2002 Accolades

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Fall 2002

David Schottenfeld, John G. Searle Professor of epidemiology, received the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) Abraham Lilienfeld Award. The college's most prestigious award is given annually to an epidemiologist whose career has shown sustained excellence in research, teaching, and practice. Schottenfeld worked closely with Lilienfeld and was involved in the establishment of ACE in 1979.

Kenneth Warner, the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health and director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network, received the 2002 Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship. Given annually by the University of Iowa College of Public Health, the Hansen Leadership Award recognizes exemplary leadership, integrity, and ethical standards and an enduring commitment to improving health care on a national and international level.

John Henshaw, MPH '74, Assistant Secretary of Labor for occupational safety and health, is the 2002 recipient of the School of Public Health Alumni Society Distinguished Alumni Award. Established in 1991, the award recognizes UM SPH graduates for their contributions to the profession and to the school. Henshaw has served on both the Alumni Board of Governors and the Dean's Advisory Committee, and helped raise money to endow a scholarship in memory of his former Michigan professor Ralph Smith. Henshaw is the former president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and former member of the EPA National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Advisory Board. He gave UM SPH's 2002 convocation address.

At the fall meeting of the American Public Health Association, SPH doctoral candidate Kathleen Bainbridge, MPH '97, received an Epidemiology Section Student Award for her paper on the development of a risk instrument to identify pre- and perimenopausal women at risk for low bone mineral density. SPH Professor Mary Fran Sowers co-authored the study. The award will support Bainbridge's dissertation research on menstrual function across the reproductive lifespan.

Officials marking the 100th anniversary of the WHO Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) included, from left: Hector Acuna, former director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB/WHO); Myron Wegman, UM SPH dean and professor emeritus and former head of PAHO; Brenda Simons Gilliam, current president of the PASB/WHO staff association; Sir George Alleyne, outgoing director of PASB/WHO; and incoming director Mirta Roses.