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• Ellie Morris, MPH '08 (HBHE) is the School Health Liaison for the Chatham County Public Health Department.  She is teaching healthy cooking tips on a video-blog.  Read about it at Carolina Digital Story Lab.
• Jane Staveley, MSPH '79, was elected as the president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) for 2010.  SETAC (www.setac.org) is a global, professional, not-for-profit organization.  SETAC promotes the use of science in environmental policy and decision-making and is founded on balanced representation from among academia, business, and government.  Staveley served as President of the North American unit of SETAC in 2007, has been on the SETAC World Council since 2006 and now assumes leadership of the global organization.  She is employed as a principal environmental scientist with ARCADIS.
• Kristal Chichlowska, PhD '09, is Director of the California Tribal Epidemiology Center in Sacramento, CA.  
• 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.