FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Publications, Appointments, Presentations & More

Al Artaman, MD, PhD, MHA, Biostatistics Instructor and Research/Academic Advisor, published in the 16 September 2017 issue of The Lancet, “Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016.” Dr. Artaman is a GBD 2016 Risk Factors Collaborator.

Zanda Bochkaeva, PhD, Academic Advisor, was the recipient of the Travel Award supported by the Scientific Committee of the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM), 6-8 December 2017 in Bangkok. She and a colleague presented “Knowledge and perception of malaria prevention measures among Tanzanian students, and factors associated with the ignorance of bed net use.”

Jennifer Steiner, PhD, Physiology Instructor and Academic Advisor, co-authored in the 12 September 2017 issue of the American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism, “REDD1 Induction Regulates the Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression Signature following Acute Aerobic Exercise.”