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Nov. 22, 2002 -- No. 641 |
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CDC’s director of informatics fellowship program to speak on public health informatics
Dr. Janise Richards, director of the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will speak on the importance of public health informatics at noon Monday (Nov. 25) at UNC’s School of Public Health.
The presentation will be held in the Ibrahim Seminar Room, 1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall.
Modern public health practice requires increased development and use of sophisticated information systems. The goal of this presentation is to introduce the field of public health informatics and to describe the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program and its goals and opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing a career in the field.
At the CDC, Richards is responsible for the development of curriculum and experiences in the application of information in the many areas of public health. She earned her doctorate in information science from the University of Texas at Austin.
For more information, contact Scott R. Smith at ssmith@unc.edu.
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Leadership development program expands to include UNC’s public health and business schools
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership, a Chicago-based non-profit organization, is expanding to include UNC’s School of Public Health and Kenan-Flagler Business School.
The new addition, the Healthcare Leadership Development Partnership, also includes the Center for Creative Leadership and the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health. The partnership will employ team-learning models for projects across diverse health-care organizations, and the executive teams will apply evidence-based management tools and best practices from business and health care for a successful outcome in each team organization.
This growth is a result of excellent feedback by the graduates of the initial Advanced Leadership Development Program, conducted by the University of Michigan Business School’s Global Business Partnership.
The goal of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership is to improve the health condition of the country through effective health management leadership, unifying the practical application of health-care management with academic research, defining protocols for continuous learning models for health-care managers and increasing recruitment and diversity in the future leaders of the health-care industry.
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UNC radiologist named as one of 20 most influential
Dr. Etta Pisano, chief of breast imaging and professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at UNC’s School of Medicine, was recently recognized as one of the 20 most influential people in radiology by Diagnostic Imaging magazine.
The 20 radiologists and medical physicists were recognized for their outstanding contributions to maximizing diagnostic imaging’s potential to improve the quality of health care and save lives.
Pisano, co-leader of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s breast program, leads an international study comparing digital mammography to conventional X-ray mammography to determine which is most effective. The $26.3 million study involves 49,000 women at 35 institutions in the United States and Canada and is directed through the American College of Radiology Imaging Network.
Diagnostic Imaging is the monthly newsmagazine of imaging innovation and economics.
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Sports injury expert receives national award
Dr. Frederick O. Mueller, professor and chairman of the department of exercise and sport science, has been selected for the prestigious Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine organization in the world.
Mueller, who directs the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at UNC, is being recognized for significant contributions to the field. He will receive the award at the college's national meeting in San Francisco next May.
Mueller is a leading expert on the epidemiology of athletic injuries. He and research colleagues at the center collect, analyze and disseminate national data on deaths and disabilities from brain and spinal cord injuries involving high school, college and professional athletes in a wide range of sports.
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School of Public Health contact: Lisa Katz, (919) 966-7467 or lisa_katz@unc.edu
UNC Lineberger contact: Dianne G. Shaw, (919) 966-5905
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Dee Reid (919) 843-6339
