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Address
722 West 168th Street, 17floor, Room 17-12
New York,, NY 10032
Phone:212-342-0421
Fax: 212-342-0519
Email:[email protected]
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| University Affiliations |
| ▪ | Center for the Health of Urban Minorities Principal Investigator, Disparities in Injury Core |
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Education and Training
| PhD
| 1996
| Duke University
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| MPH
| 1980
| University of South Carolina at Columbia
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| BA
| 1975
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Clinical Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health
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Director of Health Policy and Population Studies, National Program Office, Injury Free Coalition for Kids
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| As a former director of Emergency Medical Services, Dr. Pressley worked to develop and evaluate regional emergency medical services at the pre-hospital, hospital, and critical care center levels. She is currently principal investigator of the Injury Research Core of an NIH-funded grant investigating disparities in injury, injury-related disability, and access to injury prevention and rehabilitation programs. As part of her work in the area of factors contributing to disparities in active and disabled life expectancy, she developed the Socioeconomic Model of Functional Decline, a theoretical framework that has been extended to study injury-related disabilities and the Active Life Expectancy Functional Impairment (ALE) Scale to improve the ability to quantify factors associated with active and disabled life expectancy. Dr. Pressley’s work in injury-related health disparities has demonstrated a cumulative disadvantage whereby blacks and American Indians/Alaska Natives experience higher injury-related mortality from birth until a mortality crossover occurs in the elderly age range. Dr. Pressley is currently working on the Comprehensive Injury Risk Assessment and Reduction which is focusing on identifying modifiable risk from four major contributing sources: the home, community, individual intrinsic (symptoms, health status, comorbid diseases, physical and cognitive profile); and a medical care and rehabilitation component. She has published articles on injury and chronic conditions associated with injury, including Parkinson’s disease, dementia, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope, and frailty in geriatric populations.
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