HomeHAI Student Fellows

HAI Student Fellows


2013-2014 Undergraduate Fellows

Name Institution Mentor Project Current Status
Andrew Chapman UVa-Wise Walter Smith, Ph.D. Outdoor Recreation and Health Indicators in Central Appalachia Undergraduate
Maddison Couch UVa-Wise Walter Smith, Ph.D.

Potential Environmental Causes for Central Appalachia's
Thyroid Hotspot

Undergraduate
Santana VanDyke UVa-Wise Madelynn Shell, Ph.D. Motivating Factors in the Decision to Receive Breast Cancer
Screening in Rural Virginia
Undergraduate
Emma Spangler UVa-Wise Ning Wang, Ph.D. Cancer Resources and Patient Navigation in
Southwest Virginia
Undergraduate
Samantha Robinson UVa-Wise Margie Tucker, Ph.D. Substance Abuse and Dental Disease in Southwest Virginia

Undergraduate

Laura Stamper UVa-Wise Margie Tucker, Ph.D. Global Health Scholar, UVa Center for Global Health Undergraduate
         



2012-2013 Undergraduate Fellows

Name

Institution

Mentor

Project

Current Status

Meghan Mullins

UVa-Wise

Walter Smith, Ph.D.

Effects of Tobacco Use on Pulmonary Function of Coal Miners Diagnosed with Coal Worker's Pneumonconiosis Fall 2013 enters DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine's Physcian Assistant Program
Justin Palmer

 

UVa-Wise

Cathleen Collins, Ph.D.

Intership on Telehealth Curriculum in Nursing

ICU Nurse at Norton Community Hospital; taking add'l UVa-Wise classes to apply to medical school. 
Jessica Shartouney 

 

UVa-Wise

Margie Tucker, Ph.D.

Wells Fargo HAI Global Health Scholar, UVa Center for Global Health, Africa

Undergraduate, UVa-Wise

Santana VanDyke 

UVa-Wise Audrey Sndyer, Ph.D.  Internship on Telemedicine in Colposcopy Undergraduate, UVa-Wise
  


 

2011-2012 Undergraduate Fellows  

Name

Institution


Project

Current Status
Brieanna Bivens

 

UVa-Wise

 

Asset Map of Diabetes Resources in Lenowisco 

Undergraduate, UVa-Wise

Rachel Hensley

 

UVa-Wise

 

Healthy Appalachia Global Health Scholar, UVa Center for Global Health in Africa - WHIL Household Behavior Study

Medical School, ETSU

Andrew Morgan 

 

UVa-Wise

 

Wachovia Wells Fargo HAI Fellow -  Diabetes Prevention: Diabetes Prevention: Realities and Obstacles in Far Southwest Virginia.

Medical School, DeBusk College of Osteophathic Medicine
Justin Palmer  UVa-Wise
Verizon HAI Fellow -  Nursing Telehealth Curriculum Undergraduate, UVa-Wise
Kwynn Rumberger   UVa-Wise   Farm to School in Southwest Virginia  Undergraduate, UVa-Wise
Laura Stamper UVa-Wise
Wachovia Wells Fargo HAI Fellow - Living with Diabetes: An Inside Perspective  Undergraduate, UVa-Wise


2011-2012 Graduate & Post-Graduate Fellows

Name

Institution

Project

Current Status

Hunter Poarch 

UVA School of Medicine 

RAM 

Medical Student, University of Virginia

2010-2011 Healthy Appalachia Student Fellows

Spencer Adams, UVa-Wise (Medical School, University of Massachussetts)

Barbara Badman, UVA (Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Nurse Practiioner)

Rachel Belcher, UVa-Wise (Medical School, University of Virginia)

Kayla Harman, UVA (Administrative Resident, University of Virginia Health System)

Sharon Kim, UVA

Justin Mutter, UVA School of Medicine Class of 2013, Residency at Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, NC

Laura Stamper, UVa-Wise (Current)

 

2009-2010 Health Appalachia Student Fellows

Spencer Adams, UVa-Wise (Medical School, University of Massachussetts)

Rachel Belcher, UVa-Wise (Medical School, University of Virginia)

Joe Fields-Johnson, Post-grad, UVA (Medical School, VCOM)

Katie Bagley, UVA 

Bronwyn Lloyd, Curry School of Education (Owns fitness busines)

Jesse Begley, UVA (NP, Wellmont Health System)

Kati Wilson, UVA (Medical School, University of Virginia)