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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