogeneity of risk factors between sinonasal and nasopharyngeal cancers. Int J Cancer. 99:119-123. 2002.

6.         Zhu K, Hunter S, Bernard LJ, Payne-Wilks K, Roland CL, Elam LC, Feng Z, Levine RS. An intervention study on screening for breast cancer among single African American women aged 65 and older. Preventive Medicine. 34:536-45. 2002. 

7.         Thompson FE, Patterson BH, Weinstein SJ, McAcams M, Spate VL, Hamman RF, Levine RS,Mallin K, Stolley PD, Brinton LA, Morris JS, Ziegler RG. Serum selenium and the risk of cervical cancer among women in the United States . Cancer Causes and Control. 13:517-526. 2002.