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- School of Public Health: Healthy People '99
- School of Public Health Awards and Recognition Dinner
- School of Public Health names Alumnus of the Year and Distinguished Service recipients
School of Public Health: Healthy People '99
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| Gary Hopkins, MD, DrPH, begins the general session on Wednesday evening, March 10, with a presentation titled "Preventing At-risk Behaviors by Fostering Resilience." His address was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Hart. | Linda Ferry, MD, director of the preventive medicine residency program, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, speaks on the topic, "Pharmacological Dimensions of Therapy for Smoking Cessation," on Tuesday afternoon, March 9. Dr. Ferry has become internationally known for her study of the drug bupropion in helping smokers quit. |
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| Synnøve Knutsen, MD, PhD, department chair of epidemiology and biostatistics, School of Public Health, presents the Roland Phillips Memorial Lectureship. Dr. Knutsen's topic was "Soy Milk Intake: Is There an Association with Risk of Prostate and Breast Cancer?" | Michael Josephson, JD, presents "Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship," as the keynote speaker for the Percy T. Magan Memorial Lectureship. Mr. Josephson founded the Josephson Institute of Ethics through which he has formed the Character Counts! Coalition. The Coalition is a partnership of 275 leading national and regional educational youth-serving organizations that together reach more than 40 million young people. | David C. Nieman, DrPH, speaks on the topic, "Exercise and the Common Cold," Tuesday afternoon, March 9. |
School of Public Health names Alumnus of the Year and Distinguished Service recipients
The School of Public Health named its Alumnus of the Year and announced two recipients of the School's Distinguished Service Award during the annual Awards and Recognition Dinner on Thursday evening, March 11.
Harley Stanton, DrPH, SPH '80 and '87, was named Alumnus of the Year. Albert S. Whiting, MD, and Hannelore (Hanni) Bennett each received the School's Distinguished Service Award.
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| SPH Alumnus of the Year Harley Stanton, DrPH (right), poses with Mervyn G. Hardinge, MD, DrPH, PhD, founding dean of the School of Public Health, whose correspondence helped persuade Dr. Stanton to attend Loma Linda University. |
Dr. Stanton was born in Tazmania, the southern-most state of Australia. His early education took place at Hobart High School and he went on to graduate from Avondale College with a major in theology.
His interest in health led him to enroll in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University, where he graduated with a master of public health (MPH) degree in 1980, followed by a doctor of public health (DrPH) degree in preventive care in 1987.
Since leaving Loma Linda, Dr. Stanton has served as associate director of the Department of Health for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. He has been active in 45 countries, primarily concerning tobacco control issues.
Dr. Stanton has conducted a number of national workshops on tobacco control in Mongolia, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa, and Laos.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized his leadership and asked for his advice as a consultant for many of the Western Pacific countries. WHO honored him with its Commemorative Medal of Honor on World No Tobacco Day in 1998.
Dr. Stanton's personal goal is "to give the children of Asia Pacific a greater opportunity to grow up in a smoke-free healthy environment."
He will continue working with WHO to develop national action plans in 37 countries of the Western Pacific region to achieve the goal of tobacco-free advertising by the year 2000.
Dr. Stanton and his wife, Judith, have two sons--Kenneth and Dean--and six grandchildren.
Albert S. Whiting, MD
Albert S. Whiting, MD, received the School of Public Health Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Whiting was born in Manteca, California, the third of four sons. He attended high school in Dixon, California, and later spent his first year of college at the University of California, Berkeley. His sophomore through senior years were spent at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California.
In 1958, Dr. Whiting graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, completing his internship year at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles. The following year he spent serving the U.S. Public Health Service in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
After two years of private practice in Anderson, California (near Redding), he received a call to serve in Africa. Providentially, he was accepted into the tropical medicine program at Tulane University, which he completed, setting sail for Rwanda in 1963.
Dr. Whiting spent six years in Africa before being asked to return to Loma Linda University to teach tropical medicine in the School of Medicine. Interestingly, he ordered an automobile from a catalogue and it was waiting for him when he arrived in the U.S.
While serving at Loma Linda, he also completed a residency in internal medicine.
In 1977, Dr. Whiting accepted a call from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to be assistant director of the Health and Temperance Department. In 1990, at the quinquennial session of the General Conference, he was voted in as director of the Health and Temperance Department.
In November of 1998, Dr. Whiting retired after working for the General Conference for 21 years and for the Adventist Church, 38 years.
His family includes Carol Beckett Whiting, his wife, and three children--Albert, Jr., Faye, and Charles.
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| Hannelore Bennet (right) also received the School of Public Health Distinguished Service Award. Ms. Bennett, who was unable to attend the event, is pictured here at another occasion with epidemiology and biostatistics department chair, Synnøve Knutsen, MD, PhD. |
Hannelore (Hanni) Bennett also received the School of Public Health Distinguished Service Award.
Ms. Bennett grew up in Germany, where she obtained her education in business management. After four years of working in an industrial firm, she decided to spend a year in England to learn the English language. This experience motivated her to to spend the following year in Sweden, followed by 15 months in Paris, where she obtained a diploma in the French language.
Returning to Germany, Ms. Bennett worked for Hughes Aircraft. When her boss asked her to travel to California, she obliged and found the climate enjoyable. Later, she moved to California where she took employment in the banquet office of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
She met her husband, Don Bennett, at a French club in Los Angeles. Together they returned to Germany for a few years, but soon realized that life was easier in sunny California and, when he was offered a job at Loma Linda University Medical Center, they moved to Loma Linda with their young son, Michael.
Ms. Bennett joined the staff in the School of Public Health in 1981, working as an assistant to Gary Fraser, MD, DrPH, director of the Center for Health Research. In 1987, she served as secretary for the department of epidemiology. From 1990 to the present, she has been a major force behind the Center for Health Research in her role as research associate, guiding the Center's day-to-day activities.
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