Department of Community Medicine
CMED in the News
November 19: Congratulations to Dr. Ruth Kershner, who was selected today as West Virginia’s Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. (Originally appeared at http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2009/11/19/wvu-s-kershner-selected-one-of-best-undergraduate-teachers-in-the-country.)
November 19: Dr. Keith Zullig's drug abuse research is referenced in a Herald-Dispatch article. (Originally appeared at http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x2007543833/Growing-prescription-drug-abuse-leads-to-more-deaths-in-WV.)
November 11: Dr. Alan Ducatman was interviewed for a WV Public Broadcasting news story about air pollution in West Virginia. Listen now or watch the video! (Originally appeared at http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=9811.)
November 9: WVU has issued a press release about a writing contest for high school students. The winning participant will write about the prevention of alcohol abuse. (Originally appeared at http://www.health.wvu.edu/newsreleases/news-details.aspx?ID=1349.)
November 6: In this month’s School of Medicine E-News, Bob Anderson’s leadership of a national smoking cessation group was described, as was Turner Goins’ renewal of the practical, useful Rural Health Aging Network grant. (Originally appeared at http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/eNews/archives/09/Nov/index.asp.)
November 4: The following story from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel mentions a number of CMED coauthors, including first author Stephanie Frisbee of a recently submitted paper. (Originally appeared at http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/523320.html?nav=5061.)
November 2: An article on RDMag.com refers to the advance notice about a paper by Stephanie Frisbee and colleagues, from the C8 data set. (Originally appeared at http://www.rdmag.com/News/FeedsAP/2009/11/materials-stud-suggest-c8-tied-to-high-cholesterol-in-kids/.)
October 21: Stephanie Frisbee and Dr. Michael Hendryx were both quoted in a Daily Athenaeum opinion piece, written in reaction to a recent health care reform forum. (Originally appeared at http://www.thedaonline.com/opinion/health-care-forum-altered-my-opinion-on-u-s-reform-1.794599.)
October 21: Stephanie Frisbee was quoted in a Daily Athenaeum article about a recent health care reform forum. (Originally appeared at http://www.thedaonline.com/news/forum-focuses-on-health-care-reform-1.794496.)
October 18: Kim Williams' was interviewed for a CNN story about her yoga/back pain study. Watch the video! (Originally appeared at http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/01/mindfulness.training.stress/index.html.)
October 12: Kim Williams' yoga/back pain study was mentioned in Parade magazine! (Originally appeared at http://www.parade.com/health/2009/10/11-relieve-back-pain-with-yoga.html.)
CMED is in the news quite often! Many more news stories are available for your perusal.
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