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December 10, 2001

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SCHOOL OF LAW
Julie Seaman
Instructor of Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy

Julie Seaman has her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her JD from Harvard, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a teaching assistant for the federal litigation course. She clerked with federal district court Judge Robert Ward, and she has taught as an adjunct professor at Stetson University School of Law.

Jennifer Murphy Romig
Instructor of Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy

Jennifer Murphy Romig graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in print journalism and English in 1995. She attended the University of Virginia School of Law as a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar. After receiving her JD in 1998, Romig practiced law for three years at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, Murphy in Atlanta, where she litigated patent, trademark and trade-secrets cases and other commercial-law matters. Romig is co-director of the State Bar of Georgia High School Mock Trial Journalism Committee and a member of the trial committee of the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. She also has served for three years as an attorney coach for the Grady High School mock trial team.

Rollins School of Public Health
Kimberly Jacob Arriola
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education

Kimberly Arriola earned her BA from Spelman College in 1994, her PhD in psychology from Northeastern University in 1998, and her MPH from Emory earlier this year. She initially came to Emory for training in epidemiology but was soon recruited to work on several research projects with investigators in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. She was appointed an associate faculty member in 1999. Her collaborative work includes studies of adherence to HIV antiretroviral treatments; substance abuse prevention among adolescents; and stress, discrimination and hypertension.

Ruth Berkelman
Research Professor of Epidemiology

Ruth Berkelman received her AB from Princeton in 1973 and her MD from Harvard University in 1977. She comes to Emory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she was assistant surgeon general, serving as senior advisor to the director from 1998–2000. Berkelman worked primarily on research issues across CDC and focused on relationships between public health and academia. From 1992–97, she was the deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases and led CDC’s efforts to respond to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Previously, she led the agency’s broad efforts in disease surveillance. For the American Society of Microbiology, she chairs the international committee and is a member of the policy and scientific affairs board. Berkelman also serves as a trustee at Princeton.

Jay Bernhardt
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education

Jay Bernhardt earned his BA from Rutgers in 1992, his MPH in 1994 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University, and his PhD from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1999. Since then, Bernhardt has been an assistant professor of health promotion and behavior at the University of Georgia School of Education and founding director of the Public Health Information Technology Laboratory. His specialty is adapting new technology for the promotion of health and healthy behaviors and the impact of technologically enhanced community interventions. In recognition of his achievements and contributions to public health, Bernhardt recently received the Early Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association.

Ann DiGirolamo
Research Assistant Professor of International Health

After receiving her BA from Emory in 1986 and her PhD in psychology from Indiana University in 1994, Ann DiGirolamo earned her MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health last year. Prior to joining the Emory faculty, she served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at CDC. She is the author of approximately 10 articles and chapters on aspects of diet and development and family adaptation to illness. She will be directing NIH-funded research projects in Guatemala and Mexico. DiGiorlamo received a competitive International Research Scientist Development Award from the Fogarty Center, NIH, to support her own program of research.

Rafael Flores
Research Associate Professor of International Health

Rafael Flores earned his MA from Louisiana State University in 1981 and his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Flores is trained in nutrition and biostatistics. Originally from Guatemala, he worked for many years at the Instituto de Nutricion de Centro America y Panama and is currently acting director of food consumption and nutrition at the International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI), where he directs large-scale programs for the public sector. At Emory, he will teach in the area of nutrition and collaborate on NIH-funded research projects dealing with the generational effects of malnutrition and early nutrition on human capital and economic productivity. and on additional studies in Nicaragua, Honduras and Brazil funded by IFPRI. He is the author of approximately 20 journal articles and additional monographs.

John Ford, Professor
John Ford received his BA in 1966 from Boston University. He did all his graduate work at the University of Michigan, where he received his MSW, MPH and PhD in 1968, 1969 and 1976, respectively. Ford came to Emory from Cornell University to assume the position of vice president for Campus Life, and his academic home is in the Rollins School of Public Health. At Cornell, he was Robert W. and Elizabeth Staley Dean of Students and professor of policy analysis and management. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in Health Care Finance at the Johns Hopkins University and acting director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration at Cornell. Ford is the author of a number of articles on client-professional interaction and the organization and delivery of health services.

David Holtgrave
Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education

David Holtgrave earned his BA at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1983 and his PhD in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. Formerly director of the division of HIV/AIDS prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention at CDC, Holtgrave was recruited to Emory to research and teach community-prevention and health-promotion programs. He will also become director of the behavioral core of Emory’s NIH-supported Center for AIDS Research. Holtgrave is jointly appointed to the Department of Health Policy and Management, where he will share his expertise on economic and outcome analyses of preventive health services. For several years, Holtgrave was associate director of the Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical University of Wisconsin. He is the author of more than 85 peer-reviewed journal articles, 18 book chapters and 18 editorials, as well as the recently published book, Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs.

Keith Klugman
Professor of International Health

Keith Klugman earned a bachelor of science and bachlor of medicine and surgery degrees from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) in 1977 and 1981, respectively. He also earned his PhD from the school in 1981. Klugman comes to Emory after serving as director of the South African Institute for Medical Research, professor of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases, and chair of the School of Pathology at the University of Witwatersrand. Trained in medicine and microbiology, Klugman has contributed to the understanding of microbial resistance mechanisms and their epidemiology through nearly 200 articles in refereed journals. His research focuses on factors leading to the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of pneumococci, leading to predictions about the spread of resistance and the development of policies on immunization. Klugman is jointly appointed in the School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases.

Christine Moe
Associate Professor of International Health

Christine Moe earned her BA from Swarthmore College in 1979 and her PhD in environmental sciences and engineering from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1989. Formerly assistant professor of epidemiology at Chapel Hill, Moe has been involved in teaching and research on waterborne illnesses, particularly gastroenteritis and diarrheal diseases, their etiology and prevention. She is the author of approximately 25 articles in refereed journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine, and additional chapters and monographs. Her research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Thrasher Research Fund and the CDC. At Emory, Moe will be in three departments: international health, epidemiology , and environmental and occupational health.

Eric Ottesen
Research Professor of International Health

After receiving his AB from Princeton University in 1965, Eric Ottesen earned his MD from Harvard in 1970. He is a board-certified pediatrician specializing in the immunology of parasitic diseases. Ottesen currently is the project leader for the Filariasis Elimination Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. He is considered one the world’s foremost scientists in lymphatic filariasis research. Prior to joining WHO, he served as head of clinical parasitology at the NIH’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Ottesen has authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He will serve at Emory as director of the Rollins School’s Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center, a collaborating center of the Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Promotions

EMORY COLLEGE
Deepika Bahri, History, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Geoffrey Bennington, French and Italian, appointed to Professor with tenure

Gerd Brauer, German Studies, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Vincent Conticello, Chemistry, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Peter Dowell, English, promoted to Professor

Nancy Eisland, Sociology of Religion, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Carla Freeman, Anthropology and Institute of Liberal Arts, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Michaelangelo Grigni, Mathematics and Computer Science, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Leslie Harris, History, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Franklin Lewis, Middle Eastern Studies, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

James Lu, Mathematics and Computer Science, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Sarah McPhee, History, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

James Melton, History, promoted to Professor

Lynne Nygaard, Psychology, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Matthew Payne, History, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

William Ransom, Music, promoted to Professor

Debra Spitulnik, Anthropology, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Jerry Thursby, Economics, appointed to Professor with tenure

Hubert Tworzecki, Political Science, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Kurt Warnecke, Physics, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Gary Wihl, English, appointed to Professor with tenure

John Zupko, Philosophy, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

 

GOIZUETA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Gautam Ahuja, Organization and Management, appointed to Professor with tenure

Douglas Bowman, Marketing, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Tarun Chordia, Finance, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Ronald Dye, Financial Reporting, appointed to Professor with tenure

Mary Glynn, Organization and Management, promoted to Professor

Jonathan Karpoff, Finance, appointed to Professor with tenure

Richard Metters, Decision and Information Analysis, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Michael Prietula, Decision and Information Analysis, appointed to Professor with tenure


OXFORD COLLEGE

Clark Lemons, English, promoted to Professor

Patti Owen-Smith, Psychology, promoted to Professor

Ina Jane Wundram, Anthropology, promoted to Professor

 

SCHOOL OF LAW
Michael Gerhadt, appointed to Professor with tenure

 

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Donald Bliwise, Neurology, promoted to Professor

Scott Boden, Orthopaedics, appointed to Professor with tenure

Brian Evavold, Microbiology and Immunology, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Mark Feinberg, Medicine, appointed to Professor with tenure

Zorina Galis, Medicine, promoted to Associated Professor with tenure

David Guidot, Medicine, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

C. Michael Hart, Medicine, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Susan Herdman, Rehabilitation Medicine, appointed to Professor with tenure

Christopher Hillyer, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, promoted to Professor

Christian Larsen, Surgery, promoted to Professor

Xiao-Jiang Li, Genetics, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Nicola Longo, Medicine, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Michael Lubin, Medicine, promoted to Professor

Aron Lukacher, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, promoted to Associate Professor with tenrue

Timothy Mapstone, Neurological Surgery, promoted to Professor

Mark Nanes, Endocrinology, Promoted to Professor

Shuming Nie, Biomedical Engineering, Appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

Margaret Offermann, Hematology and Oncology, promoted to Professor

David Pallas, Biochemistry, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Thomas Pearson, Medicine, promoted to Professor

Samuel Speck, Microbiology and Immunology, appointed to Professor with tenure

Ronald Tusa, Neurology, appointed to Professor with tenure

Erwin Van Meir, Neurological Surgery, promoted to Professor

Thomas Wichmann, Neurology, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Josiah Wilcox, Hematology and Oncology, promoted to Professor

William Woods, Pediatrics, appointed to Professor with tenure

Larry Young, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

 

NELL HODGSON WOODRUFF SCHOOL OF NURSING
Elizabeth Capezuti, Adult and Elder Health, appointed to Associate Professor with tenure

 

ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
John Ford, Public Health, appointed to Professor with tenure

David Holtgrave, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, appointed to Professor with tenure

Keith Klugman, International Health, appointed to Professor with tenure

—All information courtesy of the Office of the Provost.

 

 

 

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