We are pleased to announce the addition of a new faculty member, Valerie Yeager, DrPH. Valerie Yeager’s research applies a health services research perspective to various settings and issues ranging from public health departments to physician practices and from access to care to quality improvement. Much of her work is conducted at the system or organizational level and is part of a nationally growing area of research called public health systems and services research.
Global Health Systems and Development welcomes Dr. Arachu Castro as the Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America. Dr. Castro is a medical anthropologist whose educational background spans social anthropology, history, nutrition, biostatistics, ethnology, sociology, and international health. She holds doctoral degrees from both the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales, in social anthropology and ethnology, and the University of Barcelona, in sociology. She earned her master’s of public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Castro comes to Tulane from Harvard Medical School, where she was associate professor of global health and social medicine. She also held the position of medical anthropologist in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
We are very proud of our faculty teaching achievements. Two MHA faculty members, Drs. T.J. Stranova and Mollye Demosthenidy, won the 2012 and 2011, respectively, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Student Government Association Teaching Excellence Awards, despite comprising only a small minority of faculty members in the School. Additionally, Dr. Joni Steinberg was awarded the school’s prestigious Teaching Scholar award in 2011.
Our MHA program is pleased to announce the students who participated in the NAHSE and UAB case competitions this year. Catherine Counts, Sasha Hibbard, Stephen Kahn, Brandon Darrington competed at the UAB competition in February 2013. Jay Patel, Sasha Hibbard, Jamelle Lacey, and Brandon Darrington participated in the NAHSE competition in October 2012.
Richard A. Henault, FACHE is our newest executive in residence. He currently is Executive Vice President at Methodist Health Foundation. Previously he has worked as Chief Operating Officer at University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and Senior Associate Director at Ochsner Hospital. Throughout his career, Mr. Henault has been passionately involved with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). ACHE is an international, professional association of 40,000 senior healthcare executives. Board Certified in healthcare management by ACHE, Mr. Henault achieved Fellowship status in January of 1993. He was elected ACHE Regent for the State of Louisiana in March of 1996. He progressed to Governor of District VI, in March of 1999, at which point he became a member of a thirteen-person Board of Directors of ACHE. In March of 2003, Mr. Henault was voted chair-elect of the College. In March of 2004, he assumed the elected office of Chairman of the Board of ACHE.
Joan Steinberg, PhD recent publication: Hoyt, Jr., Walter; Thomas, Patricia; DeSena, Holly; Steinberg, Joan; Harmon, Donald; Snyder, Christopher. “Atrial Fibrillation Induction by Transesophageal Electrophysiology Studies in Patients with Asymptomatic Ventricular Preexcitation”, Congenital Heart Disease, 2013, 8:57-61.
Erin Downey, a 1999 graduate of our ScD program has two recent publications:
Downey EL, Andress K, Schultz CH. External factors impacting hospital evacuations caused by Hurricane Rita: the role of situational awareness. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013;28(3):1-8.
Downey EL, Andress K, Schultz CH. Initial management of hospital evacuations caused by Hurricane Rita: a syste