- May 7, 2024
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Alumni
Osei Boateng, HEAA Recent Alumni Achievement Award 2024
Osei Boateng ’18, Sloan ‘20
Human Biology, Health & Society, Health Administration
Founder, Executive Director of OKB Hope Foundation
With the mission of improving human lives, Osei has expanded access to health care in his native Ghana since 2017 when he founded the OKB Hope Foundation. Understanding that many Ghanaians, including his own relatives, were being lost to preventable and treatable diseases, Osei decided to take action to have a positive impact on health outcomes
- Nov 13, 2023
- Holistic Human Health, Alumni, Donor
Paving the way for the next generation of doctors
Over nearly two decades as a practicing surgeon and scientist, Dr. Justin Sacks ’93 has advised his fair share of interns. In some cases, they received stipends through grant funding, but Sacks noticed that many struggled to pay for housing and other expenses. Currently chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Washington University (WashU) School of Medicine in St. Louis and professor of surgery/Sidney M. Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Chair, Sacks wondered why many
Patrick Schrauwen
As a basic scientist by training, my research has initially included both pre-clinical and human interventions, but since the last ~20 years I have focused my research on human translational intervention studies. Currently I work at the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, Germany. At CHE I aim to contribute to the further stimulation of the translational relevance of the excellent metabolic investigations, and provide my expertise and ongoing research on collaborative projects. In particular, I
Minor in Nutrition and Health
Examine how nutrition impacts human health and well-being and discuss social, economic, and psychological issues around food.
Lisa McCabe
Dr. Lisa McCabe is a Research Associate with the Residential Child Care Project at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research. Her research focuses broadly on early childhood education and care issues for children, families, and child care providers. Currently she is part of a project ("Superstar Practitioners") that aims to identify common dimensions of practitioners’ interpersonal practices and skills that promote high quality program implementation and positive client outcomes across diverse settings, including child care.
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