University of New Mexico LEND Director Cate McClain, M.D., PT, was recognized by Mayor Martin J. Chavez of Albuquerque with the prestigious A+ Award on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the mayor's State of the City Address. McClain was given the award for her outstanding work as a community leader, making a difference in the lives of many New Mexican families living with autism.
Marion Taylor Baer, PhD, RD, Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC) and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), will receive the Mary C. Egan Award, from the Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association at their 136th Annual Meeting, San Diego Convention Center, October 26, 2008. The award recognizes the professional contributions and outstanding services of public health nutritionists, including developing new approaches to public health nutrition, mentoring, nutrition education, and addressing special nutrition needs. Dr. Baer directs the Leadership Excellence in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Training Program at the USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the MCH Nutrition Leadership Training Program in the School of Public Health, UCLA.
Marie McCormick, M.D., Sc.D.
Added: May 19, 2008
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professor Marie McCormick, M.D., Sc.D. received the 2008 Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health at a special luncheon on Thursday, May 8 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. The award is given by the Massachusetts Medical Society to a physician who demonstrates creativity, commendable citizenship, initiative, innovation and leadership in the public health and advocacy fields.
Joann N. Bodurtha, M.D., M.P.H.
Added: May 19, 2008
Art of Listening Award
Congratulations to Joann N. Bodurtha MD MPH, Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, Pediatrics, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Epidemiology and Community Health! She will be awarded the Art of Listening Award on July 12, 2008 at the Genetic Alliance Awards Dinner. http://www.geneticalliance.org/ws_display.asp?filter=conf08.bio.bodurtha
Nominated by Elaine Shurie Ogburn, Family Mentorship Specialist, at the Va-LEND Program, she receives this honor for her openness to the ideas of professionals and families alike, for her care and compassion and for her incredible support to families in crisis and beyond.
We will celebrate Dr. Bodurtha, and the families she cares for, at the North Bethesda Marriott, with a reception 6 PM and dinner at 7 PM. That night, we will also award the Founder's Service Award, the Art of Advocacy Award and the Art of Industry Partnership Award (look for more announcements next week). To register for the dinner, please go to: http://geneticalliance.org/conf08.registration.
Scott Harpin, M.S., M.P.H.
Added: March 27, 2008
Scott Harpin, M.S., M.P.H. (School of Nursing), Ph.D. student and member of the University of Minnesota's Center for Adolescent Nursing, has been selected as a 2008 recipient of the President's Student Leadership and Service Award.
The President's Student Leadership and Service Awards recognizes the accomplishments and contributions made by outstanding student leaders at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Last year 12 graduate/professional students received this award for their exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota and the surrounding community. Awards will be presented at the President's Award Banquet taking place on May 5th, 2008 in the Great Hall of Coffman Union.
Scott was a Nursing fellow in the Interdisciplinary Fellowship Training Program in the 2002-2003 academic year. In 2003, he was selected to be one of only a few University of Minnesota students spotlighted at inauguration ceremonies for then-incoming University President Robert Bruininks. Harpin's presentation, "Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota," was included in the "Impress the President" event.
Elizabeth Collins, RN-BC, MS
Added: February 19, 2008
Former NH-LEND Trainee Appointed to NH Department of Health & Human Services
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the appointment of former NH-LEND trainee Elizabeth Collins, RN-BC, MS, as the Director of Special Medical Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs (NH's Title V program).
Elizabeth Spencer
Added: February 19, 2008
Elizabeth Spencer, PhD candidate in the Communication Disorders Program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee has been awarded the 2007 Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development offered by the ASHA Foundation. Her work was titled "Part-term Learning in Children with Low Vocabulary". The 2007 Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development is supported by the Arlene Matkin Memorial Fund. The award memorializes Arlene Matkin whose professional work was dedicated to early identification and intervention for young children with language delays and disorders.
Anne Marie Tharpe, PhD
Added: October 5, 2007
Local Audiologist Helps ASHA Celebrate Receiving Prestigious ASAE Summit Award
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Campaign Recognized
(Rockville, MD – September 26, 2007) Local audiologist, Anne Marie Tharpe, PhD, Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (DHSS) at Vanderbilt University and Associate Director of Education for the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences in Nashville, TN attended the Summit Awards Dinner of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) in Washington, D.C. last night to help honor The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
ASHA received the Summit Award for its Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) campaign which promotes hearing screening of newborns at birth. The ASAE Summit Award is highest honor for associations that implement innovative community-based programs. This award recognizes the very best efforts put forth by associations across the country in areas such as public education and information, economic development, business and social innovation, skills training/development and civic and volunteer activities. ASHA was one of six 2007 Summit Award winners who were chosen from more than 250 national entries received in the Associations Advance America Awards program this year.
Over the course of the EHDI campaign, the reported number of newborns screened at birth has increased from 22% in 1999 to roughly 95% today. In 1988, the average age that children with congenital hearing loss were identified was over 3 years of age, with many children not being identified until 5 or 6 years of age. Today, it is now less than 3 months and dropping. The number of states that have laws or statewide voluntary programs for the early detection and intervention of hearing loss has grown from 11 to 45 states plus the District of Columbia.
ASHA, located in Rockville, Maryland, is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally. For more information on speech, language, and hearing disorders, consumers can log on to www.asha.org or call 1-800-638-TALK.
