Notable Faculty Appointments

Carla Dieter was appointed chair of the department of nursing at the University of South Dakota. She was an associate professor of nursing and family nurse practitioner at student health services at South Dakota State University.

Dr. Dieter is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. She holds a master’s degree from South Dakota State University and an educational doctorate from the University of South Dakota.

Sofia Gruskin was named professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.  She will hold a joint appointment at USC’s Gould School of Law. For the past 17 years she was an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Professor Gruskin is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. She holds a law degree from Yeshiva University and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

Sue Ann Bidstrup-Allen was appointed associate dean for faculty development and scholarship in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a professor and associate chair in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Professor Bidstrup-Allen is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Geraldine Jacobson was named as the founding chair of the department of radiation oncology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. She has been serving as the medial director of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Iowa.

A graduate of Michigan State University, she earned her medical degree at the University of Utah. She also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a master of public health degree from the University of South Florida.