Alumna SUSAN M. MANZI was honored with the 2016 Richard E. Deitrick Humanity in Medicine Award during the Celebration of Excellence Awards Gala , Saturday, March 4, 2017, at Heinz Field. Established in 2012, the award honors a physician who has improved the lives of patients by caring for them with integrity, honesty, and respect of their human dignity, and serves as a role model for other physicians. Manzi is chair of the Department of Medici...
Congrats to EPI's MARY KAY KRAMER for winning the Pitt Innovator Award from the Pitt's Innovation Institute.
MEDSCAPE - Commenting on the study in an accompanying commentary, EPI’s JANE CAULEY points out that high-risk women in the current study had a 17.9 percent probability of sustaining a hip fracture and a 30 percent probability of sustaining a major osteoporotic fracture at 10 years. “Thus, despite the absence of a positive impact on the primary outcome, the results of the SCOOP study nevertheless have important public health implications.”
EPI's TREVOR J. ORCHARD was the recipient of the 2017 Peter Bennett Award at the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group Symposium, 8-11 December 2017, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This award recognizes major and longstanding contribution to the field of diabetes epidemiology and public health.
PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER - Modeling by epidemiologist DONALD BURKE suggests that 150,000 to 200,000 people on pain pills transition to injection drugs every year. “The more people using heroin, the greater the probability that more people will use heroin, just like the spread of an infectious disease.” He wonders whether the kind of response used for epidemics might work: Determine key transition points, like when a painkiller addict is likely to tr...
The Joseph F. Mulach, Jr. and Louisa A. Mulach Scholarship Fund was created to provide scholarships to students in the field of biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or other related fields. Preference is given to qualified female candidates. ASHLEY SIER (EPI) is among the winners from last year. Congratulations!
POST-GAZETTE - Odds are you have phthalates inside you. And recent research by EPI’s JENNIFER ADIBI confirms previous findings that the plastic-softening chemicals are linked to changes in the placenta that seem to affect development of the fetus. Because of “ubiquitous exposure”, 99 percent of women of child-bearing age have measurable exposure levels.
ABIGAIL R. CARTUS (EPI '21) and C. ELIZABETH SHAABAN (EPI '18) were honored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at Pitt for cofounding Pitsburgh Lead Action Now, a citizen-led group working for the lead-free drinking water in Pittsburgh. The Young Award honors work that promotes social justice, and recognizes that social activism takes many forms.
CONSUMER REPORTS - It’s unwise to delay or spread out vaccines, says EPI’s WILBERT VAN PANHUIS. The CDC bases the schedule on disease risks, vaccine effectiveness at specific ages, and the way vaccines may interact with each other. “To start mixing this up is really complicated and actually can be dangerous.” The MMR vaccine, for instance, is timed so that children receive it just as they’ve lost residual immunity from their mothers. And measles,...
The award is based on contribution to public health, with emphasis on scholarship, leadership, and service. The 2017 winners are: ANDREW KROEMER, CHANTELE MITCHELL-MILAND, JENNA NELSON, ASHLEY SIER, BAIYAND SUN, and EMILY WASSON.
Open to EPI students in good academic standing seeking travel funding to attend approved scientific meetings or events. 2017 winners are: KATHLEEN CREPPAGE, CHRISTINA CALAVARO, HSIN-HUI HUANG, HEMANT MAHAJAN, MEGAN MARRON, and SHARON WELBURN. Congratulations!
EPI's NANCY GLYNN won an Innovation Award for the sale of the Pittsburgh Fatigability Scale, a reliable measure of perceived fatigability in older adults that can serve as an adjunct to performance-based fatigability measures for identifying older adults at risk of mobility limitation in clinical and research settings. Congrats, Dr. Glynn!
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - With the assistance of Pitt’s high-performance computing (HPC) system, EPI’s ASHLEY NAIMI conducts a randomized trial of 1,200 volunteers to determine if a small, daily dose of aspirin may help women to more easily achieve pregnancy and to carry a baby to term. “Our data-intensive research relies on machine learning algorithms to interpret the data we collect.... With the new processors in place, we can obtain meaningful in...
CBS PITTSBURGH - Alumnus DAVID SALCIDO (EPI ’08), resuscitation specialist and assistant professor in Pitt’s Department of Emergency Medicine, is hoping his app can help save lives in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The free app, called Pulse Point, is connected to the Allegheny County 911 system, so that those who know CPR to get to those in need before paramedics arrive. Listen to the interview and learn more about the app.