Our members are at the forefront
of prevention education and research…
Name: William F. Bina, III, MD, MPH
Position:
Director, MPH Program; Chair, Department of Community
Medicine; and Executive Associate Dean,
Mercer University School of Medicine.
APTR member since: 2005
An institutional member since 2005, William Bina applied for and received a grant in 2006 to develop an undergraduate course at Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA). No other course like it had ever been offered at the school, an accomplishment he attributes, in part, to his association with APTR. "Access to current cooperative grants and collaboration with like-minded, dedicated professionals help advance the importance of integrating public health principles into clinical practice," he explained.
As a result of the ATPR grant, Dr. Bina's Essentials of Public Health was listed as a Special Topics course in both the Biology and Environmental Science Departments of the CLA during the fall 2006 semester. Offering three semester credit hours, the course had 13 undergraduate students enrolled. It is scheduled to be delivered again in the spring 2008 semester.
What's more, Dr. Bina has submitted a formal proposal to create a Minor in Global Health which would provide an undergraduate-level group of courses focused on the core disciplines of public health in humanities, social and natural sciences.
Thank you for advancing public health education, William!
Name: Amy Lee, MD, MPH, MBA
Position:
Associate Professor of Community Medicine
at Northeastern Ohio Universities College
of Medicine and Pharmacy, and program director
of the Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master
of Public Health program.
APTR member since:
1997
Elected chair of the Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health (beginning in November 2007), Amy Lee has been a fellowship program reviewer and a planning committee member for the APTR annual meeting since joining the organization in 1997. Her membership and participation in APTR has allowed her to learn about and share cutting-edge public health information with her MPH students and colleagues.
"I receive information on the credentialing exam, undergraduate public health education, resources from other public health programs and other ideas to improve programming for our MPH program students," Amy explained. "APTR also offers me channels to strengthen the position of graduate public health programs on a national basis."
The top benefits of membership in APTR for Amy include:
- The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM)
- Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC) curriculum materials
- Networking and opportunity sharing among association members
Thank you for your hard work and dedication, Amy!
Name: Paul R. Marantz, MD, MPH
Position:
Associate Dean for Clinical Research Education
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
and Co-Director of the Institute for Public
Health Sciences of Yeshiva University, Bronx,
NY.
APTR member since:
1994
Paul Marantz has enjoyed many creative leadership opportunities since becoming an APTR member in 1994. He has served as an APTR Committee Chair, Board Member and Officer. He was been the recipient of the F. Marion Bishop Outstanding Educator of the Year Award in 2000. Most recently, Dr. Marantz participated in the Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education where he also received a development grant award.
Paul points to his association with APTR as an important way of staying connected with advances within the industry. "The educational programs I have developed for my medical students," he explains, "have shown measurable and published improvement in both student evaluation and outcome. These programs were developed and refined through interaction with, and feedback from, colleagues in several APTR-sponsored activities, including our national meetings."
Thank you for your participation in APTR, Paul!
Name: Scott D. Rhodes, Ph.D., MPH, CHES
Position:
Associate Professor, Department of Social
Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public
Health Sciences; Section on Infectious Diseases,
Department of Internal Medicine; and Maya
Angelou Research Center on Minority Health
at Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC.
APTR member since:
2001
Dr. Scott Rhodes has been an APTR member since 2001 and served on the conference planning committee in 2002 and 2003. He joined the organization after being awarded a student-initiated research project, "The Application of Theory to Understand Hepatitis A and B Vaccination among MSM" (men who have sex with men). He explains that APTR "research funding opportunities have given me the opportunity to explore and build upon important research agendas."
His research into hepatitis vaccinations, for instance, has led to the establishment of measures that have been used or adapted in multiple studies within the U.S. as well as internationally. Furthermore, his research with immigrant Latino men has led to the development of a lay health advisor intervention and has led to three other federally funded studies exploring HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and Latinos in the Southeast.
Thank you, Scott, for all the hard work and research you perform through APTR!
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