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Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prize
The Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prize recognizes six members of the junior faculty at the Mailman School of Public Health for their critical research with long-term implications throughout the School's departments and disciplines.
Supported by a generous endowment established by the Calderone family in 1986, the prize honors Frank Calderone and marks his distinguished career and life-long commitment to the health of the public. Grants awarded for the range from $5,000 to $8,000.
The following researchers received Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prizes in 2004-2005:
Ying Kuen (Ken) Cheung, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics, for his proposal of a statistical design to identify the most promising dose regimen for acute stroke therapy;
Alison Cuellar, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management, for a study to assess whether youth who use substances or have emotional disorders are sanctioned more heavily than other youth by the juvenile justice system;
Michael Gusmano, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management and a Lauterstein Scholar, to examine the challenge of cities to respond to an aging population and the health and social policy innovations that will be required to meet this challenge;
Peter Muennig, MD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management, to study the relationship between low socioeconomic position and psychological stress, and how it can lead to greater disease risk;
Dov Rothman, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management and a Lauterstein Scholar, to investigate the relationship between hospital governance and hospital behavior and more specifically, the issue of "coat-governed" hospitals and "suit-governed" hospitals;
Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, assistant professor of clinical Epidemiology, to analyze the relationship between low dose radiation exposure and the risk of leukemia.
