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Alumni Board Update

Class Notes

Mark Eustis (M.H.A. '79) has been named president and CEO of Fairview Health Services, the largest U.S. nonprofit health system. He leaves Ascension Health in St. Louis, Mo., where he was president of Regional Ministry Operations.

Cindy Kallstrom (M.P.H. '90) is health promotion manager at UCare Minnesota, the fourth largest health plan in the state, exclusively serving members with government payors such as Medicaid and Medicare. Kallstrom heads a team of five people, with program oversight ranging from car seats to senior fitness.

Gretchen Musicant (M.P.H. '86) has received the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Public Health Achievement Award from the Minnesota Public Health Association. As Minneapolis health commissioner, Musicant has worked to create a public health focus on youth violence. The award recognizes her for her public health leadership and work as an advocate for the urban poor, uninsured, and disadvantaged.

Huy Pham (M.P.H. '96) has accepted a position with Save the Children U.S. as the director for the Vietnam program. He leaves his position of eight years as director of international programs with Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee International. Save the Children U.S., part of the Save the Children International Alliance, is a nonprofit organization working in more than 35 nations.

Debra Yerike (M.P.H. '97) earned an M.D. from St. Matthew's University School of Medicine, located in the Cayman Islands.

The newly re-established SPH Alumni Society Board recently met for the second time to discuss goals for the coming year. Here are some highlights from the meeting:

  • The board will hold the first annual meeting for all SPH alumni in spring of 2008. If you would like to volunteer to be on the planning committee for the annual meeting, please e-mail SPHnews@umn.edu. More details about the meeting will appear in future issues of Advances.

  • The SPH mentor program is one of the largest and best among public health schools nationwide. The board will work to bolster the program by recruiting new alumni to mentor. If you are interested in mentoring for the coming academic year, learn more at www.sph.umn.edu/alumni/mentor.

  • The board will work in an advocacy role for the school and for public heath issues. Potential advocacy initiatives would be writing op-ed pieces for local newspapers, working with community partners, and interacting with the state legislature.

  • The board will work to support student scholarships. The goal will be increasing scholarship dollars so more SPH students can benefit.

  • The board will attend a retreat this fall to discuss alumni programming priorities and goals in more detail.

If you have ideas for alumni board initiatives, please send them to Michelle Lian-Anderson, director of alumni relations and special events, at liana001@umn.edu or 612-626-5536.


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