Johns Hopkins Gazette: September 19, 1994


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Changing places, new faces

Patrick Bond was appointed assistant professor, Health Policy
and Management, in the School of Public Health.  Dr. Bond has
a broad background in policy issues at local and national
levels, and significant experience on planning for reform,
including health policy. 
    Joseph P. Bressler was appointed assistant professor,
Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Toxicological
Sciences, in the School of Public Health.  Dr. Bressler is a
neurochemist whose research during the past five years has
focused almost entirely upon toxicological issues.  
    M. Shiela Collins has been promoted to director of
organizational effectiveness in the Department of Human
Resources at the Hospital.
    Josef Coresh was appointed assistant professor,
Epidemiology, in the School of Public Health.  Dr. Coresh
brings a national reputation as an expert in renal disease
and cardiovascular disease epidemiology.  His appointment
emphasizes the role of genetic and molecular epidemiology.  
    Brian Davis was appointed visiting scholar, Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology, in the School of Public Health. 
Dr. Davis is a molecular virologist and stem cell biologist
who will work on the effect of HIV on hemopoiesis.  
    Ricardo Fernandez-Cerna was appointed visiting scholar,
International Health, in the School of Public Health. Dr.
Fernandez-Cerna is a professor from the Department of
Physiological Sciences of the medical school in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. 
    Pearl German was named professor Emerita, Health Policy
and Management, in the School of public Health. Dr. German
has served on the faculty of the School for twenty years, has
provided leadership in building a gerontology teaching and
research program and has won the Stebbins medal for creating
an interdepartmental doctoral program in gerontology.
    Louis B. Hays was appointed visiting scholar, Health
Policy and Management, in the School of Public Health.  Mr.
Hays has over twenty years of progressively higher
responsibilities in health care, law and public policy.  He
has been with the Health Care Financing Administration since
1986. He will be working on a project funded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a managed care program for
the chronically ill.
    Ephantus Kabiru was appointed visiting scholar,
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, in the School of
Public Health.  Mr. Kabiru is the Research Officer at the
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Ministry of Health in
Nairobi, Kenya.
    Associate professor of surgery Dilip S. Kittur has been
appointed director of the Hopkins pancreas transplant
program.
    Dave Pietramala has been named as the Blue Jays' new
full time assistant men's lacrosse coach. A former
All-America defenseman at Hopkins, Pietramala returns to
Homewood after coaching stints at Loyola College and the
University of Pennsylvania over the past three seasons.
    Michael C. Purdy, formerly with the Department of
Energy's Ames Laboratory, has joined the Medical
Institution's Office of Public Affairs as its science writer.
    Geng-Sun Qian was appointed visiting scholar,
Environmental Health Sciences, in the School of Public
Health.  Dr. Qian is Vice-Director of the Shanghai Cancer
Institute and is a collaborator on the department's research
projects in China. 
    Ron Sauder, former director of news and information
services at the university, has joined the Office of Public
Affairs at the Medical Institutions as associate director for
media relations. As associate director, Sauder is a member of
OPA's senior staff, where he will co-direct media relations
services and develop new information programs.
    Jane S. Shivan, a nurse manager in the Oncology Center
at the Medical Institutions, has been appointed the first
nurse fellow in planning and marketing, a newly created
program in the Department of Planning.
    Shuichiro Watanabe was appointed visiting scholar,
Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health. 
Dr. Watanabe is visiting from the Tokyo Metropolitan
Institute of Gerontology.  He will be engaged in
collaborative activities with faculty and staff involved in
gerontological studies, and with the gerontology curriculum.

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