2005-06 Judges

Thirty nationally recognized epidemiologists and teachers served as judges for this year's competition

After her experience this year, national judge Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Graduate Program in Public Health Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said, "I was amazed at the sophistication of the projects. Often during the judging, I kept saying, these are high school students! I could easily imagine that they were college students." "The level of thinking and the way they approached it were excellent."

"This is wonderful, it shows practical applications of scientific methods and hits upon some of the important issues that face public health today, " said judge Dr. Ian Rockett, Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Educational Programs, West Virginia University. "Our hope is that some of these gifted students end up working in the Epidemiology field."

Judges for the 2005-06 YES Competition

Dr. Mona Baumgarten
Associate Professor
University of Maryland

Dr. Lisa Berkman
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Gilberto Chávez
California State Epidemiologist / Medical Officer
California Department of Health Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Mr. Jerry Citron
Teacher
Stuyvesant High School

Dr. Ralph Cordell
Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dr. José Cordero
Director, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dr. Barbara DeBuono
Senior Medical Director/Group Leader
Pfizer Inc.

Ms. Deirdra Forté
Doctoral Candidate
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. David Fraser
Freelance Epidemiologist

Dr. Wayne H. Giles
Acting Director, Division of Adult and Community Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dr. Mark Kaelin
Associate Professor, Health and Nutrition Sciences
Montclair State University

Dr. Denise Koo
Director, Career Development Division
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dr. Nicole Lurie
Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis
RAND

Ms. Felicia McCrary
Teacher
The Galloway School

Dr. Chris Olsen
Math Teacher
Cedar Rapids Community Schools

Mr. R. Mauricio Palacio
Director, Office of Health Disparities
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H.
Director for Public Health Studies
Kansas Health Institute

Dr. Patrick Remington
Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Lee Riley
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Ian Rockett, Ph.D., M.
Professor of Epidemiology
West Virginia University School of Medicine

Dr. Jonathan Samet
Professor and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mr. Theodore Schaffer
Biology Teacher
Bethlehem Area School District

Dr. Sally Goetz Shuler
Executive Director
National Science Resources Center

Dr. Diane Marie St. George
Chair, M.P.H. Program
Walden University

Dr. S. Leonard Syme
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Steven Teutsch
Executive Director, Outcomes Research
Merck & Co., Inc.

Dr. Kathleen E. Toomey
Visiting Faculty, Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Homeland Security

Dr. Thomas M. Vernon
Vice President for Policy, Public Health and Medical Affairs (Retired)
Merck & Co., Inc.

Dr. Robin Taylor Wilson
Assistant Professor
Penn State College of Medicine