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Prof Ronald LaPorte

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Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh MS in Psychology in 1975; Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1977; Masters degree in Epidemiology, 1981. 531 publications in Epidemiology, Global Health, and Internet. First Distinguished Teacher, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 1989. Lillienfeld Award, APHA for life time achievement in education. Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Center, Department of Epidemiology. Developer and PI of the WHO Multinational Project for Childhood Diabetes, involving 155 centers in 70 countries. Developed of the Global Health Network, 1994. Numerous funded national and international projects from NIH, and NASA. Kelly West Diabetes Epidemiology Award from the American Diabetes Association. Developed the Supercourse which involved 56,000 faculties from 174 countries.
 
 
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