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Are you going APHA this year? Would you like to speak to alumni and prospective students in the UNC Gillings School exhibitor booth? If so – please email Natiaya Neal, msneal@unc. edu with the times you are available, and your name will be added to the booth schedule. During the event we like to drive traffic to our booth by offering times our world-renowned faculty will be present to answer questions and potentially connect with prospective doctoral students. Booth Staff can inform prospective students and alumni who wish to interact with you what times you will be available.

OUR PEOPLE October 17, 2019 • 2306 Mc. Gavran-Greenberg

Happy Retirement!

Happy Retirement! Richard Bilsborrow, Ph. D Professor BIOS

Happy Retirement! Rosalind Coleman, MD Professor NUTR

Happy Retirement! Susan Ennett, Ph. D Professor Emeritus HB

Happy Retirement! John Paul, Ph. D, MSPH Professor HPM

Happy Retirement! Lisa Perry Business Officer MCH

Happy Retirement! Mary Cleary, MPH William White Judith Winkler, MEd Training Specialist MCH Operations Assistant CAU Public Communications Specialist

Welcome New Faculty and Staff

New Faculty Liz Chen, Ph. D, MPH Marissa G. Hall, Ph. D Assistant Professor MPH Concentration Lead HB Assistant Professor HB

New Faculty Erin Kent, Ph. D Noah Kittner, Ph. D Associate Professor HPM Assistant Professor ESE

New Faculty Sarah Mills, Ph. D, MPH Brooke Nezami, Ph. D Assistant Professor HB Assistant Professor NUTR

New Faculty Aaron Salzberg, Ph. D Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor, ESE, and director of The Water Institute at UNC Pamela Trangenstein, Ph. D Assistant Professor HB

New Faculty Ximena M. Bustamante-Marin, Ph. D Assistant Professor NUTR John French, Ph. D Research Professor NUTR Grace Shearrer, Ph. D Assistant Professor NUTR

New Faculty Samir Soneji, Ph. D Melanie Studer, MHSA, Ph. D Assistant Professor HB BSPH Program Director HPM; Assistant Professor HPM

New Staff Kalyn Parrish Douglas W. Urland, MPA Accounting Technician EPID Director NCIPH

New Staff Nichollette Acosta NUTR Chloe Anderson MCH Charles Andrews ESE Marquita Brazier ACAD. AFFAIRS

New Staff Daniel Collins ACAD. AFFAIRS Grace Croitoru DEAN’S OFFICE Marlena Davis Joe Dawson BIOS-CSCC NCIPH

New Staff Laura Enders MCH Maria Esenkulova EPID Kinsey Helton BIOS-CSCC Anna Hoffmeyer BIOS-CSCC

New Staff Michelle Huang Jenna Keith Yesenia Merino, Ph. D, MPH Jenny Munt BIOS ACAD. AFFAIRS INCL. EXCELLENCE EPID

Promotions

Faculty Promotions Kyle Burger, Ph. D, MPH, RD Associate Professor NUTR Annie Green Howard, Ph. D Clinical Associate Professor BIOS

Faculty Promotions Jennifer Lund, Ph. D Associate Professor EPID Kate Muessig, Ph. D Associate Professor HB

Faculty Promotions Hazel Nichols, Ph. D Associate Professor EPID Brian Pence, Ph. D Professor EPID

Faculty Promotions Kimberly Powers, Ph. D Associate Professor EPID David Richardson, Ph. D Professor EPID

Faculty Promotions Lindsey Smith Taillie, Ph. D Jill Stewart, Ph. D Assistant Professor NUTR Professor ESE

Faculty Promotions Alison Stuebe, MD Justin Trogdon, Ph. D Professor MCH Professor HPM

Faculty Promotions Stephanie B. Wheeler, Ph. D, MPH Professor HPM

Staff Promotions Katie Thornsvard, MAC, CPA Associate Dean for Finance and Business

Staff Promotions Brian Brown Sheila Burgard, MS Monika Caruso Kay Corbett Social/Clinical Research Specialist- Advanced NUTR Principal Biostatistician BIOS Social/Clinical Research Position- Advanced BIOS Accounting Technician- Advanced ESE

Staff Promotions Lisa Dusenberry Business Officer- Journey BIOS-CSCC Stephanie Forman Executive Assistant- Journey HPM Franklyn Gonzalez Principal Biostatistician BIOS-CSCC Carolyn Hagy Business Officer- Advanced BIOS-CSCC

Staff Promotions Deytia Lima-Rojas, Ph. D Kimberly Ring, MPH Long Ping Victor Tse Director SABI Research Project Director BIOS-CSCC Research Associate EPID

Thank you for serving on the first Gillings Study Section to provide advice on grant applications!

Thank You! Linda Adair, Ph. D Nora Franceschini, MD, MPH Abigail Hatcher Lisa Hightow-Weirdman, MD, MPH Jennifer Leeman, Dr. PH, MDIV NUTR EPID HB SCH. OF MEDICINE/HB NURSING

Thank You! Beth Mayer-Davis, Ph. D NUTR Sandra Mooney NUTR Audrey Pettifor, Ph. D EPID Whitney Robinson, Ph. D EPID Raza Shaikh, Ph. D NUTR

Thank You! Angie Smith, MD, MS SCH. OF MEDICINE Lindsey Smith Taillie, Ph. D NUTR Carmina Valle, Ph. D NUTR Morris Weinberger, Ph. D HPM

Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition 2019 UNC Distinguished Professor Ralph Baric, Ph. D William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

Awards and Recognition Kurt Ribisl, Ph. D named inaugural Jo Anne Earp Distinguished Professor in Health Behavior

Awards and Recognition Jane Weintraub, DDS, MPH Alumni Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology and adjunct professor of Health Policy and Management; selected first recipient of the R. Gary Rozier and Chester W. Douglass Distinguished Professorship in Dental Public Health

Awards and Recognition Mark Holmes, Ph. D, professor of health policy and management; director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services

Awards and Recognition Sheila Leatherman, MSW, professor of health policy and management, will receive the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service Award.

Awards and Recognition Lanakila “Ku” Mc. Mahan ’ 07 (MPH, ’ 11 Ph. D) received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from UNC-Chapel Hill’s General Alumni Association for his work on Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development in the United States Global Development Lab at USAID.

Awards and Recognition Kavita Singh Ongechi, Ph. D, associate professor of maternal and child health received Carolina’s Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, one of the University’s most prestigious acknowledgments of faculty excellence.

Awards and Recognition Herbert Peterson, MD, FACOG, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of maternal and child health, inducted as a Fellow Honoris Causa of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists “This award acknowledges the highest level of dedication and achievement in the development of women’s health care. ”

Awards and Recognition Sara Wajda, MPA, assistant director of development on the advancement team at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, named to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy’s (AHP) 2019 ’ 40 Under 40′ list – future leaders in the health care philanthropy community.

Awards and Recognition Dana Weston, MHA, FACHE (MPH, HPM), is president and CEO of UNC Rockingham Health Care in Eden, North Carolina. Triangle Business Journal named her a ‘Most Admired CEO’ of 2019. “She didn’t wait until the doors of the hospital were closed, but instead made her move when she still had resources in hand to operate for an extended time. ”

Dorothy Cilenti, Dr. PH, Associate Professor, MCH Alison Stuebe, MD, Distinguished Scholar, professor, SOM Sarah Verbiest, Dr. PH, adjunct faculty, MCH & Associate Professor, Sch. Of Social Work Supporting Maternal Health Innovation Program $13 M HRSA grant to prevent deaths during pregnancy and childbirth

Addressing the national opioid crisis ~$52 M NIH* grant for Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program Data Integration, Algorithm Development and Operations Management Center (DAC) § Under NIH HEAL Initiative: Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Lisa La. Vange, Ph. D, professor, Biostatistics: PI § Team members from Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine, UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and additional departments across campus

Milestones

HPM’s Executive Master’s Program Turns 50!

Biostatistics Turns 70!

Environmental Sciences & Engineering Celebrates 100 years on April 10, 2021!

Thank you for your service!

5 Years of Service Anne Belote Sarah Birken, Ph. D Traci Davis, MS Deanna Hedgepeth James Herrington, Ph. D Michelle Inishi NUTR HPM NUTR NCIPH HB BIOS-CSCC

5 Years of Service Timothy Madden IIS Cleo Samuel, Ph. D HPM Aiya Williams, MS IIS & HPM Abbey Woods BIOS-CSCC

10 Years of Service Wanda Bodnar, Ph. D ESE Jennifer Cole, MPH, MSW MCH Yonghong Nie BIOS-CSCC Melissa Polier BIOS-CSCC Betty Rupp BIOS-CSCC Anna Schenck, Ph. D Yanping Teng PHLP BIOS-CSCC

15 Years of Service Noel Brewer, Ph. D Ashley Britt HB BIOS-CSCC Chantal Donaghy NUTR Shufa Du, MD, Ph. D NUTR Amy Lowman EPID Jane Monaco, Dr. PH BIOS

15 Years of Service Jeff Oberhaus Herbert Peterson, MD BIOS-CSCC MCH Melvin Powell IIS Deborah Tate, Ph. D HB

25 Years of Service Terrie Church Carolyn Crump, Ph. D Tammy Elliott Sharon Sullivan NUTR HB NUTR HR Jessica Tse, MSPH EPID Boyd Yount, Jr. EPID

30 Years of Service Veronica Stallings, MS BIOS Sally Clark Stearns, Ph. D HPM James Thomas, Ph. D EPID

35 Years of Service Louise Ball, PHD Marston Youngblood, Jr. ESE BIOS-CSCC

40 Years of Service Avram Gold, Ph. D ESE

In Memoriam John Joseph Baxter Anderson, Ph. D Professor Emeritus, Nutrition

In Memoriam Mario C. Battigelli, MD Professor (retired), Environmental Sciences and Engineering

In Memoriam Paul Godley, MD, Ph. D, Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Hematology/Oncology and vice dean for diversity and inclusion, UNC School of Medicine; adjunct professor of epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health

In Memoriam Joan Cornoni Huntley, Ph. D, former president, UNC School of Public Health Alumni Association and vice president, UNC School of Public Health Foundation Received Epidemiology’s H. A. Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Award (1999) in recognition of her impact in epidemiology