Graphic Design USA’s Health & Wellness Design awards is an annual nationwide competition that highlights outstanding achievement in design projects that promote health, wellness, fitness, and healthcare. Myana (“Mothers, you are not alone”), which is a custom digital health intervention for new birthing parents in the first year postpartum, was one of this year’s winners!
Congratulations to Dr. Tamar Krishnamurti on her new NIMH R01: Machine learning for personalized preventative intervention in perinatal depression!
Drs. Dara D. Méndez, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Hyagriv Simhan received the Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence from the NIH to lead a new effort to develop and evaluate innovative approaches to advance maternal and reproductive health and justice among Black people in Allegheny County.
Congratulations to Drs. Mendez, Talabi, Simhan, and their team for being awarded NIH funding to support the EMBRACE maternal health center of excellence. We're so excited to see this work move forward
Director Dr. Sonya Borrero received the 2024 ICRE Distinguished Alumnus Award in Clinical Research. Congrats. We're thrilled to celebrate Dr. Borrero's incredible contributions to the field of health care!
Congratulations to Dr. Dara Méndez for being honored with the 2024 Ascending Star Award! Dr. Méndez's efforts in promoting racial and socioeconomic equity and justice in pregnancy, birth, and reproductive and women’s health deserves this recognition!
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi received the Distinguished Research Award as a Junior Scholar for her contributions to the field of reproductive rheumatology, which led to a new paradigm for addressing reproductive health in vulnerable and high-risk populations.
Congratulations to Dr. Jill Demirci for receiving the Diversity in Curriculum Award! Dr. Demirci received this award for her curriculum on frontloading lactation with an equity focus to offer undergraduate nursing students a practical and low-pressure learning setting. The course introduces fundamental lactation knowledge, fostering critical thinking and enhancing nursing management skills. The goal is to heighten awareness, comfort, and familiarity among students regarding lactation support for diverse patient groups.
Dr. Elizabeth Krans will present the next lecture from the group of 2023 Ascending Star Award winners on Delivering Health Care to Pregnant Persons with Substance Use Disorders: Empowerment in Recovery. The award recognizes highly productive, creative mid-career faculty members in the health sciences. Join Dr. Krans on Friday, Sept. 29, at 3:30 p.m., in Alan Magee Scaife Hall, room 5785 or join the livestream here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97506970747
