Faculty Honors & Service

From the Spring/Summer 2015 Magazine

Alina Dorian

was named Educator of the Month by the Los Angeles Lakers organization for April 2015.

Richard J. Jackson

received the 2015 Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

was selected as the 2015 Fielding School of Public Health Dean’s Distinguished Scholar and Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecturer; she also convened and led the Culture Research and Health Outcomes Panel for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

Snehendu B. Kar

was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2015 by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.

Leeka Kheifets

was elected to serve on the National Academy of Sciences Committees on Airport Passenger Screening: Backscatter Millimeter Wave Machines.

Susan D. Kirby

served as co-chair of the Society of Public Health Education’s Health Communications/Social Marketing Community of Practice, and also as guest editor for Social Marketing Quarterly.

Gerald Kominski

was appointed to the National Advisory Board of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College.

Vickie Mays

was reappointed by the U.S. House of Representatives to serve a second term on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Jack Needleman

served on the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Nurse Credentialing Research and the IOM Committee for the Evaluation of the Impact of the Institute of Medicine Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

Beate Ritz

was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Incorporating 21st Century Science into Risk-Based Evaluations.

Linda Rosenstock

was honored as a 2014 International Scholar by the Open Society Foundations.

Robert Schiestl

was named 2015 Professional of the Year by America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals.

Brennan Spiegel

was selected to become co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Catherine Sugar

was elected as a 2015 Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is currently serving as president of the ASA Southern California chapter.

Nathan D. Wong

received a 2014 Distinguished Fellowship Award from the International Academy of Cardiology and an Honorary Membership by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.