30 Jefferson REVIEW
ClassNotes Katie Cranston, MPH ’12, CHES, was selected by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for its 2015-16 Faculty Scholars Program at the UAB Geriatric Education Center. The cohort includes 23 individuals from 11 health professions disciplines and 22 universities and colleges in five states. Cranston — who is an instructor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at the Mississippi University for Women — will participate in an interdisciplinary faculty training program that will provide tools to enhance teaching activities related to the care of the older adults with complex healthcare needs. She will attend five workshops at UAB, complete an interprofessional teambased continuing education module and complete 84 hours of independent study activities.
Moazzum Bajwa, MPH ‘12
Julian L. Ambrus, Sr., MD, PhD ’54, is a professor of internal medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He writes that his wife, Clara M. Ambrus, MD, PhD ’55, a research professor of obstetrics and gynecology, died in a house fire in 2011 at age 86. Their son, J.L. Ambrus, Jr., MD ’79, recently was promoted to full professor of internal medicine at SUNY Buffalo.
Moazzum Bajwa, MPH ’12, (pictured above with family), recently graduated with top honors from Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies, and delivered the valedictory speech at commencement. He is now in a family medicine residency program at the University of California, Riverside. His goal is to practice full-spectrum family medicine in underserved areas, with an additional focus on maternal and child health initiatives abroad.
Catelyn Coyle, MPH ’14, had an article, “Identification and Linkage to Care of HCV-Infected Persons in Five Health Centers — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012–2014,” published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on May 8, 2015.
Heather Howell, BS ’14 (general sonography), RT(R), RDMS, had an article, “First Trimester Diagnosis of Omphalocele: Differentiating between Omphalocele and Normal Physiologic Gut Herniation,” published in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography. Traci B. Fox, EdD, RT(R), RDMS, RVT, assistant professor and clinical coordinator of the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program in Jefferson’s Department of Radiologic Sciences, was co-author.