CommencementDECEMBER 21, 2014

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

COLE STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUILDING

3:30 PM

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

PROCESSIONAL

PRESIDING Dr. Jane E. Clark, Professor and Dean, School of Public Health

WELCOMEDr. Colleen “Coke” Farmer, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education

INVOCATIONReverend Brett Pinder, United Methodist Chaplain, University of Maryland

STUDENT ADDRESSJulia Marcus

Bachelor of Science, Behavioral and Community Health

INTRODUCTION OF COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERDr. Jane E. Clark

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSDr. John Ruffin

Founding Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health

RECOGNITION OF GRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Dr. Sandra C. Quinn, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

RECOGNITION OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTSPublic Health Science, Dr. Barbara Alving, Director

Family Science, Dr. Elaine A. Anderson, Professor and ChairBehavioral and Community Health, Dr. Barbara A. Curbow, Professor and Chair

Kinesiology, Dr. Bradley D. Hatfield, Professor and Chair

RECOGNITION OF STUDENTS GRADUATING WITH HONORSDr. Jane E. Clark

INVITATION FROM ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONGinelle Jurlano, MHA ’10

BENEDICTIONReverend Brett Pinder

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH RECEPTION Dean Jane Clark will host a reception for graduates and their families in the Grand Ballroom of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union immediately following the SPH

graduation ceremony. Light refreshments will be served. This is a great chance for students and their families to mingle with SPH professors and staff.

John Ruffin, PhD FOUNDING DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH

AND HEALTH DISPARITIES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Dr. John Ruffin recently retired as the founding director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health. As director, he oversaw the NIMHD budget of approximately $276 million, and provided leadership for the NIH minority health and health disparities research activities, which constituted an annual budget of approximately $2.8 billion.

As an academic and scientist, he has devoted his professional career to improving the health status of racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations. He has developed programs to increase the cadre of minority scientists, physicians, and other health professionals, and to attract a diverse group of researchers to the field.

Dr. Ruffin earned a BS in Biology from Dillard University, an MS in Biology from Atlanta University, a PhD in Systematic and Developmental Biology from Kansas State University, and completed post-doctoral studies in biology at Harvard. He holds nine honorary doctor of science degrees. He served as chair of the Department of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at North Carolina Central University.

During his 24 years at the NIH, Dr. Ruffin successfully institutionalized minority health and health disparities research within the organizational structure of the NIH, resulting in the creation of a health disparities research enterprise with a global reach. His leadership transformed national discourse in the field, resulting in health disparities research becoming a recognized scientific discipline.

In 1993, he received congressional support to guide the transition of the Office of Minority Programs to the Office of Research on Minority Health – a legislatively-created research entity.

His leadership led to the creation of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities in 2000 with the enactment of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act. The Center became an Institute at the NIH in 2010 as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Ruffin has received the U.S. Presidential Merit Award; the Cura Personalis Award from Georgetown University Medical Center; the Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award for National Service; and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Special Recognition Award.

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATES

STUDENT SPEAKER

Julia Marcus BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, BEHAVIORAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Julia Marcus, a Fair Lawn, New Jersey native, is receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Com-munity Health with a minor in French Studies. Julia is passionate about working with older adults and the aging population and interned at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, where she researched the ways older adults are excluded from clinical studies. After graduation, she will start working at The Advisory Board Com-

pany, a healthcare research, technology and consulting firm in Washington, D.C. She plans to continue her public health education in graduate school and eventually work as a geriatric hospital administrator.

Behavioral and Community Health

CHANDRIA DENISE JONES Advisor: Dr. Sharon M. Desmond Dissertation title: Exploring childhood obesity through multiple levels of influence: An examination of the social and environmental context for healthy weight among minority youth and parents

KIMBERLY CAROLE MITCHELL Advisor: Dr. Donna Howard Dissertation title: Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Toward West Nile Vi-rus Prevention Among Adults ≥60 Years Old in Maryland: An Application of the Health Belief Model

Maternal and Child Health, Family Science JESSICA DIBARI Advisor: Dr. Edmond Shenassa Dissertation title: Gestational Weight Gain, Infant Feeding Practices, and Infant Growth

Kinesiology

JACOB JAMES BUSTADAdvisor: Dr. David Andrews Dissertation title: ‘Right to the Active City’: Public Recreation and Urban Governance in Baltimore

BRYAN CLIFTAdvisor: Dr. David Andrews Dissertation title: Running with Neoliberalism: the politics and practice of physical cultural philanthropy and voluntarism in urban Baltimore

RONALD LEE MOWERAdvisor: Dr. David Andrews Dissertation title: Fitness Philanthropy, Failed States, and Physical Cultural Fissures: The Problem of Addressing “Urban” Youth in Baltimore

Kinesiology - Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) program

DAVID LOGANAdvisor: Dr. John Jeka Dissertation title: Subtask control in human locomotion

MASTER’S DEGREE GRADUATES

Master of Arts, Kinesiology PETER IGOCHE AGADAAdvisor: Dr. John JekaProject: Validation of a low-cost stereo motion tracking system for trunk angle measurements

KELSEY JAYE CORRIGANAdvisor: Dr. James HagbergThesis: The Effect of a 10 Day Cessation of Training in Older Endurance Athletes on Pathological Nitric Oxide and ROS Levels in Circulating Angiogenic Cells

MOHAMMAD EHSANUL KARIMAdvisor: Dr. Jane E. ClarkThesis: A Systematic Approximation to the Neural Control of Forwrad, Backward and Lateral Toe-tapping in Children and Adults

Master of Health Administration

VERONICA KWOKAdvisor: Dr. Jie ChenThesis: Inpatient Mortality of Emergency Care: Is Competition Always Good?

CRUZKAYA RENDONAdvisor: Dr. Karoline MortensenProject: An Evaluation of Patient Centered Medical Homes in Safety-Net Clinics

MINATA SANGAREAdvisor: Dr. Lori Simon-RusinowitzProject: Drug Repurposing: An Evaluation of a New Approach and Intervention Strategy to Control Neglected Tropical Diseases

Master of Public Health, Behavioral and Community Health

ERIC JAMISON Advisors: Dr. Cheryl HoltThesis: Recommendations for the Adaptation of an Anti-Bullying Curriculum for Educators of Middle School Students in Baltimore City, Maryland

ARINA SUNIL KADAM Advisor: MinQi WangThesis: Niños Sanos, Familia Sana: Assessing Physical Activity Needs of the Hispanic Community in the Washington, DC Metropolitian Area

CLARK JOHNSON LEE Advisor: Dr. Kenneth BeckThesis: Intention and Willingness to Drive While Drowsy in a Population of University Students in Maryland: An Application of an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model LUZ ESMERALDA MAHECHA MARTINEZAdvisor: Dr. Sharon DesmondThesis: “Comamos Juntos” (Let’s Eat Together), An Educational Tool to Prevent Obesity and Support Educational Attainment

JULIA ARGENTINA MATUTE-KUMBALASIRIAdvisors: Dr. Cheryl Holt, Dr. Mary GarzaThesis: Cultural Adaptation of a Spiritually Based Breast Cancer Communication Intervention Targeted to a Spanish-speaking Catholic Community in Maryland

DANIELLE MOTLEYAdvisors: Dr. James Butler IIIThesis: The Concordance in Flu Vaccination Behaviors Between Adults and Children Residing in the Same Household in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia

AMANDA STRAUSSERAdvisor: Dr. Craig FryerThesis: Secondary Data Analysis Investigating the Utilities of Ecological Momentary Assessments to Understand Smoking Environments in India AMANDA KONG VITHIDKULAdvisor: Dr. Craig Fryer Thesis: Recommendations for the Use of Twitter to Increase Awareness of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Vaccinations against HPV among College Students

Behavioral and Community Health

Ruby Abaka-YanksonFiorella AguilarJonelle AgursMichele-Corinne AkoQueen Alike*Nwanneka AmadiRaheel AwanKatherine BendanaAvielle BenderNelson BodduMelissa BortsLaura Breslau

Jasmyne CampbellFarhana ChaityHenry ChanclerSaurav ChowdhurySisley ChungEllen Clark***Marlyse DaintonConnor DaviesDaphne DorangeRonald EmeniLauren FloresAisha GhauriJustin GorinsonBrandon GravesTara Griffith

Julianne GrotheMaria HarrisTatiana Hasson*Camille HayslettAisha HussainAviva KatzDami KimMeaghan LancasterJacelyn LeeJamie LeeKaren LizarragaTemidayo MakindeJulia MarcusBrielle MerchantSheetal Mistry

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE GRADUATES

Disclaimer: The list of degree candidates in this program is tentative and is based on the anticipated successful completion of work undertaken during the Fall 2014 semester. This document should not be taken as an official record that degrees have in fact been awarded.

Master of Public Health, Behavioral and Community Health, cont.

SAMANTHA WATTERSAdvisor: Dr. Kerry GreenThesis: The Merging of Commercial Film and Public Health: The Development and Evaluation of a Found Footage Anti-texting and Driving PSA

Master of Public Health, Biostatistics

NICOLE KORNSPANAdvisor: Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras Project: Examining the Association between BMI and Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis CONGYU LI Advisor: Dr. Shuo Chen Project: Economic Burden of Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC) among Chronic Opioid Users for Non Cancer Pain

ANN NOTHWEHRAdvisor: Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras Thesis: Associations among Food Insecurity, Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intake Levels, and Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on NHANES 2007-2010 Data Master of Public Health, Epidemiology

DANIEL SETH LEVYAdvisor: Dr. Brit SaksvigProject: Assessment of the Relationship between Body Mass Index and Asthmatic Remission

KANOKPHAN RATTANAWATKUL Advisor: Dr. Olivia Carter-PokrasThesis: Compliance with Age at Initiation of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Series by Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Health Insurance Coverage among 13-17 Year-Old Females Who Received At Least One HPV Vaccine Shot: United States, 2011

MASTER’S DEGREE GRADUATES (continued)

Julianne GrotheMaria HarrisTatiana Hasson*Camille HayslettAisha HussainAviva KatzDami KimMeaghan LancasterJacelyn LeeJamie LeeKaren LizarragaTemidayo MakindeJulia MarcusBrielle MerchantSheetal Mistry

Tiara MolockVanamala NarasimhanJoan NguyTina NguyenAquilah NixonSarah NwosuAkary Nyan WinDavid OhSuman OjhaChiagozi Okwu-LawrenceErin O’ReillyCynthia OsemeneKonyinsola OshikoyaMaria PhillipsJude PierreBrandi QuickKelly RadleAllie ReeseNoella SamaCatherine SayikanmiRachel ShieldsAnagha Sridhara***Deborah St-CyrBiniyam TesfayeZaena TessemaLeah Thyberg*Vanessa TranAmitpal Vohra***Sierra WilliamsYonas WolduAshley WorthingtonJehan ZakiCourtney ZellerSiyao ZhangYuqing Zhang

Family Science

Richard Akyea Darwin Amaya Meraz Taera Asrat Leandra Astier Michelle Belton Jewell Briscoe Kassandra Caudell Cherise Centi Oneyda Chavez

Lisa Chen Felicia Chhay Angelica Christian Kelsey Christo Kenneth Collado Rachel Croce* Unissa Cruse-Ferguson Randall Curtis II Moriel Daniel* Lisette Dardon Katie Diedrich Stephanie Donis Lianne Douglas Chris Exis Shannon Foster Julia Fowler Stephanie Green Widyasari Gunadi Robert Habib Natsnet Haileab Samantha Hines* Hailey Hutchison Joseph Iturriaga Vittoria Jackson Irion Jenkins** Subin Jeong Katelyn Johnson Michelle Kapuscinski Elnaz Khastou Brittani Lucas Nadia Maghsadi Andrea Martin Maria Massa

Jessica Mayorga Brianna McPhatter Rachelle Mendoza Laurin Mincy Kathryn Mueller Iram Nayati Ashley Patterson Jennifer Pinder Jessica Quintanilla Fredris Rennie Karen Reyes-Canales Ana Rodriguez Lynn Rubens* Briana Slade* Min Song Elizabeth Sorillo Jannel Thomas* Sandy Tse Joan Vistica Michelle Wasienko Hillary Whippen Gloria White

Kinesiology

Franklyn AbediAni AghguiguianDillon BalkinMatthew BallewMcTheophilus BarizoWilfred BeahSean BosdoshPeter Boyle

Academic honors: *cum laude, **magna cum laude, ***summa cum laude

Kinesiology, continued

Brendan BradyGenevieve Brock***Brittany BrownSergio CabreraJaviera CaceresTyler CierskiBrandon ClearyMichael CorrieriYannik Cudjoe-VirgilJodi CueJohn DavisRacquel DouglasAdrian EicholtzTejiri ErhieGraham EveRamsey FlynnNicole FrancoJames FraterLeonard GahmMelanie Galyen**Samantha HallGrace HanMitchell HawkinsXavier Hernandez Alyssa HirschmanLauren JohnsonJamell JosephGrace KimKaitlyn KingShira Krimsky**Vipul KumarChelsea LeapBora LeeEvan LipinskiMark LurkSimon MaitAlexander MateikDaniel MervisChristopher Miller***Krista MinetreeDianna Olojo

Geoffrey OsikErin PearsonAndrew PendockMichelle QuintanillaAlec RognessItalo RomanoChristina RomeroScott RosendallJohn RossomondoJessica SalmonCassandra SalvoEvelyn ShapterDaniel SilvaMelissa SnivelyAndrew SoJieling SunRyan ToledoRyan TranStephen WeddeSara WhiteisBohe Zhang

Public Health Science

Madiha AhmadScott BarnesLeona BonsuKetlard BoursiquotChristina CorsettyJunior EgbufoamaMeseret GifawosenEric Hassani***Nataly Johanson TelloCasey Keesling**Wai Lee**Ana LupascuYeshi MengistuJofred RiveraManuel RodriguezLindsey SastreGursahib SinghAli Tefouet SonkengHeather Williams

CONGRATULATIONSCLASS OF 2014!Academic honors: *cum laude, **magna cum laude, ***summa cum laude

About the School of Public Health

AT A GLANCE

More than 25 degrees and academic programs More than 2000 undergraduate students More than 250 graduate students More than 50% of our undergraduate majors and nearly 40% of our graduate students are members of racial/ethnic minority groups More than 140 faculty members and more than 45 staff Less than 8 miles from Washington, D.C., which provides our students with unparalleled access to unique research, internship and professional development opportunities

DEPARTMENTS

Behavioral and Community HealthEpidemiology and BiostatisticsFamily ScienceHealth Services AdministrationKinesiologyMaryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

SCHOOL-WIDE RESEARCH CENTERS

Maryland Center for Health EquityHerschel S. Horowitz Center for Health LiteracyUMD Prevention Research Center

SELECTED RESEARCH INITIATIVES

• Global Health and Climate Change• Health Disparities, Health Equity• Health Literacy and Cultural Competence• Health Promotion and Chronic Disease

Prevention Programs• Healthy Aging• Maternal and Child Health• Mental Health and Substance Abuse• Physical Activity• Social and Environmental Justice• Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation

MISSION

To promote and protect the health and well-being of the diverse communities throughout Maryland, the nation and the world through interdisciplinary education, research, practice, leadership and public policy.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Bachelor of SciencePrograms in:Community Health Family Science Kinesiology Public Health Science (offered at Shady Grove and in College Park)

GRADUATE DEGREES

Master of Arts Kinesiology

Master of Public HealthConcentrations include: Behavioral and Community HealthBiostatisticsEpidemiology Environmental Health Sciences Physical Activity Public Health Practice and Policy (online)

Master of Health Administration

Master of Science Couple and Family Therapy

Doctor of Philosophy

Programs in: Behavioral and Community HealthEpidemiologyFamily Science Maternal and Child Health Health Services Kinesiology Toxicology and Environmental Health

POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Global HealthGerontologyPrinciples of Public Health (online)

LEARN MORE: sph.umd.edu/degrees

Our Degrees & Programs

School Leadership

Dean, Jane E. Clark, PhD Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Sandra C. Quinn, PhD Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, Bradley D. Hatfield, PhD Associate Dean, Research, Dushanka V. Kleinman, DDS, MScD Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Sally A. Koblinsky, PhD Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Affairs, Colleen “Coke” Farmer, PhD Assistant Dean, Educational Innovation and Technology, Marcio Oliveira, PhD Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations, Veronica T. Jones

Department Chairs

Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Barbara A. Curbow, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Robert S. Gold, PhD Department of Family Science, Elaine A. Anderson, PhD Department of Health Services Administration, Luisa Franzini, PhD Department of Kinesiology, Bradley D. Hatfield, PhD Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, Donald K. Milton, DrPH, MD

AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank all the SPH faculty, staff and students for their participation in the graduation ceremony and to recognize Dr. Elizabeth Y. Brown, Department of Kinesiology, who serves as the SPH Grand Marshal.

Cover photo of UMD entrance by John T. Consoli.