Faculty and Staff Meeting Wednesday, October 5 · 9/28/2016 · Sunchu Chowdary Applications Specialist, BIOS-CSCC Teresa Dong Accounting Technician, ESE ... President’s Cancer

Faculty and Staff Meeting

Wednesday, October 5

Thank you for joining us!

Please feel free to watch today’s Faculty and Staff meeting from

our overflow room (1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall).

James Porto, PhD, MPAClinical Assistant Professor

Health Policy and Management

Jonathan Kotch, MDProfessor

Maternal and Child Health

Michael Bowling, PhDResearch Associate Professor

Health Behavior

Vangie Foshee, PhDProfessor

Health Behavior

Cheryll Lesneski, DrPHClinical Assistant Professor

Public Health Leadership Program

Valeriy AfoninResearch Specialist

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Yvonne Golightly, PhDAssistant Professor, EPID

Kun Lu, PhDAssistant Professor, ESE

Susan Smith, PhDProfessor, NUTR

Michael Love Assistant Professor, BIOS

Matthew Psioda Research Assistant Professor, BIOS

Matthew Loop Clinical Assistant Professor, BIOS

Joanna “Asia” Maselko Associate Professor, EPID

Alexander Keil Research Assistant Professor, EPID

Leah Frerichs Assistant Professor, HPM

Eliana Perrin Professor (joint), NUTR

Aiya WilliamsInstructional Technology

Manager

Jennifer ColeCareer Services Manager, MCH

Deanna Hedgepeth

Administrative Support

Associate, NCIPH

Taylor Elliott

Administrative Support

Specialist, Dean’s Office

Sunchu Chowdary Applications Specialist, BIOS-CSCC

Teresa Dong Accounting Technician, ESE

Sara Duncan Social/Clinical Research Assistant, ESE

Emily Madsen Social/Clinical Research Assistant, ESE

Heather Pace Business Services Coordinator, ESE

Heather Davis Project Manager, EPID

Linda Kimaru Research Associate, EPID

Emily Kiser Project Coordinator, EPID

Rachel Berthiaume NCSP Deputy Director for Onsite Education, MCH

Kathy Donnald NCSP Deputy Director for Distance Education, MCH

Britnae Purdy Public Communications Specialist, NCIPH

Ashlyn Brady Temporary Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office




Jianwen Cai, PhD

Interim Chair, BIOS

Amy Herring, ScD

Vice Chair, BIOS

Barbara Turpin, PhD

Chair, ESE

Jennifer Smith, PhD

Professor, EPID

Noel Brewer, PhD

Professor, HB

Catherine Sullivan, PhD

Clinical Assistant

Professor, MCH

Michael Piehler, PhD

Professor, ESE

Christine Kantner

Business Officer, BIOS

Johnston King

Enrollment Management

Coordinator, OSA

Adriana Shepherd

Accounting Tech, Finance




Gillings named #1 public school

of public health for NIH funding.

Third year in a row that UNC Gillings

was the #1 public school of public

health for NIH funding, and the #3

university overall

Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, PhDClinical Professor, BIOS

Named a fellow of the American Statistical

Association (ASA).

Mark Sobsey, PhDKenan Distinguished Professor, ESE

Recipient of the NWRI Athalie

Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for

excellence in water research.

Jason West, PhDAssociate Professor, ESE

Selected for the new NASA air quality

and health team.

Mark Holmes, PhDAssociate Professor, HPM

Named director of the Cecil G. Sheps

Center for Health Services Research

Stacie Dusetzina, PhDAssistant Professor, HPM

One of three experts to present at the

President’s Cancer Panel, an advisory

group to President Obama, on drug

access, cost, innovation and value.

Stephanie Wheeler, PhDAssociate Professor, HPM

Invited to attend Vice President Biden’s

Cancer Moonshot Summit and was an

“ignite” speaker of a breakout session.

Ethan Basch, MD, MScProfessor, HPM

Received $5.5M from the Patient-

Centered Outcomes Research Institute

(PCORI) for a project that involves a

randomized controlled trial among

patients with metastatic cancer.

William Calo, PhD

HPM

Dr. William Calo’s (post-doc) article, on

parent support for HPV vaccinations in

schools, received attention from major

media outlets such as NPR.

Miriam Harriet Labbok, MD,

MPH, IBCLC

Selected for the 2016 Journal of Human

Lactation Patricia Martens Award for

Excellence in Breastfeeding Research.

Kavita Singh Ongechi, PhDResearch Associate Professor, MCH

Recipient of the Faculty Scholar Award

for the Carolina Women’s Center.

Ilene Speizer, PhDResearch Professor, MCH

RTI named Dr. Ilene Speizer a

University Scholar’s Program recipient.

Laura Linnan, ScDAssociate Dean for Academic and

Student Affairs; Professor, HB

Honored with the 2016 HERO Mark

Dundon Research Award, recognizing

her research efforts in the science of

employee health management.

Catherine Sullivan, MPHClinical Assistant Professor , MCH

Elected to the board of directors of the

U.S. Breastfeeding Committee.

Barry Popkin, PhDW. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, NUTR

Selected to receive the World Obesity

Federation’s 2016 Population Science and

Public Health Award.

.

Xianming Tan, PhDResearch Associate Professor, BIOS

Recipient of the Canadian Journal of

Statistics Award which recognizes

outstanding methodological innovation

and presentation.

Wizdom Powell, PhDAssociate Professor, HB

Selected to the Aspen Institute’s two year

Health Innovators Fellowship Program.

Named associate director of the UNC

Department of Social Medicine’s Center

for Health Equity Research (CHER).

.

Dorothy Cilenti, DrPHClinical Assistant Professor, MCH

Adjunct Assistant Professor, HPM

Dr. Cilenti will lead the $1.74M award to

MCH, which will support Maternal and

Child Health workforce development.

David Margolis, MDProfessor, EPID

NIH awarded $23M to the Collaboratory

of AIDs Researchers for Eradication

(CARE). Dr. Margolis is the principal

investigator for CARE.

Leah Devlin, DDSProfessor of the Practice, HPM

Recipient of the Jim Bernstein

Community Health Career Achievement

Award.

Andrew Nobel, PhDProfessor, BIOS

Fred Wright, PhDAdjunct Professor, BIOS

UNC has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to to

develop new analysis methods for eQTL studies. Dr. Nobel and Dr.

Wright are the principal investigators.

Katie Connolly Mikayla Armstrong Alma Beciragic

Three ESE students received awards from the

American Water Works Association at the

2016 ACE Conference in Chicago.

Alyssa Grube, ESE Masters Student, named an

NSF Fellow.

Alma Beciragic, ESE Doctoral student, named

an EPA Star Fellow.

In addition, Hang Nguyen, an ESE Doctoral Student, received the Greenberg Award

for Excellence in Doctoral Research.

Samuel Baxter Jennifer Richmond Paul Shafer

Three UNC Gillings doctoral students selected for the

Health Policy Research Scholars program, a new national

leadership program.

Elizabeth Chen, MPH, and Cristina Leos, MSPH,

HB doctoral students, have won a $325,000 award

from Innovation Next, a program of the National

Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned

Pregnancy.

The award is the largest ever made to a

student or a student group at UNC Chapel Hill.

Chen and Leos awarded record $325K to teach

health education through technology

Grace Robin Hyde, MSEEChief Engineer and General Manager,

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

Recipient of the Environmental

Sciences and Engineering 2016

Distinguished Alumna Award

S. Robert Hernandez, DrPHProfessor and Director of the Doctoral Programs

in Administration-Health Services, UAB

Appointed to Distinguished Service Professor

at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

(UAB) School of Health Professions.

Burcu Bozkurt

One of 40 people under 40 recognized

by the Gates Institute as a strong

advocate for sexual and reproductive

health rights.




Tania Desrosiers EPID

Lori Carter-Edwards PHLP

Stephen Marshall EPID

Carl Smalley CSCC

Hongtu Zhu BIOS

Jane Weintraub HPM

Kathryn Cheek NCIPH

Kathy Wisniewski EPID

Laura Linnan Acad Affrs

Julea Steiner PHLP

Eric Whitsel EPI

Alice Ammerman NUTR

Michele Jonsson-Funk EPID

Rachel Wilfert NCIPH

Paul Frellick PHLP

Anastasia Ivanova BIOS

Steven Sloate HPM

Shelah Bloom MCH Robin Perkins HB

Deborah Atkinson NCIPH

Barbara Brown CSCC

Joanne Lee NUTR

James Thomas EPID

Barry Popkin NUTR

Gary Koch BIOS

Miriam Harriet Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLCProfessor of the Practice, MCH (2006 – 2016)

Founding Director of the Gillings School’s Carolina

Global Breastfeeding Institute

Dr. Labbok, a staunch crusader for the health of

women and infants and longtime advocate for the

health benefits of breastfeeding, passed away during

the early morning hours of Aug. 13 after a courageous

battle with cancer.

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Faculty and Staff Meeting Wednesday, October 5 · 9/28/2016 · Sunchu Chowdary Applications Specialist, BIOS-CSCC Teresa Dong Accounting Technician, ESE ... President’s Cancer