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The American College of Emergency Physicians has recognized Dr. Judith E. Tintinalli, professor and chair emeritus in the department of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine.” Tintinalli, the emergency department’s founding chairman, is also an adjunct professor in the department of Health Policy and Management in the UNC School of Public Health, and a guest lecturer in medical journalism in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The honor, announced as part of the college’s 40th anniversary celebrations, recognizes emergency physicians who have made significant contributions to emergency medicine, their communities and their patients. The college described Tintinalli is one of the world’s leading emergency medicine educators and said that her dedication, passion and commitment embody the vision of its founders and the ideals of the specialty. Tintinalli was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 1997, was president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine from 1989 to 1990, and was the founding president of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. She served as deputy editor of the Annals of Emergency Medicine from 1994 to 2005 and is editor of Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, first published in 1978 and now in its 6th edition. The American College of Emergency Physicians is a national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine with more than 25,000 members. # # #
School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. Posted 6/18/08back to top
The recipient of the award should exhibit commitment to the department and the university and excel in one or more of the following areas: individual or team accomplishment, extra effort, helfpulness to others, professionalism, creativity and innovation, skills improvement or educational achievement, positive attitude or flexibility, and community service. Mrs. Capps received multiple nominations. Employees earning the award receive a framed certificate, a cash payment and one day’s leave with pay. Posted 5/30/08 Bender receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program aims
to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and
other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and
skills. Posted 5/30/2008 MSPH Students Awarded
the David A. Winston Scholarship
Three first year MSPH students have won the David A. Winston Scholarship.
Danielle Doughman, Angela Palermo, and Michelle Sonia are three of the ten 2008 scholarship recipients from across the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) member programs.
The scholarship program recognizes student excellence and achievement based upon the student’s record and recommendations from faculty and colleagues.
Posted 5/23/08
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HPM honors outstanding alumnus and students The Department of Health Policy and Management honored an alumnus and a number of Anthony R. Measham, M.D., Dr. P.H. was presented with the department's Alumni Leadership Award by department chair Dr. Peggy Leatt, PhD. Dr. Measham was honored for his long and distinguished career in world health. See more about Dr. Measham's accomplishments here. The student awards and their recipients were: Undergraduate Awards:
James P. Dixon Award for Excellence in
Education
AUPHA/McGaw Scholar
Doctoral Awards:
Other Awards:
back to top Entrepreneurial teams from School win first and second prize in Kenan-Flagler Carolina Challenge Entrepreneurial teams of students and faculty from the UNC School of Public Health took first and second prize in the 2008 Carolina Challenge entrepreneurial business-plan competition sponsored by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School on April 19. Competing against 15 other teams, the two teams won $22,500
worth of prize money to be used in developing their entrepreneurial ventures.
The Carolina Liquid Assets team includes Health Policy and Administration Executive Master's student Kate Rademacher. Other Carolina Liquid Assets team members include Ben Aiken, an environmental sciences and engineering master’s student; Lindsey Witmer, an environmental sciences and engineering bachelor’s student; and Sara Abdoulayi, a business administration master’s student at Kenan-Flagler. The Carolina Liquid Assets entrepreneurship project was developed
through the Carolina Global Water Partnership — a research collaboration
between UNC’s Schools of Public Health and Business designed to evaluate
options for commercializing different household water treatment technologies in
developing countries. The partnership is one of seven Gillings Innovation
Laboratories (GILs) at the UNC School of Public Health — interdisciplinary
research groups funded through a gift to the School from Dennis and Joan
Gillings.
“There was definite support and leverage provided through
the Gillings Innovation Lab program,” says Tom Outlaw, a business
administration master’s student at Kenan-Flagler, member of the Carolina Global
Water Partnership and team captain of Carolina Liquid Assets. “Carolina Liquid Assets was the nom de plume to compete in the Carolina Challenge and leverage the
work that had already been done through the Carolina Global Water Partnership
and specifically, to develop a business plan that is part of the deliverable
that the Global Water Partnership is designed to produce.” The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 2
million children die each year from diarrhea and related illnesses caused by
unsafe drinking water and inadequate hygiene and sanitation. UNC School of
Public Health research has demonstrated that the use of ceramic water filters
(and also concrete biosand filters) reduces the incidence of diarrhea by up to
40 percent. “We know that biosand and ceramic filters and other
household water treatment technologies make an enormous difference in the
health of people who don’t have access to clean drinking water,” says Dr. Mark
Sobsey, Kenan Distinguished University Professor of environmental sciences and
engineering, who has researched the efficacy of these devices in removing
waterborne pathogens and reducing diarrheal disease. “We have the technologies,
but now it’s a matter of finding ways to get these technologies into
communities and households, and have people adopt and use them effectively and
sustainably.” Rademacher said the business plan for the ceramic filter project was further developed this spring through a public health entrepreneurship graduate certificate program launched this semester by UNC School of Public Health faculty in collaboration with the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative at Kenan-Flagler. The new program offers graduate students, post-docs and fulltime faculty and staff opportunities to explore how entrepreneurship is changing their fields and how to conceive, plan and execute new commercial and nonprofit ventures. Applied Microproducts, Inc., won second prize ($7,500) in
the competition’s commercial category. The company, developed by Environmental
Sciences and Engineering Professor Dr. Frederic Pfaender, in conjunction with
others, makes environmentally-friendly wood-treatment products for industry
utility poles to replace the hazardous materials currently used. “All the materials we use in our product are food-grade materials,” Pfaender says. “In fact, you could eat them. We are replacing hazardous materials with materials that are on the Food and Drug Administration’s list of materials generally regarded as safe.” School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.
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Karen Capps, human resources manager
for the department of Health Policy and Management, was honored with the
department’s Employee Recognition Award at
a departmental luncheon May 21st, 2008.
Deborah Bender, PhD, research professor in
the Department of Health Policy and Management, has been awarded a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
students for
exemplary service, leadership and scholarship during their annual award ceremony, held Thursday, April 17 in the Hooker Center atrium.
“Carolina Liquid Assets,” a team of students from the UNC
School of Public Health and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business
School, won first prize — the $15,000
John Stedman Social Entrepreneurship Award — for their business plan to
manufacture and distribute ceramic water purifiers in Cambodia. They hope eventually to
scale the operation throughout Southeast Asia
and beyond. 