CLASS NOTES

Jessica Aguilar (08MHA), senior executive director of Women’s, Children’s and Cancer, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, received the Early Careerist Healthcare Executive Award from the Regent for South Dakota.

Janet Benton (08MHA) is the chief operating officer at Twin Cities Orthopedics in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kirsten Beyer (05MPH) has been named Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2021 Researcher of the Year. Beyer is an associate professor, Division of Epidemiology, Institute for Health and Equity, and director of the doctorate program in public and community health at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Corey Boles (19PhD) has been named to the advisory board of the Integrated Bioscience and Built Environment Consortium (IBEC). Boles is a senior health scientist with Cardno ChemRisk in Blue Ash, Ohio.

Isabella Brauhn Kendall (20MPH) is the university prevention education coordinator at the Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Jaime Butler-Dawson (15PhD) is an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora, Colorado.

Olivia Denkinger (21BA) is manager of poverty and child health initiatives at American Academy of Pediatrics - Arizona Chapter in Phoenix, Arizona.

Amani Dewan (21BA) is a public health advisor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Associate Program stationed in Mentor, Ohio. Kevin Esch (10MPH) has been appointed senior director of safety, toxicology, and metabolism in veterinary medicine research and development at Zoetis in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Erin Ellisa Folker (11MHA) is clinical director at Family Medicine of Mount Pleasant P.C. in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Denyse Gipple (08MPH) is director of safety and clinical outcomes at Washington County Hospital and Clinics in Washington, Iowa.

Marta Hemmingson-Van Beek (03MPH) is the executive medical director for main campus ambulatory clinics at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.

Anna Herring-VanRyswyk (05MS) is an HL7 ELR program manager at North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Leighton Hill (21MPH, 20BS) is an STD epidemiologist at Washington State Department of Health in Olympia, Washington.

Hana Hinkle (09MPH) has been named the interim director and department head of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford’s National Center for Rural Health Professions in Rockford, Illinois.

Emily Houston (21MPH, 20BA) has been named director of Washington County Public Health in Washington, Iowa.

Sarah Kersten (21MPH) is a research associate at Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition in Denver, Colorado.

Ellie Keuter (19MHA) is a senior consultant, analysis and planning, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts. Oluoma Obi (21BA) is a research assistant, Department of Population Health, at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

Brian Pavilonis (12PhD) is an associate professor at CUNY School of Public Health in New York, New York.

Mehwish Qasim (18PhD) is director of research at UnitedHealth Group in Aurora, Illinois.

Kelli Todd (12MPH) is ACO director of government programs at UnityPoint Health in Des Moines, Iowa.

Caitlyn Tolentino (21BA) is an advocacy and planning coordinator at AgeGuide in Chicago, Illinois.

Priyanka Vakkalanka (21PhD) is an assistant research scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Kaley Wilkinson (05MHA) is vice president of sales at Everside Health in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Austin Wu (21MPH, 20BA) is a research assistant at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Jingyang Zhang (12PHD, 08MS) is the statistical science associate director at AstraZeneca in San Francisco, California.

Brooke Zibell (21BS) is a research associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

IN MEMORY

Thomas Barker (63PhD, 60MA) of Midlothian, Virginia, on May 28, 2021. Dorothy Copony (47MS) of Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 23, 2021. Wayne Henry (55MA) of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on Oct. 2, 2021. Kathleen McKeen of Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct. 1, 2021. James D. M. Russell (61MA) of Fort Pierre, South Dakota, on July 22, 2021. Richard Thompson (68PhD, 65MA) of Palm Coast, Florida, on Oct. 6, 2021.