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After UCHC
Wonder where our students go after graduating from UCHC?
Here's recent news on what some of our Alumni are doing!
Ph.D. Graduates
Brianna Sollod McFarland, '06 Ph.D.- Recent graduate Dr. Sollod
McFarland has been hired as a Senior Business Analyst for the Monsanto
corporation's St. Louis office, serving as a liaison between molecular
biologists, geneticists, biochemists, and software engineers in the
development of software for biotechnology organizations. Monsanto
is an international agricultural company (one of the largest
agricultural companies in the U.S., most commonly known for its popular
herbicide RoundUp®) with branches in Seed and Genomics and
Agricultural Productivity. The company was Science magazine's
Science 2005 Top Employer.
Mina Mina,
'90 Ph.D.- Dr. Mina, Professor of Orthodontics, Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Dentistry and Advanced Education at
UCHC, was selected by the International Association of Dental Research
to receive the 2006 Distinguished Scientist Award for Craniofacial
Biology, which recognizes her significant contribution to the field.
The award will be presented this summer at the 84th IADR General Session
to be held in Brisbane Australia. Dr. Mina is also the head of
Pediatric Dentistry at the Health Center.
Sharon Hemond Hrynkow '90 Ph.D.- Dr. Hrynkow is the acting
director of Fogerty International Center of the the National Institutes
of Health, which works to advance the NIH mission through international
partnerships and supports a range of programs to tackle global health
problems. Before joining Fogarty in 1995, Dr. Hrynkow served as a
science officer at the State Department, working primarily on AIDS.
Huw Thomas '86 Ph.D. – Dr. Thomas has been named
dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham. Dr. Thomas received his dental degree in London and his
doctorate in biomedical sciences here (UCHC). He was a faculty member
for 12 years before taking the chairmanship of the Department of
Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center,
San Antonio, in 1992.
B.J. Bormann '85 Ph.D. - The Connecticut Business & Industry
Association (CBIA) elected Dr. B.J. Bormann to a four-year term on its
board of directors at its Oct. 26 Annual Meeting. Dr. Bormann is vice
president in Pfizer Global Research and Development and the world-wide
head of strategic alliances at Pfizer Inc, based in New London. She is
one of 13 new members elected to the CBIA board who will begin their
terms Dec. 1.
CBIA is the state’s largest business organization, with 10,000 member
companies throughout Connecticut. The board of directors approves the
organization’s plans, policies and strategies, and particularly focuses
on ways to make Connecticut a better place to do business and create
jobs.
Dr. Bormann joined Pfizer in 1996 as a project analyst in the R&D
operations group, presently called strategic alliances. Since joining
Pfizer, she has worked in a number of positions of increasing
responsibility, most recently serving as global portfolio executive
director for early development technologies.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Dr. Bormann was a principal scientist at
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., in Ridgefield, working in
drug discovery in the area of molecular biology of cell adhesion and
T-cell based therapeutic approaches. She also worked as a research
affiliate at Yale University, in the Department of Pathology.
Lance K. Gordon '78 Ph.D. – Dr. Gordon is
featured in the alumni magazine, Traditions. Dr. Gordon is CEO for
VaxGen, Inc. which is currently working on a vaccine for the AIDS virus.
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M.P.H. Graduates
Thomas R. Stansfield ’02 M.P.H. - Mr. Stansfield
is the sanitarian for the Torrington Area Health District which includes
Falls Village, Salisbury, and Winsted. Mr. Stansfield also has a private
business as a soil evaluator.
Lori Belle-Isle ’01 M.P.H. - The National Home Office (NHO) of
the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Ga. has promoted Mrs. Belle-Isle
to the position of NHO director of Cancer Control Field Planning. Before
completing her MPH and moving to Atlanta, she was a Regional Cancer
Control staff person in the New England Division and then moved to the
Eastern Division as the manager of Cancer Control Planning. Ms.
Belle-Isle responsibilities for her new position include: directing, in
collaboration with division cancer control directors, 17 field planning
managers; and providing leadership and assistance with state Facts &
Figures, community assessments, division action planning, and state
cancer plans.
Nighat Quadri ’01 M.P.H. - Ms. Quadri is working as an ATPM/
CDC Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Fellow at the Department of
Health in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a fellow she is coordinator of a
breastfeeding prevalence study and is analyzing PedNSS and PNSS data for
the WIC Program and receiving multi-disciplinary training in the area of
maternal and child health.
Lourdes J. Hernandez-Cordero ’98 M.P.H. – Ms.
Lourdes is the program coordinator for the MPH track on Urbanism and
Community Health at Columbia.
Eileen Henzy Blake '98 M.P.H. - Ms. Blake is
currently working as an Evaluator with the Yale New HAven Center for
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response.
Jennifer Bard '97 JD, M.P.H.- Ms. Bard has been
granted tenure and promotion to full professor at Texas Tech University
School of Law effective September 2006.
John Galvin '96 M.P.H.- Mr. Galvin is the
commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Jennifer Kertanis ’96 M.P.H. - Ms. Kertanis has left the
Connecticut Department of Public Health to become project
director/executive director of the Connecticut Association of Directors
of Health (CADH) for the CDC grant on bioterrorism preparedness.
Mark Cooper ’92 M.P.H. - Mr. Cooper formerly director of
Health for the Newtown Health District, was elected First Selectman for
the town of Southbury, Conn.
Ellen T. Madigan ’86 M.P.H., – Mrs. Madigan has been named the
new executive director of HomeCare and Hospice, Day Kimball Hospital,
Putnam, Conn
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Combined Degree
Graduates
Nicole Simpson-Givens '06 M.D./M.P.H.-Dr.
Simpson-Givens, who just completed her M.P.H. degree and Occupational
Medicine Residency has a new position as Occupational Medicine Physician
at Foxwoods Resorts Casino.
Robert Eliot Hagar '02 M.D./Ph.D. – Dr. Hagar has
joined the medical doctor residency program at The Greenwich Hospital.
Daunis Aboaba ’02 M.D./M.P.H. - Dr. Aboaba is
working at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City on the surveillance of
World Trade Center Workers.
Alan Wabrek '94 M.D., M.P.H.- Dr. Wabrek recently
returned from a 10-day stint in Afghanistan, where he presented a
10-hour course to physicians, nurses, midwives, and dentists on violence
as a public health issue, with a focus on domestic violence. It is
"fascinating how differently the issues are perceived from one culture
to the next," he said.
Joseph Pachman ’90 M.D./M.P.H. – Dr. Pachman has
been appointed the chief of Occupational Medicine at Norwalk Hospital,
Conn. and the medical director of Occupational Health Services.
Jeanne V. Linden ’86 M.D./M.P.H. - Dr. Linden
has been appointed to the US Department of Health and Human Services
Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability, which is
administered by the office of the Surgeon General. Dr. Linden is
director, Blood and Tissue Resources, New York State Department of
Health.
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