Volume 1, Issue 1July 2007
El Faro Staff
Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., M.S.W., Editor
Sheila Kaupert,
Newsletter Coordinator
National Office
Jane Brooks, M.Sc., C.M.P.
Website Coordinator
This Month's Contributors
Melissa Alvarado, M.A.
Jason Burrow-Sánchez, Ph.D.
José Cañive, M.D.
Antonio Cepeda-Benito, Ph.D.
Evelio Escamilla
J. Bryan Page, Ph.D.
Juan Peña, Ph.D.
Ulises M. Ricoy, M.A.
Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.
Liliane C. Windsor, M.S.W.
María Luisa Zúñiga, Ph.D.
National Steering Committee
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., NHSN Chair
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D.
Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.
Joe Martínez, Ph.D.
Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D.
Humberto Nicolini-Sanchez, M.D., Ph.D.
Bryan Page, Ph.D.
Rafaela Robles, Ed.D.
Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.
Bill Vega, Ph.D.
Member Announcements
Dr. Mario De La Rosa has been invited and has accepted to be a member of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparity (NCMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
His appointment is for a three-year term ending on February 28, 2009. The NCMHD National Advisory Council advises the HHS Secretary, the Assistant Secretary of Health, the Director of NIH and the Director of NCMHD on matters related to the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination and other programs that address minority health and other health disparity conditions.
We now have two NHSN members on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Glorisa Canino, one of the first Latina women to be elected to the Council, was appointed in the last fiscal year. Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, a member of the NHSN National Steering Committee, began serving his current term on the NIMH Council in 2003.
Dr. María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza has been named the Woman of the Year, “Mujer del Año 2006!”
Dr. Medina-Mora Icaza is the Director of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research at the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz.
Dr. Guillermo Prado has received the 2007 ECPN Early Career Award from the Society for Prevention Research!
Dr. Prado was presented with the award on May 31, 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research.
Dr. Jorge Delva has been named Co-Director of the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Research and Training Center at the University of Michigan.
The purpose of the Curtis Center is to foster interdisciplinary externally-funded research to advance knowledge in the areas of mental health, substance abuse and health.
Dr. Delva has also received a priority score of 124 with the unheard of percentile of 0.5 for an R01 entitled "Drug Use in Latin American Youth: Longitudinal Study from Infancy to Adolescence."
He plans to conduct a longitudinal study of drug use in Santiago, Chile. He is awaiting State Department approval.
Carla Mayorga, a graduate student member, has received the 2007 Carolyn S. Garwood Award for Service from the University of Miami School of Education.
She was presented with the award on May 10th at the Dean's Award Luncheon where her Department Chair praised her commitment to "multicultural competence". This award is presented annually to one doctoral student in the Educational and Psychological Studies program who has demonstrated a commitment to service provision.
As of July 1, 2007, Dr. Bill Vega will be a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA.