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| February 25, 2013- In This Issue |
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Bean Retiring After 44 Years |
Volunteer Process Streamlined |
Weems Named Director |
Employee Survives Heart Attack |
Oak Hill Center ReOpens |
Morehouse Seeking Mentors |
Fitness App Tracks Activity |
PHBRIEFS |
PHNEWS |
PHRECIPE |
PHTRAINING |
PHEVENTS
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Margaret Bean, program manager for
Northwest Health District 1-1,
received the first Spirit of Public
Health award from DPH Commissioner
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald. |
When you ask colleagues about Margaret Bean,
program manager for Northwest Health
District 1-1, they might talk about her
dedication to public health or her tireless
advocacy for her staff and the community.
But many will mention her oatmeal chocolate
chip cookies, which she bakes for monthly
staff meetings.
"Those cookies are symbolic, really, of the
extra steps she takes, the extra energy she
brings," said Wade Sellers, M.D., district
health director. "There's really no one else
like Margaret Bean."
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The
first step toward becoming a public health volunteer
just got easier. The Georgia Department of Public
Health's (DPH) volunteer health care programs are now
collectively united under the name Georgia Responds.
La Kieva
Williams, DPH volunteer program director, calls it a
"movement" aimed at making the registration process and
the coordinated volunteer effort more attractive.
"Georgia
Responds serves as a gateway or a portal for volunteers
to really maximize their skills. It's a platform for
them to see all the benefits of volunteering in one
snapshot."
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Coastal Health District Health Director Diane Weems,
M.D., middle, discusses the BREASTest
and More program with Cathy Schmid, RN,
Chatham County Health Department nurse
manager, and Nancy Welcher, RN, Breast and
Cervical Cancer Program coordinator for
Chatham County.
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When she
was finishing up her pediatric medical residency in the
summer of 1985, Diane Weems, M.D., hadn't given public
health a single thought as a career choice. Private
practice was her goal, what she always thought she'd do.
But that
changed when she moved to Valdosta in 1986 and met then
district health director Lynne Feldman, M.D.
"I
didn't know anything about public health when she hired
me as a clinician and I fell in love with it," she said.
"Dr. Feldman was a wonderful role model and her passion
for public health is what inspired my entire career."
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Cynthia Wynn survived a heart attack at
age 52.
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DPH business operations specialist Cynthia Wynn's
family history has been at the forefront of her
thoughts since she was a teen.
"I
was 19 years old when my father died of a heart
attack." Wynn said. "I was always afraid that I
would have a heart attack like my father at age 42.
Once I turned 42, I wondered how much longer I would
live."
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DPH Commissioner Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, left,
attends the reopening of the Oak Hill Center. |
The Fulton
County Departments of Health Services and Housing and Human
Services held a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday to re-open
the Oak Hill Child, Adolescent and Family Center located at
2805 Metropolitan Parkway after an extensive renovation. The
center is part of the County's integrated care service
delivery which supports the philosophy of providing
integrated health services to the communities in which they
are located.
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Morehouse
College is seeking mentors for Project IMHOTEP, an
undergraduate training program in public health. Its goal is
to increase the number of underrepresented students entering
into graduate programs and ultimately careers in public
health. The program begins with two weeks of intense
educational training. The purpose of this training is to
equip interns with the academic coursework and information
necessary to complete the program. During the remaining
eight weeks, interns conduct public health research with
experts at various public health agencies. At the conclusion
of the program, the interns deliver an oral presentation and
submit a written manuscript suitable for publication in a
scientific journal.
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Home |
Bean Retiring After 44 Years |
Volunteer Process Streamlined |
Weems Named Director |
Employee Survives Heart Attack |
Oak Hill Center ReOpens |
Morehouse Seeking Mentors |
Fitness App Tracks Activity |
PHBRIEFS |
PHNEWS |
PHRECIPE |
PHTRAINING |
PHEVENTS
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