Biography:

- Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1977, Masters degree in Epidemiology, 1981.

- 505 publications in Epidemiology, Global Health, and Internet.

- First Distinguished Teacher, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh 1989.

- Lillienfeld Award, APHA for outstanding life time achievement in education.

- Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Center, Dept of Epidemiology.

- Developer and PI of the WHO multinational Project for Childhood Diabetes, involving 155 centers in 70 countries.

- 1994 Developer, Global Health Network.

- Numerous funded national and international projects from NIH, and NASA.

- Kelly West Diabetes Epidemiology Award from the American Diabetes Association.

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