Alumni

Elizabeth Arend recently began a new job as the Associate Director of Research for Partners in Health in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda.

Eileen Hederman married Corey Witherspoon on September 19, 2009 in Fairfax, VA.

Elaine Wolff is currently the departmental pandemic influenza coordinator for the Department of the Interior Office of Emergency Management. Since January 2007, she has been responsible for overall coordination of the Department’s nationwide planning and preparedness activities for pandemic influenza and the H1N1 flu pandemic. In this role, she represents the Department to multiple interagency policy and planning groups, and coordinates with a broad spectrum of organizational units within DOI in the Department’s H1N1 Flu Pandemic planning/preparation and implementation activities.

A major function of this role has been communicating the evolving situation and public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other interagency partners to DOI’s bureaus and offices.

The information is communicated through guidance policy memos and the DOI H1N1 flu website (link).

David Windt produced a documentary film about a malaria prevention project that won nine film awards including a CINE Golden Eagle. Access to Survival, which describes the USAID-funded NetMark project, can be viewed at link

Ruwan Ratnayake is a Fellow of the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, and recently worked with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in Belgium.

Farley Cleghorn spent a 10-year stint at the University of Maryland Medical Center/Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore before moving in 2004 to the Futures Group in Washington, D.C., where he is now Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer.

Amanda J. Liddle, currently an assistant professor of nursing at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) at the annual meeting of the Academy, November 5-7, 2009, in Atlanta.

Rola Dashti was elected to the Kuwait Parliament, one of the first four women to hold a seat in the institution. For the complete story visit link

Naveed Afzal is the chief executive officer and medical director of a private medical institute in Pakistan.

Marguerite J. Ro is the deputy director for Policy and Programs at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum in San Francisco.

Daniel E. Jimenez assumed the position of Chief, Occupational Medicine at DeWitt Health Care Network's Preventive Medicine Department in Fort Belvoir Virginia on March 1, 2009.

Ridgely Bennett received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' 2009 Distinguished Service Award.

He was previously an obstetrics and gynecology medical officer with the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

Sono Aibe is a senior adivser for strategic initiatives at Pathfinder International, focusing on the expansion of reproductive health programs, globally and on the West Coast.

Previously, Aibe spent 13 years with the Population and Reproductive Health Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Susan Strand is a technical adviser in Dakar, Senegal, in the Department of Lanuguage Instruction at the Ministry of Education. Her position is through the English Language Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of State.

Victor Vogel is the national vice president for research at the American Cancer Society.

He is responsible for overseeing the research operations of the Society, the largest non-governmental funder of cancer research.

Dr. Vogel has more than 20 years of leadership experience in cancer research, focusing on breast cancer risk assessment and prevention. He is the author of more than 250 articles, book chapters, and abstracts.

Heddy Hubbard is the director of guidelines for the American Urological Association (AUA). Dr. Hubbard joined the AUA upon her retirement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after more than 30 years with the federal government, most recently with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Jeanne Brinkley retired on February 1, 2008, after more than 38 years in public health, first for the Baltimore City Health Department, then Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

She returned to Baltimore in 2005 after living in Hoopers Island, Dorchester County, Md., for 19 years. After retiring, Brinkley began volunteering with an inner-city grade school that has 40 children in the one kindergarten class. She also works part-time as a massage therapist.

The second edition of William Dupont's text "Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers" will soon be published by Cambridge University Press. This text introduces intermediate-level biostatistics to non-statisticians, and is intended for students who have had an introductory course in biostatistics.

William A. Robinson retired in 2007 after more than 35 years of service in the federal government. He had served more than 25 of those years in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the agency's Chief Medical Officer. He concurrently held other senior management positions in HRSA as a member of the Senior Executive Service. In addition, he served as the HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, and later as the Acting Administrator of HRSA.

Last June, Dr. Fine retired from a more than 30 year full-time career in public health for the State of Maryland and Baltimore County. This included state Director of Preventive Medicine Administation, Deputy Director of AIDS Administration, and county Bureau Director of Child, Adolescent and Reproductive Health. On August 4th, he was honored with the Annual Leadership Award by the Maryland State School Health Council. He is currently taking classes in Fine Art at Towson University.

Stephen Weinstein has founded 'Communications in Behavioral Biology' during his time as an Associate Professor at the Bloomberg School, a journal produced at the APL and published by Academic Press. CBB was the first computer-produced journal and was partially supported by the NSF. Along with two other Hopkins alumni, Henry Felton and Chris Olander, he has launched a website to alter the landscape of the publishing industry for both fiction and non-fiction. NovelMaker.com just won the 2008 American Graphic Design Award for websites. The service is free.

Hideyasu Aoyama is a Professor Emeritus of Okayama Medical School and was President of the Kochi Women's University from 2003 to 2007. She is an honorary lifetime member of the Japanese Society of Public Health and the Japanese Society of Occupational Health, the Japanese Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, and was a past-chairman of the National Comittee of Community Medicine and Medical Education from 1994 to 1997.

Samuel Yeh retired from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2005 after 42 years of service.

Carl Helvie has started hosting a radio show, The Holistic Health Show, at link. His guests include Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Patricia Garfield, Dr. Anne Marie Evers, Dr. Patricia Crane and Dr. Carolyn Chambers Clark.

Calvin Zippin, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, was honored as 2009 Person of the Year by B'nai B'rith of Greater San Francisco.