Search Results for "Dubuque Regional Airport ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ โฌ Official Site Number"
Dr. James Stephen Marron is the Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor in UNC's Department of Statistics and Operations Research as well as a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Dr. Marron is widely recognized as a world research leader in the statistical disciplines of high dimensional, functional and object oriented data analysis, as well as data visualization. He has made broad major contributions ranging from the invention of innovative new statistical methods, through software development and on to statistical and mathematical theory.
His research continues with a number of ongoing deep, interdisciplinary research collaborations with colleagues in Computer Science, Genetics, Medicine, Mathematics and Biology. A special strength is his strong record of mentoring graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty, in both statistics and also related disciplinary fields.
Dr. Staleyโs research and teaching program focuses on occupational safety and health hazards, particularly among vulnerable workers. His work also includes disaster preparedness and response program development, infectious disease and environmental health/safety, and program/curriculum design for undergraduate and graduate programs. He has a strong background in outreach with front-line workers, particularly the first responder community, e.g., fire/EMS, law enforcement, the military, and underrepresented populations. He works with regional partners across the southeastern United States to foster regional cross-collaboration to improve the health of the US workforce, particularly with a Total Worker Healthยฎ approach. This includes the critical intersection of community engagement and workforce development with the public, health care, business, and practice sector stakeholders in occupational safety and health research, practice, and policy.
Rachel Lentz is a Regional Child Care Health Consultant with more than 15 years of education and experience in both child and community health and early care and education, who specializes in training, technical assistance, coaching, assessment, or quality improvement planning in any area of health and safety by helping early care and education programs.
Ms. Lentz focuses her expertise on developing strategies to achieve high quality, safe and healthy child care environments.
As a Child Care Health Consultant, Ms. Lentz was responsible for both creating and implementing strategies at MAHEC. She oversaw the successful launch of new multi-county consultant, which helped five counties in the western region have access to a child care health consultant.
Ms. Lentz, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, served as a CCHC for two years prior to joining the UNC team. She has obtained her professional certification in trauma and resilience from Florida State University.
Alicia Tanner is a public health nurse with an extensive background as an early childhood education (ECE) professional. Prior to the onset of her nursing career, she worked at a facility that offered exceptional educational programs for children from 6 weeks to 6 years. While in nursing school, Alicia gained appreciation for the preventive principles behind public health nursing. As a former county Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC), she was responsible and managed all related aspects on the development and implementation of training for local early childhood educators. Often these educational opportunities were done in collaboration with the local health department, partners and agencies. Her aggregated experience in the fields of early childhood education, nursing, and public health focuses on training and technical assistance for ECE professionals on practices that will improve the health and safety of young children in early childhood education programs.
Fred Brown is President of the Brown Consulting Group, LLC. He retired in 2016 as Executive Vice President for Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC , where he developed the business plan and implemented an initiative that added 24 managed hospitals and health systems to the System.ย
Previously, Brown served as Executive Vice President of Novant Health, Winston-Salem, NC. Before this he established a regional office for VHA, a major nationalย health care cooperative, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Carolinas-Tennessee Regional Healthcare System for 12 years. Prior to this, he has more than 16 years serving as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of acute care community hospitals, regional referral centersย and a large academic medical center.
Brown retired as a Colonel in the North Carolina Air National Guard after 32 years of active duty and reserve service. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army and Air Force Commendation Medals with Oak Leaf Clusters and the Humanitarian Service Medal with 2 Silver Oak leaf Clusters plus numerous other awards and decorations. He has over 2500 hours in the C-130 aircraft including 238 Combat hours during Desert Storm. He has over 140 military parachute jumps. Col. Brown was awarded the General I.G. Brown Command Excellence Award in 1988. He was named outstanding Air Force Medical Service Corps Officer in 1991. He has earned the Combat Infantry Badge, Master Parachutist Badge and Chief Medical Service Corps Badge. He was inducted into the Army Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolinaโs highest civilian award in 2002.
His professional affiliations include serving as a Life Fellow and North Carolina Regent of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Adjunct Full Professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and President, Board of Directors, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Foundation.
Brown earned a Master's of Public Health Health Administration from the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and a Bachelor's degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, where he was an all conference guard on three conference championship football teams.
February 18, 2021 Regional factors appear to play a significant role in the diversity of gut microbiota and could predict health effects in certain populations, according to the results of a research collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte and the National Institute for Nutrition and Health in Beijing, China.
Broadly, Dr. Satish Gopal is interested in developing innovative and resource-appropriate approaches to prevent, diagnose, treat and palliate cancer in the most resource-limited settings in the world. He leads a multidisciplinary research group in Malawi, comprised of senior and junior United States and Malawian collaborators, who work toward this overarching goal with many regional and international partners.
Dr. Gopal is a medical oncologist and infectious diseases physician. He has lived in Malawi with his family since 2012, since which time he has been the only certified medical oncologist in a country of ~18 million people. He is an AIDS Malignancy Consortium investigator, a Cancer Working Group member for the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems network and a Cancer Working Group member for the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS network, an NIH-funded consortium of HIV cohorts worldwide.
Dr. Gopal is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Malawi College of Medicine. He is the principal investigator (PI) for the Kamuzu Central Hospital Lymphoma Study, one of the first large clinical cohorts of lymphoproliferative disorders in sub-Saharan Africa. He also is the PI for the National Institutes of Health U54 Malawi Cancer Consortium, a broad national effort focused on developing capacity for HIV-associated cancer research and conducting high-impact research for Kaposi sarcoma and lymphoma in Malawi. Additionally, Dr. Gopal is the PI for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) P20 planning grant to establish a Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-communicable diseases in Malawi and the PI for an NCI supplement award to help establish Malawi as a site for a planned Burkitt Lymphoma Trial Network. Gopal also leads Malawi participation in a new NCI/International Agency for Research on Cancer consortium for esophageal cancer.
Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals is a health services researcher with expertise in cancer care inequities, palliative and supportive care, and health informatics. She is particularly interested in disentangling the multilevel sources (i.e., patient-, provider-, and health care system-level) of disparities in palliative and supportive cancer care using mixed methods (i.e., quantitative and qualitative data analysis) and addressing such inequities through system-level approaches that leverage health informatics tools.
Gary Koch, PhD, DSc (Hon), is professor of biostatistics and Director of the Biometric Consulting Laboratory at UNC-CH, where he has served on the faculty since 1968.
His principal research interest is the development of statistical methodology for the analysis of categorical data and its corresponding applications to a wide range of settings in the health sciences. He has an extensive record of publication in statistics and in collaborative work in health sciences research. The topics which are addressed by his publications include crossover studies, multi-center studies, longitudinal (multi-visit) studies, rank methods for ordered outcomes, covariance analysis and adverse experience data analysis.
Dr. Koch has previously served on the editorial boards of The American Statistician, Biometrics, Drug Information Journal and Technometrics, and he is currently a member of the editorial boards for Statistics in Medicine and The Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics.
