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Alumni News

2006 & Earlier  

 

  • Robert Lubitz (MPH '92) receives the 2006 John R. Endwright Distinguished Alumni Service Award on October 27. Dr. Lubitz serves as Executive Director of Academic Affairs and Research at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. He oversees education programs for nearly 150 resident physicians-in-training and over 200 medical students annually.
  • David McSwane (HSD '80, MPH '72) is one of the recipients of the 2006 W.W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. McSwane is a professor in the School of Public and evironmental Affairs at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis. Dr. McSwane is co-author of Essentials of Food Safety and Sanitation and the SuperSafeMark Retail Best Practices and Guide to Food Safety and Sanitation training series. He also creates a drinking water handbook for public officials.
  • In celebration of the School of HPER's 60th anniversary in fall 2006, AHS alum Dick Enberg will join HPER and Journalism faculty for a conversation about his experiences as a sports broadcaster on November 9th at 7:00pm at the School of Journalism Auditorium. There will be a brief reception following the talk.
  • Elisabeth Catherine Andrews (MPH May ’06) is working for IU Media Relations in 2006 as a health communications specialist. She works with HPER and other schools to help communicate effectively with the media to share public health information and research.
  • Amanda Braun (BS Nutrition Science May ’06) is working at the IU School of Dentistry in 2006. She has received a health professionals scholarship through the Air Force that will pay for all of her dental school and then provide a job upon graduation.
  • Brian Dodge (PhD 2002, doctoral chair Dr. William Yarber) began his second year in 2006 as assistant professor in the Dept. of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville. From 2002-2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies.
  • Kristin Hobson (MPH Dec. ‘05) is in the Asthma Program at the Indiana State Department of Health Maggie McKittrick (BS in Human Development and Family Studies August ’06) is working full time at St. Mary’s Child Center, a not for profit early intervention center, in downtown Indianapolis in 2006.
  • Robin Milhausen (PhD in 2004 , with doctoral chair Dr. William Yarber) became an assistant professor in human sexuality and family relations at University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 2006. During the past year she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Social Justice and Sexual Health Research Lab, University of Windsor, Ontario. During 2004-2005, Robin was a post-doctoral fellow, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
  • Kathryn Coffey successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Selected Factors Related to a Woman’s Decision to Remain Childfree and Her Self-identified Sexual Orientation” on May 26, 2005.
  • Mi Kyung Jun completed her doctoral degree on May 7, 2005. Her dissertation topic was “Effects of Survey Mode, Gender, and Perceived Sensitivity on the Quality of Data Regarding Sensitive Health Behaviors.”
  • Rebecca Nagle Nichols also competed her doctoral degree on May 7, 2005. Her dissertation topic was “Spiritual and Physical Health Habits in Middle-Aged Religious Women.”
  • Lisa J. Woolsey successfully defended her dissertation on June 3, 2005. Her dissertation topic was “Impact of Professional Preparation on Physicians Assistant Students’ Expressed Intent to Work with Geriatric Patients.”
  • Haydee Encarnacion-Garcia completed her doctoral degree this spring. Her dissertation is entitled “The Effectiveness for a Culturally Sensitive Peerled Intervention Model for Cancer.”
  • Dong-Chul Seo completed his doctoral degree. His dissertation topic was “Development and Testing of a Model that Explains Contributing Factors to Unsafe Work Behavior.”
  • Pat Teeple completed her doctoral degree with a dissertation topic “Constructing Women’s Sexual Health: A Feminist Critique of Selected Topics in College Human Sexuality Textbooks.”
  • Christine Tisone completed her PhD in Anthropology writing on “The Relationship Between Child Growth and Family Health Care Practices in the Dominican Republic.”
  • 4/21/05, 4 - 5 pm at Enberg Studio (HPER 195). Elizabeth Majestic, M.S., M.P.H., the Associate Director for Program Development, National Center for Chronic Disease at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will give a presentation: CDC's Future's Initiative: What It Means for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion The Future's Initiative is a strategic planning initiative aimed at making CDC a more efficient and effective agency for the 21st century. The initiative is guided by a number of strategic imperatives. This presentation will focus the two of the imperatives: 1) CDC will be a customer-centric organization; and 2) Health impact.
  • 4/21/05, 2 - 3 pm at Enberg Studio (HPER 195). Laura K. Kann, Ph.D. hosts a seminar on “Everything You Need to Know about How to Acquire & Use YRBS, GSHS, & SHPPS Data.” The Youth Risk Behavior Survey was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1990 biennially to monitor among high school students (in each state and across the nation) those risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of illness, injury, and death. The Global School-based Student Health Survey was established by the World Health Organization in 2001 similarly to monitor critical health behaviors among students in various interested nations worldwide. The School Health Policies & Programs Study was established by CDC in 1994 periodically to monitor eight components of school health programs across the United States. The principal architect of these three public health surveillance systems,. Dr. Kann is a CDC Distinguished Fellow and Chief of the Surveillance & Evaluation Branch in the Division of Adolescent and School Health at CDC. Dr. Kann received her PhD in health behavior from the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University in 1987.
  • On October 19, 2004, Tricia Harlow, a 2003 graduate of Indiana University’s Health Education Program, visited IU to share some of her first year teaching experiences with Health Education students and faculty. Tricia’s advice was impressive. In just over a year of teaching 8th grade health and PE at Central Middle School in Kokomo she has developed some wonderful classroom activities. Her open and observant teaching style made us chuckle as we listened.
  • Jennifer E. Kelley, M.P.H., C.H.E.S., a graduate of Applied Health Science and former graduate assistant for the Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program at the IPRC, accepted the position of Community Prevention Specialist and Research Associate for the Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana program in August, 2004.
  • Matt Smith (BS ‘02 and MPH ’04) won first place for his poster presentation at the 2004 Indiana Rural Health Association Conference.
  • On March 25, 2004, three AHS alumni returned to the IUB campus to give a presentation on how they have shaped their careers since graduation. Lisa Brooking Parsley BS ’97 in Human Development/Family Studies, Lana Chinn Riley BS ’02 in Public Health Education, and Alison Temkin BS ’01 in Human Development/Family Studies shared their experiences with students in our Research and Evaluation Methods class.
    Lisa is a Health Care Recruiter for the Bloomington Hospital; Lana is an Infection Control Practitioner at Riley Hospital; and Alison teaches at the Elaine Kerston Center for Young Children with Autism while earning a masters degree at Northeastern Illinois University.
  • Both recipients of the HPER Endwright Alumni Award Recipient, Dr. Robert Synovitz, and the HPER Patty Award Recipient, Dr. Guy Parcel, are alums of our Department.
  • Trent E. Applegate completed his HSD degree on April 23, 2003 after completing a dissertation entitled “Promoting College Health Learning Using the Coordinated School Health Program Model as a Guide.” Trent is currently teaching First Aid in our Department with a typical class numbering about 280 students.
  • Sara L. Cole completed her Ph. D. on August 6, 2003 writing on Multicultural Attitude of Pre-Professional Health Education Students”. Sara accepted a teaching position at Illinois State University.
  • Lisako Jones-McKyer completed her Ph. D. on May 27, 2003. Her dissertation topic was “Relationships Among Developmental Assets, Age and Smoking Behaviors Among Youth.” Dr. Jones-McKyer is currently teaching Research and Evaluation Methods in Health and Safety and serving as Coordinator of Minority Recruitment and Retention for our Department.
  • Barbara A. Mercer successfully defended her dissertation “Personal Significance of Participation in Psychoeducational Program for Victims of Sexual Abuse: the Meaning of Participation in the Clothesline Project.” to complete her HSD on May 14, 2003.
  • Tania Basta (BS ’98 MPH ’03) presented a study on the health care and educational needs of the Amish and elderly from rural Indiana at 2003 APHA annual conference. Tania is currently working on her PhD at the University of Georgia.
  • Erin Koers (BS in Public Health With High Distinction ‘03) and Christine Tisone (MPH ’03) presented a poster session on their study in the Dominican Republic at 2003 APHA meeting. Christine will be the Resident Director of the CIC Summer Program in the Dominican Republic this year.
  • Autumn Benner has received her H.S.D. degree and is employed at The University of Minnesota and Anoka-Ramsey Community College; starting August 2003, Autumn will be an assistant professor at Minnesota State University.
  • Brian M. Dodge has successfully completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Health Behavior (with minors in Human Sexuality and Netherlandic Studies) in October, 2002. He is currently appointed in a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in human sexuality research at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He lives with his wife, Eriko T. Dodge, and their dog, Barney, in Manhattan.
  • Dick Enberg, who received master's and doctoral degrees in health sciences from IU and has become one of the nation's premier sports broadcasters, serves as commencement speaker for the 2002 graduating class at IU's Assembly Hall on May 4. Enberg is a 12-time Emmy Award winner and has been named Sportscaster of the Year nine times. In one of his most recent assignments, he served as the play-by-play announcer for CBS-TV's broadcasts of the NCAA South Regional, covering the Hoosiers' march to the Final Four and the championship game with Maryland. In 1999, he returned to Bloomington for the dedication of the Dick Enberg Distance Learning Studio at the School of HPER. The studio combines the architecture of a traditional lecture hall with the capabilities of a television production studio, and it can be used to produce live one-way and two-way distance learning education programs.
  • Elizabeth (Maatz) Majestic receives the Endwright Distinguished Alumni Service Award presented by the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in 2002. Majestic is a top official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former deputy director of the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
  • Beth Pateman receives the Patty Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2002. Pateman is a faculty member with the University of Hawaii at Manoa and former health education specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Tommy Frederick receives the Patty Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2002. Frederick who owns an H.S.D. degree is currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Delaware State University and an administrator for minority programs with the National Science Foundation.
  • Xinia Fernandez Rojas, completed Ph.D. in Health Behavior in October 2001 and currently working in Florida, has received Research Council Travel Grant-In-Aid Award for presenting her study of "Effect of processing and hybridization on the fatty acid composition of Costa Rican crude palm oil and derivatives used for human consumption" at the 2001 Annual Conference of the American Oil Chemists Society.
  • Stephen Bender, who received his M.S. and H.S.D. degrees in 1967 and 1969 respectively, is a 2001 winner of the Willard W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award. Bender is now a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at San Diego State University. He is principal investigator for the nonprofit SDSU RaceLegal.com, a program to provide a viable alternative to illegal street racing to reduce the related deaths and injuries.
  • Joy Miller Kirchner, who earned an H.S.D. in health education in 1968, receives 2001 Endwright Distinguished Alumni Award. She was the associate director for planning and academic affairs for the Division of Allied Health at the University of Louisville School of Medicine from 1978 to 1986.
  • Min-Chung Tsai, who received an M.S. in health and safety in 1963, is a recipient of the 2001 International Distinguished Alumni Award. Tsai served as professor and dean of general affairs at the National Taiwan Normal University, and later as a professor at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan.
  • Steve Porter, who received his MPH degree in May, 2001, is a full time staff member at the PRC. Currently, he is a Research Associate for the AHS department and serves as Operations Coordinator for the Indiana Tobacco Retailers Inspection Program (TRIP). Funded by money from the tobacco settlement, it is dedicated to year-round enforcement of the Indiana laws against the sale of tobacco to minors.
  • Kimberly P. Talbert, MPH '82, is a sales representative for Abbott Laboratories, Inc., in Abbot Park, Ill.
  • Charlotte M. Hendricks, H.S.D. '82, is a repcipient of a national distinguished service award at the 2001 annual conference of the ASHA. She works at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and lives in Pelham, Ala. Other IU alumni that receive the award include Mary E. Collins, H.S.D. '89, and Roberta J. Ogletree, H.S.D. '91.
  • Susan K. Telljohann, H.S.D. '87, is president of the ASHA. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.
  • Beth Pateman, H.S.D. '89, is the recipient of a national distinguished service award at the 2001 Annual Conference of the AAHE. She is a teacher at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
  • Liesl C. Wingert, BS '90, is working as a certified doula/certified childbirth educator/smoking cessation facilitator for the Clay City Center for Family Medicine, an outreach center of Union Hospital of Terre Haute, Ind. Her email address is wing@ccrtc.com.
  • During the year 2001, fourteen of our former students took the Registered Dietitian (R.D.) exam, three from the class of 1999 and eleven from the class of 2000. Twelve of the fourteen passed, giving IU an 86% passing rate. Congratulations to Michelle Hertlein, Meg Peterson, Erin Carpenter, Erin Hudson, April Adams, and the seven other students who forgot to release their names.
  • Hugh Jessop, who received his HSD in 1985, is currently the Director of the IU Health Center and has won HPER's John R. Endwright Alumni Service Award.
  • G. Daniel Howard, who received his PhD and HSD in 1976, has served as Dean of Research and Assistant to the President of University of North Alabama. He has received the W.W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award.
  • First HPER alumni survey in 2001 reveals that alumni from Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation find jobs soon after graduation, and many soon earn in excess of $40,000 annually.
  • Gino Martino graduated in May of 2000 with a BS in Occupational Safety. Currently, he is employed by Kajima Construction Services, which is doing a huge converting the Donnelley Co. Lakeside Press building into the Lakeside Data Center, a "carrier hotel" that will house telecommunication and Internet equipment.
  • George H. Holland, who received his MPH in 1987, currently lives in St. Louis and serves as the President of the St. Louis IU Alumni Club. George is currently employed as a manager with EZEM, the world's largest supplier of diagnostic gastrointestinal radiology items. He can be reached by email at George@alumni.indiana.edu.
  • Elizabeth (Maatz) Majestic graduated from our department in 1989 with an MPH degree. She currently works for the Office on Smoking and Health, a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Elizabeth is the second-in-command, and serves in the Office of the Director as the deputy Director. At a national level, she works to prevent tobacco use among youth, to promote smoking cessation among youth and adults, and to protect nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke.
  • Jill Johnson who graduated from IU in May 2000 with a major in human development and family studies and a minor in sociology has received the Clara Jovan Goodbody Award is given to a graduating senior woman who shows promise of distinction as a graduate student. She will study law at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and plans to pursue a career in child advocacy through either direct legal representation or public policy initiatives.
  • Kele Ding, who completed his PhD in January 2000, works at the PRC.
  • Mollie Howerton earned her PhD during the summer of 1999. She is at John Hopkins completing an MPH.
  • Kandice Johnson earned her PhD during the summer of 1999. She is an assistant professor at Towson University.
  • Terry O'Toole earned his PhD during the fall of 1999. He is teaching in Georgia.

 

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