Marcia Boumil, an associate professor of public health and community medicine, was honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of its 2011 Top Women of Law at an event held last fall that celebrated lawyers who have made outstanding accomplishments in social justice, advocacy and business.
Gillian Beamer has joined the Cummings School faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. She received her V.M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a residency in anatomical pathology at Ohio State University, where she received a Ph.D., she became a board-certified veterinary pathologist. Her research focuses on the host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the influence of this response on disease progression.
Bob Bridges, a professor of biomedical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, was a guest editor for the November 2011 special issue of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology. The issue, on “The Parental Brain,” featured a compilation of manuscripts based on presentations at the 2010 Parental Brain Conference in Edinburgh.
Doug Brugge, a professor of public health and community medicine, presented research on Chinese immigrant children and asthma and on highway pollution at a conference sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health and Primary Care.
Claire Chang is a new instructor in the Division of Prosthodontics at the School of Dental Medicine. She received a D.M.D. from Boston University’s Goldman School of Dental Medicine in 2007, and went on to earn a certificate of advanced graduate study in prosthodontics in 2010 and an M.S.D. in 2011, both at BU. She teaches predoctoral prosthodontics.
Dean Chang is a new clinical instructor in the dental school’s Division of Operative Dentistry. He earned a D.M.D. in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and completed a general practice residency in 2007 at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He teaches operative dentistry in simulated patient care as a volunteer faculty member.
Sarah Charlton, F12, was one of six women in the country to receive a Horizons Scholarship from the Women in Defense affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association. The scholarships encourage women to pursue careers related to U.S. national security and defense. Charlton’s work at the Fletcher School, where she is a master’s degree student, focuses on security studies and Islamic civilizations.
Kenneth K.H. Chui, Susan Koch-Weser and Susan S. Gallagher, all assistant professors of public health and community medicine, co-authored a manuscript titled “E-Health for Healthy Aging: Past, Present, Future,” which was the winner of the 2011 Erickson Foundation Award for Excellence in Research by the Aging and Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Steven A. Cohen, M03, an assistant professor of public health and community medicine, co-authored four articles, including “Snowbirds and Infection—New Phenomena in Pneumonia and Influenza Hospitalizations from Winter Migration of Older Adults: A Spatiotemporal Analysis,” published in BMC Public Health, and “Visual Analytics for Epidemiologists: Understanding the Interactions Between Age, Time and Disease With Multi-Panel Graphs,” published in PLoS ONE and co-authored with Kenneth K.H. Chui.
Emily Donahue joined the regional alumni programs team in University Advancement on Jan. 3 as a regional programs assistant. She is a 2010 graduate of Northeastern University, where she majored in communications.
Kelly Sims Gallagher, an associate professor of energy and environmental policy and director of the Energy, Climate and Innovation Research Program at the Fletcher School’s Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, convened a roundtable on “The Globalization of Clean Energy Technologies: Firm-Level Perspectives and Policy Implications,” which brought to light the key barriers and incentives for the global movement of cleaner and more efficient technologies. The conference was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, BP Group and a gift from Barbara Kates-Garnick, F73, F78, F84, and Marc B. Garnick.
Kevin P. Gallagher, F99, F03, a senior researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), had his op-ed “Capital Controls Are Not Beggar Thy Neighbour” published in the Financial Times. The article is a synthesis of his recent report “The Myth of Financial Protectionism: The New (and Old) Economics of Capital Controls.” Watch a video summary of his report from Global Policy TV.
Susan S. Gallagher, an assistant professor of public health and community medicine, gave a presentation on “Lessons Learned from Evaluated Child Agricultural Safety Interventions” at the 2011 American Public Health Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey K. Griffiths, a professor of public health and community medicine, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in July 2011 on drinking water contaminant regulation. He was widely quoted in the national media on lead contamination in drinking water after chairing a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigative group voicing strong concern on the issue. Read more about his work on water quality at http://now.tufts.edu/articles/hard-swallow.
Lisa Gualtieri, an assistant professor of public health and community medicine, was awarded an Innovations in Education Grant from Tufts School of Medicine to investigate how to integrate social media into medical school courses, the advantages to students and faculty of this integration and the training necessary to educate faculty on how to use social media in their teaching.
Lauren Hall is the new assistant director of shared interest groups in the Office of Alumni Relations. She works with established groups on programming and with new groups on developing organizational structure. She will also work with alumni on reunion planning. Hall previously worked at Boston University in the undergraduate admissions office and in alumni relations, focusing on student-alumni engagement. She graduated from Boston University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree and in 2009 with an M.Ed. in policy, planning and administration.
Justin Hollander, an assistant professor of urban and environmental policy and planning in the School of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a recent article in the Birmingham News about its urban planning initiative.
Eric Johnson, executive director of development for University Advancement, has been named acting vice president for University Advancement, effective March 1. The executive director since 2005, Johnson joined Tufts in 1988 as a major gifts officer for the School of Arts and Sciences, and now manages seven school-based fundraising teams along with the principal and leadership gifts group. He also works closely with the president and other senior leaders on leadership gifts to the university. Johnson helped develop the President’s Marathon Challenge in 2003, the year he ran his first marathon. Since then, he has stayed active in the program and has run 30 marathons, including the World Marathon Majors.
Lisa Kaczmarczyk, J83, published her first book, Computers and Society: Computing for Good (CRC Press). It comprises a series of in-depth profiles of computers being used in ways that are clearly beneficial for society or the environment. For more information, go to www.computers-and-society.com.
Patricia Budd Kepler began working as university chaplain ad interim on Jan. 1. She served as interim university chaplain in 2001–02. A new edition of her book A Window on History: 150 Years of Religion at Tufts was recently published. She also long served as pastor of Somerville’s Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, as well as director of ministerial studies at Harvard Divinity School. More recently, she was interim co-pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Waltham and then at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Easton. Kepler will be on campus three days a week this semester.
William Lancaster, an adjunct instructor of public health and community medicine, is working with Tufts Health Services on a film about how college students cope with mental health issues. In addition, Lancaster was interviewed by the Sunday New York Times in October about the digital revolution and its contributions to the degradation of writing.
Brian Lee, senior vice president for University Advancement, will assume the position of vice president for development and institute relations at the California Institute of Technology on April 1. Lee, who started his Tufts career as a fundraiser at the veterinary school more than 25 years ago, has been responsible for all fundraising, alumni relations and advancement communications and services across Tufts. He is a veteran of successful capital campaigns, including Beyond Boundaries, which exceeded its $1.2 billion goal when it concluded last summer. He also serves as chairman-elect of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Barry Levy, an adjunct professor of public health and community medicine, has co-edited two books that have been published by Oxford University Press, including Mastering Public Health: Essential Skills for Effective Practice, which he edited with Joyce Gaufin.
Benjamin Liptzin, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has been honored with the Tufts University School of Medicine’s Distinguished Faculty Award for 2011. “Considering that the medical school has 5,000 clinical faculty, it’s an important recognition, and I feel both humbled and gratified to receive it,” he said. Last year, he received the American Psychiatric Association’s Jack Weinberg Award for leadership and excellence in clinical practice, teaching and research in geriatric psychiatry.
Amy Lischko, an associate professor of public health and community medicine, is working on a contract for the federal government regarding implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition, she is writing two chapters of a forthcoming book on Massachusetts’ health-care reform efforts and is providing consulting services to Vermont and Washington state regarding implementation of the ACA.
Alberto López, F96, was appointed executive director of the Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between the United States of America and Spain (Fulbright Commission) in January. He was a Fletcher Fulbright student.
Elizabeth McNiel has joined Tufts as an assistant professor and comparative oncologist at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. She is board-certified in both medical and radiation oncology and will spend a quarter of her time working with the Radiation Oncology Service, with the balance devoted to oncology research. Her laboratory is located in the Molecular Oncology Research Institute on the Boston campus.
Michael Messina, a graduate student in urban and environmental policy and planning, was the subject of an article in the Somerville Journal about his efforts to connect Somerville residents to the planning process for the proposed Green Line extension, centered on his Interactive Somerville website.
Paula Minihan, an assistant professor of public health and community medicine, wrote an article with Aviva Must, the Morton A. Madoff Professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, and two other co-authors titled “Children with Special Health Care Needs: Acknowledging the Dilemma of Difference in Policy Responses to Obesity.”
William Moomaw, a professor of international environmental policy and director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School, gave an invited lecture to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs on Jan. 12. He spoke to 200 members on the topic of “Energy, Security and Climate Change,” describing trends in energy use in the United States and the restricted global sources for providing petroleum in particular. He also covered the national security dimensions of keeping energy access and concluded with a summary of U.S. Department of Defense reports that demonstrate how climate change is already affecting operations, and how an acceleration of those changes will be an instability multiplier, leading to increases in conflict.
Aviva Must, the Morton A. Madoff Professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, was invited to give a talk on “The Importance of a Healthy Diet in Childhood” at the third International Forum on Food and Nutrition in Milan, Italy.
Jean Mukherjee, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the Cummings School, is now a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists.
Lonnie Norris, DG80, dean emeritus of the School of Dental Medicine, will receive the American Dental Education Association’s Distinguished Service Award, which is presented to those individuals who have given dedicated service to ADEA and to dental education throughout their careers. The award presentation will be in March at the ADEA’s annual session and exhibition in Orlando, Fla.
Mary Rose Paradis, an associate professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School, spoke on “Diagnosis of the Chronic Infection” at the Strangles Conference at the University of Maine in early November.
Bhumi Patel, D08, is a clinical instructor in the Operative Dentistry Division at the School of Dental Medicine. Since graduating from Tufts, she has practiced in Lexington, Mass. She is teaching in the predoctoral clinic on Wednesday evenings as a volunteer faculty member.
Donna M. Qualters began work as the new director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) on Jan. 3. She was previously director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and an associate professor of education and human services at Suffolk University. She is a founding faculty member of the World Association of Cooperative Education’s Global Institute on Experiential Education, with expertise in faculty development and assessment. She also has been involved in faculty development, learning assessment and teaching research at Northeastern University, MIT, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Endicott College.
Anthony Robbins, a professor of public health and community medicine, received a grant, with Celeste Monforton, from the Public Welfare Foundation, for their project titled “Beyond OSHA,” which is exploring new ways to protect workers and their rights. The grant was awarded to Robbins and his colleagues at the Public Health Advocacy Institute, the nonprofit entity that was founded in 2001 by Tufts public health faculty and Northeastern University law faculty.
Bruce Rosengard, A81, was part of a team that transplanted a beating heart, the first for such a procedure in New England. A story about the operation appeared in the Boston Globe.
Anthony Schlaff, a professor of public health and community medicine, and Paul Hattis, an assistant professor of public health and community medicine, and the Tufts Health Care Institute are doing consulting work for the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), a social justice organization with a strong interest in health-care issues, thanks to a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In an effort to promote community engagement and understanding of the unsustainable rise in health-care costs, the grant provides support to develop and present a number of educational offerings, including webinars, aimed at reaching a broad consumer audience and preparing them for participation in policy debates about containing health-care costs. The first webinar was offered on Oct. 24 to GBIO’s member institutions of churches, synagogues and other places of worship in the Boston area.
Michael Simon, G10, is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Fellow in the National Science Foundation’s division of integrative organismal systems. He earned a Ph.D. in biology at Tufts.
Guilherme Valverde has been appointed an assistant professor in the Division of Prosthodontics at the School of Dental Medicine. He received a D.D.S. in 1996 and an M.Sc. in 2000 from the State University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in prosthodontics from the State University of Campinas Dental School in Brazil in 2011. He was a visiting researcher in the Department of Biomaterials Sciences at NYU from 2010–11. Valverde will teach predoctoral prosthodontics as a full-time faculty member and will continue with his research started at NYU.
Timothy A. Wise, deputy director of the Global Development and Environment Institute, has co-authored a new report with Sophia Murphy, “Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms since 2007.” He presented the report at the 10th anniversary conference of the International Development Economics Associates in Muttukadu, Chennai, India, in January. Download the full report and the executive summary, or watch an interview with the authors by the Real News Network: “Bio-fuels, Speculation and Land Grabs = Food Crisis.” They also wrote an op-ed piece, “Resolving the Food Crisis: Global Leaders Fail to Make Crucial Reforms,” on the Triple Crisis Blog.
