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Provost Bernstein
     

Provost:

Michael Bernstein, Provost, Ph.D., Yale, 1982
mbernstein@tulane.edu

Professor Michael Bernstein was appointed Tulane's 11th Provost in July of 2007.  He came to Tulane from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where he served as the Dean of Arts and Humanities and as a Professor of History.

Professor Bernstein's teaching and research interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory.

http://tulane.edu/provost/about-the-provost.cfm

       
 
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School of Liberal Arts

Carole Haber, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1979
chaber@tulane.edu

Carole Haber is the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts. She is a specialist in American medical and social history, with particular interests in aging and death in the nineteenth century. Her current research focuses on changing medical and cultural beliefs about Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia, and the medicalization of death in America at the turn of the twentieth century.  

http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/deans-office.cfm

       
 
Dean Ron Marks
     

School of Social Work

Ron Marks, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W.
rmarks@tulane.edu

Dr. Marks is dean of the School of Social Work at Tulane University where he has been a professor for twenty years.  Prior to becoming dean, he served in various capacities at the School including associate dean and director of the MSW program, director of the doctoral program and director of the gerontology center.

His Ph.D. is in social welfare from the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh.  He also has an MSW and a master's degree in public health.

http://tulane.edu/socialwork/alumni/

       
 
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School of Medicine

Benjamin P Sachs, M.B.
bsachs@tulane.edu

Before joining Tulane University in November 2007, Dr. Benjamin Sachs held several senior administrative positions at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), including Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Harold H. Rosenfield Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (HMS). He also served as a professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health in the Faculty of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health. He was the elected President of the BIDMC Physician Organization, an organization of 1,500 physicians for three terms.  

http://tulane.edu/som/dean/

       
 
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School of Science and Engineering

Nicholas J Altiero, PhD, University of Michigan 1974
altiero@tulane.edu

Dr. Altiero received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1969 and a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering in 1970, a Master of Arts degree in mathematics in 1971 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in aerospace engineering in 1974 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Following postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan and at the Department of the Interior's Twin Cities Research Center, he joined the faculty of the Materials Science and Mechanics department at Michigan State University in 1975. At Michigan State, he advanced through the faculty ranks to the rank of Professor in 1986 and, in 1990, he was named the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of the College of Engineering, where he had administrative responsibility for the research, technology transfer, graduate studies and distance education operations of the college. In January 1998, he was named Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Mechanics and he served in that position until June 2000.  At that time, he retired from Michigan State as Professor Emeritus and joined the faculty at Tulane University as Dean of the School of Engineering, the ninth dean in the school's 112 year history. In 2006, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University was restructured and Altiero was named the inaugural Dean of the School of Science and Engineering.

http://tulane.edu/sse/about/nicholas-altiero-dean.cfm

       
 

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School of Public Health and Medicine

Pierre Buekens MD, OB/GYN, MPH, PhD
pbuekens@tulane.edu   

Research Interests: Perinatal epidemiology; randomized controlled trials  

Professional Achievements:

Chair, Global Health Committee, Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), 2004- present
President, Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER), 2002-2003
Member, Advisory Committee for the Office of Data and Information Management (ODIM), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), 2000-present
Editor, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (US Office), 1996-2001
President, Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH), 1998-2000
Vice-President, Association of French Speaking Epidemiologists (Association des Epidémiologistes de Langue Française), 1993-1998

Educational Background:

MD, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
OB/GYN Certification, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
PhD, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
MPH, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

http://tulane.edu/publichealth/epi/faculty_buekens.cfm

 

 

 

 
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