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Robert Schmidt, MD, 82Phd, is professor and director of the Center for Preventive Medicine and Health Research at the California Pacific Medical Center/UCSF. He is also director of Healthwatch International.
1990s
Karolyn Carr Jones, 95MPH, and her husband, Gregory Jones, of Alpharetta, Ga., are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Darcy Brooke, on May 3, 2002. “Thank heaven for little girls,” says Karolyn about her daughter. Karolyn is also the mother of three boys: Nate, age 6; Harry, age 4; and William, age 4. Kelly Ladin L’Engle, 95MPH, is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in Health Behavior and Education. She resides in Chapel Hill with her husband, Peter Ladin L’Engle, 94MPH, and 2-year-old daughter, Mimi. Elizabeth Nielsen, 95MPH, of Seattle, is working at the University of Washington as research coordinator of the End of Life Program.
Laura Carriere Axelson, 97MPh and husband, David Axelson, of Atlanta, are proud to announce the birth of their second daughter, Mary Laura, on November 8, 2001. Their oldest child, Emma, is now 2. Arian Boutwell Hadley, 97MPh, and husband, Jay Hadley, are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Cameron Richard, on February 11, 2002. Lori Beth Friedman, 97MPH, married Alexis Petrakis on September 30, 2001. Several alums were in attendance, including Marlene Cole, 97MPH, Mary Hall, 97MPH, and Kristen Lindemer, 97MPH. Lori currently works as an HFA research liaison and Alexis is a freelance writer and communications consultant. They reside in Chicago. Meridith Leigh Rentz, 97MPH, and husband Dean Baker of Atlanta, are proud to announce the birth of their first child, Mills Thomas, on October 21, 2001. Meridith is currently employed at Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group as a senior manager. Nichole L. Bowman-Glover, 98MPH, and Winston J. Glover, 98L, of Hyde Park, Mass., are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Raven Azariah Glover, on May 18, 2001. Previously, Nichole was employed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as the outreach coordinator for their Women’s Health Network. They have recently moved to Columbus, Ohio, to be closer to family. Sharon Clark, 98MPH, married Tom Talboys on July 13, 2002, in Salt Lake City, where they now reside. Sharon is currently an information analyst for the Utah Department of Health. Candace Jones Meadows, 98MPH, married Ethan Meadows of Mableton, Ga., on September 9, 2001. She is currently the executive director of SistaSpace Collective, Inc., a non-profit mentoring program that she began two years ago. SistaSpace is an empowerment program for African- American adolescent females in grades 6 to 12 in metro Atlanta. It encourages academic achievement, leadership development, civic and cultural awareness, service learning, personal affirmation, and many other elements essential to spiritual, intellectual, physical, and cultural well-being. Candace works full time for INVESCO Retirement, Inc., as a sales associate. Ethan is currently a software consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation. Merisa Aranas Pasternak, 98MPH, married Ryan Hodges Pasternak on April 6, 2002. The couple resides in Timonium, Md.
Perri Zeitz, 98MPH, and John Ruckart of Atlanta, are engaged to be married in October of 2002. She is an epidemiologist at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Janet Kuang Chang, 99MPH, and Terry Paul Chang, 99MBA, were married on July 1, 2001. The couple resides in Houston. Janet is a project manager at the Texas Medical Center. Terry is currently a global product manager for GE Medical Systems in their invasive cardiology division. The couple plans to move to Milwaukee. Andrew Fishman, 99MPH, of Miami, Fla. has accepted an offer to join the law firm Ruden McCloskey as a litigation associate. Daphne Cobb St. John, 99MPH, married Craig A. St. John, 95C, on November 10, 2001. The couple resides in Atlanta, where Daphne works as a health care analyst for the CDC. Anne Schnedl, 99MPH, of Decatur, Ga., is a staff nurse-midwife with Emory University at Grady Hospital.
Ravi Srinivas Swamy, 99MPH, and Dorothy S. Swamy, 97C, were married on June 23, 2001. The couple resides in Chicago, where Ravi is a second-year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dorothy is pursuing a master’s degree in social work at Loyola University. Lauren Swirsky, 99MPH, is working at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at CDC as a health education specialist. Jyothi Thrivikraman, 99MPH, is currently working as a research associate for ORC Macro and resides in Tucker, Ga. Steven J. Trockman, 99MPH, was recently named Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and Director of Special Projects with the Maine Bureau of Health. He will lead the bureau’s public health emergency preparedness activities across the state. Trockman previously served as prevention specialist with the Utah Department of Health, a CDC Public Health Prevention Service field assignment. While in Utah, Trockman worked on various projects, including the evaluation of teen tobacco cessation programs and the development of enhanced syndromic surveillance systems to monitor potential bioterrorism during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake. Trockman plans to spend the harsh Maine winter hand-crafting a sea kayak and testing it in the frigid North Atlantic waters.
Dora Ward, 99MPH, of Atlanta, recently returned from a mission with the Red Cross in Venezuela, where she designed and implemented a community-based program called the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness/ Maternal and Child Health Program. She is now serving as an O’Reiss Fellow at the CDC with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, focusing on viral hepatitis within the US Latino population.
2000s Karin Lapping, 00MPH, is a doctoral student at Tufts University in the applied nutrition and food security program. She is continuing her work with Save the Children and was in Bolivia, Haiti, and Thailand this past summer doing more research on the Save the Children Positive Deviancy Initiative.
Lily Keunhye Lee, MD, 00MPH, and husband Chan Woo Lee, of Gaithersburg, Md., proudly announce the birth of their son, Ethan Jihyung Lee, on December 14, 2000. Lily is currently a program analyst for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fatima Cody Stanford, 01MPH, and Corey Stanford of Atlanta, were married on September 1, 2001. Fatima is currently working as the prevention coordinator for the DeKalb Rape Crisis Center and in the near future will be one of two experts on a Channel 2 WSB-TV program called “Sex and Violence: Straight Talk with Teens.” She is also teaching general chemistry for the MCAT for the Princeton Review. She plans to begin medical school in fall 2003. Corey is a computer and electrical engineer in Atlanta and works in web design and music production.
Thomas Cherian Mampilly, 02MPH, recently accepted a policy analyst position in the Office of Global Health Affairs, Health and Human Services, through the Presidential Management Intern Program. He will work primarily on pressing public health issues affecting the Asia/Pacific region and on US policy issues regarding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Faculty
Jenkins says the idealistic mission of RSPH attracted her to her new position. “I really believe in what the faculty and students of this school are doing, and I’m inspired by their contributions to communities worldwide. I look forward to advancing the mission of the RSPH.” Feel free to contact Jenkins at 404-727-3311 or: mjenki2@sph.emory.edu
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Daniel Budnitz, MD, 97MPH,
began his first epidemiologic field investigation September 11, 2001, amid the flames
and smoke of the World Trade Center. An epidemic intelligence officer for the CDC National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control, he hopped on the only nonmilitary aircraft flying in US airspace at that time, a small
jet carrying public health workers and supplies to the scene of the disaster. Once in New York, he helped the
city health department monitor injuries from the attack. “We first did a quick assessment to determine if unusual
clusters of injuries or illnesses could be identified,” he says. “Then I helped modify a form for use in
gathering information about victims, and I led a team of more than 20 health department medical specialists
recording medical record information about victims and emergency workers who were treated at local hospital
emergency departments during the first 48 hours after the attack.” When he returned to Atlanta, he wrote a report
called Rapid Assessment of Injuries Among Survivors of the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center,
September 2001.
It was later published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Michael O. Ugwueke, Sr., DHA, FACHE, 86MPH,
was named a fellow of the American College of Healthcare
Executives, an international professional society representing nearly 30,000 executives, on March 25, 2001.
Fellowship is the highest level of professional achievement within the organization, and only 3,000 health care
executives in the nation have earned fellow status. To become a fellow, members must demonstrate their education,
experience, and leadership in the health care field over a period of several years. They must also complete a
significant project on a subject related to health care management. Born in Nigeria, Michael came to the United
States in 1980 to study medicine but decided to focus on public health instead. Michael is currently the vice
president for planning and support services at the MedStar Health System at Washington Hospital Center and has 17
years of experience in the health care industry.
