IPRC Students
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Kamisha Darden is a Journalism major in the Electronic Communications Sequence and has chosen to augment her education with a second major in Communication Studies. She is a Pogue Scholar and her studies are fully funded under this mechanism. Kamisha started working at IPRC in May 2006 and will continue to work on the project Preventing Falls Through Enhanced Pharmaceutical Care. |
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Zewditu (Zewde) Demissie, MPH is a doctoral student in Epidemiology. Zewde attended Iowa State University, graduating with B.S. degrees in Genetics and Psychology and a minor in English in 2002. She received her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities in 2004. Her current areas of interest are occupational and injury epidemiology. |
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Kim Freire, MPH is a doctoral student in HBHE. Prior to entering graduate school, she was the evaluation manager for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Office of Adolescent and Youth Development. |
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Katherine (Kate) Karriker-Jaffe, MS, is a doctoral student in Health Behavior and Health Education. Kate works on the study: Violence Towards Peers, Dates, and Self: A Developmental Focus. Her research interests include the role that neighborhoods play in the development of aggression and violence during adolescence. |
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Steven Lippmann is an MSPH/PhD student in the Epidemiology department, concentrating on injury and occupational health outcomes. Steve will work on projects in the BIOS CORE and will also act as webmaster for IPRC. Before joining IPRC, Steve worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Injury Prevention Research Center. His research interests include firearm violence, suicide prevention, and youth violence. |
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Anne Morris, a first-year Master’s student in the Health Behavior and Health Education program, is working with Karen Moore, Johnny Lee, and J Mathis to provide logistical support for the 2007 PREVENT Institute and NTI. |
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Virginia Pate is a 2nd year Biostatistics student and will assist José Sandoval with BIOS CORE projects. Her first project for IPRC involved cleaning up data sets for the PREVENT project and preparing them for analysis. Her work will expand to other projects during the course of the year. |
| Melissa (Mel) Piper is a 1st year master’s student in Health Behavior and Health Education. At IPRC she works with Carri Casteel and Maryalice Nocera on the project Violence Against Home Health and Hospice Care Providers, newly funded, by NIOSH. |
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Danielle Rentz is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in 1999, and her MPH in 2000 from the George Washington University. Before entering graduate school, Danielle was a Project Coordinator for a breast and cervical cancer outreach program at the National Education Association Health Information Network. She is currently working on projects examining the characteristics of violence experienced by North Carolinians as well as family violence in the military. |
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LaKia Scoggins, a UNC junior from Durham, NC, is working on two IPRC projects: Preventing Falls Through Enhanced Pharmaceutical Care and Senior’s Attitudes Toward Hip Protectors to Reduce Fracture Risk. LaKia is a Pogue Scholar and is matriculating through the pharmacy school. |
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Marcia Smith-Fischer, a second year MSW student working with the PREVENT program and the National Training Initiative (NTI). She has a BSW from UNC Greensboro. Prior to her schooling, she served in the US Navy where she was an executive assistant in the Malaria Research Program at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring , MD. |
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Kristen Sparks is a second year Master’s Student in Maternal and Child Health. This summer, she worked on a school emergency preparedness project as an intern for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for Children Program, through the North Carolina Office of EMS. At IPRC, Kristen is working as a research assistant on a terrorism surveillance project that is a collaborative effort with the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the North Carolina DHHS. |
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Shankar Viswanathan, MSc, is a doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and is from Sathyamangalam, India. Shankar attended Christian Medical College where he obtained an MS in biostatistics. While on staff at the CMC’s Biostatistics Department, he managed the IndiaSAFE dataset. Shankar will continue working in the BIOS core analyzing and archiving data and writing reports. |
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Catherine Vladutiu is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education who is also seeking a minor in Epidemiology. She is working with Carol Runyan and Carri Casteel on a feasibility study of disablities and home injuries, examining data from the National Health Interview Survey. |
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Ciara Zachary is a master’s student in Health Behavior and Health Education. At IPRC she works with Carri Casteel, Maryalice Nocera, and Cindy Ware on the Safe Steps project which focuses on Fall Prevention among older adults. |