College of Health and Human Services

Dena Evans, director of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, has been selected to participate in a leadership training program offered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). She is among 30 academic nursing leaders from across the nation who will join the 2018 AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program.

The event is being held at the University of Pennsylvania on Aug. 6-9; Wharton School faculty will present content designed to advance academic administrators to a higher level of leadership.

How one will respond in an emergency is unknown until faced with such a dilemma.  Across UNC Charlotte’s campus, hundreds of students in health-related majors study to become professionals trained to step in at those critical moments. During the spring semester, two UNC Charlotte exercise science students were called on to respond.

As director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation, Michael Dulin operates on the leading edge of the industry, exploring how technology can help communities address their most pressing public health challenges.

Joseph Konstanzer, a graduate of UNC Charlotte’s dual master’s program in public health and health informatics, has been named a public health fellow at Public Health Institute (PHI)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He will work out of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy.

Winsor Schmidt Jr., 69, the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy on Health, died May 18 at the Levine & Dickson Hospice House-Huntersville. Services and interment will be held at the Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston, Louisiana.

Harvey Murphy, chair emeritus of the Kinesiology Department, died Feb. 5, 2018. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 24, at Holy Covenant United Church of Christ.

According to the College of Health and Human Services, Murphy spent 31 years at the University, and he helped guide the institution’s growth while serving as s interim men’s basketball coach from 1965 to 1970 and athletics director from 1965 to 1972.

Camina Davis, a lecturer in the Department of Public Health Sciences since fall 2007, died Sunday, Jan. 14, after an extended illness.

Davis, who also was a graduate of the department’s Master of Science in Health Promotion program, was honored recently by the North Carolina Association for the Advancement of Health Education with its Distinguished Friends of Health Education Award.

Colleagues noted that Davis’ work inspired countless undergraduate students to pursue careers in public health and to make improving community health central to those careers.

UNC Charlotte Health Services Research doctoral student Laura Clark was recognized with a best research poster award at the 20th annual European Congress of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).

Clark was selected for the best poster award in the student category for her work on the burden of a renal transplant among Medicare beneficiaries with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

What if people could lower their blood pressure simply by squeezing their hands? 

It may sound too good to be true, but a UNC Charlotte research team is producing some very promising results with isometric exercise – flexing muscles without moving a joint.

While the obesity rate for Charlotte-Mecklenburg K-5 students hovers around the national average, it falls well short of the target numbers for a healthy population, according to a multi-year study led by UNC Charlotte researchers.