Advisory Board Reconvenes

On May 24, 2005, the CHHS Dean's Advisory Board convened for its first meeting with the new dean, Marilyn Newhoff, at the University Club.

The purpose of the meeting was to provide board members with the dean's vision for the future of the CHHS and to solicit their input and involvement. The CHHS Advisory Board members possess valuable expertise and knowledge and have agreed to promote the goals of the college: academic excellence, collaboration with the community, and internationalization. The board will work collaboratively with the dean in facilitating partnership opportunities, developing and implementing college initiatives, advising the college in public relations and outreach efforts and assisting with fund-raising.

The board consists of nine community representatives: Steve Escoboza, CEO, Health Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties; Dan Gross, CEO, Sharp Memorial Hospital; Robert Ito, CEO, Ito, Girard & Associates; Napoleon Jones, U.S. District Judge; Jewel Kelley; Ed Martinez, CEO, San Ysidro Health Center; Deven Parlikar, Executive Director, Indian Health Council; Rene Santiago, Deputy Director for Central/South Regions, San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency; and Sadanand Singh, Chairman and CEO, Plural Publishing Group.

The next CHHS Dean's Advisory Board meeting will be September 27, 2005. The topics of discussion will be the strategic positioning of the college within the local community and assistance with key initiatives.

New Faculty Members Join the College

Graduate School of Public Health

• Guadalupe X. Ayala earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the UCSD\SDSU joint doctoral program while concurrently earning an M.P.H. from the Graduate School of Public Health at SDSU. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of Latino immigrants, especially those who face the twin problems of poverty and inadequate health care.

• Ana P. Martinez-Donate holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Health Psychology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, as well as an Expert Degree on Epidemiology and New Technologies from the National School of Public Health in Spain. Her research interests include chronic disease management, HIV prevention and tobacco use and policies among Latino populations, including adults, adolescents, migrants and men who have sex with men.

• Karen Emmorey holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA; she has been recruited from her position as the Director of the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute. Her research focuses on what sign languages can reveal about the nature of human language, cognition and the brain.

• Tracy E. Love-Geffen holds an M.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from UCSD. Her research examines the nature of the information used during ongoing language and cognitive processing in determining when and how different information sources are integrated, and in determining the biological bases of these processes in adults and children.

• Mary Ann Jacobs holds an M.Ed. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S.W. from Cal State Long Beach, and a Ph.D. from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on child welfare, specifically foster parent turn-over and placement stability for foster children, adoption and guardianship dissolution, kinship care and placement decision-making.

School of Nursing

• Young-Shin Lee holds an M.S. in Nursing from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research has investigated the effects of high blood pressure and physical inactivity on the health of the aging population by developing a conceptual framework that incorporates individual, interpersonal and environmental factors affecting an individual's engagement in physical activity.