Kudos to Our Faculty

Our faculty were honored at our Annual Awards Ceremony, as Distinguished Faculty Lecturers and elsewhere:

Amy Hagopian

Faculty Community Service Award
Amy Hagopian, Acting Assistant Professor of Global Health, has shown her strong commitment to the community in many ways, ranging from service on the Seattle School Board and as president of her Parent Teacher Student Association to fighting for social justice in causes as diverse as military recruiting in the public schools, pushing for cross-cultural health in rural communities, and addressing the root causes of homelessness.

Johanna Lampe

Outstanding Mentor Award
Research Professor of Epidemiology Johanna Lampe has a unique ability to recognize her students’ goals and find opportunities for professional development that align with their objectives. She has high expectations of her students and demands their best effort, yet she is available and encouraging. She finds the right balance between providing guidance and holding back, offering support while allowing students to succeed on their own.

Patrick Heagerty

Outstanding Teaching Award
Patrick Heagerty, Professor of Biostatistics, actively encourages questions from all students. He develops visual aids to enhance his explanations of statistical principles to a broad audience and enjoys the challenge of explaining difficult material. He teaches his students how to address statistical analysis in an expert way by distributing his own version of homework assignments and writing detailed comments on every student’s term paper.

Tom Wickizer

Distinguished Faculty Lecturers
Tom Wickizer, Professor of Health Services, delivered the Spring 2009 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Reflections on 10 Years of Collaborative Research to Improve Health and Health Care for Injured Workers in Washington State.

Tom Fleming

Professor of Biostatistics Tom Fleming was the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in Winter 2009, speaking on the topic, Clinical Trials: Discerning Hype from Substance.

... and Elsewhere
Basia Belza, an investigator with our Health Promotion Research Center in Health Services, where she is an Adjunct Professor, was elected to a fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing in acknowledgement of her many contributions to nursing as well as inter-professional activities in education, research, and service. Basia is the Aljoya Endowed Professor in Aging in the UW School of Nursing.

Baojang Chen

The Statistical Society of Canada in April presented the Pierre Robillard Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the areas of probability and statistics defended in Canada in 2008 to Baojiang Chen, postdoctoral fellow in Biostatistics. The thesis, Statistical Methods for Multi-State Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data, was completed at the University of Waterloo.

Doug Conrad

Doug Conrad has been awarded the 2009 Filerman Prize for Innovation in Healthcare Management Education. Named after Gary Filerman, the first President of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), the Prize recognizes individuals from AUPHA member programs who have made outstanding contributions to the field of health administration education, exhibited leadership in the field, and enriched their institutions, their students, and health administration education through their work. Doug has been a member of our Health Services faculty since 1977. His fields of specialization are industrial organization economics, risk and insurance, and corporate finance.

Riki Peters

Ulrike “Riki” Peters is among 100 researchers to receive the prestigious 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award honors the most promising young researchers in the United States whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for strengthening America’s leadership in science.  A nutritional and genetic epidemiologist, Riki studies the link between nutrition and cancer prevention, particularly how the interplay of genetics and nutrition can impact cancer risk. She is an associate member of the Cancer Prevention Program within the Hutchinson Center’s Public Health Sciences Division and a Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology in our School.