Class Notes
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1990s
BORN: To Dinamarie (Didi) Cruz Garcia-Banigan 96MPH and her husband, Brian Banigan, a son, Gabriel Jerome, on May 9, 2009. He joins his big sister, Xavia Helene. Didi is an endocrinologist at Lahey Clinic Medical Center, and Brian works for IBM. The Banigans live in North Reading, Mass.
MARRIED: Colleen Browne 97MSN/MPH and Charles Kilgore, on Jan. 18, 2008. She is a PhD student at Florida International University School of Nursing. They live in Orangeburg, S.C.
2000s
Stormy Compeán Sweitzer 00MPH received an MBA from the University of Utah in 2007. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and business partner, Will Swanepoel. They recently launched SizeTracker.com, an online service that helps parents track their children’s measurements and their clothing sizes as they grow. Sweitzer also works in health information technology at HealthInsight, the federally designated quality improvement organization for Utah and Nevada. Projects include a web-based initiative to make health care quality and cost information more transparent to consumers.
Fatima Cody Stanford 01MPH received the Paul Ambrose Award for Leadership Among Resident Physicians at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago last June. Stanford was honored for her commitment to “a strong public health system” that “permeates the very essence of who I am as a health care provider,” she notes in her application for the award. She also chairs the Public Health Standing Committee of the AMA’s Resident and Fellows Section.
A graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, Stanford is a resident in internal medicine/pediatrics at Palmetto Health Richland in South Carolina. Her AMA award honors the memory of Ambrose, who was killed aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. At the time, Ambrose was a senior clinical adviser in the Office of the Surgeon General who was dedicated to serving low-income patients and providing physician leadership in health policy.
Charles (Chuck) Washington 01MPH is engaged to Kim Buyske. Washington is also a medical resident at the University of New Mexico. He graduated from medical school at the University of Washington.
BORN: To Jennifer Pritzker Sender 99C 02L/MPH and her husband, Eric, a son, Noah Avery, in September 2009. He joins older brother Gavin. The family lives in Atlanta.
BORN: To Monica Campos Bowers 03MPH, a son, Moises Mateo Bowers, on July 22, 2009. Bowers, who is a physician, and her family live in McAllen, Texas.
Tracy Jean Brown 04MPH received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia last May. She also married Byron Warner on May 16, 2009, in Albuquerque, N.M. They are stationed in Germany, where Brown oversees the veterinary clinic at Baumholder Army Garrison. She holds the rank of captain.
MARRIED: Alanna McKelvey 07MPH and Luke-Pascal Stone on Oct. 30, 2009, in Atlanta. She is a rising fourth-year medical student at Emory, and he is an elementary school teacher at Paideia School in Atlanta.
Evelia Kory 09MPHspent 10 weeks researching border health issues as part of the Frontera program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. Her summer project examined the types of health studies taking place in the border region involving U.S. and Mexican researchers. She also interviewed clinicians on the U.S. side to examine how they access and use evidence-based information in clinical practice. Kory grew up on the border and is interested in working there in the areas of diabetes prevention and management, nutrition, and relationships between patients and doctors.
Alumni Deaths
Donna Leigh Jenkins 93MPH, 50, of Peachtree City, Ga., on Feb. 28, 2009. Survivors include her husband, James.
Cynthia Margaret Letizia 94MPH, 51, of San Clemente, Calif., on June 23, 2009.
Katherine Ann Bryant 01MPH on Sept. 16, 2006. She lived in Texas in the Dallas area.
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