Our PeopleFaculty and Staff meetingMarch 16, 2016

Happy Retirement

Retirement Means

solved problems

Countless projects Lot’s of meetings LearningUnforgettable friendships Multiple creative

Solutions and everlasting memories

Over 70,000 Days of having

Anita Farel, DrPH

Vangie Foshee, PhD

Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLC

Happy RetirementCathy Bennett

Phil White

SPH-Finance

Chair of Graduate Studies and Professor, MCH

Professor, HB

Director, Global Breastfeeding Institute; Professor, MCH

Computer Systems Administrator, HPM

Welcome new faculty and staff!

New FacultyAllott, Emma Helen Research Assistant Professor NUTR

Baggett, ChristopherResearch Assistant Professor

EPID

Desrosiers, Tania Research Assistant Professor EPID

Rosenberg, Nora Research Assistant Professor EPID

Tucker, Christine Marie Research Assistant Professor MCH

Turpin, Barbara Professor ESE

Wasser, Heather Research Assistant Professor NUTR

Apostolico, Alexsandra Accounting Technician MCH

Belflower Thomas, AmyTechnical Assistant Manager

NCIPH

Brockington, Darien Accounting Technician ESE

Carden, Andrea Social/Clinical Research Assistant EPID

Dworschak, DorisDirector of Departmental Finance and Administration

ESE

Ewing, Whitney Research Associate EPID

Gault, Terri Director of Finance and Administrator HPM

Horvath, KrisDirector of Knowledge Management & Communications (the Water Institute at UNC)

ESE

Jones, Sara Project Manager EPID

New Staff

New StaffLaw, Amanda

Advancement Director of Special Events and Campaign

ADV

Moore, Alexis Project Manager HB

Musty, Kelly Accountant EPID

Nguyen, Thanh-Nha HR Specialist HR

Schmitt, DottieProject Coordinator (The Water Institute at UNC)

ESE

Shehadi, Jacqueline Social/Clinical Research Assistant BIOS-CSRL

Wilfong-Rogers, Iris Pre-award Coordinator ESE

Young, Ellen Research Associate EPID

Zalla, Lauren Research Associate EPID

Promotions

Staff Promotions

Elizabeth YatesBusiness Services Coordinator

Tracey GollwitzerBusiness Services Coordinator to Administrative Support Specialist

Advanced, HPM

Tammy ElliottAccounting Tech-Journey to

Administration, NUTR

Eric Bair, PhDResearch Associate

Professor, ENDO/BIOS

Ramon Bataller, MDAssociate Professor, NUTR

Vivian Go, PhDAssociate Professor, HB

Faculty Promotions

Amy Herring, ScDDistinguished Professor, BIOS

Michael Hudgens, PhDProfessor, BIOS

Kavita Singh Ongechi, PhD

Research Associate Professor, MCH

Faculty Promotions

Kimberly Truesdale, PhD, DDS

Daniel WestreichAssociate Professor, EPID

Karin Yeatts, PhDAssociate Professor, EPID

Research Assistant Professor, NUTR

Stephanie Wheeler, PhDAssociate Professor, HPM

Faculty Promotions

Awards & Recognitions

Health Policy and Management

Bill Gentry, MPA John Paul, PhD

Faculty Awards

MHA program wins inaugural prize for excellence in healthcare management systems education

Faculty Awards

Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH

Chosen for the Harriet Hylton Barr Award, which honors an outstanding Alumna or alumnus for contributions to public health

Professor of the Practice and Director, Executive Doctoral Program, HPM; Associate Director, Policy Analysis Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services

Faculty Awards

Peggy Bentley, PhDCarla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, NUTR; Associate Dean, Global Health

Selected for the Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award, presented for excellence in teaching, research and service

Awarded Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition Research and Lecture

Faculty Awards

Jackie MacDonald Gibson, PhDAssociate Professor, ESE

Dr. MacDonald Gibson and her student, Ted Mansfield won a best paper award from the Society for Risk Analysis

Faculty Awards

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD

Invited to serve a two-year term on the governance committee of the new Global Council on Brain Health convened by AARP and AgeUK

Professor, HPM

Faculty Awards

Sheila Leatherman, MSW, Research Professor, HPM

Named unit lead advisor on universal health coverage and quality in the World Health Organization’s Department of Service Delivery and Safety

Faculty Awards

Jeffery Simms, MSPH

Honored with American College of Healthcare Executives Higher Education Network Regent’s Award

Clinical Assistant Professor, HPM

Faculty Awards

Recipients of the Teaching Innovation Award

(L-to-R) Amy Herring, ScD, (BIOS); Howard Weinberg, PhD; (ESE), Geni Eng, DrPH (HB); Brian Pence, PhD (EPID) at top; Amanda Holliday, MS (NUTR) at bottom; Anna Schenck, PhD (PHLP); Aimee McHale Wayling (HPM); Christine Tucker, MS (MCH).

Recognized by students for enhancing the learning environment via new technologies, interactive activities, creative assessment methods and progressive curriculum ideas.

Faculty Awards

Zhenfa Zhang, PhDResearch Assistant Professor, ESE

Awarded University Junior Faculty Development Award

ESE Staff Excellence Awards

Rhoda Cerny Assistant to the Chair

Pamela Mathews Superfund Coordinator

Wake Harper Student Services Assistant

External Appointments

Barbara Turpin, PhD Professor, ESE

EPA Science Advisory Board’s Environmental Engineering Committee

Michael D. Aitken, PhD Chair and Professor, ESE

EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

Two BIOS students join inaugural class of Schwartzman Scholars

Larry Han Max Seunik

Supports study of public policy, economics, business, or international studies at China’s Tsinghua University

Student Awards

Health policy and management students win case competition Second-year MHA students developed a coordinated care model to engage community organizations, physicians, insurers and data analytics to monitor health progress.

(L-to-R) Marie Olsen, Nicole Murrell, Andrew Keimig

Student Awards

Mugdha Gokhale, MS Doctoral Candidate, EPID

Selected as one of Forbe’sMagazine’s “30 under 30” people to watch in health care

Student Awards

Blake Hauser, MS, ESE

Named Churchill Scholar

Executive Director of Carolina’s Eve Carson Scholarship

Student Awards

Congratulations on her article being published in the American Society of Hematology’s medical journal, Blood.

Distribution of Cytogenetic Abnormalities in African American Multiple Myeloma Patients May be Unique for Different Geographic Regions

Preeya Patel, BSPH, HPM

Student Awards

Jennifer L. Moss PhD, HB

Selected to receive the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Outstanding Dissertation award

Student Awards

Her dissertation provides focus on creative, timely HPV vaccination associated with economics, health disparities, patient provider interaction, health policies and improving preventive care

Thank you for your service.

5 yearsAlbrecht, Sandra S NUTR

Brown, Sharon Pratt MCH

Decosimo, Kasey Poole NCIPH

Des Marais, Andrea C EPID

Engel, Lawrence Stuart EPID

Figueroa, Angelica M DO

Hudock, Valerie W EPID

Jenks, Elizabeth NUTR

Kirk, Erin L EPID

Marquis, Margaret Alison CSCC

May, Philip A NUTR

McGee, Allison Diane CSCC

Mendez, Michelle A NUTR

Montoya, Tanya Alejandra NCIPH

Muessig, Kathryn Elizabeth HB

Neal, Natiaya L Student Affairs

Simon, Mathew Copeland NCIPH

Smith, Lindsey Patricia NUTR

Tang, Yao HB

Wallace, John Whitworth NCIPH

Watson, Tamara Teague EPID

Hudock, Valerie W EPID

Wisniewski, Kathryn Ann EPID

5 years

Afonin, Valeriy V ESE Gonzalez, Franklyn CSCC

Avery, Christy L EPID Hales, Derek P NUTR

Carretta, Elizabeth Ellen CSCC Hassmiller, Kristen Marie HPM

Collins, Leonard Bruce CEHS Howard, Annie Green BIOS

Demarcus, Forrest E HB Kosorok, Michael R BIOS

Dunn, Elizabeth S Advancement Kucharska-Newton, Anna M EPID

Dusenberry, Lisa Marie CSCC Robinson, Deborah S NUTR

Edmonds, Andrew J EPID

Gault, Teresa J HPM

10 years

Scott, Jennifer Elisa HPM

Smith, Teri Finance

Wheeler, Stephanie B HPM

Wu, Pingping CSCC

Zhu, Hongtu BIOS

10 years

Anderson, Kathleen L MCH Greenleaf, Rebecca MCH

Antony, Eugene V CSCC Laney, Tom IIS

Bartow, James A CSCC Lee, Shoou-Yih Daniel HPM

Bloom, Shela S MCH Lin, Danyu BIOS

Characklis, Gregory W ESE Mangan, Margaret L NUTR

Cleary, Mary A MCH McGhee, OJ IIS

Douillet, Christelle D NUTR Meshnick, Steven R EPID

15 years

Roggenkamp, Katherine J BIOS

Steffen, David P PHLP

Reardon, Jeannie M MCH

Tian, Hongqing CSCC

Zeng, Donglin BIOS

Ochs, Andrew D IIS

Perkins, Robin R HB

Reardon, Jeannie M MCH

Reeves, Elizabeth S CSCC

Richardson, David B EPID

15 years

Schwartz, Todd A

Silberman, Kathy

BIOS

MCH

Silberman, Pam C HPM

Sims Evans, Charletta Student Affairs

Smith, Janet L CSCC

Biancardi, Katherine S MCH

Buckheit, Kathleen P NCIPH

Izquierdo, Jorge N CEHS

Moore, Victoria L EPID

Scearce, Janet B HR

Schwartz, Todd A BIOS

20 years

Hagy, Carolyn A CSCC

Mehta, Heena P EPID

Olshan, Andrew F EPID

Zhao, Ding Y CSCC

Capps, Karen C HR

Coleman, Rosalind A NUTR

Foshee, Vangie A HB

Fried, Bruce J HPM

25 years

35 years

40 years

Baric, Ralph S EPID

Halpern, Carolyn T MCH

Locklear, James A CSCC

Cohn, Nancy S CSCC

Heiss, Gerardo EPID

30 years