The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

 

 

presents

 

 

 

Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., R.D.

 

 

The Dietary Modification Trial of 
the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)

 

                                                                            

 

Thursday February 15, 2007 +

 

 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM*

 

 

Hammer Health Sciences Center (HHSC) Room 410

(a classroom; Directions over)

 

                                                          701 W. 168th Street, 4th floor
 

+  Please see over for information about an associated event

 
* You are welcome to bring lunch

 

 

Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., R.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Behavioral & Nutritional Research, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, and Co-investigator, Women’s Health Initiative, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.  She will describe the dietary intervention, specifically the motivational interviewing approaches she used as lead nutritionist for the Dietary arm of the New York City Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) site. She will also present nationwide results for this landmark study.

 
 
Papers (pdf attached, also available on http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/talks.html):
 

Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Henry H, Rodabough R, Bragg C, Brewer A, Freed T, Kinzel L, Pedersen M, Soule CO, Vosburg S.  Additional self-monitoring tools in the dietary modification component of The Women's Health Initiative.  J Am Diet Assoc. 2004 Jan;104(1):76-85.

 

Patterson RE, Kristal A, Rodabough R, Caan B, Lillington L, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Simon MS, Snetselaar L, Van Horn L.  Changes in food sources of dietary fat in response to an intensive low-fat dietary intervention: early results from the Women's Health Initiative.  J Am Diet Assoc. 2003 Apr;103(4):454-60. 

                      
Associated Event:  Dr. Mossavar-Rahmani also will present on Thursday February 15, 2007, on results obtained from the Women’s Health Initiative dietary intervention concerning diet and cancer.
Sponsor: CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) Cancer Workgroup of Columbia University and the Mailman School of Public Health

Time: 2-3pm

Location: 722 West 168th St. Rosenfield building, 9th floor conference room, Department of Sociomedical Sciences

Contact: Jillian Capodice, LAc, MS, Director of Acupuncture, Department of Urology, Center for Holistic Urology, Columbia University, College of P&S, 212-305-0155, jc2346@columbia.edu
 
Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., R.D.

 

Selected Publications
 

McTiernan A, Wu L, Chen C, Chlebowski R, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Modugno F, Perri MG, Stanczyk FZ, Van Horn L, Wang CY; Women's Health Initiative Investigators.   Relation of BMI and physical activity to sex hormones in postmenopausal women.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 Sep;14(9):1662-77.

 

Beresford SA, Johnson KC, Ritenbaugh C, Lasser NL, Snetselaar LG, Black HR, Anderson GL, Assaf AR, Bassford T, Bowen D, Brunner RL, Brzyski RG, Caan B, Chlebowski RT, Gass M, Harrigan RC, Hays J, Heber D, Heiss G, Hendrix SL, Howard BV, Hsia J, Hubbell FA, Jackson RD, Kotchen JM, Kuller LH, LaCroix AZ, Lane DS, Langer RD, Lewis CE, Manson JE, Margolis KL, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Ockene JK, Parker LM, Perri MG, Phillips L, Prentice RL, Robbins J, Rossouw JE, Sarto GE, Stefanick ML, Van Horn L, Vitolins MZ, Wactawski-Wende J, Wallace RB, Whitlock E.   Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of colorectal cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial.  JAMA. 2006 Feb 8;295(6):643-54.

 

Chlebowski RT, Pettinger M, Stefanick ML, Howard BV, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, McTiernan A.  Insulin, physical activity, and caloric intake in postmenopausal women: breast cancer implications.  J Clin Oncol. 2004 Nov 15;22(22):4507-13.

 

Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Henry H, Rodabough R, Bragg C, Brewer A, Freed T, Kinzel L, Pedersen M, Soule CO, Vosburg S.  Additional self-monitoring tools in the dietary modification component of The Women's Health Initiative.  J Am Diet Assoc. 2004 Jan;104(1):76-85.

 

Patterson RE, Kristal A, Rodabough R, Caan B, Lillington L, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Simon MS, Snetselaar L, Van Horn L.  Changes in food sources of dietary fat in response to an intensive low-fat dietary intervention: early results from the Women's Health Initiative.  J Am Diet Assoc. 2003 Apr;103(4):454-60.

 

Wylie-Rosett J, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Gans K.  Recent dietary guidelines to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.  Heart Dis. 2002 Jul -Aug;4(4):220-30. Review.

 

Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Pelto GH, Ferris AM, Allen LH.  Determinants of body size perceptions and dieting behavior in a multiethnic group of hospital staff women. J Am Diet Assoc. 1996 Mar;96(3):252-6. 

 

Directions:   NW Corner of West 168th Street and Ft. Washington Avenue, 1 long block west of Broadway (W. 168th becomes Haven Avenue west of Ft. Washington Ave.). Go to this website for a map, http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/map.html.  HHSC #4 on the map.  There is a parking garage at W. 165th Street & Ft. Washington Ave.