Winds of Change

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Winds of Change
Supercourse, Science and Education

A proposal for the 2007 Teaching Award, dedicated
to the gt200 Supercourse faculty at the
University of Pittsburgh
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2007 Teaching Award

Distinguished Teacher Distinguished
Supercourse Teachers
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Brief BioDr. LaPorte

• MS, Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Pitt
• MS Epidemiology, Pitt
• World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
  Director
• Professor of Epidemiology
• 505 publications in PNAS, Science, Nature,
  Nature Medicine, Lancet, BMJ
• Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association
  for Outstanding Diabetes Epidemiologist
• Top 50 Graduates Graduate School of Public Health
• Developer and PI of the WHO multinational Project
  for Childhood Diabetes, involving 155 centers in
  70 countries

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First Outstanding Teacher Award Graduate School
of Public Health, 1991
Life Time Achievement American Public Health
Association Leading educator in Public Health,
2005
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Teaching History

• Cognitive Psychology, 1973-74
• Statistics, 1975-77
• Chronic disease Epidemiology 1982-99
• Grant writing 2002-Present
• International Health 2003-2005
• Supercourse 1999-Present

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www.pitt.edu/super1/
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Global Health Networkand the Supercourse
Network of international health
Collaborations improving Prevention Coursework
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What can we best improve Global Health?
Prevention Education

• Prevent Multiple diseases
• Apply in many places world wide
• Proven Effectiveness
• Cheap
• Sustainable

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Evidence of Excellence in Teaching teaching
excellence has no single, simple definition. It
is demonstrated in the manner by which faculty
members fulfill the Universitys mission to
provide high quality undergraduate and graduate
programs in the arts and sciences and
professional fields. This includes the ways they
generate intellectual excitement in students and
motivate them to acquire the knowledge essential
to personal and professional achievement.
Distinguished teaching implies sustained
commitment, effectiveness in helping students
achieve meaningful goals, and overall teaching
excellence.
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Commentary on the Supercourse

• We want to improve the health of the world by
  improving knowledge of the Science of Prevention.
  This is being accomplished with the Supercourse
  with the goals of Networking over 40,000 people
  world wide, and empowering teachers by sharing
  our best PowerPoint lectures. Our Supercourse
  has taught over a million students. We do this by
  acting as a Supercourse team, many of whom are at
  the University of Pittsburgh. We will honor a
  University of Pittsburgh Supercourse
  distinguished teachers.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, 2006 winners
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My Ph.D./Dr.PH Students

• Jane A. Cauley, Dr.P.H, 1984
• Lucile Adams, Ph.D., 1984
• Janice Dorman, Ph.D. 1984
• Mark Eberhardt, Ph.D., 1984,
• H.K. Lee, Ph.D., 1986,
• Karen Cruickshanks, Ph.D., 1987
• Andrea Kriska, Ph.D., 1988
• Suzanne Cook, Ph.D. 1988
• Wen Ta Chiu, M.D. Dr.P.H., 1989
• Claudia S. Moy, Ph.D., 1989
• Thomas Songer, Ph.D., 1990
• Jeffery Gavard, Ph.D., 1990
• Rebecca Lipton, Ph.D., 1990
• Anne Sweeney, Ph.D., 1991
• Sarah L. Patrick, Ph.D., 1992
• Toomadher Mohammed Dokheel, Dr.P.H, 1993
• Robyn Anderson, Ph.D., 1993
• Todd Olsen, Ph.D., 1993
• Deborah Aaron, Ph.D., 1994

Deans CA, Injury Center heads Professors Associate
Professors Assistant Professors
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A rather diverse lot
Obesity
Ageing
Telepreventive medicine
CHD
Injuries
Exercise
Diabetes
Osteoporosis
Disability
Environment and Reproduction
Cancer
Lesbian Health
International health
The best academic teachers are those whose
students surpass them. Science
Amputation
Molecular Epidemiology
Nutrition
Nutrition
State Health Dept
Lesbian Health
Aging
Mexican MOH Survey
Statistics
Lithuanian Minister of health
Neurology
Hearing loss
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Zilvanis Padaiga , M.D. Currently MOH Lithuania
Eugene Shubnikov, M.D. Director Supercourse
FSU Teaching in Pittsburgh
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Question
How can we improve science education worldwide?
Answer
Get better lectures
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But how do I get better lectures?
Why dont scientists share our most exciting
PowerPoint lectures for free?
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What is the global language of research and
teaching?
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• Global Network of Scientists in Prevention
  Sharing Lectures

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Empowering Teachers
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China,
Mongolia, Russia
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Global Health Network
39,000 Faculty 4000 from Developing
Countries 3500 Universities 152 Countries
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2782 Lectures
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Uni. of Pittsburgh Supercourse Collaboration
5657 Faculty 246 Lectures 64 Departments
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Gunter Blobel(1999)
Joshua Lederberg(1958)
Baruch S. Blumberg(1976)
Ferid Murad(1998)
Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse
(Medicine)
Eric R. Kandel (2000)
Paul C Lauterbur (2003)
Paul Greengard (2000)
Leland H Hartwell (2001)
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Indian Supercourse Network
5500 faculty members 130 lectures
http//www.pitt.edu/super1/india/india.htm
Mita Lovalekar, MBBS, MPH
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Supercourse JIT Lectures
Teaching a Million
Can we teach 1,000,000 people world wide with a
single prevention lecture?
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Ali Ardalan, M.D. Tehran University
120 countries 400,000 students
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Cost Effectiveness
20,000 students x 5 yrs. 100,000 students
trained 1000/100,000
0.01/Student
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University of Khartoum, Sudan
Last Biomedical Journal 1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
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Student Evaluations

• The student evaluations have been collected by
  having a survey form (Like Amazon.com) at the end
  of each lecture.
• Over 3000 students have contributed to the
  ratings. Overall the course faired quite well,
  4.12/5.00
• A description of our evaluation procedures has
  recently been published. http//www.cmj.hr/2005/46
  /6/16342339.pdf

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Library of Alexandra Team Ismail Serageldin
Layla Abdelhady Noha Adly Ahmed Azara   Hani
Sawires Rabab Khamis Peter Soccar  
Global Core Team Francois Sauer Faina
Linkov Mita Lovalekar Eugene Shubnikov Soni
Dodani Ali Ardalan Rania Azmi Rania Saad Arlene
Cohen Jiaying Xu Eun Ryoung Sa Akira
Sekikawa Nicolás Padilla Raygoza
Thank You
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Final Summary, Why the University of Pittsburgh
Supercourse Teachers should receive the
Distinguished Teaching Award

• New model to empower teachers and improve
  teaching world wide
• Networking of Noble Prize winners, Leaders in
  Pittsburgh
• Local, National and Global Recognition
• Teaching over one million students last year
• Teaching after disasters of over 400,000 students
  in 120 countries
• Over 200 faculty and students working together to
  teach globally