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Melissa Tibbits, PhD

by COPH Staff | January 15, 2013

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Melissa Tibbits received her PhD in human development and family studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She joined the College of Public Health (COPH) faculty in 2009 as an assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health. Dr. Tibbits currently teaches Public Health Program Evaluation, a concentration course for the Health Promotion MPH track, and Child and Adolescent Growth and Development, a concentration course for the Maternal and Child Health MPH track. She also provides guest lectures… Continue Reading

Posted in Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 3 / Is. 01, Jan 2013

Jungyoon Kim, PhD

by COPH Staff | December 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Kim teaches Health Care Organization Theory and Behavior. This course is about learning, understanding, and applying macro and micro theories that are relevant to explain and solve various problems in health care. Macro theory focuses on understanding how health care organizations behave and change their forms to adapt to the environment. Micro theory deals with human behavioral problems in health care, such as motivation, leadership, communication, and/or conflict. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on organizational and behavioral problems in health care. She… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 12, Dec 2012

Kendra Schmid, PhD

by COPH Staff | November 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Kendra Schmid teaches BIOS 823/CPH 653, Categorical Data Analysis. While this course is an MPH biostatistics concentration course, students in other programs also enroll. Dr. Schmid is developing an online section of the MPH biostatistics core course, BIOS 806/CPH 506, to be offered in spring 2013. Dr. Schmid’s methodological research focuses on statistical shape analysis, and more specifically, on methods of describing, mapping, and matching shapes using landmark coordinates. As a biostatistician, she serves as a statistician for research projects across… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, Featured Stories, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 11, Nov 2012

Tricia D. Levan, PhD

by COPH Staff | October 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Tricia LeVan is the course coordinator and instructor for the Master of Public Health core course in epidemiology, “Epidemiology in Public Health.” The course encompasses several teaching paradigms, including traditional lectures and exams; in class exercises and discussion; small group current event topics using news, videos, magazine articles, and state-of-the-art peer-reviewed manuscripts; and a final PowerPoint video presentation on descriptive epidemiology. The course is always evolving to include fresh new teaching ideas. In addition to in-class teaching, she serves as mentor… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Vol. 2 / Is. 10, Oct 2012

Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH

by COPH Staff | September 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Patrik Johansson joined the College of Public Health 2009. Prior to 2009, he was an assistant professor at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, deputy chief medical officer for Greater Southeast Community Hospital in Washington, DC, and account executive for Hill and Knowlton Japan in Tokyo. He earned his bachelor of arts in international relations from Brown University and his MD from the UNMC College of Medicine. He did his residency in primary care/internal medicine at… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 2 / Is. 09, Sep 2012

Shawn Gibbs, PhD

by COPH Staff | August 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Shawn Gibbs serves as the College of Public Health’s associate dean for student affairs. He previously served as the College of Public Health’s director of master’s programs and chair of the Curriculum Committee. Dr. Gibbs currently teaches Foundations of Public Health, a required core course for all students in the College of Public Health. He also provides guest lectures on environmental health, water treatment, and waste management to several other courses. Dr. Gibbs serves as the academic adviser for many… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 2 / Is. 08, Aug 2012

Nizar K. Wehbi, MD, MPH, MBA

by COPH Staff | July 15, 2012

Faculty Highlight – Dr. Nizar Wehbi joined the faculty of the College of Public Health in January 2011. He began his career in clinical medicine, taking care of patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. His love for research took him to cancer research where, with other researchers, he sought to identify biomarkers (proteins) that would predict prostate and bladder cancer at very early stages of disease. He then moved to hospital administration and worked for The Nebraska Medical Center in strategic planning and business… Continue Reading

Posted in COPH Picks, Faculty Highlight, The GroundBreaker, Uncategorized, Vol. 2 / Is. 07, Jul 2012