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HAIR LOSS DATABASE. Peter Claise & Barbara Visher Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering. Advisors: Dr. Lloyd King Dr. Jennifer Dempsey Dr. Sara Whitehead. My Head is FREEZING!!. Male Pattern Baldness 50 mill men in US 40% post menopausal woman Alopecia Areata
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HAIR LOSS DATABASE Peter Claise & Barbara Visher Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering Advisors: Dr. Lloyd King Dr. Jennifer Dempsey Dr. Sara Whitehead
My Head is FREEZING!! • Male Pattern Baldness • 50 mill men in US • 40% post menopausal woman • Alopecia Areata • ~equal in males and females • 1.7% of the population • 4 Million in the U.S.A. • Childhood • Psychologically devastating • Alopicia Totalis/Universalis • 800,000 in US • childhood/atopic individuals
Problem Although hair loss is a significant problem, research efforts in the US have been sporadic and incoherent due to lack of clinical communication and a centralized information system for collected data. Therefore, efforts for learning more about and stopping hair loss are slow and tedious.
Mission Statement To create a database with a wide variety of fields that are easily sortable for a large number of records in order to allow researchers the ability of developing genotypic correlations regarding hair loss.
TIME TABLE Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr Alopecia background xxx research Assess Client needs xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx & possible solutions Familiarize ourselves xxx xxx with Access Develop database xxx xxx template Debug/Finalize xxx xxx Written Report xxx
GOALS • Accessible • Aesthetically pleasing • Easily Manipulated • Organize, store and compile • Assess genotypic correlations
WORK TO DATE • Background Research - Hair Loss • Assessment of Customer Needs • Familiarized with VA computer network
CURRENT WORK • Developing programming skills using Microsoft Access • Implementing client questionnaire into database framework • Producing database template for advisor approval
FUTURE WORK • Finalizing fields of Database • Creating password protection • Aesthetically pleasing platform • Debugging • Possible Web access
References • http://www.alopeciaareata.com/ • Dr. Russ Waitman • Wempen, Faithe. “Microsoft Access 2002: fast & easy”. Prima Publishing, CA. 2001. • http://images.google.com/images?q=baldness&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N