For the Record: Cheers
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and
awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent
appointments and promotions. Contributions must be
submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone
number.
Academic Centers and Affiliates
William Brieger, senior malaria specialist for
Jhpiego, has received the 2008 Award of Merit
for Contribution to the Development of Public Health in
Africa from Nigeria's oldest university. The
honor was given by the Faculty of Public Health, College of
Medicine, at the University of Ibadan in
Nigeria. The recognition was presented in July at that
institution's national conference, "Public Health
in Nigeria and the Challenges of Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals." Brieger, who is also a
professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, taught
at the African Regional Health Education
Center of the University of Ibadan from 1976 to 2002. He is
internationally renowned for his
expertise in the social and behavioral aspects of tropical
disease control and prevention, with special
emphasis on malaria. He is also a consultant for the
Malaria Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention for Malaria Action Coalition
activities in Nigeria. Brieger serves as a malaria
expert for the Voices advocacy project of JHU's Center for
Communication Programs. In addition, he
teaches distance-education courses on training methods,
continuing education for health workers, and
social and behavioral foundations of primary health
care.
Applied Physics Laboratory
Mohammed Dehghani has joined the Lab as head of
the 350-member Technical Services
Department, whose duties include engineering, design and
fabrication, plant operations and
maintenance, and construction management. He comes to APL
after 11 years at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. Before that he served on the
Mechanical Engineering faculty at Ohio University
for 10 years.
More than a dozen APL staff members, primarily
from the Applied Information Sciences
Department, were part of a 26-organization team that
received the National Aeronautic Association's
2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy for its work on the Automatic
Dependent Surveilliance-Broadcast
Project, a groundbreaking effort to develop next-generation
airborne surveillance and cockpit avionics
that will keep planes at safe distances in the air and on
runways.
Bayview Medical Center
Catherine Passaretti has joined the Division of
Infectious Diseases. She received her medical
degree from Johns Hopkins and completed her residency in
internal medicine with the Osler Medical
Service of the School of Medicine and a fellowship in
infectious diseases at JHH. Her interests
include infection control, hospital epidemiology and
transplant-related infectious diseases. A
consultant for the Maryland Health Care Commission,
Passaretti aids the development of a statewide
system for the public reporting of health careŠassociated
infections.
Patricia Wong, a graduate of Stanford Medical
School, has joined the Division of Digestive
Diseases. Wong completed her residency in internal medicine
at Brigham & Women's Hospital, an
affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and a fellowship in
gastroenterology at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania. She practices general
gastroenterology with a special focus in colorectal
cancer. Her research interests include identifying
high-risk groups for colon cancer and screening
tools such as chemoprevention. She has been published in
Gastroenterology and Molecular and Cellular
Biology.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scott Zeger, the Frank Hurley and Catharine
Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics, chair of the
Department of Biostatistics and university vice provost for
research, was named the 2008 Wilks
Memorial Award recipient by the American Statistical
Association at the annual Joint Statistical
Meeting in Denver. The award is given to a statistician who
has made a significant contribution to the
advancement of scientific or technical knowledge, developed
an ingenious application of existing
knowledge or successfully fostered cooperative scientific
efforts in matters of public interest or
national defense. Zeger was recognized for his significant
contributions to public health, including his
work in environmental epidemiology, quantifying the health
effects of smoking and air pollution, and
co-development, with colleague Kung-Yee Liang, of
Generalized Estimating Equations. Zeger has also
been recognized as one of the most cited mathematical
scientists of the past decade.
Multidisciplinary
Deborah Gross, a professor in Acute and Chronic
Care at the School of Nursing and a nationally
recognized expert in children's mental health, will be
installed Oct. 3 as the inaugural Leonard and
Helen R. Stulman Professor in Mental Health and Psychiatric
Nursing in a unique dual faculty
appointment between the schools of Nursing and Medicine.
President William R. Brody, Nursing Dean
Martha Hill and Raymond DePaulo Jr., chair of the SoM
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, will preside at the ceremony, to be held at 4
p.m. in the SoN Alumni Auditorium.
School of Medicine
Kay Redfield Jamison, professor in Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, and co-author Frederick
K. Goodwin have received the American Medical Writers
Association's 2008 AMWA Medical Book
Award, Physicians Category, for Manic-Depressive Illness,
2nd Edition.
Bradley J. Phillips has joined the Department
of Surgery at the Children's Center as director of
pediatric burn surgery and of the burn fellowship program.
Previously director of the University of
New Mexico burn program, Phillips received his medical
degree from the College of Human Medicine,
Michigan State University. He completed a burn fellowship
at Shriners Hospital for Children at the
University of Texas Medical Branch and a trauma-ICU
fellowship at Boston Medical Center. A member
of the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn
Association, Phillips is the editor of
several medical journals, including the Journal of Burns &
Wounds, and has been published in books
that include Adult Cardiac Surgery and Heart
Failure & Transplantation.
M. Christine Zink has been named director of
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, a
department she had served as interim director and deputy
director. A prominent researcher on the
effects of HIV in the brain, Zink has been at Johns Hopkins
for more than 22 years, first as a
postdoctoral student in Neurology and then joining the
department as a faculty member in 1988. Two
years later, she moved to the Division of Comparative
Medicine, forerunner of her current
department, and became an associate professor in 1992 and a
full professor in 2000. She earned both
her DVM and PhD from the University of Guelph in Canada.
Since 1999, she has led her department's
training program, helping to enhance its emphasis on
training veterinarians to become biomedical
researchers as well as veterinary pathology and laboratory
animal scientists.
School of Nursing
Miyong Kim, professor, has been named chair of
the Department of Health Systems and
Outcomes. Her work has focused on the key areas of
hypertension and diabetes control, cancer
prevention and mental health, and involves community-based
participatory research, health literacy
and program evaluation. Through grant funding from the
National Institutes of Health, Agency for
Health Care Research and Quality, American Legacy
Foundation and American Alzheimer's Association,
she is testing the effectiveness of a community-based,
self-help program in underserved minority
populations. Kim has participated in the Robert Wood
Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an
advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive
roles, and serves as a regular NIH study
section member and evaluation consultant on an array of
national and international research and policy
analysis projects.
University Administration
Kimberly Gibson has joined the Office of the
Provost as executive assistant to the provost. She
comes to Johns Hopkins from BearingPoint, where she was a
senior management analyst and executive
assistant to the vice president of the health services
sector. She previously served as an executive
assistant to vice presidents and senior officers at Novell,
MCI and WorldCom.
Whiting School of Engineering
Baruch Awerbuch, professor of computer science,
and co-author David Peleg, the Norman D.
Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences in the
Department of Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,
have been selected as recipients of the
Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their
paper "Sparse Partitions," published by
Foundations of Computer Science in FOCS 1990. The prize is
sponsored jointly by the Association for
Computing Machinery Symposium on Principles of Distributed
Computing and the European Association
for Theoretical Computer Science Symposium on Distributed
Computing.
Gregory S. Chirikjian, professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a
2008 fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. The fellow grade is the highest elected
grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which
recognizes exceptional engineering
achievements and contributions to the engineering
profession. The ASME cited Chirikjian as a pioneer
in the design, implementation and analysis of several novel
robotic technologies, adding that he has a
proven track record as an administrator and mentor.
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, an associate
professor, has been named chair of the Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, effective July 1.
Konstantopoulos, who holds a doctorate in
chemical engineering from Rice University, has been a
member of the Whiting School faculty since
1997. Because of Konstantopoulos' prior commitments in the
fall term, Joseph Katz has agreed to
serve as acting chair of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering until January 2009. Katz, who has been
at the Whiting School since 1979, holds a doctorate in
chemistry from the University of Chicago.
Ed Scheinerman, associate dean for education
since August 2007, has been named vice dean for
education. In addition to managing the staff of the Office
of Engineering Advising, he is responsible
for the ABET accreditation process, graduate student
affairs, the Center for Leadership Education
and the Center for Educational Outreach.
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