People Involved with the OMPH Program

In Memorium

Tana was born in Wuerzburg, Germany She was an associate dean for undergraduate medical education at OHSU. Tana is survived by her husband, Michael Weliky; father, Charles S. Grady; daughter, Maya B. Weliky; and stepmother, Terri Grady. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, in St. John Fisher Catholic Church. Arrangements by Holman-Hankins-Bowker & Waud.

Dr. Grady-Weliky was a member of the Oregon MPH Deans Oversight Council for OHSU. She will be greatly missed.

Tana A. Grady-Weliky M.D.
11/10/1962 - 01/18/2011

Tana Grady-Weliky

 


In Memorium

Craig Wollner, chair of the Oregon MPH Deans Oversight Council (DOC), died Saturday November 20, 2010.   He and the three other DOC members were responsible for the ultimate authority of the Oregon MPH Program.  He was a strong advocate for excellence in instruction, research, service and professional activities of the Oregon MPH.  He will be greatly missed. See the CUPA website for more information.

Craig Wollner

Craig Wollner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Associate Dean, College of Urban and Public Affairs

Dr. Wollner was associate dean since 2004 but had a long and distinguished
history with PSU where he received a B.S. in History, with a minor in
Literature and Political Science in 1966 and an M.A. in Modern European
History in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in European and American Intellectual
and Social History from the University of New Mexico in 1975.

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of MetroscapeR, a periodical of CUPA's
Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. His main teaching
responsibilities included courses such as Foundations of American Medicine,
American Medicine in the Twentieth Century, American Technology and
Engineering, American Intellectual History, American Political History, and
American Labor History. He also taught in the Transnational Program of the
OUS-Waseda University Partnership on globalization and comparative
Japanese-American issues. His research reflected an interest in regional
history encompassing those topics. He was a productive and noted scholar
authoring, co-authoring or editing seven books.

Craig also served two terms as president of the PSU-AAUP chapter and
participated in many campus and inter-campus committees. He was especially
proud of his service as President of the Board of the Oregon Jewish Museum.

Publications & Awards
Electrifying Eden: Portland General Electric, 1889-1965
The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon with Gordon B. Dodds
The Silicon Forest with W. Tracy Dillon, eds.
A Richer Harvest: the Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest ed., S. L. Sanger
Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of World War II Hanford

Melissa Wei, Student Researcher

  As a MPH student in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics track at OHSU, Melissa has earned a 3.91 GPA while excelling in the area of research. Aside from her outstanding achievements at OHSU, Melissa has also impressed the public health community with her efforts as a research assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research on calcium and magnesium intake and the risk of colorectal adenomas has important implications for cancer control and public health. She has a great passion for integrating nutrition and prevention principles into the practice of medicine. Melissa has a very bright future ahead of her as a nutritional epidemiologist and researcher, a future that is amply supported by her growing body of scholarly work.
Melissa Wei
    


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