AUCDigest
June 16, 2006 • Volume 6, Number 62
NEWS FROM AUCD NATIONAL OFFICE
AUCD-NCBDDD Developmental Disability Fellow Announced. AUCD is pleased and excited to announce that Kimberly Powell joined CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) as the Developmental Disabilities (DD) Fellow June 5, 2006. Dr. Powell will have a broad-based experience by working as a DD team member on the ongoing Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MSDDSP) data base, and on special projects with data from the MADDSP as well as other data sets containing information on potential risk factors for developmental disabilities. Dr. Powell received her Masters in Science in Nutritional Sciences from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Doctorate in Maternal and Child Health with a minor in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. Please welcome Kim to her new position by emailing her. For further details about AUCD-NCBDDD fellowships, feel free to contact Sue Lin, Project Director of the AUCD-NCBDDD Cooperative Agreement.
AUCD Annual Meeting Highlight: 2006 AUCD Training Symposium - Ending Violence and Abuse against People with Disabilities. The Training Symposium will be held on Monday, October 30, 2006. Look for more details and how to register in the next issue of the Digest. Space will be limited. Focused on ending violence against people with disabilities, the Symposium will provide the latest information on the issue of abuse, neglect, and violence against people with disabilities. Dick Sobsey, Director of the JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada is a confirmed speaker. He has worked with people with developmental disabilities since 1968 and is the author of more than 200 publications related to people with disabilities, including his book. Dr. Sobsey currently serves as a member of a United Nations advisory panel focused on violence against children and is the father of a fifteen year old son with severe and multiple disabilities.
< Previous | 2 of 10 | Next >