Jennifer Martin has been named the Leon Medical Centers Professor of Geriatrics and director of the Benjamín León, Jr. Family Center for Geriatric Research and Education in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. As part of her new appointment, she will also serve as a senior psychologist and director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Miami VA Healthcare System. An expert in geriatrics, behavioral sleep medicine, and translational research, Dr. Matin previously taught at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Martin received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She completed a clinical psychology internship at Brown University and completed postdoctoral training in geriatrics at UCLA.
Cambria Kaltwasser has been appointed to the Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Endowed Biblical and Theological Studies Professorship at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. A faculty member with the college since 2017, she teaches courses in historical and doctrinal theology. Her research centers on prayer, sanctification, and Christian life.
Dr. Kaltwasser received her bachelor’s degree from John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She earned her master of divinity degree and doctorate in systematic theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Amy Magnus has been named a Lantis Endowed University Chair at California State University, Chico, where she teaches courses on political science and criminal justice. With a particular focus on rural communities, she centers her work on the philosophies of justice and activism, the politics of social inequality and trajectories towards equity, access to justice, and the relationship between law, society, and culture. She also studies the student experience in higher education.
Dr. Magnus earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology with minors in philosophy and criminal justice and her master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds a Ph.D. in criminology, law, and society from the University of California, Irvine.
Elena Naumova is the inaugural recipient of the Barry J. Rosenbaum Professorship in Data Science in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. She currently leads the university’s new data analytics and AI in nutrition specialization. Her scholarship spans a broad range of research programs in emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental epidemiology, molecular biology, nutrition, and growth.
Dr. Naumova earned both her master’s degree in statistics and Ph.D. in applied mathematics and statistics from Novosibirsk State Technical University in Russia.
Diane Reidy-Lagunes has been named the inaugural Joseph O. Moore, M.D. Director of Oncology for the Duke University Health System. She is the chief of the division of medical oncology and associate vice president for oncology services for Duke Health, as well as a professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Her medical research focuses on developing methods to integrate molecular-based therapies into the treatment of neuroendocrine and adrenal tumors.
Dr. Reidy-Lagunes earned her medical degree from the State University of New York’s Downstate Medical Center. She completed an internal medical residency at Mount Sinai Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.