David I. Gregorio, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Education
Director, Graduate Program in Public Health
1973 B.A., Sociology, Canisius College
1976 M.A., Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo
1980 Ph.D., Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo
1983 M.S., Epidemiology, SUNY at Buffalo
Brief Chronology of Professional Career
David Gregorio received a Ph.D. in sociology (University at Buffalo, 1980) for work on the determinants of social movement participation. He subsequently completed an NIH Post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Sociology and Epidemiology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute where he received an M.S. in epidemiology for work on the effects of dietary fat intake on breast cancer survival. After a brief stint in health system planning, he joined the UCONN faculty in 1986.
Responsibilities at the UConn Health Center
Dr. Gregorio coordinates the Department's teaching activities in both medical/dental education and the public health program. He was appointed Director of the University's Graduate Program in Public Health and Associate Head of the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care in 2004.
Dr. Gregorio teaches principles of clinical epidemiology to 2nd year medical and dental students and coordinates the MPH program’s practicum project. He also is a major advisor to many Master of Public Health Students and supervises independent research projects.
Dr. Gregorio's research focuses on cancer surveillance and the social determinants of health. His recent peer-reviewed papers examine (a) the cause and control of breast and prostate cancers, (b) racial, gender and economic disparities in care seeking behaviors, and (c) patient and physician factors that influence therapy for cancer care. He presently pursuing work based on a CDC-sponsored effort to implement a community-wide measure of deprivation for analysis of geographic variation in health status indicators.
Bioterrorism Training for Public Health Workers
This project, funded by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, will design, initiate and evaluate a learning rotation for Master of Public Health students at state and local health departments.
Gregorio DI, Walsh SJ, Paturzo D. The effects of occupation-based social position on mortality in a large American cohort, American Journal of Public Health 1997; 87: 1472-1475.
Gregorio DI. Distinguishing styles of practice among physicians who treat breast cancer, Cancer Strategy, 1999; 1: 11-15.
Roof K, Gregorio DI, Kulko J, Palermino D. Incidental findings in a federally-sponsored cancer screening program, Journal of Community Health. 1999; 24: 305-312.
Gregorio DI, Cromley E, Tate JP, Mrozinski R, Walsh SJ, Flannery J. Subject loss in spatial analysis of breast cancer, Health and Place, 1999; 5: 173-177.
Gregorio DI. Refutation and conjecture around consensus guidelines on screening mammography for women 40 - 49 years of age, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 1999; 5: 91-98.
Gregorio DI, Walsh SJ. Diminished socio-economic and racial disparity in the detection of early-stage breast cancer, Connecticut 1986-95, Ethnicity & Disease. 1999; 9: 165-179.
Gregorio DI. Distress associated with abnormal mammograms, Cancer Strategy 1999; 1: 183-186.
Gregorio DI, Kulldorff M, Barry L, Samociuk H. Geographic differences in invasive and in situ breast cancer incidence rates according to precise geographic coordinates, Connecticut, 1991-1995. International Journal of Cancer 2002; 100: 194-198.
Gregorio DI, Samociuk H. Breast cancer surveillance using gridded population units, Connecticut, 1992-1995. Annals of Epidemiology 2002; 13: 43-50.
Gregorio DI, Kulldorff M, Sheehan TJ, Samociuk H, Geographic Distribution of Prostrate Cancer Incidence in an Era of PSA Testing, Urology 2004: 63: 78-82.
Fang Z, Kulldorff M, Gregorio DI, Brain Cancer in the United States, 1986-95: A Geographic Analysis, Neuro-Oncology, 2004; 6: 179-187.
Sheehan TJ, DeChello L, Kulldorff M, Gregorio DI, Gershman S, Mroszczyk, The geographic distribution of breast cancer incidence in Massachusetts 1988 to 1997, adjusted for covariates, International Journal of Health Geographics, 2004; 3: 17-28.
Gregorio DI, DeChello L, Samociuk H, Kulldorff M. Lumping or splitting: Can a standard areal unit for health geography studies be selected? International Journal of Health Geographics 2005; 4: 6-15.
Kulldorff M, Song C, Gregorio DI, Samociuk, DeChello L. Cancer map patterns: Are they random or not? (Forthcoming, 2005, American Journal of Preventive Medicine).
Graduate Program in Public Health
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: (860) 679-5480
Fax: (860) 679-1581
Email: gregorio@nso.uchc.edu
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