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Tasha Stout won the the first Catherine
Allen Memorial Outstanding Student Poster Award
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THE CATHERINE ALLEN MEMORIAL
OUTSTANDING STUDENT POSTER AWARD
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PHS Student Kathryn Flynn received the
2004 Rankin Travel Award
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Professor Jerome Dempsey has been elected
to receive the Honor Award by the American College of Sports Medicine in
Indianapolis at their annual meeting in June.
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Professor Jerome Dempsey will give the Julius Comroe lecture
at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington DC in April. One of these
named lectureships is awarded by the Respiration section members of the Amer
Physiogical Society each year to recognize scientific contributions to
respiratory biology
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Associate professor Judith Ladinsky awarded
the prestigious "For the People's Health" medal from Vietnamese Minister
of Health. Picture
Article
from The Capital Times.
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January, 2004 Population Health student
Randall Brown won the award for best overall abstract for his upcoming
presentation at the American Society of Addiction Medicine Conference
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June, 2003 Population Health student Indiana Strombom
won a poster award for her presentation at the annual meeting of the
Society for Epidemiologic Research in Atlanta, Georgia, June 12-14.
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May, 2003, Professor Javier Nieto
elected to the American Epidemiological Society
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April, 2003, Population Health student
Kirstie K. Danielson awarded the winners of the 2003 Rankin Travel Awards
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April, 2003, Professor Christine Arcari
accepted into the Delta Omega Society, a national public health honor
society
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April, 2003, Population Health student Ben
Craig's paper cited in the March 2003 newsletter of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
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Population
Health student Indiana Strombom selected for national student workshop on epidemiologic
methods
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Professor Javier Nieto elected as a Fellow
of the American Heart Association
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Professor Patrick Remington awarded 2002
-2003 Dean's Teaching Award
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Professor Jerry Dempsey elected as honorary
member of the Alpha Epsilon Delta, a national pre-medical honor society
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Jan, 2003, Professor John Mullahy awarded
the 2002 Kenneth J. Arrow Award for the Best Paper in Health Economics
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Jan, 2003, New Position Openings
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Oct, 2002, Professor Barbara Wolfe elected member of the
Institute of
Medicine
Tasha Stout
won the the first Catherine Allen Memorial Outstanding Student Poster Award
Congratulations to Tasha Stout (Ph.D. student), the winner
of the first Catherine Allen Memorial Outstanding Student Poster Award and
her co-investigators, Denny Fryback and Marjorie Rosenberg. Their poster,
“Does Diagnosis by Screening Mammography Lead to a Gain in Life Expectancy
for Women with Breast Cancer and if so How Much?” will be on display in the
new display case on the 7th floor outside of 707 WARF and the Commons. A
plaque engraved with Tasha's name will be on display next to her winning
poster.
The Catherine Allen Memorial Outstanding
Student Poster Award
The Catherine Allen Memorial Outstanding Student
Poster Award was established in 2003 by colleagues and students of Dr.
Catherine “Kit” Allen. This award is given to honor her long and
distinguished commitment to quality research, teaching and mentoring in
the Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS).
Outstanding Student Poster Award selection
procedure:
1. An
Outstanding Student Poster Award committee will be formed each spring
by the Steering Committee of the graduate program in Population Health to
review all eligible posters at the annual PHS Poster Session and select
one for the award. The committee will consist of two faculty of the
graduate program in Population Health and one scientist who works in PHS.
- Posters that have a Population Health graduate
student as first author will be eligible.
- The posters will be judged on criteria including
the following: significance of the question and contribution, approach
utilized, innovation of approach and clarity of the poster.
- The winning poster will be on display for one year
in a case devoted to this purpose, currently proposed to be on the 7th
floor hallway of WARF, next to a memorial plaque recognizing Kit’s
contributions to the Department and its students. There will also be a
plaque that will be engraved with the title and up to three authors of
the winning poster annually. The student author of the winning poster
will be recognized and awarded with a certificate at the PHS annual
graduation luncheon.
PHS Student Kathryn Flynn received the 2004 Rankin Travel Award
Kathryn Flynn, Ph.D. student, is a recipient of the 2004
Rankin Travel Award. The Rankin Travel award supports conference-related
expenses (travel, registration, etc.) for pre- and post-doctoral students
having have been selected to present their research findings at national
and international meetings.
Professor Jerome Dempsey has been elected to receive the Honor Award by the
American College of Sports Medicine in Indianapolis at their annual meeting
in June
Professor Jerome Dempsey has been elected to receive the
Honour Award by the American College of Sports Medicine in Indianapolis at
their annual meeting in June. The college grants one of these awards each
year in recognition of scientific contributions to the biology of exercise.
Randall Brown won the award for best overall abstract for his presentation
at the American Society of Addiction Medicine Conference
The abstract Randall Brown is going to be presenting
("Methadone and male sexual dysfunction") at the American Society of
Addiction Medicine Conference in April received the award for best overall
abstract! Congratulations!
Professor Javier Nieto elected to the American Epidemiological Society
Professor Javier Nieto has been elected to the American
Epidemiological Society. The Society is a small group of approximately 250
active and 150 emeritus members who meet annually to engage in discussion of
epidemiological investigations. The AES was founded in 1927 and has numbered
among its members, Wade H. Frost, Alexander Langmuir, Jonas Salk, and
Abraham Lilienfeld. Election to membership is based on significant
contributions to the field of epidemiology.
Population Health student Kirstie K. Danielson awarded the winners of the
2003 Rankin Travel Awards
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2003 Rankin
Travel Awards, in honor of the late John Rankin, M.D., former chairman of
Preventive Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary Division at UW-Madison.
Ms. Kirstie K. Danielson, doctoral student in Population Health Sciences
(Supervisor, Professor Catherine Allen). Kirstie will present her research,
entitled Epidemiology of Menarche in a Population-based Incident Cohort of
Young Women with Type I Diabetes at the Annual Society of Epidemiologic
Research meeting in Atlanta this June.
Muhammed Fuad Bangash, M.D., a fellow in Pulmonary Disease,
(Supervisor, Professor James Skatrud). Fuad will present his research
entitled Cerebrovascular Response to Arousal from Sleep at the American
Thoracic society Meeting in Seattle in May.
Congratulations on a job very well done!
Professor Christine Arcari accepted into the Delta Omega Society, a national
public health honor society
We are happy to report that Professor Christine Arcari has
been accepted as a member of the Delta Omega Society. The Delta Omega
Society is a national public health honor society that aims to encourage
research and scholarship among students taking graduate study in public
health. The Society accepts only students meeting high academic standards.
All candidates must also demonstrate a potential for making significant
contributions to the field of public health.
Professor Christine Arcari will be the 2003 inductee of the Society.
Population Health student Ben Craig's paper cited in the March 2003
newsletter of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Ben Craig's paper with Dan Tseng "Cost-effectiveness of
gastric bypass for severe obesity," in the October 15, 2002, American
Journal of Medicine 113, pp. 491-498 was noted in the March 2003 issue of
AHRQ Research Activities. In the paper, they performed a cost-effectiveness
analysis of gastric bypass versus no treatment for relatively healthy women
and men. They concluded that the cost-effectiveness ratios of gastric bypass
versus no treatment were favorable. However, because the reduction in
lifetime medical cost was no greater than the cost of treatment in any
subgroup, gastric bypass was not cost-saving from the payer perspective. For
details, see
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/mar03/ down under "Clinical Decision
making" with title "Gastric bypass can dramatically improve..."
Congratulations to Ben for the nice work.
Population Health student Indiana Strombom selected for national student
workshop on epidemiologic methods
Indiana Strombom is one of 12
students selected from a nationwide competition for participation in a
one-day workshop on epidemiologic methods related to the student's research.
Ms. Strombom will present methodological issues in social epidemiology
relevant to her dissertation, which is titled "Determinants of Inequalities
in Survival among Women with Breast Cancer." The workshop will be held on
June 11, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, immediately preceding the Annual Meeting
of the Society for Epidemiological Research (June 12-14, 2003). Students
selected for participation receive a fellowship to cover the cost of travel
and a minimum of two days per diem.
Congratulations to Indiana!
Professor Javier Nieto elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association
It's great honor to let you know that Professor Javier Nieto
has been elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association. The
Fellowship of the American Heart Association is reserved for Council members
who have been actively involved in the field of cardiovascular disease
epidemiology for at least 5 years and who have made substantial
contributions to the field. These contributions must be demonstrated by
significant and current service to the American Heart Association through
participation and leadership in national and local activities.
Congratulations on Javier's accomplishment and well-deserved recognition.
Professor Patrick Remington awarded 2002 -2003 Dean's Teaching Award
Professor Patrick Remington received 2002 -2003 Dean's
Teaching Award. This award recognizes exceptional teaching and innovation
in medical education. The criteria for selecting awardees include innovation
in medical education; extraordinary and sustained dedication and effort on
behalf of medical student education; excellence in medical education,
including teaching technology, evaluation methods, administrative efforts,
etc.; and demonstrated high level of teaching effectiveness.
The Selection Committee, comprised of previous recipients of
the teaching award, carefully reviews submitted information drawn from a
variety of sources including peer review, student evaluations, written
course materials, publications, and presentations.
Professor Patrick Remington's name will be placed on a
permanent University of Wisconsin Medical School Dean's Teaching Award
Plaque located in the halls of the Medical Sciences Center.
Professor Jerry Dempsey elected as honorary member of the Alpha Epsilon
Delta, a national pre-medical honor society
The UW-Madison chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta is very active and offers a
range of services to pre-medical students, including peer mentoring and
advising, bimonthly meetings and organization of volunteer opportunities.
Dr. Dempsey was nominated by a number of AED officers as an educator who has
positively influenced their undergraduate experience at UW. Dr. Dempsey has
taught undergraduates in the BIOCORE Program through the Biology Program.
His initiation ceremony as an honorary member will take place on Sunday,
February 2nd, 2003, at 12:30 pm in Tripp Commons in the Memorial
Union.
