HPM Alumnus receives the 2010 Humanitarian Award from the 50 States & D.C. Marathon Group U.S.A.

We would like to congratulate Richard on this great accomplishment.

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Alumnus Madkour wins APHA award for research about intimate partner homicide in N.C.

Dr. Aubrey Madkour

Madkour, who graduated from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2009 with a doctorate in maternal and child health and minor in epidemiology, conducted the award-winning research while a student.  She received the award for her abstract, "Area disadvantage and intimate partner homicide: An ecological analysis of North Carolina counties, 2004-2005," at the APHA meeting in Philadelphia on November 10, 2009.

ESE Alumnus tapped by President Obama to lead EPA Region 6

Dr. Al Armendariz

Dr. Armendariz earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the UNC School of Public Health in 2002 and was a member of the Royster Society of Fellows, a program envisioned as the graduate level equivalent of the university's Morehead Scholars program for undergraduates.

Environmental Sciences and Engineering Associate Chair and Professor, David Leith, currently Director of Graduate Studies says, "Al Armendariz is smart, he works hard, and his heart is in the right place.  He was a fine student and I know he will do an excellent job in his new position at EPA.  We are proud of him."

Regional Administrators are responsible for managing the EPA's regional activities under the direction of the EPA Administrator. They serve as liaisons to state and local government officials to help promote state and local environmental protection efforts. Regional Administrators are tasked with ensuring EPA's efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and transparency.

"I look forward to working closely with Al Armendariz on the range of urgent environmental issues we face, in region 6 and across the nation," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.  "At this moment of great challenge and even greater opportunity, I'm thrilled that Al will be part of our leadership team at EPA.  He will certainly play an instrumental role in our Agency's mission to protect our health and the environment."  

Dr. Armendariz has received several outstanding faculty awards is an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where he has taught environmental and civil engineering since 2002.  Armendariz received his S.B. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida.  After college, he worked as a research assistant at the MIT Center for Global Change Science at their Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory. He later joined Radian Corporation in North Carolina as a chemical engineer and also spent a summer on special assignment to EPA's Dallas office as an Environmental Scientist. For the past 15 years, Armendariz has worked in a variety of research and academic positions and has published several research papers.

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Alumni News Briefs

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• Michael E. Samuels, DrPH '74, recently announced his retirement from the University of Kentucky.  Dr. Samuels is the Endowed Chair and Distinguished Scholar in Rural Health Policy and Research and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.  He is a nationally known health services researcher with a long record of supported research, numerous journal articles on rural health, health professions.
  
• Mario G. Fiorilli, MD, MPH '76, was publicly recognized by the City Council of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina on October 13, 2009 for his thirty years of service and for the important role he has played as a member of the community and as a member of the health profession.  Dr. Fiorilli is a practicing internist and infectious disease specialist, with an interest in public health, and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Amy Glenn Vega, BSPH '95, has authored a series of educational novellas for nurses, published by Pritchett and Hull Associates, Inc.  The books can be used as continuing education activities and may also be used as book club readings in health care organizations.  For more information and to preview the first five chapters of each book, visit www.NursingNovellas.com.
• May Baydoun, PhD '06, is a Staff Scientist at the National Institute on Aging, NIH/NIA/IRP.  She is currently working at the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Sandy Deming, PhD '05, is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. 
• Deborah Valulick Dawson, PhD '81, Director of the Division of Biostatistics and Research Design at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, has been awarded the first Morris Bernstein Professorship in Dentistry.
• Patricia L. Bright, MSPH '93, PhD '03,  is a research associate in the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
• Wichai Aekplakorn, PhD '01, is living in Bangkok, Thailand.  He is an associate professor at Ramathibodi Hospital's Community Medicine Center.
• Shannon B. Jackson,  BSPH '01, is a clinical dietitian supervisor at the Wilson Medical Center in Wilson, NC.
• Lisa M. Schweigler, MPH '03, is a resident in the University of Michigan Hospitals.
• Laura M. Sterling, MPH '03, is an assistant professor in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
• John Bates Hipps, MPH '03, is a pediatric resident at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
• Barrett Robinson,  MPH '03, is a clinical fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology  at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA.
• Sonali Kulkarni, PhD '04, is a resident at the University of California clinics in San Francisco.
• Georgeta D. Vaidean, PhD '04, is an assistant professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Tennessee at Memphis.
• Kristie McClamroch, PhD '04, is an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the State University of New York at Albany.
• William E. Humphries, III, MPH '05, is a resident at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
• Mayra Alvarez, MHA '05, recently accepted the position of legislative assistant for health for the Senate Majority Whip, Senator Richard Durbin.  She previously worked in the office of Congresswoman Hilda Solis.
• Mishka Terplan, MPH '06, is an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago.
• Mangombo Prime Mulembakani, MPH '06, is a research associate at the Kinshasa School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Carla Wright Picardo, MPH '06, works as an ob-gyn doctor for Community Health Net and an instructor in ob-gyn and preventative medicine for the Family Medicine Residency Program at St. Vincent Health Center in Erie, PA.  She also conducts independent research in reproductive health.
• Rebecca Leigh Coelho, MPH '06, is a dietitian and health educator at the Intelligent Health Center, a private practice endocrinologist's office, in Atlanta, GA.  She plans to further her education by earning a CDE.
• Mary K. Wojczynski, PhD '06, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Biostatistics.
• James Connell Gear, DrPH '06, is a senior statistician at the Midwest Employers Casualty Company in Chesterfield, MO.
• Melissa A. Troester, MPH '06, is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health
• Lauren L. Murphey, MS '06, is a project manager for ifPeople in Atlanta, GA.

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In Memoriam

• Harriet Hylton Barr ('48 MPH HBHE) of Durham, NC; December 14, 2009
• Arthur R. "Bud" Gregory ('63 MSPH ENVR, '66 PhD ENVR) of Massanutten Mountain, VA; December 11, 2009
  
• Doris McHan Hummer ('54 BSPHN PHNU) of Redmond, OR; March 3, 2008
• James Arthur Hancock, Jr. ('51 MSPH PALP) of Rocky Mount, VA; February 23, 2008
• Paul Doyle Van Zandt ('55 MSPH PALP; '60 PHD PALP) of Poland, OH; February 19, 2008
• Randolph Wayland Shotwell ('66 MPH HPAA) of Virginia Beach, VA; February 6, 2008
• Pamela Elaine Noel ('01 PHD MCH) of Iowa City, IA; February 2, 2008
• Luz Divina Tirado ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Las Cruces, NM; January 31, 2008
• Amedee Simeon Landry ('69 MSPH HPAA) of Los Lunas, NM; January 25, 2008
• Katherine Gartland Kelley ('77 MPH PALP; '79 DRPH PALP) of Bloomfield, CT; December 29, 2007
• Robert Nixon Taylor, Jr. ('76 MPH HPAA) of Front Royal, VA; December 29, 2007
• Mary Ann Murphy ('70 MPH PHNU) of Eau Claire, WI; December 16, 2007
• John Bernard Gascoyne ('75 MPH HPAA) of Appomattox, VA; December 10, 2007
• R. C. Steele ('53 MSSE ENVR) of Arvada, CO; November 27, 2007
• John Eugene Pipes ('50 MPH PALP) of Lynchburg, VA; November 19, 2007
• Sally Ann Farrand ('63 MPH HPAA) of Chapel Hill, NC; November 14, 2007
• Jeffrey Lee McMurtrie ('83 MSPH ENVR) of Salem, OR; November 5, 2007
• Bettie Louise Nelson ('73 MSPH BIOS; '83 DRPH BIOS) of Richmond, VA; October 18, 2007
• Willie Gordon Bunch ('47 MSPH HBHE) of Jacksonville, FL; October 14, 2007
• Frances Roberta Pursley ('59 MPH PHNU) of Longview, TX; October 3, 2007
• Lucius Lee Ardrey Moore, Jr. ('50 MSPH PALP; '65 PHD PALP) of Atlanta, GA; September 21, 2007
• George Alfred Langston, Jr. ('51 MSPH ENVR) of Statesville, NC; September 13, 2007
• Rebecca Broach Bryan ('52 MPH NUTR) of Atlanta, GA; September 13, 2007
• Virginia Coker Phillips ('51 BSPHN PHNU; '58 MPH PHNU) of Florence, SC; August 20, 2007
• Betty Bass Garrison ('85 MPH PHNU) of Charlotte, NC; August 18, 2007
• Takao Lewis Sato ('82 MPH BIOS) of Rockville, MD; August 12, 2007
• George Grundy Dudney ('62 MPH HPAA) of Gainesboro, TN; July 22, 2007
• Elizabeth Elphabelle Mumm ('48 MPH HBHE) of Sun City, AZ; July 21, 2007
• William Arthur Wright ('72 MSPH ENVR) of Phoenix, AZ; July 17, 2007
• Joan H. Conway (' 71 MPH MHCH) of Pittsburgh, PA; July 8, 2007
• Robert Leroy Scott ('62 MPH HBHE) of Monroe, NC; June 25, 2007
• William Jerome McCord ('58 MSPH HBHE) of Columbia, SC; June 22, 2007
• Billy Lee Ferguson ('55 MSPH PALP) of Greensboro, NC; June 7, 2007
• Robert Charles Tice, Jr. ('63 MPH HPAA) of Nashville, TN; June 5, 2007
• Della Sue Simonson ('77 MPH HPAA) of Butner, NC; May 21, 2007
• Bret Conaway Williams ('88 MPH MHCH) of Efland, NC; May 14, 2007
• Meredith Lee Cosby ('75 MPH HBHE) of Raleigh, NC; April 30, 2007
• Christopher Glenn Reuther ('97 BSPH ENVR) of Apex, NC; April 26, 2007
• Basil Wasyl Pshyk ('62 MPH HPAA) of Durham, NC; April 23, 2007
• Haskell Solomon Tubiash ('47 MSPH PALP) of Yardley, PA; April 23, 2007
• Jane Pfeifle ('76 MPH PHNU) of Silvis, IL; April 22, 2007
• Annie Ray Moore ('47 MPH HBHE) of Greensboro, NC; April 9, 2007
• William R. Walker ('64 MSSE ENVR) of Blacksburg, VA; March 21, 2007
• M. A. Shepherd ('59 MPH HPAA) of Somerset, KY; March 7, 2007
• Dorothy Fay Dunn ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Urbana, IL; March 6, 2007
• Betty Brown Cain ('47 CPHN PHNU) of Sumter, SC; March 4, 2007
• Mary E. Foster Webb ('46 MSPH HBHE) of Albemarle, NC; March 4, 2007
• Kenneth William Haase ('68 MSPH BIOS) of Locust Grove, VA; February 17, 2007  
• Frances Carlton Crutcher ('69 MPH PHNU) of Atlanta, GA; February 17, 2007
• George McKibben Ineichen ('51 MSPH HBHE) of Rayville, LA; February 12, 2007
• Millicent Knierim Stuntz ('80 MPH MHCH) of Salisbury, NC; Februrary 8, 2007
• Doris Parker Hill ('48 CPHN PHNU) of Welcome, NC; February 6, 2007
• James Austin McCullough ('40 MSPH ENVR) of Vienna, VA; January 31, 2007
• James Ford Hughey, Sr. ('51 MSPH ENVR) of Gastonia, NC; January 21, 2007
• Jessie Pittman Sisk ('73 MPH NUPH) of North Myrtle Beach, SC; January 20, 2007
• Nettie Day Ellis ('48 MPH HBHE) of Raleigh, NC; January 8, 2007
• William Carlton Byrd, Sr. ('58 MPH HBHE) of Greenville, NC; January 7, 2007
• Robert Coleman Watson ('71 MPH HPAA) of Jeffersonville, GA; January 5, 2007
• Marion Claude Riser, Jr. ('47 MPH HBHE) of Tallahassee, FL; January 2, 2007
• Zeta Garland Ruegger ('54 CPHN PHNU) of Johnson City, TN; January 1, 2007
• Catherine Sause Eastwood ('69 MPH PHNU) of Ponce Inlet, FL; December 15, 2006    
• Daniel Martin Rosof ('69 MPH HPAA) of Franklin, TN; September 6, 2006
• Hugh-Bert Ehrhard ('69 MPH PALP; '71 DRPH PALP) of Modesto, CA; August 23, 2006
• Elizabeth Edna Allen ('67 MPH PHNU) of Omaha, NE; April 9, 2006
• Ashfaque Hossain ('99 MPH MHCH) of Jamaica, NY; September 24, 2005
• Robert K. Creighton, Jr. ('88 MPH HPAA) of Wilmington, NC; September 11, 2005
• Kamal Butros Salameh ('78 MPH HPAA) of Roswell, GA; September 9, 2005
• Samuel Kaufman ('47 MSPH PALP) of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; July 19, 2005
• Gretchen Simmons Webster ('74 MPH PHNU) of Sioux Falls, SD; August 20, 2004
• Rebecca James Baker ('04 PhD EPID) of Durham, NC; August 8, 2004
• Elizabeth E. Neu ('66 MPH PALP) of Rochelle, IL; May 1, 2004
• William Harrison Utt ('64 MPH HPAA) of Nashville, TN; August 20, 2003
• Michael Joseph McMahon ('95 MPH EPID) of Chapel Hill, NC; August 12, 2003

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