Alumni Spotlight
A question-and-answer with a College of Public Health graduate.
2012 Spotlights
 | April SpotlightSheryl Milz received a Master of Science in preventative medicine from The Ohio State University in December 1987. She received her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 1985 from Ohio State and her doctorate in public health sciences (industrial hygiene) from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994. She is currently chair and associate professor at the University of Toledo in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is also co-director of the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health. |
 | March SpotlightEllen Yard received a Master of Public Health with a specialization in epidemiology from The Ohio State University in 2007. She received a PhD specializing in epidemiology in 2009. She is currently an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta, Georgia. |
 | February SpotlightKathleen Gravelle received a Master of Public Health with a specialization in Health Services Management and Policy from The Ohio State University in 2007. She is now a program examiner in the Medicare Branch of the Health Division for the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President of the United States in Washington, DC. |
 | January SpotlightAbe Brown III received a Master of Health Administration from The Ohio State University in 2001. He now is a learning management system administrator and program analyst for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington D.C.
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2011 Spotlights
 | November SpotlightChristine M. Young received a Master of Public Health in Biostatistics from The Ohio State University in 2010. She now is a manager of statistical programming for PharmaNet/i3 in Columbus, Oh. |
 | July SpotlightAngela S. Hayden received a Master of Science in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1987. She now is the STD surveillance supervisor for the Virginia Department of Health in Richmond, Va. |
 | June SpotlightCarson Robert Reider received his PhD in Epidemiology in 2001 and Master of Science in 1987, both from The Ohio State University. He now is a clinical research consultant and research subject advocate for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at Ohio State. |
 | April SpotlightGary Chambers received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1981. He's now an industrial hygienist for a consulting firm near Los Angeles and a published author. |
 | February SpotlightElizabeth Seely received a Master of Health Administration with a concentration in Finance as a University Fellow at Ohio State in 1990. She now is the executive director of University Hospital East, one of five hospitals in The Ohio State University Medical Center's health system. |
 | January SpotlightKelly Haines received a Master of Public Health, with a specialization in Health Behavior and Health Promotion, from The Ohio State University in 2004. She now lives in Washington, DC, where she is a research coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Washington DC VA Medical Center. |
2010 Spotlights
 | December SpotlightKathleen Winter received a Master of Public Health with a specialization in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University in 2005. She now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is an epidemiology supervisor at the California Department of Public Health. |
 | November SpotlightHeidi L. Gartland received a Master of Health Administration from The Ohio State University in 1988. She now is vice president of Government Relations and Child Advocacy for University Hospitals in Cleveland. |
 | October SpotlightNancy Adams Henroid received a Master of Health Administration from The Ohio State University in 1993. She is now a project manager in Business Strategy and Performance Improvement at Kaiser Permanente, a health care delivery system in San Diego. |
 | September SpotlightElizabeth Schorpp Burkett received a Master of Public Health from Ohio State in 2007. She now is an attorney at Colley Shroyer & Abraham in German Village. |
 | August SpotlightShiro Tanaka received an MS in Preventive Medicine, with a specialization in Occupational Medicine, from The Ohio State University in 1963. He now is a retired medical officer with the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. |
 | July SpotlightSandra Thomas received a Master of Science in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1992. She now is the assistant commissioner for Epidemiology at the Chicago Department of Public Health. |
 | June SpotlightBob Campbell received a PhD in preventive medicine from The Ohio State University in 1990, and an MS in preventive medicine from Ohio State in 1979. He presently works as the deputy director of the Center for Public Health Statistics and Informatics at the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus. |
 | May SpotlightLoretta E. Haddy received an MS in preventive medicine, with a specialty in epidemiology, from The Ohio State University in 1977. She is now the state epidemiologist for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources' Bureau for Public Health, and the director of the Office of Epidemiology and Prevention Services. |
 | April SpotlightMark McDonnell received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1978. He is now the health commissioner of Greene County, Ohio. |
 | March SpotlightBrenda Batyske received a master of public health from The Ohio State University in 2007. She is now a contract administrator at OhioHealth in Columbus. |
 | February SpotlightJennifer Brickner-York received a master of public health from The Ohio State University in 2002. She's now vice president of operations for SleepCare, Inc. and program director of its Sleep Technologist Training Institute in Columbus. |
 | January SpotlightMichael D. Cassady received a master of public health from The Ohio State University in 2001. He's now an environmental health officer for the U.S. Navy. |
2009 Spotlights
 | December SpotlightLaura Scudiere received a master of public health in health behavior and health promotion from The Ohio State University in 2004. She is now the executive director of the Bridge Community Health Clinic in Wausau, Wis. |
 | November SpotlightAmy Lee received a master of public health from the Ohio State University in 1996, and is now an associate professor of community medicine and the program director of the Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health. |
 | October SpotlightAlan H. Channing received a master of science in health care management from The Ohio State University in 1971, and is now the president and CEO of Sinai Health System in Chicago. |
 | September SpotlightAngie B. Byrne received an MPH in health behavior and health promotion from the College of Public Health in 2006. She is now a regional program manager for the U.S. Department of Transportation. |
 | August SpotlightKathleen A. Smith, MPH alumna, is the state public health veterinarian for the Ohio Department of Health. |
 | July SpotlightMike Carson received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1992. He now serves as program manager of Tuberculosis Control and Refugee Health Programs at the County of Orange Health Care Agency in Santa Ana, Calif. |
 | June SpotlightMary Ann Webb, MPH alumna, is the Health Commissioner for the Madison County-London City Health District in London, Ohio. |
 | May SpotlightGowri Madhavan, MPH alumna, works as an epidemiologist for Health Care Agency in Santa Ana, California. |
 | April SpotlightDeena (Brown) Chisolm, originally from Springfield, Ohio, received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1994 and a PhD in Health Services Management and Policy in 2003. She also has a BS in Biological Science Education from Miami University. Chisolm is principal investigator in the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State College of Medicine. |
 | March SpotlightKatie (Gavit) Simon, who has an MPH in epidemiology, is now an epidemiologist at Hamilton County Public Health in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
 | February SpotlightPrakash Navaratnam, who received a PhD in Health Services Management and Policy from The Ohio State University College of Public Health in 2007 and an MPH in 1998, is a senior research scientist for Informagenics, LLC, in Worthington, Ohio. |
 | January SpotlightDuane Reynolds, MHA alumnus, is the manager of the Division of Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. |
2008 Spotlights
 | December SpotlightDavid W. Miller, MHA alumnus, is a partner in the Healthcare Strategy Group, a consulting firm in Louisville, Ky. |
 | November SpotlightAdam Negley, MPH alumnus, is the assistant director of the Center for Public Health Practice at The Ohio State University College of Public Health. |
 | October SpotlightLois Hall received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1985. She serves as the executive director of the Ohio Public Health Association. |
 | September SpotlightNancie M. Bechtel received an MPH from the College of Public Health in 2006. She is the executive director of the Central Ohio Trauma System, where she has worked for 10 years. |
 | August SpotlightAlicia D. Smith received an MHA degree from The Ohio State University in 1993. She is a senior consultant at Health Management Associates in Columbus. |
 | July SpotlightCarolyn B. Slack received an MS in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University in 1982. She serves as director of the Division of Maternal Child Health at Columbus Public Health, where she has worked for more than 20 years. |
 | June SpotlightBrandy Reeves, MPH alumna, works as a health education coordinator for Pure Romance in Loveland, Ohio. |
 | May SpotlightErick Vidmar, MHA alumnus, works as a senior analyst and project manager at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi. |
 | April SpotlightIris Velasco, MPH alumna, works as an HIV/AIDS specialist at the Columbus Urban League in Columbus. |
 | March SpotlightBrian Miller, MPH alumnus, works as a resident physician at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. |
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