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1980's
Teresa Maria Rivero, 85OX, 87B, 93MPH, was elected an alumni trustee of Emory's Board of Trustees. She serves as a senior program officer for the education program division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Washington, DC. Rivero is a member of the Emory Comprehensive Campaign Cabinet and the RSPH Dean's Council. She is also past president of the Emory Alumni Board.
1990's
BORN: To Christopher Scott Holliday, 92MPH, and his wife, British Arnold-Holliday, a son, Christopher Mansfield-Scott Holliday ("Scottie") on June 23, 2008. Scottie was born at Northside Hospital and weighed in at 6lbs, 14oz. He joins a very excited big sister, Sheridan Bichette, who is 3½. The Hollidays reside in the Lake Spivey community south of the metro Atlanta area.
Elizabeth W. (Betty) Bernhart, 90MPH, retired from Grady Health System as a physician assistant in July 2007. She now lives on St. Simons Island, GA.
Thomas Hoff Prol, 97MPH, was elected to the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Board of Trustees in May 2007.
Sureyya E. Hornston, 98MPH, recently returned from a detail with WHO’s Western Pacific regional office in Manila, the Philippines, and received an award from the CDC for her international work in avian and pandemic flu. A senior health communication specialist at the CDC, she has worked in the Division of STD Prevention since 1999.
MARRIED: Nicole Chere’ Syphax Young, 99MPH, to George Thomas Wood III on July 29, 2006. The couple lives in Baltimore, MD.
2000's
BORN: To Andrea Snyder Nelson, 02MPH, a son, Laith Oliver, on Feb. 15, 2007, at the US Army Hospital in Lanstuhl, Germany. He joins his 2-year-old brother, Rhys Asher. Nelson is an epidemiologist with the US Department of Defense.
MARRIED: Michele Sinunu, 04MPH, to Nick Menzies, 05MPH, on March 31, 2007. She is a research analyst at the CDC in the HIV/AIDS prevention unit. He is a senior research associate at the Global AIDS Program at the CDC. Michelle began her doctorate at Boston University this fall.
Todd Christopher Knudson, 00MPH, received a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in May 2006. He is completing an internship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, where he serves as an Army captain.
Tamara Stewart, 03MPH, is now project director in the RSPH for a breast cancer education and outreach program for underserved women in metro Atlanta. She became engaged to Kenneth Mason in December 2005 and is planning a May 2008 wedding in the Atlanta area.
Hilary Oliphant, 05MPH, spoke at the avian influenza summit in Geneva in November 2006. She works as a program administrator with CDC/Northrop Grumman in Atlanta.
Anthony Santella, 04MPH, 05MPH, received his doctorate in health systems management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in Fall 2007. Anthony now works at the Grey Healthcare Group in New York City as a managed care strategist.
David A. Bray, 01C, 04MPH, 09G, successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Knowledge Ecosystems: Technology, Motivations, Processes, and Performance" on March 7th, 2008. He will be graduating a year early from the Goizueta Business School and will start a post-doc in May at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence as well as perform additional post-doctoral research with the Kennedy School of Government's Leadership for a Networked World Program. David has been serving as a doctoral researcher with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the topics of knowledge ecosystems and inter-organizational knowledge transfer strategies.
Earlier in 2007, David Bray received the Distinguished Arts & Sciences Alumni Award from Emory College. He is married to Diane L. Morrison (97'N 05'MSN).
MARRIED: Darcy Freedman, 02MPH, to Heath Blackard on Aug. 5, 2006. Darcy is a research assistant at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Kristina Weis, 00OX, 01C, 03MPH, is working on her PhD at the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. Her dissertation is based on her work with the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control regarding a population-based study that examines missed opportunities for earlier identification of HIV cases.
Kelley Brittain Hise, 00MPH, was recently promoted to PulseNet Database Unit Chief in the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at the CDC. She and her husband Jason, are expecting their first child (a girl) March 1st.
Amanda Nickerson, 06MSN/MPH, is a public health fellow in the Division of Nursing with the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, in Rockville, MD.
Melody Moezzi, 06L, 06 MPH, recently won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the category of "Creative Non-fiction: Essay" for her first book, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims