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YVONNE
L. MICHAEL
School of Community Health
College of Urban and Public Affairs
Portland State University
Post Office Box 751
Portland, Oregon 97201
503.725.5108 (Tel)
503.725.5100 (Fax)
michaely@pdx.edu
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Position
Assistant Professor, School
of Community Health, Portland State University
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Education
Sc.D. Epidemiology and Health
and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 1999
S.M. Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
MA 1996
B.A. Government, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 1992
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Other Training
Summer Institute on Aging
Research (2000), The Brookdale Foundation and The National Institute
on Aging, Arlie, VA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1999-2000), Epidemiology and Biostatistics
of Aging, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Pre-doctoral Fellow (1997-1999), Cancer Prevention, Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Dissertation
Functional Health Status
Among Older Women: The Impact of Breast Cancer and Social Environment.
Dissertation focuses on the following:
1) Impact of breast cancer on multiple dimensions of functional health
status among women with incident breast cancer as compared to healthy
women.
2) Relative impact of social integration, medical treatment, and prognostic
variables on changes in functional health among women with breast cancer.
3) Association between living arrangements, social networks, and changes
in physical function, vitality, and mental health in a population of
community-dwelling women.
Committee: Dr. Graham Colditz, Dr. Lisa Berkman, Dr. Richard Gelber,
Dr. Ichiro Kawachi
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Awards and Scholarships
National Cancer Institute
Cancer Prevention Fellowship, September 1997-June 1999
Departmental Grant, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, September
1998-June 1999
Departmental Grant, Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public
Health, 1996-1997
National Merit Scholarship, College of William and Mary, 1988-1992
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Service
Faculty Advisory Committee,
Elected Chair-elect, 2001-2002
School of Community Health Faculty Search Committee, 2000-2001
Administration of Justice Faculty Search Committee, 2001
Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Urban and Public Affairs,
2000-2001
Doctoral Committees (2), 2001
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Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor 2000-present
School of Community Health, Portland State University
Teaching Assistant 1999-2000
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
Head Teaching Assistant 1998-1999
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Teaching Assistant 1995-1999
Departments of Epidemiology and Health and Social Behavior, Harvard
School of Public Health
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Courses Taught
Cancer Prevention
Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Aging
Multicultural Health
Principles of Epidemiology
Research Design: Traditional Approaches
Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Health
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Research Experience
Senior Research
Associate 1996-1999
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• Assisted senior investigator in writing of successfully-funded
NIH grant, as well as preparation of scientific manuscripts; attend
weekly senior investigator meetings.
• Management of data from large cohort study and analysis (with
SAS) utilizing statistical techniques including linear regression, logistic
regression, analysis of variance.
Project Director July 1996 to June 1998
Social Networks and Healthy Aging Study (Principal Investigator, Ichiro
Kawachi, MD, PhD)
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston, MA
• Coordinated study, implemented programming, and ensured data
quality prior to analysis.
• Oversaw data collection and preparation of manuscript under direction
of principal investigator.
Research Assistant
and Field Interviewer Summer 1996
MacArthur Study of Successful Aging, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA
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Grants
National Institute of Aging
Pilot Grant: Neighborhood Social Capital, Health, and Aging, $50,000
under review (Principal Investigator)
College of Urban and Public Affairs Faculty Research Grant: Living Environment
and Societal Roles among Urban Seniors, $7,850, 3/1/01-6/31/01 (Project
Coordinator)
Portland State University Faculty Enhancement Program: Development of
Research Proposal on Social Integration, Social Capital, and Health
in Oregon, $9,506.00, (Principal Investigator)
Small Travel Grant, Portland State University, $500, Fall 2000
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Reviewer for Professional
Journals
Cancer Causes and Control
(ad hoc)
Social Science and Medicine (ad hoc)
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Publications
1. Michael YL, Colditz GA,
Coakley E, Kawachi I. (1999) Health behaviors, social networks, and
healthy aging: Cross-sectional evidence from the Nurses' Health Study.Quality
of Life Research, vol. 8, 711-722.
2. Michael YL, Kawachi I, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Curhan GC. (2000)
Quality of life among women with Interstitial Cystitis. Journal of
Urology 164, 423-427.
3. Michael YL, Kawachi I, Berkman LF, Holmes M, Colditz GA. (2000) The
persistent impact of breast cancer on functional health status: Prospective
evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. Cancer 98, 2176-86.
4. Michael YL, Berkman LF, Colditz GA, Kawachi I. (2001) Living arrangements,
social integration, and change in functional health status: Prospective
evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. American Journal of Epidemiology
153, 123-31.
5. Michael YL, Colditz GA, Berkman LF, Holmes M, Kawachi I. (2002) Social
networks and health-related quality of life in breast cancer survivors.
Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 52(5):285-93.
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Articles Submitted
for Publication or Under Preparation
1. Michael YL, Schirmer M.
Neighborhood Social Capital and Aging: Characteristics of Seniors Living
in Urban Baltimore.
2. Sharkova I, Michael Y. In Search of Elderly-Friendly Places: Neighborhood-Level
Determinants of 1990-2000 Change in Persons 65 Years and Over in the
Metropolitan Portland Area.
3. Michael YL, Glass T, Fried LP. Personal Mastery and Enacted Function:
Evidence from the Women's Health and Aging Study.
4. Michael YL, Colditz GA, Kawachi I. Social networks and Incidence
of Cancer.
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Selected Lectures
and Presentations
"Healthy Aging in the Nurses' Health Study," Presentation
for Society of Epidemiologic Research Meeting, Alberta, Canada, June
1997.
"Understanding the meaning
of living arrangements in older women in the Nurses' Health Study Cohort,"
Presentation for Chronic Disease Epidemiology Seminar, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, January 1999.
"Living Arrangements,
Social Networks, and Change in Functional Health Status," Presentation
for Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
California, November 1999.
"A Prospective Study
of Social Networks in Relation to Cancer Incidence among Women,"
Poster Presentation for Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., November 2000.
"Low Mastery Predicts
Enacted Function Independently of Physical Performance," Presentation
for Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
November 2000.
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Professional Societies
American Public Health Association
Society for Epidemiologic Research
Gerontological Society of America
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