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Publications and Presentations

Awards:

Michael Horst, PhD has been awarded the Mark J. Young Award from the Department of Health Sciences at Penn State Hershey. This award is given annually to the most outstanding graduating student in the Master of Science in Public Health Sciences program. Dr. Horst graduated from this program in May 2009.

Presentations:

Michael Horst, PhD
Syndromic Surveillance for Common Illnesses in the Lancaster Community
Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Research Day
March 14, 2009, Skytop, PA
*Dr. Horst’s presentation won the Marc Connelly Award for Best Overall Research and Best Research Presentation by Faculty/Fellow
 
Michelle Cardona, MD and Donna Cohen, MD, MSc.
The Family Physician's Role in the Development of Healthy Eating Habits
Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Research Day
March 14, 2009, Skytop, PA

Andrew Coco, MD, MS and Michael Horst, PhD
Management of Acute Otitis Media After Publication of the 2004 AAP/AAFP Clinical Practice Guideline
Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Research Day
March 14, 2009, Skytop, PA
 
Michael A Horst, PhD
Syndromic Surveillance for Common Illnesses in the Lancaster Community: GIS Applied to Ambulatory Visit Data in a Large Health System.
2009 ESRI Health GIS Conference.
September 21-23, Nashville, TN

Publications:

Andrew S Coco, MD, Michael A Horst, PhD and Angela S Gambler, BA.
Trends in Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Prescribing for Children with Acute Otitis Media in the United States, 1998-2004.
BMC Pediatrics 2009, 9:41.

Andrew S Coco, MD, Donna Cohen, MD, Michael A Horst, PhD and Angela S Gambler, BA.
Trends in Prenatal Care Settings: Association with Medical Liability.
BMC Public Health 2009, 9:257.
 
Ian M. Bennett, MD, PhD, Andrew S. Coco, MD, Janice Anderson, MD, Michael Horst, PhD, Angela S. Gambler, BA, Wendy Brooks Barr, MD, MPH, and Stephen Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH
Improving Maternal Care with a Continuous Quality Improvement Strategy: A Report from the Interventions to Minimize Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants through Continuous Quality Improvement Techniques (IMPLICIT) Network.
J Am Board of Fam Med 2009; 22:380-386.

Grants:

The LG Research Institute will be allocated $2700 in consulting fees (database creation, data oversight, analysis & interpretation) from a grant obtained by the Lancaster General College of Health Sciences and Nursing for the following project:

Patsy Fasnacht, PhD, RN, CNE, Cheryl Grab, MSN, RN.C and Sandra Zerby, PhD
Standardized Computer-based Tests as Predictors of Completion of an Associate of Science in Nursing Curriculum and NCLEX-RN Success or Failure.
Sigma Theta Tau International/ATI Educational Assessment Nursing Research Grant in the amount of $4500.