You can always count on SPHTM alumni to be active, involved, and take the lead.
Greg Buchert, MD, MPH (PHTM *79, M *83, R *85) took the helm in January as chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. A proud alumnus, he also met his wife, Arline, while at Tulane. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we caught up with Greg to learn more about his public health love story. Arline (M *85, PHTM *85) and Greg met as students in the MD/MPH program. Greg was two years ahead of Arline at the School of Medicine and was assigned to be her mentor to introduce her to clinical activities.
At a Mardi Gras mask-making party at his home that Carnival season, they clicked. Greg learned several weeks later that he was matched to a residency in New York, which would have taken him away from both New Orleans and Arline. After a lot of soul-searching culminating in a shared five pounds of crawfish and a six-pack of Dixie Beer at Audubon Park, Arline and Greg decided they wanted to make a go of it – Greg made the fateful decision to change his residency to Tulane, and the two have spent 42 blissful years together. Keep Reading >>
Alumni Mentoring Program turns 10!
The Alumni Mentoring Program, which was piloted in the fall of 2014 and officially launched in the spring of 2015, now has a decade-long track record of connecting public health students with alumni in the professional space. Founded by Dr. Sue Griffey (IHD MPH ’83, DrPH ’93), who now serves as mentor emeritus, the program boasts over 100 alumni mentors in its history, with over 400 matches to date. Keep reading >>
WSPH Alumna Named Biosafety Director at Tulane
Following an extensive national search and interview process, the Tulane University Office of Research announced that Ann-Marie May has been named executive director of biosafety, biocontainment, and quality assurance. May has been employed at Tulane since 2016, serving as a medical research technician, senior biosafety officer, and most recently as assistant director of biosafety. She was awarded her master's of public health in occupational and environmental health from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine also in 2016, and earned her bachelor's degree in animal science from Louisiana State University. Keep reading>>
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