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Welcome to the Saint Louis
University School of Public Health Alumni Area.
We invite our alumni to click
here to update the School on your current career
status and location. We hope to hear from all
of you. Submit your news and we'll share it here!
School Information:
Alumni
Resource:
School
Publications:
- Discover
(Winter/Spring 2009) - Community
Health Department newsletter
- Commitment
(Spring/Summer 2009) - Health Management
and Policy Department newsletter
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SAVE
THE DATE!
Thursday,
September 24 – that's the date for the 2nd
annual SPH Alumni Scholarship & Award Ceremony.
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STUDENT
AND ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni in
the News
Community Support a Factor in Childhood Obesity
Prevention – Cheryl
Kelly, PhD, MPH, a
graduate of the School of Public Health in 2003 and
2006, presented at a conference on childhood obesity
at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO.
Learn more here.
Leslie
Bertsch, MPH, MS, a 2008 graduate of the School
of Public Health and a Registered Dietitian with the
Nutrition Services program at the St. Louis Department
of Health, was featured in a story in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch about nutrition classes available
at the Health Department's new Health Institute.
The class — Shopping with a Registered Dietitian — isn't
part of a costly personal trainer's regimen or exclusive
workshop. It's one of many free educational programs
offered by area health departments to help people get
fit. The class took place in Health Department's
North Grand offices. . . . more
Corinne
Walentik, M.D., MPH, 1992 graduate of the Department
of Community Health and a professor of pediatrics in
the division of neonatal/perinatal medicine at Saint
Louis University School of Medicine and neonatalogist
at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center and
SSM St. Mary's Health Center, has been honored by the
Nurses for Newborns Foundation with the organization's
"Champion for Babies Award." . . . . more
Salvador Cruz-Flores, MD, MPH,
professor of neurology at Saint Louis University and
2009 graduate of the School of Public Health, will be
invested on Tuesday, Feb. 24, as the inaugural holder
of the Sidney W. Souers Endowed Chair in Neurology.
Cruz specializes in treating stroke patients. He directs
Saint Louis University's Souers
Stroke Institute and Saint Louis University Hospital's
MidAmerica
Stroke Network , which extends acute stroke care
to rural, community and critical access hospitals throughout
Missouri and central and southern Illinois. . . . more
Students
in the News
Two
students from the School of Public Health , Patrick
Ercole, MPH (Public Health Studies) and Kate Beatty
(Community Health) were among the prize winners
at the 15th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
held on Friday, April 17, 2009 at SLU's Busch Student
Center . Every
department within The Graduate School is encouraged
to participate in this interdisciplinary forum. Judges
are selected from SLU faculty to represent the variety
of disciplines. Monetary awards are given to the first,
second, and third place papers and posters in each category.
Mr. Ercole was awarded first place and Ms. Beatty
was awarded third place in the Social Sciences Category.
See the list of all award winners here
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A team of three Saint Louis University
students working on their Master of Health Administration
(MHA) degrees took third place in a national competition
that used a real world health care scenario to
test the knowledge and skills of future professionals.
Jennifer Keskey, Steven Meyer and
Noel Pugh were coached by Kathleen
Gillespie, Ph.D., associate professor
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department
of health management and policy,
and Jason Turner, Ph.D., assistant
professor of health management and policy, for the Feb.
18-19 competition sponsored by the University of Alabama
in Birmingham. SLU's team won $4,500, and competed against
students from 24 other universities.
. . . more
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