2007-08 Judges

Some of the nation's top epidemiologists, high school teachers, and curriculum developers traveled to Washington, D.C., to hear students present their research at the fifth annual YES Competition.

Sixty students from across the country gathered in our nation's capital to present their research and compete for college scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $50,000. The judges were once again amazed at the level of sophistication of the projects.

Dr. Ruth Jiles, a YES judge and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that, "This competition gives me an opportunity to refresh my 'epidemiologic soul'. I left the YES Competition knowing that the future of public health and epidemiology will be in good hands, because we have very capable professionals in the pipeline."

2007-08 YES Student Competition Judges

Mona Baumgarten, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Maryland

Lisa Berkman, Ph.D.
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
Harvard School of Public Health

Ross C. Brownson, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Prevention Research Center
Saint Louis University School of Public Health in Missouri

Gilberto F. Chávez, M.D., M.P.H.
California State Epidemiologist / Medical Officer
California Department of Health Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ralph Cordell, Ph.D.
Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

José F. Cordero, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
University of Puerto Rico

Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan

Virginia Ernster, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

David Fraser, M.D.
Freelance Epidemiologist

Howard Frumkin, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Wayne H. Giles, M.D., M.S.
Director, Division of Adult and Community Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ruth B. Jiles, Ph.D.
Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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

Denise Koo, M.D., M.P.H..
Director, Career Development Division
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis
RAND Corporation

Kim Magloire, M.P.H.
Executive Director
SciTech

Felicia McCrary, M.Ed.
Teacher
The Galloway School

Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M.
Vice President, Global Strategic Affairs
LifeScan

Chris Olsen, Ph.D.
Statistics Teacher
Thomas Jefferson High School

Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director of Public Health Systems
Kansas Health Institute

Tara Reitz, M.S.
Biology Teacher, Liberty High School
Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, Cedar Crest College

Patrick Remington, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Lee Riley, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley

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

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

Sally Goetz Shuler, M.S.
Executive Director
National Science Resources Center

Diane Marie St. George, Ph.D.
Faculty, Public Health Graduate Programs
Walden University

S. Leonard Syme, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley

Lorna Thorpe, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Commissioner of Epidemiology
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Robin Taylor Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Health Services
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine